Missouri Lottery changing games Monday

Comment #4

time*treat — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:03:27 GMT

It probably didn't help that people on the MO/IL side could cross the border and play a 5/39 game and get a shot at a jackpot that started at twice as much.

Comment #3

RJOh — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:52:34 GMT

They probably noticed that other states were making more money with their 5/39 games.

When Ohio had a 6/49 +1 game with a starting jackpot of $4M and that rolled $1M every drawing, they replaced it with the lousy game Lot'O Play which they said was better and in response to players when actually they were losing money with the old 649+ game, the payout were too large. A year later they got rid of Lot'O Play and replaced it with a classic version of the 649 game which they said was better and... [ More ]

Comment #2

chasingadream — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:13:00 GMT

i like it when the lottery makes changes due to player response... lol

Comment #1

time*treat — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:29:50 GMT

In recent years he said the average number of players in the 14 weeklydrawings had slipped from 480,000 to around 340,000 while annual salesfell...

And that, kids, is how you get rid of a lottery game that is lousy. You 'petition' your money to stay away from it.

Missouri Lottery changing games Monday

Lottery Post — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:54:02 GMT

Missouri Lottery players will get a new numbers game Monday, but also lose one.

Show Me Cash, a daily on-line drawing, is set to begin Monday when the twice-daily and struggling Show Me 5 Paydown game goes out of business.

Lottery spokesman Gary Gonder said the new Pick 5-style game would offer players bigger jackpots and better odds of winning.

The top prize in every Paydown drawing was a tax-free, lump sum $50,000. But if no player won that prize, cash trickled down to increase the a... [ More ]