It's an excellent and a very ambitious idea-though I suggest that we could had loved to know which type of a game it will be.

Many people around the globe ,have found a more easier ways to win the lotterey-with the help of Gail Howard Books and the LP .

Those who dont win are the ones 'who play without considering certain factors as outlayed very clearly in Certain Lotto Books and the LP.

Back to the topic....I think a global draw will be a great idea.   

Sounds interesting.  I wonder if it's a ball drop game or computerized?  I don't envy the people who have to set up the logistics for this game.   Where to have the draw?  do you more the machine? Is payment Anuuity or a Cash Option?   Would just be insane to win that much money!

I bet "Pumpi" is jumping up and down and giggling like a schoolgirl (no offense), he's wanted this for so long.

I was thinking the same thing.

I don't know why don't they call it Global Lottery instead of International Lottery....Anyways i disapprove of this lottery, because i thought they were paying billions and billions of dollars as jackpot...For example i thought 1 winner was going to win 20 billion dollars for example...And that's the way it should be...

Japan has a Jumbo Draw that pays 350 million dollars (more than half of the 500 million) and that's just 1 country...So the entire world should the winner should get paid like 5 or 7 billion dollars...Why don't they have it...

Honestly when i first heard of it i thought it was 1 trillion dollars they were paying as jackpot...

Anyways this people always do the lotteries to suit themselves they do it because they are affraid of reprecursions...

This Global lottery surely can give someone 5 billion dollars as jackpot, but the people in power do not want that...They are affraid of selecting a nobody to have that much power...Is called prejudism/racism whatever you want to call it...Anyways nothing coming from England is good...

500 million the U.S can get a 500 million jackpot once or twice a year if they combined Powerball & Megamillions and join all the states remaining and charge 2 dollars per ticket...And actually it will not get to 500 million but instead it will get to 1 billion 500 million at least in the USA......So what are you telling me? that the U.S can draw bigger jackpot than the entire world combined...And this jackpot is going to cost how much? 50 dollars a ticket...So again what are you telling me...

I'm undecided on this yet. They didn't provide much detail on the proposed lottery. And what's with one big draw a year? Will tickets for that draw cost more? Will they set aside money from regular draws for it?

$1 Trillion is way too high, considering the US GDP is $12 trillion and the world's is closer to $55 trillion

But I agree...if there is going to be an international jackpot it should be in the billions.

The problem, however, is we think our multi-state lotteries have bad odds, imagine what an international lottery would be like.

I'd rather have a national lottery, perhaps by merging MegaMillions and Powerball. Start at $40 million and go up. We'd approach $1 billion jackpots and the odds would probably approach 300 million to one.

i think the GDP of the world is a lot more than 55 trillion...But i am not here to argue..I don't know actually but i think is like 70 trillion but i may be wrong..

I don't think people are going to pay attention to the odds, they are going to pay attention to the jackpot the bigger the better provided that is Once a year...But one thing i think will happen is that they will play mostly 1 or 2 tickets not more than that if the tickets cost 50 dollars...

I am against any mergings of these multi state lotteries.  If anything I wish some of these states would scale down and disconnect from these multi state lotteries.  Powerball and Megamillions cut into the state jackpots.  Here in CT, the lotto jackpot takes so long to get up to even 2 or 3 million because so many people are playing Powerball.  And on top of that hardly ever is there a Powerball winner from CT.  And it will be worse in January when Florida joins PB.  It will reduce state jackpots in CT and Florida, among other states.

Does anybody really need to win 500 million?  Isn't 5 million enough?  Even after taxes a 5 mill jackpot would still make you a multi- millionaire. Isn't that enough?  Most people playing the lottery are poor(like me) or struggling to stay middle class.  5 mill would be more than enough for me to start living the good life.

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