It sure would be nice for it to make it to $300M before the switch to higher odds. Of course, I hope I win it.

Higher odds?-Yikes when is this going to happen? as if thier not high enough already

I hope I win before they change the game too!

In January, when Florida joins Powerball. The starting jackpot will be $20,000,000. The odds will increase from 1 in 146,000,000 to 1 in 195,000,000. Have a ball trying to win that jackpot.

Yup, big increase that isn't even reflective of how many potentially new players there will be from Florida joining. They just wanted worse odds than MM so they can easily reclaim the jackpot record.

Do you think it'll make it to over 400 million the first time out or will it take a few months? It's going to be weird how Mega Millions will now have the better odds... Though that's not saying much. Has Mega Millions or the Big Game ever had better odds than Powerball before? I'm sure they have at some point but how long has it been?  Hopefully MM will stay away from screwing with either of their matrices for awhile just to compete with the possible PB jackpots.

I'm sure there are people out there who favor even higher astronomical odds just to see an unbelievably high jackpot reached. That's nice but it will only matter to the one or few people who actually win it. For the majority of players it will put winning the jackpot even more out of reach. Even lower prize amounts will be harder to win which makes playing less fun.

Good Luck all!!!!!!

When the matrix changes, I will no longer play. The odds were high to begin with and now...it just seems pointless. I will focus my energies on games with better odds.

I'd rather wait and win after they change the odds. The average jackpot should be bigger with the new odds, so chances are I'd win a bigger jackpot. $10 or $27 million this week would be nice, but $20 next month or $50 million next year would be even better.

That's the real reason the matrix is changing. Your chances of winning the jackpot are already wildly unrealistic, but you take your chance because it's so damn much money. More money means more people will take the chance, even if it is a smaller chance. Sure, at some point higher odds would actually reduce ticket sales, but MM has already established that that point is somewhere above 176 million to 1.