Biggest lottery flop of 2005

Reply #13

RJOh — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 17:42:56 GMT

My personal opinion about why Ohio got rid of the Super Lotto Plus game is:The format of starting with a $4M jackpot had gotten costly and it just bad advertisement to reduce the jackpot starting size and claim the game has been improved which Ohio makes about every game change. I suspect that once everyone have seen the lousy format of Lot'O Play with a starting jackpot of $1M and $2 ticket price for a while, a 6/49 game with a starting jackpot of $1M and a $1 ticket price will be seen as a im... [ More ]

Reply #12

rundown99 — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 17:30:42 GMT

Wait a minute... I looked at the Ohio Lottery FAQ website about the Lot O'Play(http://www.ohiolottery.com/games/lotoplay/lotolay_qa.html), and it said that We also lowered the odds to win the jackpot by more than half. They were 1 in 14 million in Super Lotto Plus, and are now 1 in 6.3 million with Lot 'O Play. Shouldn't it say that the odds to win the jackpot were raised by more than half? After all, 1 in 6.3 million is greater than 1 in 14 million.

Reply #11

rundown99 — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 17:15:47 GMT

Ohio Lottery should have kept the Super Lotto Plus. I don't know why they got rid of that game.

Reply #10

scorpio — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 16:57:37 GMT

i'm still looking for a lottery news ny magazine.asked the stan rose knows,but he's retired somewhere down in florida i think.

Reply #9

sirbrad — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 10:03:54 GMT

Almost every one I played was a flop.

Reply #8

fxsterling — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 04:06:42 GMT

powerball robbing of the biggest jackpot

Reply #7

LOTTOMIKE — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 03:58:41 GMT

i thought cash only might answer that the biggest lottery flop of 2005 would be any prize that was annuity......

Reply #6

bellyache — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 18:03:00 GMT

Yeah they could've come up with a better name.

Reply #5

ayenowitall — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 17:34:58 GMT

The biggest lottery flop of 2005 has to be Kentucky's Double Up Cash game. It began in April and it was quietly laid to rest by July. It was a computer-drawn game, it was never popular with lottery players in Kentucky, and the KLC obviously wasn't making any any money on it. I'd say those facts make it the top candidate for the 2005 lottery flop title.aye

Reply #4

Todd — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 15:30:58 GMT

It definitely takes the title of worst name of the year. Maybe of the decade.

Reply #3

CASH Only — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 14:34:33 GMT

By the rapidly declining sales. The Georgia and Michigan change games had the same problems; both lotteries kept them going until sales had almost dropped to zero.

Reply #2

Iesha Kelly — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 07:49:00 GMT

that's a good question. i like the former (defining it by the money it loses). so, which game completely flopped with players

Reply #1

RJOh — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 22:44:00 GMT

How do you judge a lottery game flop, by the money it loses or the money its players lose? If people keep playing a lottery game and losing then IMHO it's a success.

Biggest lottery flop of 2005

CASH Only — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 21:43:52 GMT

Looks like Ohio Lot O' Play. I don't see another game taking the title.