Old NY Lottery Annual Reports

Reply #4

CASH Only — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 20:38:30 GMT

Jimmy:The prize return on Take Five has ALWAYS been 50%. If anything, the prizes in T5 have dropped slightly with the Instant Take Five scratch, which began in 1999.

Reply #3

JimmySand9 — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 16:39:19 GMT

Cash:Sorry.

Reply #2

JAG331 — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 14:02:03 GMT

Interesting stuff Jimmy. Thanks.

Reply #1

CASH Only — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 13:40:02 GMT

jimmy:Take Five always has paid out 50% since it started in 1992. Cash 40, which was replaced by T5, had a 40% payout.

Old NY Lottery Annual Reports

JimmySand9 — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 00:12:36 GMT

http://nysl.nysed.gov/uhtbin/cgisirsi/67kDGqhBST/250710019/503/10247This has all the annual reports from 1995-2000. And I found out a lot of interesting stuff, such as:Like Lotto, Take Five used to only pay 40%. It went to 50% in 1995.Lotto used to have seperate jackpots for the Wednesday and Saturday draws. The Wednesday draws started at $3Mil, and increased by about $6Mil with every draw. The Saturday draws started at $4Mil, and increased by about $10Mil with every draw. In 1996, the jackpots