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Powerball sales skid hurts lottery profitsReply
In for a penny....in for a pound I always say! Eliminate Income taxes and substitute them with Powerball in all 50 states! Of course, that would mean that they would have to add about 50 more balls and jack the odds up to around 300 billion to 1 but the payouts would also be a couple hundred trillion to 1. Just think! The Government could use their cut to fund the wars on terror, poverty, drugs and build a whole new shuttle fleet for NASA!
Jul 29, 2005, 8:29 am - Beefeater47 - Lottery News

Mega Millions or Powerball?Reply
I'd have to say Powerball. If they can get to $241 million with 53 numbers, they should be able to go well past $360 million by adding another 20 million to the odds.
Jul 28, 2005, 11:27 pm - wgittings - Jackpot Games Forum

Lottery scores triple-zeros twice in one dayReply
Huh, where's the moronic asymptote comment like, Gee, what are the odds? These are the same people who use the standard ratio 9 times out of 10 and my favorite sentence ending phrase in and of itself.
Jul 28, 2005, 4:53 pm - JADELottery - Lottery News

First MM JP Rollover too small?Reply
MATCH GAME ODDS 5 / 5 +B 1 : 175711536 5 / 5 1 : 3904701 4 / 5 +B 1 : 689065 4 / 5 1 : 15313 3 / 5 +B 1 : 13781 3 / 5 1 : 306 2 / 5 +B 1 : 844 1 / 5 +B 1 : 141 0 / 5 +B 1 : 75 overall 1 : 39.8
Jul 27, 2005, 12:45 pm - RJOh - Jackpot Games Forum

Powerball sales skid hurts lottery profitsReply
I agree with what you said dvdiva. Players don't like to play PB when the jackpot is very low and only play when the jackpot is very high. I'm not complaining about the number of white balls going up from 53 to 55, but I'm complaining about the number of red power balls staying at 42 when I had demanded 45 to 47. PB needs to increase the odds of winning the jackpot as close to 176 million from MM.
Jul 27, 2005, 12:39 pm - Just6ntlc - Lottery News

First MM JP Rollover too small?Reply
In the last drawings there were 297,984 winners. Since the odds of winning something is 1:40, there had to be about 11,919,360 tickets sold and 32% of those sales going to the jackpot would mean that $3,814,195 was available for the jackpot. If you figure the states put up the cash to guarantee the $12M starting jackpot and $9M is needed to guarantee the $15M jackpot, the jackpot may be ahead of actually tickets sales for the first few drawings with the $3M rollovers. This is the kind of situ
Jul 27, 2005, 12:09 pm - RJOh - Jackpot Games Forum

First MM JP Rollover too small?Reply
if the odds are perceived as terrible, people will just hold off till the jackpot justifies throwing the money away at the one chance. you have only a 1 in 75 chance of even winning the $ 2 ticket. most people will need a lot of persistence to keep playing if they're not teased with periodic winnings.
Jul 27, 2005, 9:40 am - lchoro - Jackpot Games Forum

Powerball sales skid hurts lottery profitsReply
I think that MM will surpass the 363+ million first because of too many PB winners. PB should have increased the number of red powerballs from 42 to 45 increasing the odds of winning a prize and jackpot.
Jul 27, 2005, 3:58 am - Just6ntlc - Lottery News

First MM JP Rollover too small?
Is this first MM JP rollover from the starting pot too small given the new matrix? I mean only $3 million (from 12 to 15) seems pretty small for a game with such long odds. Are they anticipating that not many people will play with a JP at this level?
Jul 27, 2005, 3:17 am - danisiri - Jackpot Games Forum

When to play off a number~Reply
Yes, I know exactly what you mean...lol I'm just getting famillar w/vtracs and my other question is since the 366 has fallen do I leave the other number alone and go about my business or should I continue to play? What are the odds that the other vtrac numbers will fall?
Jul 26, 2005, 6:53 pm - Demi540 - Pick 3 Forum