Louisiana Lottery may add Mega Millions next year

Comment #21

PrisonerSix — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 22:51:48 GMT

I hope you are right. The Powerball price going up is going to impact me in a big way. As I've posted before, I run a lottery pool at my office in which we buy a mix of Powerball and Lotto tickets every payday. We currently buy 7 Powerball and 6 Lotto. We haven't won big yet the best we've one on one pool being a little over $100. When the price goes up, I'm going to have to either up the price of membership or reduce the number of tickets I buy for the pool. I plan to put it to the a vote of th... [ More ]

Comment #20

Simba774 — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 03:08:56 GMT

They should add it. We're supposed to go visit family members next summer(Lord says the same) and I'm going to buy a MM ticket from down there if they they add it.

Comment #19

rdgrnr — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 15:22:47 GMT

I think you can pretty much count on it.

A lot of people are gonna play less PB or cut it out all together when the price increase kicks in.

And I doubt that PB will even care cuz they'll still make the same even if they lose 50% of their former players.

More people are playing the lottery now because of hard economic times but they don't have the money to pay more for it than they were, so it remains to be seen if this move will backfire on PB.

It may turn out that Mega Millions ben... [ More ]

Comment #18

PrisonerSix — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 15:12:29 GMT

I lived in Louisiana my whole life, around New Orleans, Lake Charles, and now Baton Rouge. I hope MegaMillions does get added, a good alterative to PowerBall after they raise the price to $2.

Comment #17

Simba774 — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 06:56:44 GMT

I miss the food so much.

Comment #16

Simba774 — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 06:54:37 GMT

Elgin is a quiet town, but in New Orleans major business were not too far from our home.

Comment #15

PrisonerSix — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 01:39:21 GMT

That would be great if Louisiana added MegaMillions, especially with the price of Powerball going up. I remember when it was getting close to $500million, I was tempted to drive to Texas to get tickets.

Comment #14

rdgrnr — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 00:40:29 GMT

When I hear Loozianna, I think of fried crawdads. I eat em like popcorn.

I'd go down there just for the Cajun music and the crawdads around the Breaux Bridge and Henderson area.

I hope them crawdads don't taste like oil now.

Comment #13

freeobama — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 19:06:34 GMT

I use to have an apartment in Elgin, glad those days are behind me.

Comment #12

Simba774 — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 07:42:08 GMT

I was born and raised in Louisianna, and I didn't even know about Mega Millions until we moved to the midwest.

Comment #11

myturn — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 05:38:34 GMT

The Louisiana Lottery should also introduce a subscription service, which would also increase revenue.

Comment #10

Prob988 — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 04:12:16 GMT

I won't be playing Powerball much when it goes to $2, since the expectation value will never get very high, so I'm looking forward to faster rising Megamillions. This can only help.

Comment #9

chuye — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 01:48:09 GMT

I saw on the channel 4 Los Angeles News that Powerball is probably coming by the end of the year to California. I also wanted Powerball come here like many people who kept asking the CA Lottery's facebook page. I think we want it because we haven't had much luck with SuperLotto and Mega Millions (but $2...that might be too much).

Comment #8

rdgrnr — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 01:19:01 GMT

A final report from the lottery board is expected to be forwarded to the state Legislature this fall, with plans to move forward before the end of next year.

Don't you love the way government expedites everything with such blazing speed?

Who's running the show there in Louisiana, the Post Office?

Plans to move forward in a year and a half... Bang! Zoom

Comment #7

DoctorEw220 — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 23:04:07 GMT

Could this be a sign that not every lottery was in favor of the changes to Powerball, or a sign that a lottery actually listened to the players

Comment #6

joshuacloak — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 22:36:04 GMT

its about freaking time Louisiana

their like turtles when it comes to change.....

glad to see they understand the fact overall we will make more profit then past sells of just having only 1 big jackpot game.

congrats, your now starting to be smarter then FL and CA lottery's,

now it be a race to see who blinks first, CA, to add powerball, or fl, to add mega,

then we have True national Game, a jackpot game sold in ever lottery state!

players in fl and ca, cry and whine... [ More ]

Comment #5

OldSchoolPa — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:03:32 GMT

Well I always like to have a dog in the hunt, so I play every drawing of the jackpot games and whenever I visit Florida, I purchase the maximum advance play possible. To date I have only won $9 from Florida Lotto (well actually I have won more than that but I forget the amounts I won when I played it back in the early 90s). No problem as I hope my day will come when I can be hoisting that ceremonial check up for all to see my face...for the last time as I will travel til my hearts content. No re... [ More ]

Comment #4

bobby623 — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:52:58 GMT

There are rumors that Mega Millions will increase it's single ticket price to $2 next year, or later, depending on how well players adapt to the Powerball price increase.

Also, there are rumors that a third jackpot game is in the works. No one knows what the ticket price will be, but, there is some speculation

that it could cost $5 a play for multiple sets, similar to Canada's Lotto Max, or not.

One has to wonder if players can afford to play the more expensive games on a regular basis.... [ More ]

Comment #3

TheRightPrice — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:10:55 GMT

Sounds like Good News for Louisiana. Hopefully, they will do the same for Florida.

There are rumors that Florida Lotto Sales are weak ever since Florida started Powerball.

Comment #2

ressuccess — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:17:39 GMT

Good luck to them. I'm happy that Louisana is going to gain more revenue by adding Mega Millions.

Comment #1

Truckstop — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:39:00 GMT

Do you know my Opinion about that, a couple years ago we had only two lotteries here, Canada 6/49 and Select 42. 6/49 used to cost 1$ and Select 42 50 cents ( a 6/42 game with a fixed 500 000$ jackpot ) drawing were Wednesday and Saturday, then they changed the Select 42 for Quebec 49 based on Canada 6/49 still 50 cents with a fixed 1 Million jackpot, then add Lotto Super 7 a (7/47) at 2$ game , but get 3 winning combination on Friday night, next they increased 6/49 and to 1$ to 2$ and Quebec 49... [ More ]

Louisiana Lottery may add Mega Millions next year

Lottery Post — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:15:44 GMT

With the price of a Powerball ticket slated to increase from $1 to $2 starting next year, state lottery officials are betting that adding a second multi-state jackpot game will help draw in additional revenue. The game, Mega Millions, is offered in 41 states, plus the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands.

For $1, players pick five numbers, from 1 to 56, and one Mega Ball, from 1 to 46, and are eligible to win the jackpot by matching all six winning numbers in a drawing.

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