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Myself, I don't play the large jackpot lotteries to win a hundred bucks and I don't think anyone else does either. If the ticket sales were large enough they could easily give several million dollar secondary prizes. That would greatly increase your odds of winning a significant prize. If you had a jackpot worth $200 million, why not reduce the jackpot to $100 million, and have 20, $5million secondary prizes.
Nov 12, 2010, 10:13 am - johnb73 - Lottery Discussion Forum

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I'm not really worried about the state maintaining their margin. However, if you sold tickets around the world (internet) your could raise the stakes for everyone and still give better odds. I'm surprised you're concerned about the states take and not about your's.
Nov 11, 2010, 11:53 am - johnb73 - Lottery Discussion Forum

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State lotteries are looking for ways to increase their sales to get get more profits for their state because they already get around a 50% return on most of their games. While larger jackpots in games like PB and MM help states get larger sales, I don't see how offering better odds would help them maintain their profit margin unless the spike in sales was extraordinarily higher.
Nov 11, 2010, 11:44 am - Stack47 - Lottery Discussion Forum

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What if we opened up the lottery to the world! With the power of the internet it would be easy. Massive jackpots, more large prizes per draw, way better odds.
Nov 11, 2010, 10:08 am - johnb73 - Lottery Discussion Forum

You, your state's lottery director!Reply
I wish Georgia Five would be structured like the Pennsylvania Quinto rather than have completely arbitrary win patterns and payouts that are unacceptably and obscenely unfair to the player. To cite an extreme case, the odds of matching the first three and the last digit are 1 in 11,111, but the payout is $21! I felt like writing a letter of complaint to the Georgia Lottery about the payouts for that game.
Nov 10, 2010, 4:12 pm - Hermanus104 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Which is easier pick 3 or 4Reply
P3 is probably easier, I played it heavy a few years ago, but now that Tx has Daily 4, I play it once or twice a week. What I like about it is that I'll drop $10 on a number straight, to try for $50k. (Yeah I've played and hit boxed, but that's boring). 10,000 to 1 odds to hit straight. Hard? Yes. But not as hard as hitting for $10k on MM or PB.
Nov 10, 2010, 8:31 am - rcbbuckeye - Lottery Discussion Forum

What's with NY Sweet Million??Reply
I just read on a web-site that lotteries say pick your own and QP's win 50/50, but 80% of players use QP's and win 50% of the time, but only 20% pick their own numbers and win 50% of the time, so the odds of winning are really much better if you pick your own numbers, so I will stop buying QP's all the time and pick some of my own numbers (as I used to do), like some posters here have told me to do!
Nov 7, 2010, 7:49 am - jacal5 - Jackpot Games Forum

Ohio Classic Lotto jackpot looking good againReply
Now that MegaMillions jackpot is $25M and PowerBall jackpot reset to $20M and Ohio Classic Lotto jackpot has grown to $13.2M with odds of 1:14M, it starting to look good again. I may play a few lines Monday.
Nov 7, 2010, 1:48 am - RJOh - Jackpot Games Forum

A System for Pick5...
You look for the ending digits of the first number, the 3rd number and the last fifth number..it should be a Pick3 out of that pick3 you exclude the number 0 [0 as 10], well the previous drawing you play the 6 numbers that are not the 3 pick3 ending digits... a wheel of 6 numbers in Pick3 wheeled comes out to: 20 tickets i think...all you got to do is get them straight...Once you get it straight you will have: 3 numbers that are going to play on the next drawing...You use them as a 3 number k
Nov 6, 2010, 4:31 pm - pumpi76 - Pick 5 Forum

What's with NY Sweet Million??Reply
Occasionally I wll put ten bucks on PICK4 straight number, the odds are 1 out of 10,000 that I can win $50,000 with a $10.00 bet, I bet that beats the odds of winning $50,000 on a slot machine, and a slot player spends much more money than $10.00 trying to win the big jackpot on the slots. I didn't know that the SM winner also won a lotto jackpot, isn't that something? A long time ago I posted that my one of my neighbor's relatives won a lotto jackpot twice, once in the Bronx, and once in Mah
Nov 6, 2010, 8:38 am - jacal5 - Jackpot Games Forum