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Lottery officials forsee $500 million Mega Millions jackpotsNews Story
California, the Golden State, will bring a lot of green to the Mega Millions Lottery jackpots when the state joins the multistate game next month. That's green as in greenbacks.Mega Millions Lottery officials expect jackpots, under the right circumstances, to reach a staggering half of a billion dollars, said Michigan Lottery Commissioner Gary Peters. With California in, the computer model says there is a high probability of a $500 million Mega Millions jackpot, Peters said. The largest Mega Mi
May 8, 2005, 7:54 am - Todd - Lottery News

Mega Millions to change lottery game's game and prize structureReply
Faster jackpot turnover does not mean smaller jackpots. When you add 25 million people to the mix the jackpot will simply climb faster and be won sooner hence more people becoming fabulously wealthy. Think about it... it will only take 7 draws to get the pot up to $100 Million instead of 10 draws to get it there. If you leave the odds alone you will get more winners, but roughly the same jackpot sizes. This is simple mathematics. Raising the odds to 175 million to 1 will generate obscene ja
May 2, 2005, 3:48 pm - tony95 - Lottery News

Lotto South can be a giantReply
I think that would be a bad idea. Lotto South is currently in three states: Georgia, Kentucky and Virginia. Those three states already have giant jackpot games (Georgia: MegaMillions, Kentucky: PowerBall, Virginia: MegaMillions).There are MANY people in these 3 states who prefer 6/49 lottery games over all other types of games for a couple of reasons: They have reasonable jackpots and they have relatively reasonable odds of winning (compared to the huge jackpot games).There are basically 3
Apr 17, 2005, 5:08 pm - LotteryPlayer - Jackpot Games Forum

Georgia Lottery has best quarter everNews Story
The Georgia Lottery had its strongest ticket sales ever during the past quarter, relieving concerns from state officials that slow sales would prove costly to the HOPE scholarship program.Lottery officials said yesterday that they sold $827 million worth of tickets during the third quarter of fiscal 2005 from January through March. For the first nine months of fiscal 2005, sales hit $2.15 billion, up 4.8 percent from the first three quarters of last year.Sales were particularly strong for inst
Apr 15, 2005, 10:06 am - Todd - Lottery News

Mass. lottery winners cash in on new prize lawReply
Man, this is slimy, even for Massachusetts. Instead of just giving the winners the money they WON, money that is sitting in STATE controlled accounts, they let them deal with shady private buyout companies to get THEIR MONEY. >Some lottery winners say it's not fair that they have to pay a private company hundreds of thousands of dollars to gain immediate access to their own prizes.No, it is not fair. But welcome to Chinatown, I mean Massachusetts.>Lottery officials say they don't offer win
Apr 11, 2005, 2:13 pm - tg636 - Lottery News

N.C. Senate to work on lottery billNews Story
A select committee of the North Carolina Senate will consider the lottery bill approved on Wednesday by the N.C. House.N.C. Senate President Pro Tem Marc Basnight, D-Dare, said he expects a lottery bill to pass. The Senate has approved lottery legislation in past years only to watch the bills die in a closely-divided House.A lottery may shift spending priorities next fiscal year, and lawmakers will only have a few weeks to consider the ramifications of a state numbers game before making any deci
Apr 11, 2005, 9:19 am - Todd - Lottery News

Powerball Lottery States Vote to Change GameReply
You speak as if a 21% increase in odds against winning is no big deal. If that is the case why not just double them. How about 300mil:1? Then we could watch 2-3 winners a year win half a billion dollars or so, thats obsurd. You can already see $100-200 million jackpots with the 120m:1 odds as it happened 5 times last years, so why jack it up just because a few people hit it early this year. And as for a 3.5mil:1 chance of winning $200,000 being a great deal.. this is equally obsurd. Our lo
Apr 8, 2005, 3:19 pm - tony95 - Lottery News

Old Pick 3 method reviewed.Reply
For simple answers do as good old Vision Dude does and just by a quick pick or quick pick it yourself out of your head, that is as simple as it gets, since they say that the lottery is random then if they are right it would be just as good as anything else.Another simple system would be Buy all possible combos , you would not make a profit and be in the red, but you would win all of the time and it's as simple as it gets.I don't say that you can win often with only 1 combo, compromises have to
Mar 31, 2005, 12:01 pm - LANTERN - Lottery Systems Forum

Kentucky Lottery starts new 'Double Up Cash' game this weekendNews Story
The Kentucky Lottery will begin selling tickets Sunday for a new computerized game, Double Up Cash, that offers players a chance to double nonjackpot prizes if they correctly pick heads or tails. Numbers for the game will be chosen nightly, Monday through Saturday. Tickets cost $1, and the prize payouts range from a free-play ticket to a minimum jackpot of $40,000.The jackpot will increase by $10,000 for every night it isn't hit, up to a maximum of $500,000, said lottery spokesman Chip Polsto
Mar 30, 2005, 7:40 am - Todd - Lottery News

Nevada Lottery Proposal KilledReply
>>>>Care said he voted against the measure partly because he is concerned that those who can least afford to play the lottery are the ones who would buy tickets. <<<<So then...these same people would not go to the casinos?????? Lets face it. Nevada doesn't NEED a lottery with all the tax revenue they get from the casinos. States only get into lotteries for revenues. Nevada doesn't have a state income tax. They don't need one because of the revenues from the casinos. It's
Mar 25, 2005, 10:47 pm - Badger - Lottery News