Florida Lottery joins Powerball

I e-mailed the people at MUSL about it a couple of weeks ago, and they said that there were no plans. Of course that was before Florida came into the picture.

I really hope there isn't another matrix change. The game is hard enough as it is.

Florida continues to deteriorate.  Couple of years ago I was proud Florida
had resisted going to two draws a day for Pick-3/4 and had a lotto strong
enough we didn't have to share with other states.  Plus we had a web
site with real information and help.

The best thing about Bush having been governor is we were inoculated against him ever being president.

Crist wants to bail and be vp, easier then keeping his promises.

Powerball will damage our 6/53 which never should have been changed
from 6/49.  These lottery directors certainly don't work for us. The claim
people polled wanted bigger prizes doesn't answer whether they also
asked for tougher odds. 

Powerball is just a bloated Pick-5 game, helps to look at it that way.
Play it as a Pick-5 and rotate the longest out Powerballs among your
tickets. 

BobP
 

There are those who think if games like MM and PB don't generate a $200M jackpot every other month or so they are too easy to win and won't play them.  It never made sense to me but I've even read some post here where people say they won't buy a ticket until the jackpot is over $100M,  I guess they don't want to chance wasting a dollar on winning anything less than $100M.

I emailed MUSL yesterday after reading about Florida joining MUSL and the drawings being held in Florida. I asked them if the drawings will be "live" or if they were going to change to RNG drawings.I also asked them if they had plans to change the matrix,which would make the game harder to win.Here is their answer:

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"The drawing will be live.  The drawing will still use a hard rubber ball
draw machine - though we anticipate getting new machines.

This does offer an opportunity to improve the game.  We don't generally
just like changes "to make it even harder to win".  We are kicking
around ideas to see what we can do to make the game and the drawings
more attractive to players.  We'll see what we can do. "

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They didn't say if the drawings would be televised.

I would say is was a INCENTIVE to get Florida to join..I would even go as far as to say that FLORIDA  ACTUALLY INSISTED that if they joined Powerball that the live drawings be held in their state as part of the deal for them to join..that would be my bet..ALABAMA is going to lose even more money now..because Alabamians can play mega millions or powerball on 3 sides of their state

So now Florida makes number 30 (not counting territories) to Mega Millions' 12. Granted Mega Millions has some of the more populated states but that's still pretty lopsided.

BobP. I agree completely. Give Florida 6 months and they will have every powerball player in the country at their throat. 

I couldn't have said it any better.

I am surprised a big state like Florida joined Powerball and not Mega Millions since that seems to be the way it goes.  Big states MM smaller states PB.  Florida is a huge lottery state.  I can't see them not raising the odds.  Maybe they will raise the price to $2.  I wish both games would do that already and just lower the odds a little.  Then it would be an interesting game one that seems to be at least a little attainable to win.

Brad