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Yikes! Cash Amounts Again!Reply
Of course they could decide to offer smaller starting jackpots. The rules are the ones they decide on, not some immutable natural law they can't change, and they could go back to offering starting jackpots of $10 million, just like they did 15 years ago, if they wanted to. I suppose it's possible that they changed the rules to offer an unfunded starting jackpot of $40 million because they're idiots, but I'm inclined to think that it's because they think that it results in better overall sales
Mar 3, 2017, 2:10 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Florida Scratch Offs - Post Pictures if posibleReply
@EMTAdam - I have a huge problem with her statement. If jackpots are still showing on the website as remaining prizes and they are still selling the tickets till the end date, then my opinion is that the game should still actually have those jackpots and if they already scanned the returned books and the system tells them a jackpot ticket was destroyed the lottery should have a legal and moral obligation to update the website accordingly and not mislead the public. This is so wrong on so many le
Feb 23, 2017, 7:56 pm - jackpotchasing - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Florida Scratch Offs - Post Pictures if posibleReply
Honestly, I think it is pretty balanced. Most of Florida's population lives in South FL, and the highest percentage of ticket sales is in that area. More tickets being sold results in a higher number of books shuffling through that area. More books shuffling through should result in more jackpots being hit. Two of the four $10m Florida Cash jackpots were hit in Lake City, for example and that's in North FL. Alot of people forget about that. =p Jacksonville has seen quite a few jackpots hit, r
Dec 5, 2016, 8:34 am - Dracos - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

OK Someone hit the MM jackpot.Reply
she promptly said I think the winners of these big jackpots should have to share the winnings with everyone and not get to keep it . A lot of people who don't buy lottery tickets think that way. Some years back before PB and Big Game came to the area Ohio had a game Super Lotto that paid jackpots of $70M+ that was played by Ohioians and many out of state players from neighboring states. People got mad about so many out of state winners taking home jackpots that they convinced the state to l
Jul 12, 2016, 3:47 pm - RJOh - Lottery Discussion Forum

Why are American lotteries rigged?Reply
You got a point there with more balls .....higher odds BUT I will debunk that in comparing then South-African Pb with the Australian Pb......we have a cycle that no jackpots will go for 1 or 2 months and then we eventually get a jackpot winner. Comparing it to the Australian Pb with exactly the same odds you will get much regular jackpot wins telling me something is fishy. I am not blind to know that any lottery are a business and their modus operandi is to make money. But if you starting to see
Jun 28, 2016, 8:47 am - Ricklou - Lottery Discussion Forum

One New Jersey lottery player wins $429.6 million Powerball jackpotReply
Granted, 1+1 is a nothing win, sort of. But, it's old news. The reason 1+1 is nothing is so the jackpots can grow bigger faster. And despite some saying the jackpots are too big, nobody needs that much money, yada,yada,yada, the fact is, big jackpots sell more tickets. Which is why they made the changes. Personally, I obviously want to win the whole enchilada, but the fact of the matter for me, anyway, is that 2nd prize with the megapiler/powerplay is instant retirement. I don't even need to
May 8, 2016, 11:32 pm - rcbbuckeye - Lottery News

Player in Tennessee wins first Powerball jackpot since game changed in Oct.Reply
They should have left the games alone and stop tinkering with it. Powerball was much more fun to play when it only cost $1 and I was more likely to spend more money to play multiple tickets when it cost less vs now the $2 where I might only buy one or two for larger jackpots over 150m. We don't need to see near billion dollar jackpots for powerball/mega million. When those two games get to 200-300 million nobody gets excited anymore. Change the games back to how it originally was. I'd
Nov 5, 2015, 5:37 pm - Erzulieredeyes - Lottery News

powerball sales continue to dropReply
.. because it is human nature to go the extreme. At one time winning $10 million was considered Great. Not anymore. People got comfortable with reading about folk winning $100 mil, then that got stale, they wanted more exciting jackpots , ones that would and could blow the mind. The promise of $500 Mil jackpots being the norm in the very near future was preached from the rooftops but it did not materialize and players soon lost their initial excitement. It extends to other things as well. Boxing
Sep 7, 2015, 1:00 am - noise-gate - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions Sales Down Since New FormatReply
To get larger jackpots players must spend lots of money for several weeks winning little or nothing to create one. It looks like the players figured out they probably won't nobody usually wins when the jackpots are low. Ironically, poor sales lead to lower jackpots. Do you mean fewer jackpot winners because it takes longer to to build?
Jul 13, 2015, 9:35 pm - Stack47 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Powerball Matrix Change - April 15, 2015Reply
The reality is that they can't offer significant lower tier prizes with decent odds of winning and still generate huge jackpots in a reasonable amount of time. Correct, which is why they are not improving the prize value of the lower prizes but merely improving the odds of winning them...without harming the amount of sales or capacity for size available for large jackpots. I actually think the fact that the rumored revised matrix has worse jackpot odds yet better overall odds than what was
May 30, 2015, 12:42 pm - LottoMetro - Lottery Discussion Forum