Combine MegaMillions & Powerball? take the poll

Reply #10

pumpi76 — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 23:43:27 GMT

I hope they combined, not only that but i hope the charge 2 dollars per ticket...

Will love to see a 700 million dollar jackpot sign on the billboard.....

will love to see a Pick5/120 for the regular balls + Pick1/70 for the bonus ball...

i'll enjoy to see peoples's faces when they pass the billboard sign...

and ironically the only line of deffense against such a game is Bigatoo101 system -+revisited on the mathematics forum or combining all the systems...

i pray that they combine... [ More ]

Reply #9

KY Floyd — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 07:40:15 GMT

The size of the jackpot is controlled by the odds, not by the number of people who play. The number of players only determines how fast the jackpots grow. Do you think it would make sense to also add the odds of 1 in 195 million and 1 in 175 million to get a game with odds of 1 in 370 million

Reply #8

chasingadream — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 02:53:24 GMT

well i don't think its an all together bad idea but I think that they should stay separate and in addition to what we already have.............add a national lottery with all states.

Going from a small state jackpot lottery to a huge national lottery without there being a buffer game inbetween is a little bit extreme. especially for with low population that have a hard enough time as it is getting a jackpot winner.

Reply #7

aberdeennut — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:01:45 GMT

Hi I think it's a bad idea it's hard enough now trying to keep up with things as they are, but I do agree with the national lottery part of it,that would put more heads together on the one lottery.

No offence my friend just an opinion.

Kind regards,

Bill....

Reply #6

Coin Toss — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:18:31 GMT

When Powerball aded Florida the odds jumped up considerably, if I remember right from 146 million to 1 to 194 million to one. That's with the addition of one state.

Whether you look at a combined MM / PB lottery as a 29 state game picking up 12 more states, or vice versa, I hate to think what that would do to the matrix.

I'd like to see some kind of nationwide lottery with wider payouts (more winners), but the lure of half a billion dollar jackpots and up is just something the lotteries us... [ More ]

Reply #5

fja — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:13:11 GMT

Combine the 2 lotteries for only a HALF BILLION?

You would double the number of players, so that means you have to double the odds. Might as well just keep the 2 lotteries separate and increase the odds some more if you want a Half Billion jackpot.

Bad move........

Reply #4

Todd — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:01:10 GMT

Reply #3

ThatScaryChick — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 05:11:26 GMT

I'd rather the two games stay separate.

Reply #2

spy153 — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 04:16:10 GMT

you got it

Reply #1

MaddMike51 — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 03:43:34 GMT

I like having two seperate multimillion dollar lotterys.This way I get four chances a week to try my luck at winning multimillion dollar jackpots.

Combine MegaMillions & Powerball? take the poll

ibcali — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 03:22:01 GMT

I would like to see the Multistate lottery and MegaMillions combine to create a near national lottery. This new National lottery would reach 42 states and Washington D.C. and the U.S. Virgin Islands with a combined population of: 288,000,000 ( I went on U.S. Census site and combined the participating states).

Could you imagine the amounts of the jackpots. I figure with Powerballs minimum $20,000,000 and MegaMillions's $12,000,000 the starting jackpot would be around $35,000,000. There could b... [ More ]