Powerball changes??

Reply #20

TheGameGrl — Sat, 04 Oct 2014 01:22:40 GMT

You make a valid point. Move it back to one dollar if the odds are going to increase. Even the common man knows that when odds go up, the interest to invest more goes down.

Reply #19

THRIFTY — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 21:11:19 GMT

$2 Powerball Quick Pick ticket is enough to win the jackpot. You only need a single of numbers to win the jackpot.

Reply #18

THRIFTY — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 21:00:39 GMT

A lottery is a Zero-sum game . What one group of participants gains in cash, the other group of participants must lose. If we made a list of all the participants in a lottery, it might include:

1) Federal Government (Lottery winnings are taxable)

2) State Governments (Again lottery winnings are taxable)

3) State Governments (Direct share of lottery ticket sales)

4) Merchants that sell tickets (Paid by the lottery organizers)

5) Lottery companies (Hint: They are not doing all this

Reply #17

THRIFTY — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 20:55:43 GMT

Mega Millions matrix change has been a failure. Where is the 1 billion jackpot? Lottery players are winning the game without spending big money on it. It takes $1 to win a Mega Millions jackpot.

Reply #16

THRIFTY — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 20:50:46 GMT

Playing the lottery more often does not increase your chances of winning a lottery jackpot.

Reply #15

THRIFTY — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 20:46:44 GMT

It takes $2 to win the jackpot.You can win the jackpot with a $2 Quick Pick ticket, if you are destined to win a Powerball lottery jackpot.

Reply #14

THRIFTY — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 20:42:09 GMT

Powerball is making more money by selling tickets at $2. It might go to $3 or $5 per ticket.

Reply #13

rcbbuckeye — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 12:39:34 GMT

I've often wondered about that. Most of the time the story doesn't say, but the story about the last PB winner in CA said he bought $30 worth of tics, 15 lines.

Reply #12

Coin Toss — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 03:07:22 GMT

Haven't most jackpot winners played one ticket, one to five lines of numbers

Reply #11

rcbbuckeye — Tue, 02 Sep 2014 12:29:42 GMT

PB is 1 in 175,223,510 compared to MM 1 in 258,890,850.

Technically, PB is easier, but when it comes to playing the lottery, none of the games are easy.

I see what Stack is saying, but I'm not a $30 a week player (on 1 game). I spend that much or more but on several games. I only play one line on PB and MM each.

Reply #10

RJOh — Tue, 02 Sep 2014 04:43:44 GMT

The odds of winning a jackpot seem to favor PP

How do you figure winning a jackpot favors PP? Do the odds change or what

Reply #9

RedStang — Tue, 02 Sep 2014 01:19:58 GMT

I don't think it will matter if they add more. There's always someone who will play those extra numbers as birthdays or something else.

Reply #8

lakerben — Tue, 02 Sep 2014 00:44:10 GMT

wow!

Bring it on!

I'm working on something as we speak.

Reply #7

Stack47 — Mon, 01 Sep 2014 19:00:16 GMT

PB players don't need to do the math to understand they must purchase 30 tickets ($60) to get a reasonable chance of winning something; especially for the $12 - $20 a week player after tossing those tickets almost every drawing. I believe even the die-hard PB an MM players have figured out how difficult it is to win a jackpot and without the monster jackpot, it's just not the same.

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Reply #6

destinycreation — Mon, 01 Sep 2014 18:58:18 GMT

Powerball - They need to revert back to $1.00 Tickets, and kill the $2.00 ticket fiasco. Maybe the Jackpot will increase faster, if more people start buying more tickets, more often again, because they can afford to again.

Reply #5

RJOh — Mon, 01 Sep 2014 17:09:23 GMT

Players who win $100 millions still get excited, it's just that kind of excitement isn't called a frenzy any more since most of the loser feel foolish for having brought losing tickets.

Reply #4

mrcraft — Mon, 01 Sep 2014 03:26:04 GMT

I take it, they'll make the odds tougher than Mega Millions, but look what's happening with that game. It's still being won before the anticipated monster jackpots. I do miss the jackpot frenzy though. As far as jackpot prizes, this summer was a dud

Reply #3

rcbbuckeye — Sun, 31 Aug 2014 22:24:14 GMT

I'm working on it. Just got my tic for Wed's draw.

Reply #2

RJOh — Sun, 31 Aug 2014 19:48:56 GMT

Better hurry up and try to win it before it becomes impossible to win.

Reply #1

LottoMetro — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 15:04:24 GMT

Yep, they've been planning this for awhile. I mentioned it in a post earlier this year and if I'm not mistaken they are increasing the Powerball bonus ball pool to 43 or 45 (will have to dig up the post). They're also thinking of adding a second-chance element like the new Monopoly game will have.

Powerball changes??

rcbbuckeye — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 14:05:45 GMT

Just read the minutes of TLC's last meeting and Gary Grief mentioned he would be (did by now) attending a MUSL conference in which they were discussing changes to Powerball. They are unhappy with the inability of the game to roll to big jackpots.

Here we go again. Can you say matrix change