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What the final rollover probability on the 590.4M Jackpot was.Reply
Good work Prob. I'd like to see the probability numbers for the Friday March 30, 2012 mega millions which was at $656 Million but with an added KICKER. Substitute the new 1 in 258 million odds vs the current 1 in 175 million odds and lets see a comparison.
May 24, 2013, 12:09 pm - veganlife125 - Jackpot Games Forum

What's up with the small Hot Lotto jackpot increases?
Three drawings into the cash only, harder to win format and the jackpot increases have been an anemic $50,000 per draw. This coming with one extra moderate sized state (Tennessee) now participating. Prior to the game change we would have expected increases in the $100,000-$150,000 range with a jackpot over $6 million. What gives? Could it be that players have been more focused on the recent huge PB and MM jackpots, they don't care for the higher odds, or do taxes paid jackpots simply ten
May 23, 2013, 8:15 am - msharkey2001 - Lottery Discussion Forum

What to do with megamillions?Reply
Personally, I don't like to see the games get harder just for the excitement of a bigger jackpot. It just doesn't excite me like it does most people I guess. I ain't gonna live forever, I'd rather experience the excitement of winning a jackpot, any size jackpot, sometime before I breathe my last.. Hell, I play Virginia's Win For Life game with odds of 1 in 5,245,786 and it seems like NOBODY ever wins the Jackpot EVER! And it seems like very, very rarely does anybody even win the 2nd place pri
May 22, 2013, 9:27 pm - rdgrnr - Lottery Discussion Forum

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
They should have raised the price of the ticket to $2 then jack the odds sky high in my opinion. I don't want to win $2 all the time because I play to win the jackpot and I will not be playing mega millions until the jackpot is big when they change to this bad odds in october. It is hard enough to win already.-weshar75
May 20, 2013, 5:42 pm - weshar75 - Lottery News

Mega Millions multi-state lottery to get harder to win in Oct.Reply
Your so greedy, greed is making it harder for people to win when the odds keep going up. You want to trade off less chances to win for more money, you will never win that new MM. The odds were already astronomical now there going to triple. They'd better not mess with the RC5 or CL or theres going to be a riot.
May 20, 2013, 3:22 pm - Goon - Lottery News

Mega Millions multi-state lottery to get harder to win in Oct.Reply
Didn't it just take 19 rolls for the mega millions to get to 190 million? It will take forever at those odds to get it in the realm of playing for a higher jackpot. I play every draw now but I will sit back and wait for it to get huge before I will waste money on those odds.
May 20, 2013, 11:53 am - Saylorgirl - Lottery News

Mega Millions multi-state lottery to get harder to win in Oct.Reply
Agreed. People are now likely to play less frequently and likely to purchase less tickets so it would definitely take a long, long time for the jackpot to grow to a huge amount. Most people would prefer having the more frequent opportunity to win smaller jackpots, albeit with crazy odds, than waiting around for a very, very long time for huge jackpots with far, far more impossible odds at winning. What a terrible, terrible idea!
May 20, 2013, 11:33 am - u980044 - Lottery News

Is it smart to spend more on extremely large jackpots?Reply
your odds of winning when buying one ticket is about 1 in 175 millions or 0.00000057%. You are going to need to buy 1.75 millions tickets just to increase the odds to 1%.
May 18, 2013, 5:05 am - redhot7 - Lottery Discussion Forum

$190 MILLION: Mega Millions lottery jackpot rollsReply
Hopefully they raise the amounts along with the odds. I wouldn't care to see the odds for 5+1 5+0 go up as long as 5+1 starts out at $25 mil at least 5+0 prize changes to at least $2.5 million.
May 16, 2013, 6:01 pm - jjtheprince - Lottery News