Do you think it's time for a PB / MM merger?

Reply #13

Stat$talker — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 05:15:44 GMT

Absolutely NOT... I've been busy $talkin ...

When I emerge from hibernation, all will know...!!

-Stat$talker

Reply #12

LottoBux — Sun, 09 Feb 2020 09:04:53 GMT

Joe

I Love Those New Proposed Lazyball And Mega Billions Names.

Reply #11

cottoneyedjoe — Thu, 06 Feb 2020 00:38:00 GMT

I see you stopped posting your predictions. Have you lost faith in Probability Math

Reply #10

Stat$talker — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 11:50:18 GMT

Never fear... Math is here..!!

If it has a finite pool, then Probability Math can always conquer it..!!

-Stat$talker

Reply #9

RL-RANDOMLOGIC — Sat, 01 Feb 2020 15:33:29 GMT

If they do merge than I have the perfect name for the game, Lotto-Impossible.

RL

Reply #8

RL-RANDOMLOGIC — Sat, 01 Feb 2020 15:30:52 GMT

Competition is always good, it keeps the playing field level. If they do merge then I suspect

it would not be long until another similar game popped up and we would be back where we

started with even larger odds. I wonder what the starting jackpot would be for such a game.

At some point there would need to be a rolldown as jackpots could reach a trillion dollars.

I myself would like to see something like a national 5-35 without bonus ball. Daily ticket sales

might reach 50 million... [ More ]

Reply #7

GoogilyMoogily — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 01:33:29 GMT

20 billion to 1 odds?

visualize a 20 billion sq ft room: that would be a room 27 miles square (choosing the correct 1 sq ft tile to stand on would be so easy peasy )

i predict if 20 billion to 1 odds ever happens, governments will end up playing!

you are quite correct that $2 plays are wrong

Reply #6

cottoneyedjoe — Thu, 30 Jan 2020 23:12:46 GMT

Then they'll roll out a parallel game with 140 white balls and 50 red balls. I'll leave the odds/payout table to JADELottery. I propose the names Lazyball and Mega Billions as it will take forever for either game to produce a winner and when they do it will be billions.

Reply #5

JADELottery — Thu, 30 Jan 2020 17:49:38 GMT

Oo,gees...

Power Billions Odds

Wowerball

1

0

Black Balls

5

1 in 20,505,769,002.0000

1 in 410,115,380.0400

4

1 in 30,605,625.3761

1 in 612,112.5075

3

1 in 230,117.4840

1 in 4,602.3497

2

1 in 5,229.9428

1 in 104.5989

1

1 in 319.3858

1 in 6.3877

0

1 in 61.4204

1 in 1.2284

But, the payouts would remain the same, 'cause you know, that Gre... [ More ]

Reply #4

db101 — Thu, 30 Jan 2020 16:08:43 GMT

Or they could merge the white ball sets and the red ball sets and make it a 5-of-139 + 1-of-51 game with odds of 1 in 20.5 billion. Combine two sh***y odds games into one sh***ier odds game. Personally I wouldn't affect me much as I only buy about a dozen lines of PB and MM in a year. I'd rather see a game with better odds like Lotto America rolled out to all the states.

Reply #3

JADELottery — Thu, 30 Jan 2020 14:53:35 GMT

Given a choice, based on what we've seen in jackpot growth and payouts, it seem in our opinion,

if one of these is to succeed as the Top Dog, we'd choose MM.

Although, we'd really like to see an improvement in non-jackpot payouts.

Reply #2

JADELottery — Thu, 30 Jan 2020 14:41:07 GMT

I dunno, looks like the Greedy Side Economic Financial Plan has caused one of these lottery's jackpot run to grow at a snail's pace.

The $2.00 a line price hasn't grown jackpots like it was supposed to.

The $8.00 to $12.00 a line per week is cutting hard in to people's hard earned dollars.

Reply #1

Cmoore50 — Thu, 30 Jan 2020 14:33:30 GMT

No way that will happen. Greed alone will squash that.

Do you think it's time for a PB / MM merger?

JADELottery — Thu, 30 Jan 2020 14:29:50 GMT

Two is too many.

It's it time for a Single National Lottery