It's certainly disheartening that there have been few million dollar winners, but that still doesn't change the fact that the odds are 1 out of 3 million to win, much better odds to win a million than the other lottery games. Do you really care of the money goes to education (when there is no big winner) or another sweet million player who hits the six numbers, as long as you have better odds to win a million with SM than the other games offer?
Anyway, a few people I know won over 60 thousand last night on the NY Pick 4 mid-day number 1029. I played 1025, that's my birthday this month, I just missed it. Maybe thats the way to go, play Pick 4, make a $100/$50 bet once/twice a month and a winning straight number will get you $500,000/$250,00 with 10,000 to 1 odds, and just play $1.00 each on SM and the jackpot games all month.
I won nothing at the Borgata in AC, an old lady next to me won $250.00 on the Wheel of Fortune slot machine. I played Bingo and the guy next to me realized he didn't mark a called number on his card a few seconds after the game was closed, but the Borgata wouldn't give him any money, so he screwed himself out of $250, the $500 prize for that game went to one person, instead of being a split pot with two players.