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Will you play Powerball more often before the Matrix change in 2015?Reply
The current 1 in ~175 million jackpot odds is no cinch; Powerball already is far from easy to win. As for roll-overs, the 1 in ~286 million odds will help for sure, but will, presumably, reduce sales in the process - take longer for jackpots to build to a level that generates a buying frenzy. Mega Millions jackpot odds is 1 in ~259 million, and yet jackpots are still getting hit earlier than many would expect. There's seemingly diminishing returns with raising the odds. That's where all the
Dec 20, 2014, 10:19 pm - Ron5995 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Powerball Matrix Change - April 15, 2015Reply
You make some valid points but the difference in jackpot growth will be insignificant. Only about $1.25 million less per $100 million in sales. Players won't notice. If people cared nothing about the lower prizes then they wouldn't play. Especially at lower jackpots....roughly 10-12 million people play PB regardless the value. If I give you a 1/1000000 chance at winning $500K or nothing, or give you a 1/2000000 chance of winning $500K, 1/500000 chance of winning $100K, 1/200 chance of winning
Dec 16, 2014, 1:37 pm - LottoMetro - Lottery Discussion Forum

States pull the plug on Monopoly Millionaires' ClubReply
How do lottery players force the lottery to give them what they want? Lottery players can beat the lottery at its own games by refusing to play. I feel that the USA lottery has a hidden agenda against bigger lottery jackpots, even though Bigger lottery jackpots=Higher lottery sales. Yes, the lottery is against the idea of having a lottery game with a $1 billion jackpot. They want to cap lottery jackpots across the board. This is not capitalism. Stop with the s
Dec 13, 2014, 8:30 pm - THRIFTY - Lottery News

Systems Do Work...Reply
Playing fixed dates has produced several $1 million plus jackpots so that system already proved to be a success. It certainly has and the winners of those jackpots were faithful to their cause and didn't skip the so-called low jackpots just to 'try' and win 'more' money. The mindset was simply to stick with their sentimental numbers until/if they hit. The key was their 'consistency and faithfulness with playing. Had any of those players decided to 'skip' draws due to it not being enough
Jun 12, 2014, 3:58 pm - Lucky Loser - Lottery Discussion Forum

$195 MILLION: Mega Millions keeps the good times rollingReply
SG, certainly for a few the weather plays a part. Course, advanced plays might help offset that. I agree with you 100% on missing a draw. I have faith on it ,more likely than not, there will be a rollover at lower levels. Another thing that might be a consideration is the doubling of price on PB and the new odds on MM. Remember when the jackpots for MM was about 70-73 % of the advertised price? Now its down to around 52-53%( I am aware of the payout scheme at lower levels)..It convinced me not t
Mar 1, 2014, 9:12 am - CDanaT - Lottery News

$400 MILLION: Powerball lottery jackpot skyrocketsReply
Has bad weather had anything to do with the size of the jackpot ? Since the start of 2013 there have been 4 jackpots that went over 300 million and this is them with the number of rollovers. $338 million with 12 rollovers $590 million with 13 rollovers $448 million with 12 rollovers $399 million with 11 rollovers Right now there have been 15 rollovers and the estimated jackpot is $400 million. Could bad weather across much of the country the last month be part of the reason the
Feb 18, 2014, 3:20 am - alexnt55 - Lottery News

$636 Million Mega Millions jackpot split by 2 ticketsReply
It was pretty close in terms of sales depending on how you looked at it. How do you look at it to make $1 billion over 22 drawings and $1.5 billion over 19 drawings pretty close ? Every single drawing had bigger sales during the record run, with average sales of about $78 million per drawing. For the current run the average is a bit shy of $45.5 million. For the modest jackpots in the first several drawings the record run only saw sales that were about 8 to 25% higher. Once the jackp
Dec 18, 2013, 10:40 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Feeling a bit down..Reply
However, lately, I know the odds are astronomical but someone out there is that one who beats the odds and wins every few weeks. When the jackpots reach certain levels and more tickets are sold, there are some times over a 50% probability of the jackpot being won. That never changes the odds of your one ticket matching the drawn numbers, but the odds of someone winning the jackpot are much better so while the winner beat the odds , having a winning ticket was over 50% probable. The astro
Nov 11, 2013, 1:28 pm - Stack47 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Rollover probabilities for Powerball at $400M annuity.Reply
There is no mathematically legitimate way to declare the expectation value as undefined because the odds are large. Indeed in mathematical physics, one often defines improbable events in terms of expectation values, in the case of so called quantum mechanical tunneling for example. It is simply a ratio of potential reward to risk, and there is no arbitrary place at which it is undefined except where the risk is non-existent. If the ratio of the sum of cash jackpots awarded to each winner tim
Sep 16, 2013, 8:53 pm - Prob988 - Jackpot Games Forum

Your thoughts on Mega Millions Matrix Change?Reply
Let's face it, Mega Millions was getting its butt kicked by Powerball. They had to change something to boost sales. I'm at least glad they didn't just copy what PB did and instead tried something new. The way to boost sales in multi-state lotto games is to have huge jackpots. The way to have huge jackpots is to have it rollover a lot. The way to have it rollover a lot is to only have a small percentage chance of the jackpot being hit each draw during the normal non-frenzy stage of the r
Aug 3, 2013, 7:58 pm - Jon D - Lottery Discussion Forum