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caipiao — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 07:30:38 GMT

yea they got problem competing. Jackpot level progresses by 250k or 500k each time, so no more than a million tickets gets bought each draw.

IL Lotto is tricky, they appear to give you a good deal, 1 dollar two draws, and one might think one has chance to win Jackpot with 1 in 10 milliion odds, but those odds are based on two lines or $1.00. If you play only 1 line, then actual odds 1 in over 20 mil

Statement on Illinois Lottery Tickets

Coin Toss — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 05:17:30 GMT

This was on the tickets today:

PLAY IL LOTTO, #1 MILNMAKER! 950+ IL LOTTO PLYERS HAVE WON $MILNS! WED LOTTO=$10.5 MIL BUY 1

I've never seen them put something like that on Lotto. When it was announced Illinois would get Powerball in addition to Mega Millions I wondered if Lotto could compete. The Lotto jackpot tonight was $10.5 million, Powerball $260 million, which one do you think got more play?

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