Increasing draw numbers

Reply #4

SergeM — Sun, 24 Jan 2016 23:10:14 GMT

When they launched EuroMillions, people stopped playing the national lotto.

EM: 5/50 + 2/9 for 2 EUR

LO: 6+R/42 for 0.50 EUR

The payouts for the lotto were good in the small prices and I won relatively often.

It was affordable, for a cup of coffee in the center I would play 4 lines.

1 line of EM = 4 lines of Lotto

A few years later:

EM: 5/50 + 2/11 for 2 EUR

LO: 6+F/45 for 1 EUR

Lotto payouts went down, the chances to win money got less. The chances to win any price we... [ More ]

Reply #3

rcbbuckeye — Sun, 24 Jan 2016 21:45:46 GMT

The consensus was taken in the form of falling sales. That's why MUSL changed the matrix which resulted in the highest jackpot ever which resulted in massive ticket sales. People don't get excited over 100 million dollar jackpots anymore. And the game that was invented to create more million dollar winners failed massively.

Reply #2

Todd — Sun, 24 Jan 2016 17:08:49 GMT

Reply #1

destinycreation — Sun, 24 Jan 2016 16:31:51 GMT

You should post this in the Discussion forum. You can create a poll thread yourself to ask this question. The Suggestions forum is for suggestions to TODD to consider making certain changes, improvements or upgrades to the Lottery Post website, that Todd might deem necessary.

Increasing draw numbers

terryedmondson — Sun, 24 Jan 2016 15:11:59 GMT

While we are selecting winning numbers from the amount now available for selection on that recent power ball prize it's self explanatory why the prize got so ridiculously high. When this scenario happened with the UK lottery the format was so unpopular with the public they later reverted the game back to fewer numbers which still gave a worthwhile prize after a moderate number of rollovers. After all most people who play the lottery are needy not greedy. Lets face it nobody needs over a billion... [ More ]