DC-5? Disaster.

Reply #6

LANTERN — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:52:41 GMT

jimmy

Getting 2, 3 or 4 out of 5 on a Tx Cash 5 game is almost the same as getting nothing.

Don't people play jackpot games to have a chance to win the jackpot and not to win $2 or so?

If you can already win 3 straight, you would instead play the pick 3 straight for a $500 prize.

And in the same way, if you can already win 4 straight you would play the pick 4 for $5 000.

I know that you can say that it is not the same as it would be or might be easier to get 3 or 4 out of 5 and yo... [ More ]

Reply #5

JimmySand9 — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:47:31 GMT

Really, you'd rather get nothing 99,999 out of 100,000 tickets. Keep in mind that $50,000 prize is the only prize. Match 4 or 3 and you get jack. If that's what you want, who am I to judge.

Reply #4

markp1950 — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:31:37 GMT

Wisconsin has a nice game 1:1.6MIl. (supercash)

Prize is $350,000 and everybody who wins gets the 350K...

It's a 6 number game.

I like Illinois Little lotto.... 5 x 39 numbers 1:575,757

Jackpot is usually day 1 100K , day 2 175K , day 3 250K, day 4 520K, day 5 640K

MarkP

Reply #3

rcbbuckeye — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:52:15 GMT

I agree. I would love to see Cash 5 go away and have a Quinto game instead. 100,000 to 1 odds for $50k is much better, with no parimutual.

Reply #2

thor — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:38:28 GMT

lantern:

texas cash 5 has odds of 1:435,897 and if you are the sole winner the jackpots are usually between $ 22 k and $25 k. but, several winners can cut that amount a lot such as on 09/23 when there were 3 tickets and the prize was $ 7,124 each.

Reply #1

LANTERN — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:45:30 GMT

The straight odds are 1/100 000 for the Quinto and pays $50 000.

The odds on Jackpot kind of lottos are in the Millions for the jackpot and yet people play them anyway.

The Tx Cash 5 pays much less than that (I think) and yet the odds are many times worse than those.

But being able to pay pick 3 and pick 4 straight straight on the Quinto is of no use as they already have pick 3 and 4 games there, being able to play straight pairs for $50 for $1 bet is not so bad.

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DC-5? Disaster.

JimmySand9 — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:20:29 GMT

Well, it appears the District of Columbia has already taken on a version of Pennsylvania's Quinto. It's apparently been on sale for a month. Now, doing that is already pretty dumb because, let's face it, Quinto is terrrrrrrrible. The odds of winning a prize are rediculous, as opposed having overall odds of 1 in 10 in Cash 5 or 1 in 6 for Treasure Hunt, Quinto has odds of 1 in 100 at best, with the pairs. But it's kind of pointless seeing you're only playing 2/5 of the total numbers, and you can... [ More ]