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Are people changing the way they play the lottery?Reply
Hi RedStang, The dead zone you mentioned was not so much the issue as much as my losing more than winning was. Sorry you are in a dead zone but if it helps you play less as you said that is a good thing. In my town we ended up having 3 or 4 people winning 1 million jackpots and we had someone win a 4 million jackpot on a scratch ticket within the past 2 or 3 years. After that happened I realized the chance of another person winning a big one in my town would be very slim. The problem with scr
Nov 20, 2014, 9:29 am - shyguitar - Lottery Discussion Forum

Audit: Stores buying Michigan lottery tickets from playersReply
Once again, still not true, only technically. If I win scratchoffs or jackpots that are under $500, I will get cash in my hand from the retailer and no one is the wiser. If you are not intelligent, you will deposit in the bank and file it with the IRS, but that is your choice and your problem. You can go to the casino everyday, win $100 and there is no documentation or paper trail which will require you to pay any taxes, and that is reality. If I win $100 on a scratchoff, I walk in, hand the ret
Nov 19, 2014, 9:40 pm - VenomV12 - Lottery News

Someone just lost out on $130 million.Reply
The deadline has already passed so it's obvious that the lotto office or the store didn't try to find the winner. Why would they when all the lotteries are suffering a major sales deficit due to the lack of big Powerball jackpots and hence big sales? Kidding of course, but would not surprise me if they secretly celebrated the deadline. The returned money will pad their bottom line. $73.3 million, yeah buddy!
Nov 17, 2014, 11:53 pm - LottoMetro - Lottery Discussion Forum

Anyone playing the new Monopoly Millionaires' Club game?Reply
The playmmc website did not show New Jersey as the jackpot, I had to click on the different states to get the results Too bad you didn't see my post, could've saved you the trouble https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/282010/3851082 I too don't understand why the website does not show the jackpot winner state, but it's probably because they're trying to steer away from jackpots with this game.
Nov 8, 2014, 9:43 am - LottoMetro - Jackpot Games Forum

Are Mega Millions sales really that bad now?Reply
You're right, it looks like I included 8 drawings from the previous run. Sales are about the same since the matrix change a year ago and my point is all things being equal , sales are about the same. It looks like overall, players are looking at both PB and MM jackpots differently because the last MM $321 million jackpot had slightly less sales than a $241 million jackpot in early 2012. PB lowered their odds, but doubled the price of a ticket. And while PB players spent $60 million on a $2
Nov 6, 2014, 10:07 pm - Stack47 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Theyre both up there...Wouldnt it be cool if someone hit both??Reply
No it wouldn't be cool. It would be a sensational news story but I don't think a lot of people would view it as cool. The odds of such a thing would be so ridiculously high, lots of people would be screaming fix and swearing off playing...until the next big one anyway. Spread the wealth, no one needs $100 Million or dual jackpots.
Nov 4, 2014, 11:10 am - dr65 - Lottery Discussion Forum

MMC Game ShowReply
Actually, our calculations are based on one property per ticket. To correct for 2 properties per ticket you would just divide the tickets required in half. For me, in NC, Cash 5 gets in the 600k-900k range every few months, with 1 in 575000ish odds. This yields an expected value over 100% of the ticket price. This and office pools for $300 million plus jackpots are where I put my lotto money.
Nov 2, 2014, 2:28 pm - grengrad - Lottery Discussion Forum

We have 6 Internet Cafes in OhioReply
The article I gave a link to was from a Cleveland Community, quoted Ohio law, and the part in yellow was a quote from the article. But owners are prohibited from awarding cash jackpots or prizes worth more than $10, rules that threaten to choke an industry casino operators and other critics say is a facade for illegal gambling. The article mentions a player apparently illegally winning $1600 and quotes the Ohio Attorney General saying they all should be closed down. And it's Legal. I'm j
Nov 1, 2014, 5:05 pm - Stack47 - Gaming Forum

We have 6 Internet Cafes in OhioReply
http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2013/10/ohios_internet_cafes_begin_lif.html But owners are prohibited from awarding cash jackpots or prizes worth more than $10, rules that threaten to choke an industry casino operators and other critics say is a facade for illegal gambling. Ohio has legal casino gambling so why would anyone go to these joints that can't legally pay more than $10?
Oct 31, 2014, 3:39 pm - Stack47 - Gaming Forum

Are Mega Millions sales really that bad now?Reply
I though I was clear when I said There were many MM changes in just the last 3 years like new states added, matrix changes, PB competition, etc., but apparently you missed it. Why nit pik when it's comparing apples to oranges? The figures I used for comparison were after the last matrix change. Ten years ago ticket sales on a $149 million jackpot were about the same as last Friday's $226 million jackpot. Sales in 2004 were around $10 million for the starting $10 million jackpot compared to $1
Oct 28, 2014, 7:47 pm - Stack47 - Lottery Discussion Forum