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• NoCompLotto!

  

  Ypsilanti, MI
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  Aug 27, 2005, 12:13 am

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  This question came to me because it always seems here in MI, that the lottery never, and I mean NEVER, decides to put more than 4 top prizes in any new scratch game. Even the 2nd prizes are almost non-existent. Usually, if you look at the odds (which of course they don't make available online), the odds for hitting the top prize OR the 2nd prize are almost always the same - usually around 1 in 1,700,000 for BOTH first and second prizes.
• PS Master

  

  FL
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  February 9, 2005
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  Aug 29, 2005, 1:13 pm

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  Quote: Originally posted by NoCompLotto! on August 27, 2005

  This question came to me because it always seems here in MI, that the lottery never, and I mean NEVER, decides to put more than 4 top prizes in any new scratch game. Even the 2nd prizes are almost non-existent. Usually, if you look at the odds (which of course they don't make available online), the odds for hitting the top prize OR the 2nd prize are almost always the same - usually around 1 in 1,700,000 for BOTH first and second prizes.

  I guess it depends on what price you are refering too?  In a $1 game, you will not see a $50,000 prize.  But in a $5, $10, or $20 you will see more depending on the price of the game.  For me, I would rather have more lower prizes in the $100 and $500 range than more prizes at the $50,000 range.  That's the balancing act, of providing enough top prizes while still allowing the game to have enough $100 and $500 prizes.  I mean, you can have twenty $50,000 prizes in a game or TEN THOUSAND $100 prizes.  For me, I want a better shot at the $100 prizes and leave the $50,000 where they are at.  I think most states offer games with different odds at those levels.  So a game may say over 100 $10,000 prizes or over 10,000 $100 prizes.  They seem to make a game for almost everyone on what they are trying to win...