Multistate and State Games

Reply #5

EdG1955 — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 22:06:02 GMT

Greed is the only constant winner of lottery games. The state's cut keeps growing as they get more and more addicted to gambling revenues.

Reply #4

Ron5995 — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 21:52:43 GMT

Not only are prize structures being altered with more lower tier prizes, games are seemingly pulled faster. That can often favor the lottery with many higher tier prizes remaining unclaimed. This is not a new practice, but more games makes it easier to pad the take on the backs of players who don't realize the stated odds and the real odds can be quite different.

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Reply #3

Redd55 — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 20:30:38 GMT

They've messed with my state's scratchers, too. Less top prizes and and the remaining prizes are smaller. They justified this by arguing, disingenuously, that they were offering more smaller prizes but the games are pulled after the last top prize is claimed leaving a large number of unclaimed/sold smaller prizes. They also stopped the top prize second chance drawing they use to offer.

So, increase costs, less top prizes, smaller and fewer less prizes in both draw games scratchers.

Reply #2

Think — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 20:13:38 GMT

Maybe but when people realize how the scratchoffs work and they hear stories like what happened in Indiana and other states they wont be so gung ho on buying those either.

Reply #1

rcbbuckeye — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 12:54:24 GMT

Sales in Texas, and I would suspect in other states, are gravitating to scratchoff tickets. They're instant gratification. But they are not necessarily less expensive. A scratcher that has a top prize of a million dollars costs at least $10, most are $20. Yes, the odds are better, but that really is a chunk of change to spend. $20 is just about a week's budget for me. I don't play Pick 3, because I can't get too excited about winning $500.

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Multistate and State Games

Think — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 03:22:32 GMT

One of the most useful features on Lottery Post is the Worldwide Jackpot information.

It is useful because it allows us to see how slow the state jackpots are rolling in all the states and it also shows that fewer and fewer tickets are hitting the Multistates (PB MM) while it is taking longer and longer for the Multistates to roll to bigger jackpots just the same as happened with the states.

You'd have to be really blissful to continue throwing money away at this point and as more an... [ More ]