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Mega Millions multi-state lottery to get harder to win in Oct.Reply
so once they make the change all the combinations get re-set. to 0 out of 200,000,000 (or whatever it is) so all the tracking people have been doing for this game for years watching past draws and whatnot they will have to throw it all out and start all over. Didn't relly read the whole post, did they say anything about bigger starting jackpots?
May 22, 2013, 9:23 pm - Down - Lottery News

Mega Millions multi-state lottery to get harder to win in Oct.Reply
This is very disappointing as I'd been playing MM quite regulary for awhile now, but I will NOT be playing on a regular basis with these types of odds......I might invest a dollar or two when the jackpot is very , VERY high, but I can't feel myself going into a buying frenzy like I'd been doing with unusually high jackpots...The odds are just too high for me to feel I'd even have a chance...
May 22, 2013, 6:38 pm - CinCin - Lottery News

Mega Millions multi-state lottery to get harder to win in Oct.Reply
I don't see it as a matter of greed . All they are trying to do is make the game BETTER by creating BIGGER jackpots for the players to win. They are just misguided in thinking longer odds will help, when fewer tickets sold (at a higher price) will accomplish the task in a MUCH more efficiently way.
May 21, 2013, 6:09 pm - Ronnie316 - Lottery News

Cant you just give cash to avoid the gift taxes on the receipients??
So if you hit the jackpot and want to give friends and family some money...can't you just give them cash so they wont have to pay the gift taxes? Like if I had of won one of the past two jackpots, I would have just got maybe a million in cash and handed out different amounts to friends and distant family....Would they be exempt from the taxes then???
May 21, 2013, 11:30 am - billionaire2bee - Lottery Discussion Forum

So how much did you drop for this latest huge jackpot??Reply
I played $20 bucks worth won nothing. By the time I thought about the odds and if its worth it to analyze the numbers, I just picked #'s and winged it. I think I'll play better when the jackpots are not so high, less pressure to analyze the numbers
May 20, 2013, 7:46 pm - Bluegal1 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions multi-state lottery to get harder to win in Oct.Reply
I think you missed to point. If they raise the price to $4. they wont need to change the matrix because they will sell fewer tickets, AND have bigger jackpots at sooner intervals.
May 20, 2013, 4:54 pm - Ronnie316 - Lottery News

Do you see people being more conservative with their betting going forward?Reply
I have no problem that it was one winner! I wanted one winner (of course I wanted me). But to OP as I up my lines as the jackpots grew I will now be back to only my very basic numbers for the next several draws.
May 20, 2013, 3:35 pm - Saylorgirl - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions multi-state lottery to get harder to win in Oct.Reply
* The idea is not to keep more money but to raise more money, South Dakota Lottery Commission lottery director Norm Lingle told commissioners. Unfortunately, the way to make jackpots grow bigger is to make it more difficult to win, he said. It was that kind of slick talks by Ohio's lottery officials that doomed Ohio's SuperLotto game a few years ago when they decided to limit the amount one ticket could win regardless of the jackpot size. They said by limiting the winnings to $20M, the jackpo
May 20, 2013, 1:49 pm - RJOh - Lottery News

Record Powerball jackpot won by 1 ticketReply
Many jackpots through the years in both national big-game lottos and state ones have been claimed in some form of trust after a winning drawing. In Ohio alone there have probably been several dozen.
May 20, 2013, 1:34 pm - Arrowhead - Lottery News

If in the future there was a $1 BILLION Mega Millions or Powerball Jackpot..Reply
The media always love to glorify things by bending the facts. Think about all those that won $1 million jackpots and are now portrayed as millionaires.
May 20, 2013, 1:05 pm - Jill34786 - Lottery Discussion Forum