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Powerball lottery winners talk about hitting the jackpotReply
Actually it does nothing to see some old dude claim the money. All I see is massive losses due to death taxes; what is it in the multi-million rage, some where around 50%. This guy has one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel. His enjoyment is going to be limited to an electric wheelchair with side mirrors. I am not looking for some teeny-bopper to win, that would be the opposite. Just some mature person, with an IQ above above a slug. Some one who can have atleast 20 years of
Nov 10, 2005, 8:14 am - Chewie - Lottery News

New Mexico Lottery still looking for $93 million Powerball winnerReply
I don't see the US lotteries ever doing away with taxes on lottery winners (or anything else, once they've got a lock on it).To be honest, I don't even object to the first-crack-out-of-the-box jackpot being, what? $5 million and some change, before taxes? Maybe $3 million after taxes.What I object to is the fact that those billboards advertise something that isn't so. I believe they do it because they know if they announced in billboard letters how much they're actually giving away, people wou
Aug 13, 2005, 10:09 am - Rip Snorter - Lottery News

S.C. man loses more than $140K to 'you've won the lottery' scamReply
l would encourage you to give it a shot the next time they call BD. Remember: nothing ventured, nothing gained. See if your experience mirrors mine. They probably have a playbook that they work off sooner or later they going to reel someone in. Try using a fictitious SS #, one that is not even close to your own. The speed with which they pull up your information is incredible. If you paying attention, you can hear lots of activity going on in the background, people working the phones- l mean the
Feb 29, 2020, 8:00 pm - noise-gate - Lottery News

Lottery-scamming brothers avoid asset seizures by transferring property to their motherReply
Is everybody just plain stupid or what? These brothers just proved to us all that every lottery is NOT random, the numbers are predetermined well in advance which means a computer and it's program determines the outcome of which tickets win and lose..I'll bet the farm you will have the losing ticket, and anyone who is associated with the crooks that are running the lottery are laughing all the way to the bank.The scam is not on the brothers, hell I commend them, it is on THE SCAMMED PLAYERS. So
Apr 30, 2019, 3:52 pm - luckybobz - Lottery News

Hoosier Lottery admits new office too lavishReply
Yet another unnecessary news story. The new purchases shown in this video were reasonable for their employees and business meeting employees and guests -- over at least a 15 year business use plan. Certainly, they all appear to be fixtures and furnishings that will last 15+ years (and are probably all warrantied as such). It looked similar to the way most modern offices have been furnished and decorated during the past 10 years, in regards to my extensive office visiting experiences. This sta
Oct 10, 2011, 8:58 pm - HaveABall - Lottery News

Powerball lottery to have larger jackpot, but harder to winReply
Just be grateful they don't simply use smoke and mirrors, creating a phony jackpot of 500 milion by changing the annuity payout again. Stretching it out to 35 years, or decreasing the initial payments and adding a ballon payment at the end could easily let them inflate the advertised jackpot by 50%. I know that MM said they could potentialy see a jackpot of 500 million when they changed the matrix, but I'm not sure if PB every claimed that as a possibility. Even with the new odds, reaching a
Dec 29, 2008, 3:19 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery News

N.C. Lottery celebrating 1st birthdayReply
Thanks much, DD!! Very simple economics at work now, give people more for their money and they'll keep buying more. Lottery games creators need to strategize less like high-end retailers going belly-up everyday ....... more like world class $ucce$$ful mega-volume sellers Costco, Ikea and Walmart .... no frills, no smoke and mirrors, bottom line ..... buy more for less. True profit is volume selling max value for consumer $$$ spent .... the only way state lotteries can lure bac
Mar 31, 2007, 11:56 am - konane - Lottery News

New Tenn. congressman wants national lotteryReply
This guy has been using 'fuzzy' math, smoke and mirrors, etc, for too long! Would be interesting to know what game he has in mind. I don't know of a current game that would be attractive to players. Can you imagine a jackpot being divided into couple of hundred parts!!! On the other hand - folks in Canada have been playing a 6/49 lottery for a long time. The jackpots are won frequently, and multiple winners doesn't seem to be a deterrent. An increase to $2 per ticket didn't have the nega
Nov 14, 2006, 12:18 pm - bobby623 - Lottery News

Texas Lottery May Eliminate Lotto Bonus NumberReply
Admitting you are wrong is hard for lot of folks, especially the ones at the Texas lottery. The people who changed all of the games to make an extra buck for the politicians are still there, still working to find ways to gouge the players with games that are not easy to win in order to boost profits.As far as a possible pick 6 game, don't count your chickens before the eggs hatch. The current game has been in trouble for a long time. If half of the 2 million folks who can't resist buying a lotto
Aug 18, 2005, 9:53 am - bobby623 - Lottery News

With Northstar terminated, what will the Illinois Lottery do now?Reply
I was chatting with a retailer and he told me MY 3 and Hit or Miss will be gone, as no one buys them. I don't understand why they create these games as they are just smoke and mirrors. Unless you can tinker with the payback percentage offering more games with the same payback just dilutes the pool. Only so much money to go around and churn. My last straw was when Northstar changed the Lucky Day Lotto matrix to 1 of 45 making it more than doubly hard to hit the jackpot. They mislead in the adv
Sep 8, 2014, 11:48 am - qutgnt - Lottery News