It would be fun if an uberball lottery was created.

Reply #17

RJOh — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 02:23:38 GMT

I'm not sure what a playslip with 5 boards cost but I'm sure it's more than 1 . Retailers now get 5% or 5 to print and check a line on a ticket so that 25 per $5 ticket. How many retailers do you think would continue selling lottery tickets if all they made was 5 for printing and checking 100 lines after getting $5 for that work now?

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Reply #16

savagegoose — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:03:48 GMT

yeh but id still make it min entry of $1, so $1 would buy 100 lines. sure the jackpot goes up by 100th of normal, but then odds are like 1 million times harder. Post Reply

Reply #15

jjtheprince — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 12:43:48 GMT

Haha...zero

Really, I wouldn't have to win it all, if I could get a 5 numbers on PB or MM like my dad did, that would be awesome.

Look at how many people either win that or the whole jackpot tell me it's not easy (for them at least).

Reply #14

rcbbuckeye — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 12:18:25 GMT

Sooooo....

How many MM and PB jackpots have you won? And I don't mean second prize, I mean the big jackpot.

Reply #13

RJOh — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 12:13:48 GMT

I bet if you were to ask any MM or PB jackpot winner if winning was easy I bet they'd say Oh yeah, TOO easy.

If winning is SO easy, why don't you ever see any repeat winners? Once in a hundred lifetimes isn't hard enough

Reply #12

jjtheprince — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 06:10:12 GMT

How do you figure that, people win MM PB a lot, especially in NY Indiana. I bet if you were to ask any MM or PB jackpot winner if winning was easy I bet they'd say Oh yeah, TOO easy.

I think my uberball game would actually be tough like a lottery is supposed to be since the odds are even far greater than 1 in 100 trillion. Still, I think there would be people out there that would win it too easily.

Reply #11

RJOh — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 15:11:28 GMT

possible combos of 9/999 + 1/750 numbers = 1.975571703464777D+24

MATCHES ODDS

9/9+B 1 : 1.975571703464777D+24

9/9+0 1 : 2.637612421181277D+21

8/9+B 1 : 2.217252192440827D+20

8/9+0 1 : 2.960283300989088D+17

7/9+B 1 : 1.12095661902974D+17

7/9+0 1 : 149660424652406

6/9+B 1 : 145873467827051

6/9+0 1 : 194757628423

5/9+B 1 : 394119496456

5/9+0 1 : 526194258

4/9+B 1 : 1998577589

4/9+0 1 : 2668328

3/9+B 1 : 18261115

3/9+0 1 : 24381

2/9+B 1 : 303115

1/9... [ More ]

Reply #10

rcbbuckeye — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 14:36:24 GMT

The odds on MM and PB are high enough, thank you. And the jackpots, even starting over are plenty high enough also. I do think eventually we will see MM and PB merge into one game. And with that, a change in the matrix, odds, and jackpot amounts.

Reply #9

RJOh — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 14:22:15 GMT

You seem to have forgotten that while governments run lotteries, the prizes are paid from the cost to play, if it only cost a penny to play then the prizes will be only worth pennies. Players don't play in real lotteries for bragging rights.

Reply #8

jjtheprince — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 14:07:47 GMT

I bet if New York were included in this new lottery, they'd have at least 3 or 4 winners per year.

Reply #7

savagegoose — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 12:35:08 GMT

but you could make the entry fee only 1c, and let people have massive combo's.

like a full wheel covering 10-15 numbers for about $20.

another good thing, for the gov anyhow is game isnt likey to even win before the sun goes out, and they will never have to pay up.

Reply #6

Todd — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 11:49:51 GMT

Reply #5

rightyus — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 11:35:52 GMT

But if you won the big one after a few weeks of rollover, you could buy Michigan. And still have enough left to cushion the blow of the money you just lost.

Reply #4

Guru101 — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 15:57:29 GMT

A Pick 9/999 + 1/750 would have extremely high odds:

1 in 1,975,571,703,464,776,596,243,000

Reply #3

RJOh — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 15:14:42 GMT

A 9/99+1/99 would be really hard, I can't imagine the odds for a 9/999+1/750 game.

possible combos of 9/99 + 1/99 numbers = 171372063618756

MATCHES ODDS WINNING COMBOS

9/9+B 1 : 171372063618756 1

9/9+0 1 : 1748694526722 98

8/9+B 1 : 211570448912 810

8/9+0 1 : 2158882132 79380

7/9+B 1 : 1188598028 144180

7/9+0 1 : 12128551 14129640

6/9+B 1 : 17365880 9868320

6/9+0 1 : 177203 967095360

5/9+B 1 : 532287 321953952

5/9+0 1 : 5432 31551485952

4/9+B 1 : 30947 553... [ More ]

Reply #2

jjtheprince — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 14:52:26 GMT

Haha, yeah I wish.

It would be a fun new game I think. Imagine the # of tickets that would be sold if the jackpot ever got up to $1,000,000,000

Reply #1

RJOh — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 14:48:33 GMT

I suppose after having won several PB and MM jackpots of only $200M, you now find those games too easy to win and boring, you now want a real challenge with big money, no

It would be fun if an uberball lottery was created.

jjtheprince — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 14:34:28 GMT

When I say uberball, I'm talking about a very hard to win game with huge jackpots.

I think a game where you have to choose 9 numbers between 1 and 999, and a bonus ball between 1 and 750 could be tough.

I'm not very good with math, so I'm not sure what the odds would be. I wonder if people would possibly win the jackpot often. If any of you are math geniuses, maybe you could calculate those odds.

This would be a good game to start the jackpot out at $100,000,000, and increase it by $20,... [ More ]