LFL is a 6/38 game. I used two 4 of 6 wheels tonight and won five 3-number prizes and one 4-number prize, for a total of $55. This is my sixth or seventh 4 of 6 win in this game
But that is not important.
What IS important is the following: A smaller number field game allows for better number selection strategies to utilize wheels more successfully, especially ones with fewer combinations.
Winning $3000/month for "life" is much better than the newly announced prize amounts for the new PA Mix & Match game, which I call "Flip & Switch". For the new game, 3 correct numbers will yield $2 [$3 for LFL]; 4 will yield $20 [$40 for LFL]; and 5 will win you $2000 [same for LFL].
Flip & Switch is a prostitution of the current PA 5/39 game that yields $100,000 for having all five numbers and costs an additional dollar over 5/39.
To win the 5/39 you need to beat the 1 in 575,757 odds to win $100,000. But to win Flip & Switch the odds are 1 in 1,395,360 and you win $52,000 (& more if it rolls over-- but note that the 5/39 game also "rolls over".
If you won LFL, you would be guaranteed $1,000,000. Clearly, $36,000 a year for twenty years is much preferable than $52,000.
For all these reasons, the arguments made here for "killing" LFL do not hold water or merit.
The lesson? As a group, I again recommend we abandon or at least play less often huge number field games like Power/Mega Rip and focus on true Pick 5/39 or less games.
The jackpot for those games will thus rise much faster for the Power/Mega diehards but playing smaller number field games will yield much more satisfaction and probability of winning such as my win tonight.