The Future of Mega Millions?

Reply #16

Tatototman65 — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 22:45:25 GMT

$15 million or $1 billion, I'll be boycotting this game until a new game/matrix is announced.

Reply #15

haymaker — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 17:45:19 GMT

Rjoh,

Does Ohio's 6/49 JP always get that high, what does it start at ?

Jersey pic 6 starts at 2 MIL.

it was hit 6 times in the past 12 mos.

most recently last week for 12 MIL. the biggest JP in 12 mos.

Reply #14

mrcraft — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 17:43:50 GMT

I'll definitely take a break from MM. There are too many games competing for ones money. SuperLotto in CA has been rolling over for a while, so it's decent sized right now. I'll play SLP until someone wins that jackpot, as well as scratchers.

I agree with posters above that the jackpot threshold that gets me excited seems to be rising.

Reply #13

Greg2117 — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 17:17:05 GMT

That's if no one wins before.

Reply #12

RJOh — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 17:15:41 GMT

Until MM jackpot reaches at least $300M, players have lots of better or just as good of choices to play. For example, Ohio has Classic Lotto(6/49) with a $55M jackpot with better odds of 1:14M to win it.

Reply #11

Toronto — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 17:15:00 GMT

It will take at least 20 drawings to reach this height again from the starting $15 million. Powerball does this in 13 drawings

Reply #10

gnozahs — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 16:49:25 GMT

Yep! The last time I dropped my money into MM was when it had that big jackpot in 2012. And this time around for the $636 jackpot, I only used a dollar. I sure won't be touching MM until it reaches over $500 mil. Until next time MM

Reply #9

Saylorgirl — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 16:12:40 GMT

I will go back to my one ticket each drawing until the jackpot gets back up to the super high number. I always play one line in both the MM and PB just to keep skin in the game.

Reply #8

RedStang — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 15:43:42 GMT

The 656 jackpot already ruined mega. Seems like players don't care about it until it reaches 400mill. It took a Billion dollar possibility to hype it up this time. Now that people know about the changes, it might be along time before Todd gets another interview.

Reply #7

Stack47 — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 14:10:36 GMT

MM ticket sales always drop after a nine digit jackpot win and record drop in sales is $627 million from 3/30/12 to 4/03/12. Sales prove people will buy many more tickets when the jackpot reaches a certain size, but the amount of the jackpot that starts a ticket buying frenzy is gradually getting higher.

Reply #6

Jon D — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 13:58:41 GMT

I will go out on that limb with you and say that sales will drop off dramatically for the next draw compared to last night's draw. Probably to around the nominal $15M starting sales.

Reply #5

bigbear29 — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 13:45:39 GMT

I agree, now it's time to put 100% on powerball.

Reply #4

MsNumberDreamer — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 12:58:38 GMT

I definitely will not play again until it' super high. With MM odds that is the only time I will play.

Reply #3

TooTallLuke — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 12:56:24 GMT

Reply #2

Shelby Mustang — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 12:15:47 GMT

I'll still get one ticket. Ive been getting the yellow ball number for the past three drawings. Still hoping I'll hit that elusive 2nd tier prize, I woulda been super happy with that 4 million last night

Reply #1

helpmewin — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 11:20:38 GMT

I was just thinking the same thing because Christmas and the New year holiday traveling

The Future of Mega Millions?

PaScratchAddict — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 10:53:22 GMT

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say sales will drop off dramatically now that the jp was hit due to millions of smashed dreams and it will be 3 months before it's hit again at over 1 billion.

I know I wont be playing it anymore until it reaches that size again, what say you