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Quote: Originally posted by Tuwie- on Mar 8, 2012
I was exchanging emails with a NY lottery employee and asked her about how many sweet millions tickets are actually sold. This is some of the info she gave me.
Currently, we have sales of about $500,000 per draw for the Sweet Million game, which is only 1/8th of the odds to win the jackpot. A large number of these plays are duplicative as many people play similar numbers such as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, which mean we are only experiencing coverage of less than 8% of the total possible number combinations that can be drawn (3,838,380).
And of course:
We have no plans at this time to change or discontinue our Sweet Million game
Thanks, good luck everyone. I am done with this game for the most part, maybe one quick pick each draw, but that will be it.
Only 8% coverage. Wow. That's 2% less than what The NYS Lottery told me in 2010. At that time, they said they were experiencing 10% coverage of the total possible number combinations. (factoring out the duplicate lines like 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
2% less coverage can only mean one thing. It means they're selling 2% less lines now than they were in 2010. Since they are selling fewer lines/tickets it's probably for two reasons; players being disatified with the game and the economy.
Even when they had the promotion going on in January and Feb, that still didnt generate enough sales/coverage to produce any "extra" jackpots.
All they need do is up the amounts of the lower tier prizes, especially 2nd place. It should be at least $5000. But to do that, it might actually require a change in the gaming laws. I'm not sure whether or not the NYS Lottery can just arbitrarily change the prize amounts without authorization from the NYS Legislature.