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Cincinnati Reds formed Mega Millions lottery poolReply
Quote: Originally posted by HEYPHILLIP on April 21, 2005 They played in last tuesday's drawing and didn't win nothing. it just proves you don't increase your chances even with 1,000.00 dollars worth of tickets. Jack Whitiker brought one ticket.Jack Whitaker bought $100 worth of tickets when he won over $314 million in Powerball.
Apr 21, 2005, 10:13 pm - twisted - Lottery News

Cincinnati Reds formed Mega Millions lottery poolReply
They played in last tuesday's drawing and didn't win nothing. it just proves you don't increase your chances even with 1,000.00 dollars worth of tickets. Jack Whitiker brought one ticket.
Apr 21, 2005, 7:06 pm - HEYPHILLIP - Lottery News

Sign the petition - eliminate computerized drawings!Reply
Two ways computerized lottery drawing can be abused:1) States know that lottery sales increase as the jackpot increases. So it is to their advantage that no one wins the smaller jackpots, so that the jackpot increases.They could easily program the computer to make sure the winning numbers drawn were not picked by anybody.2) The programmers of the computer could arrange for a certain number to be picked, and have an accomplice play those numbers.I write this as a computer programmer of 27 years,
Apr 21, 2005, 11:21 am - Dunestrider - Lottery Discussion Forum

My MegaMillions Matrix SuggestionReply
Yeah, unfortunately, with a cash only jackpot game, the jackpot would not appear to increase as fast as a traditional annuity jackpot. It's all about marketing.
Apr 20, 2005, 11:28 pm - ryanm - Jackpot Games Forum

Mass Improvements For Massachusetts
Megabuck$:Add a cash option and increase the annuity to 30 years. And change the prize structure to the following: Match 6 - Minimum Jackpot: $500,000 Annuity ValueMatch 5 - $1,500Match 4 - $50Match 3 - $3Ca$h WinFall:Lower the price to $1. Change the matrix to 6/52. Prize structure remains unchanged.Mass Cash:Free ticket for matching 2 numbers.Numbers Game:Fixed payouts. And keep in mind that the payout in this game is 60%.
Apr 19, 2005, 1:38 am - JimmySand9 - Lottery Discussion Forum

N.C. Senate begins work on lottery billNews Story
The newly appointed North Carolina Senate Select Committee on the Lottery this week will begin looking at the lottery bill passed by the House and will start crafting a bill for the Senate, the committee chairman said. We re going to start moving now, said Sen. Tony Rand, D-Cumberland, a longtime lottery supporter. We ll have to see how it all fits together. Fresh off a razor-thin margin in the House, Rand said supporters would have to figure out how to get a lottery through the Senate, where
Apr 18, 2005, 12:33 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Mega Millions changing June 24 -officialReply
Quote: Originally posted by ryanm on April 16, 2005 I think that it's lame they're jacking up the odds to 1 in 175,711,536 but increasing the starting jackpot to only $12 million, while Powerball is only jacking up its odds to 1 in 146,107,962 but increasing its starting jackpot to $15 million. Mega should increase theirs to at least $15 million as well.
Apr 16, 2005, 1:49 am - jsk2001 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions changing June 24 -officialReply
I think that it's lame they're jacking up the odds to 1 in 175,711,536 but increasing the starting jackpot to only $12 million, while Powerball is only jacking up its odds to 1 in 146,107,962 but increasing its starting jackpot to $15 million. Mega should increase theirs to at least $15 million as well.
Apr 16, 2005, 1:20 am - ryanm - Lottery Discussion Forum

Michigan Winfall to be eliminated on May 14Reply
Uh people would only play when the jackpot was 5 million huh. How is this going to change people attitudes. Now some people will only play when its 10 million, and it will probably take forever to get there. This is for sure not going to generate any substantial increase in sales.
Apr 13, 2005, 9:45 am - qutgnt - Lottery News

Overstating the JackpotReply
They've got a model that says, at $x estimated jackpot level, we'll sell $y = f($x) tickets, which means the jackpot will increase by $z = g($x). If $w is the previous jackpot, then they get the equation $x = $w + g($x), and they solve for x.For games like Mega Millions the function is fairly smooth (though perhaps there are psychological boundaries at things like $100m or $113m), but this gets interesting for games like MA's Cash Winfall, where ticket sales double when the estimated jackpot i
Apr 12, 2005, 10:59 pm - Bingo Long - Lottery Discussion Forum