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Mega Millions lottery jackpot won ... againReply
People complaining about winners - doesn't make sense, we should all be so lucky to get even the very smallest $12 M jackpot. I'm sure the head honchos would love it if no one won it for months and months - less for them to do, and they can keep earning interest on all that stacked up lottery money. Knuckleheads. They can always add 10 more balls or so and make the odds 10 trillion to one so that no one will ever win.
Aug 3, 2006, 11:15 am - nc6string - Lottery News

Mega Millions lottery jackpot won ... againReply
There's not wrong with players waiting until they feel the jackpot size and odds of winning are worth buying tickets. The whiners I referred to are the players who complain about other players playing and winning the game before they have any interest in playing because MegaMillions could not have $100M+ jackpots if no one played for the $12M jackpots.
Aug 3, 2006, 2:20 am - RJOh - Lottery News

Replacement for Ohio LOPReply
Replacing LOP with a game similar to RC5 makes as much sense as replacing it with a Pick3/4 game, they already have these games. To be the states flag ship game, the game will have to be its richest game with a starting jackpot of $1M or more which means an annuity jackpot prize, odds of 1:10M or higher and a price of $1-$2 per play. I expect it to be replaced with a new and improved version of the 6/49(SuperLotto) or a similar game.
Aug 2, 2006, 3:01 pm - RJOh - Jackpot Games Forum

A million bad reasons to voteReply
You have to buy a ticket for it to be a lottery. It's a giveaway not a lottery. The only real problem is the odds that the winner would be discovered to be non-existant or a non eligible voter. If they want to combine it with photo ID to vote it is an OK idea. Otherwise the only thing that will be shocking about it will be the paucity of winners who should have been voting in the first place.
Aug 2, 2006, 9:52 am - dvdiva - Lottery News

Changes in Mega MillionsReply
Big jackpot chasers have to wait no matter which lottery they play because all jackpots start out small and depend on players willing to play for a small jackpot at the same odds big jackpot chasers are willing to play for a large jackpot. I doubt if any lottery could survive if it depended only on big jackpot chasers to buy tickets. Big jackpot chasers will just have to continue to wait their turn if they don't want to play when the jackpot is small.
Aug 2, 2006, 5:45 am - RJOh - Jackpot Games Forum

Grave Lotto prize problemReply
Well the good news is the dead don't pay taxes, just the estate. So once they are in the ground they are perfectly free to claw their way out and claim that ticket and who's going to argue with a zombie over taxes. Odds are he would just be looking for brains not the lottery office however.
Aug 2, 2006, 1:38 am - dvdiva - Lottery Discussion Forum

Changes in Mega MillionsReply
Looks like Mega was hit again this time at 31 million. Considering the odds you would think the prizes would be a little higher. Unfortuneately considering the diversified structure of Mega (there is no centeral office like MUSL) big jackpot chasers will have to wait a long time for this to be fixed.
Aug 2, 2006, 1:25 am - dvdiva - Jackpot Games Forum

MM over/under $50 millionReply
MM just got lucky that's all. I think they need to rechange the ball machine to eliminate technical difficulties. However, I don't expect a matrix change anytime soon. If they did, they need to re-invite 6 more MB from the 3rd matrix to make it 5/56+1/52 to increase the odds. More winners in MM right now means less in the future that I agreed with ryanm on this one.
Aug 1, 2006, 1:48 pm - Just6ntlc - Jackpot Games Forum

Pondering Question...Reply
If you want to know how hard a lottery game is to win, you calculate the odds (1:possible combinations), the one with the most possible combinations is the hardest. I recently pointed that out in another thread where the players were winning a lot playing the Pick6 WV Cash25. The Cash25 is a 6/25 game(1:177,100) and winning it is a lot easier than winning a 6/49 game (1:13,983,816). Most Pick6 (6/44-59) games have jackpots of $1M or more and Cash25 had a jackpot of $25K.
Jul 29, 2006, 11:06 am - RJOh - Lottery Discussion Forum

ME-NH-VT looking into Lose for Life conceptReply
Cross Match sounds like it would be a Match 6 clone. A 6/47 game with two plays for $1 would have jackpot odds only slightly longer than the current 6/42.
Jul 28, 2006, 10:31 am - CASH Only - Jackpot Games Forum