Lottery economic indicator?

Reply #9

rcbbuckeye — Sun, 13 Nov 2016 15:00:23 GMT

I'm in every draw for MM, PB, and Tx Lotto.

With MM and PB, yeah, I'd love to win the jackpot. But a million dollar second prize would be fine too. And that's worth it for me to keep playing.

Right now the jackpot cash value for Tx Lotto is just over $4 million....odds are 1 in 25,827,165.

MM $1 million second prize....odds are 1 in 18,492,204.

PB $1 million second prize.....odds are 1 in 11,688,054.

Reply #8

Sunglasses — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 22:56:05 GMT

You can win MegaMillions with 10 cents if you share the costs with 9 friends of family members

Reply #7

RJOh — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 21:10:12 GMT

The $1 MegaMillions tickets prove a big jackpot can be won with a dollar ticket if enough players are interested.

Reply #6

Lucky Loser — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 04:01:00 GMT

You got that right. What the lotteries are doing is simply playing on the minds of players' idea of hitting a jackpot for one zillion dollars, okay. They're promoting higher over all jackpots to be won but, that high end jackpot will still only be won by two people at the most...usually only one. I personally think they used the players' greed against them to promote higher prices to play. Think about it for just a minute. The average player can get by with substantially less than an average $30... [ More ]

Reply #5

Sunglasses — Sun, 06 Nov 2016 15:33:34 GMT

On the long run expensive games won't do good. - Me

Reply #4

Lucky Loser — Sat, 05 Nov 2016 23:11:29 GMT

I agree here. With the money they move @ 2.00/play and the starting jackpot, the payouts could actually be reasonably higher which would create more excitement. Players want to know that they at least have a good chance at getting some of their money back at some point, and, actually win something one day. We all know that everyone can't win all the time but, this game could be much better in my opinion. If the decline continues, they'll be forced to make some changes which will re-ignite player... [ More ]

Reply #3

LottoAce — Sat, 05 Nov 2016 22:27:36 GMT

Maybe, players are just tired of the high odds and low

payouts on the lower tiers.

Reply #2

MaximumMillions — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 20:38:31 GMT

Maybe people are giving their state games more tries.

California Superlotto is/was higher and has better odds, for example.

Reply #1

helpmewin — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 17:26:03 GMT

Mega Millions $40 Million

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Lottery economic indicator?

Think — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 14:59:06 GMT

This is the slowest roll on the Mega Millions I can remember seeing.

Has anyone noticed any other games flailing away like MM has been doing recently