Powerball Jackpot

Reply #7

RJOh — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:35:56 GMT

Whoop!, I misspoke as Rommey might say.

Over the years I have seen the values of lottery games jackpots reach the amounts it would cost to buy every combinations but I will really be surprised if a PB jackpot ever amounts to $354,470,020 even with its 30 years annuity plan, but if I do I will buy a ticket.

Reply #6

savagegoose — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:06:13 GMT

i think you meant , 1:354,470,020 now

Reply #5

RJOh — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:48:50 GMT

I've played lotteries for years and can remember when the odds printed on the play slips were based on the price to buy all the possible combinations. For example when Ohio had a 6/55 game and the real odds of winning the jackpot were 1:28,989,675, it was printed as 1:14,494,837 on the play slips since 2 boards cost a dollar and when they later went to a dollar per board with a 6/49 game, the odds printed on the play slips were 1:13,983,816. Now that PowerBall cost $2 per play I can't think of t... [ More ]

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KY Floyd — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:09:11 GMT

The recent jackpot progression has been 100, 120, 146, 170, 200. The last time it hit 200 was last October, when the progression was 105, 124, 148, 173, 203 (then 254). Earlier ones have slighty different jackpot amounts, but similar increases. Since the amount of each ticket sale that goes to the jackpot is now about double it would appear that they're selling about half as many tickets.

According to lottoreport dot com sales figures for the same progressions increased about 21%, 16%, 21% an... [ More ]

Reply #3

Editgap — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:59:41 GMT

I keep wanting to play but when I think that I wouldn't be happy matching 4 + 0, I say to myself forget it I can wait. I believe the game is designed for huge jackpot players and they do not build jackpot. Besides, people are not spending $1 more for the multiplier. They play the minimum they can to be in the game as there is few $2 million winners. People want to lose as little as possible. like myself, losing is on my mind now when I play.

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Uff Da! — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:03:28 GMT

I'm one of those who has not played PB since the price went up. A couple of weeks ago I asked for $5 in PB tickets, but when the clerk reminded me that the price of tickets had doubled, I said Forget it. I've just stuck to MM and state lottery since. So over the past couple of weeks, I'd probably have contributed about $20 to PB had the price not gone up. I'm sure there are plenty of others like me. But no doubt there are also some people to buy the same number of tickets, regardless of the pric... [ More ]

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NightStalker — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:28:05 GMT

I'm guessing that people are not playing quite as much as they were playing. How many times to people go into a convenient store buy a couple of things and then add a $1 lottery ticket to round out a $5, $10, or $20? I used to do that a couple of times a week, in addition to my other plays. Not as much now.

Powerball Jackpot

hockeyfan — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:09:23 GMT

With the tickets doubling in price I am not seeing the huge gains in the jackpot that I expected. Did half the players stop buying?

I was really expecting it to go to at least 225 million.