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Jun 2, 2002, 11:20 am

The 10 Best Bang-for-the-buck North American Lotteries.

Canada: Lotto 6/49 and the Super 7 rank number 1 and 2. Jackpots to $34 Million (so far), all cash, paid immediately in one lump sum, tax-free! Anyone 19 yrs of age or older can play. You don't need to be a Canadian. Pick 3 or better to win and both games draw an extra (bonus) ball to help you catch that winner. If you win it, it's all yours, tax-free, right now!

Note: Non-Canadians will still get all the money, but are responsible for paying whatever taxes are applicable in their home country. I suggest a dump-truck full of pennies, unrolled, driven to your nearest IRS office. That should keep them busy for a year or so.. and you can always demand a recount if your figures do not agree with theirs.. Gee, that's almost like a prize in itself :-)

#3. Iowa $100,000 Cash Game [ Lotto Cheatah hit 5/5 $100,000 jackpot pick 9 March 2002 ]
#4. Indiana Lucky 5
#5. Florida Fantasy 5
#6. California Fantasy 5
#7. California SuperLotto Plus
#8. Iowa Freeplay Replay
#9. Illinois Little Lotto
#10 Lotto South

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Jun 2, 2002, 12:38 pm

Cheatah: No comments on any of the GAMES (you mentioned)themselves because none of them seem to have any major flaws. My top-10 list would have included Connecticut Classic Lotto (52% prize return) and NY Take Five (excellent prize return on three numbers). A couple comments on how old you have to be to play: Some parts of Canada (eg Ontario & Quebec) allow 18-year-olds to buy tickets. (But throughout Canada, by age 19 all alcoholic beverages are legal.) In Iowa (also Louisiana, and starting 6/1/2003 Arizona) 21 is minimum age for buying tickets; 19 in Nebraska.
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Jun 2, 2002, 2:00 pm

Yes, both good games. I like the NY Take Five almost as much as the FL and CA Fantasy 5. I would probably rank Take Five 11th.

Did you know that the FL Fantasy 5 often pays over $1,000 for 4 numbers?
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1. Tri-State Megabucks: Maine & Vermont are incapable of offering large jackpots since neither _small_ state has Powerball/Mega Millions. 2. Massachusetts Megabucks; 3. Mass Millions. Both games remain ANNUITY-ONLY. 4. New York Lotto: Prize pool ONLY 40% of sales. 5. Pennsylvania Super-6: Two-thirds of games played are automatically quick-picked. Thank goodness PA joins Powerball this month. 6. Ohio 6/49 Lotto: Cash value ONLY 44% of annuity. 7. Ohio Kicker: If you avoid Ohio Lotto, then you don't have to worry about Kicker. 8. Colorado Lotto: Perhaps worse than Ohio; Cash value 40% of annuity. 9. Washington state "Lucky for Life"; 10. Oregon "Win for Life". Both online games are all quick-pick except for one line of numbers. Top prize in each is "$1000-a-week-for-life"-a prize that belongs ONLY in scratch games.
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Jun 2, 2002, 4:18 pm

I don't understand your reasoning, if you are looking at the cash value of a jackpot, why does the percent of annunity matters. $20M cash value is the same weather the percent of anunnity is 20 or 50. If you aren't interested in taking the annunity, then you only play when the cash value is high enough.

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Jun 2, 2002, 4:29 pm

Jack: The cash value of the MM jackpot is about 53% of the annuity amount. It is well-known that the Ohio Lottery uses different computations for the _actual_ cash value of the Lotto 6/49 annuity, and the cash value that is paid to Ohio Lotto 6/49 winners. When an Ohio Lotto 6/49 winner takes a lump sum, they are getting LESS than the actual cash value of the advertised annuity. The same principle apparently is at work in Colorado, since the cash value of the Colorado Lotto jackpot is a even SMALLER percentage than in Ohio.
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Jun 3, 2002, 7:54 am

so i shouldnt play this game because if i won i a $20 million jackpot, I would only recieve $9 million in lump sum. Is that what your trying to say. That I should consider my self cheated if I won $9 million.

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Jun 3, 2002, 8:13 am

Lotteries should treat players equally, whether they would rather take a large lottery prize in cash or annuity. If a $20 million annuity has a cash value of $10.5 million-$11 million (MM cash value currently is about 53% of the annuity) then someone wanting the lump sum should be allowed to receive the $10.5m-$11m, instead of $9 million (minus withholding(s)).
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Jun 3, 2002, 10:13 am

The cash value of a $20M annunity for 30yrs is worth less than the cash value of a $20M annunity for 25yrs because it costs less. Some states uses the 30yrs annunity package because it allow them to advertise a bigger jackpots with less cash. You may be comparing apples with oranges which are not the same.

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Jun 3, 2002, 11:50 am

The lottery is controlled by a conglomerate of secret goverent agencies with co-operation with Satan and Aliens. They chose who wins and they know who wins. Only the major lottery games like Powerball etc. are controlled. They come to you and you do what they want, and then you win. All winners are brainwashed etc. I have to go because "they" are following me because I know too much.
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Jun 3, 2002, 12:53 pm

Those aliens sure have alot of balls!!

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