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• CASH Only

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  Washington state is replacing the "Lucky for Life" online game with a $5 scratch game of the same name. The scratch will offer a $750,000 cash option for the lifetime prize (the computerized version does not.)

  OR and PA need to offer a cash option for their lifetime prizes or scrap their games.
• tg636

  

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  How can you have a cash option if a game is based on giving you a check each year you remain alive?
• CASH Only

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  tg:

  WA realizes the older you are, the less attractive a lifetime prize is.
• Blalron

  

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  The entire concept of the game is depressing if you do a little math. Figure out your life expectancy, subtract it from your current age. Then add up what the Present Day Value of all those 1000 a week checks will be once you adjust for inflation. For just about everyone, the $750,000 cash option looks a lot more attractive.
• CASH Only

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  blalron:

  Unfortunately, OR is continuing Lose for Life with no plans AFAIK to offer a cash option.
• Blalron

  

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  Perhaps they will learn from Washington when their sales increase.
• LOTTOMIKE

  

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  a "life" is ending...
• CASH Only

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  ...and a better one will be starting...
• JimmySand9

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by CASH Only on April 17, 2005

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  ...and a better one will be starting...
  
  

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  Well, for that particular game. The other on-line games will have to go through the player withdrawl that comes with computer drawings.
  
  

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• CASH Only

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  WA online Unlucky for Life is rotting in lottery hell. Unfortunately the PA game isn't following it.
• JimmySand9

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by CASH Only on April 27, 2005

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  WA online Unlucky for Life is rotting in lottery hell. Unfortunately the PA game isn't following it.
  
  

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  I don't know about hell. Pergatory maybe .

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• CASH Only

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  PA Unlucky for Life uses yellow balls. Appropriate since UfL is for cowards.
• CASH Only

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  Ironic that OR is continuing its Lose for Life (without a cash option)-OR Megabucks was the first US lottery game to give players a choice of lump sum or annuity.