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• THRIFTY

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by EdG1955 on Jun 12, 2014

  But I have it from authoritative sources (commenters on Lottery Post) that the games are rigged!! How dare you throw up your lying statistics trying to prove otherwise!!

  I do not play the lottery everyday. You do not increase your chances of winning by playing everyday.
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  Quote: Originally posted by RedStang on Jun 5, 2014

  Hope for a miracle. The town that sold last nights NY second place ticket only has about 350 people.

  We need a time machine to beat the lottery?
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  rcbbuckeye, I hear you, but you live in a winning state.

  New York has more lottery losers than winners.
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  Quote: Originally posted by bigbear29 on Jun 5, 2014

  Redstang, just wondering, the town is an average town or high income town?  It does show that any place can win, but I would like to wake up and see other states as the winning state.

  $5 lottery draw games will be the new attraction. $1 and $2 games are not good for business.$5 games will prevent the lottery from increasing the odds of winning a jackpot to 1 in billions.
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  Mega millions and Powerball are not making the amount of money that they were expecting. These jackpots are taking forever to cross the $100 Million level. Players are not spending big money on Mega Millions odds of 1 in 259 Million and Powerball odds of 1 in 175 Million. The small prizes are too hard too win, and they pay nothing compared to the odds of winning.
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  Quote: Originally posted by bigbear29 on Jun 5, 2014

  RJOh, that would be a go idea to get more people to buy lottery tickets.  It just feels that less people are excited about playing PB and MM's these days.

  may-be more people might be playing their own state games instead.

  Who is going to play lottery games, where winning small prizes feel like playing for a jackpot? The odds of winning $5,000 in Mega millions are 1 in 739,688. Does the lottery think that lottery players are stupid? The starting jackpots should be $100 Million for Mega Millions and Powerball compared to the odds of winning.
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  ALL the lottery games are hard to win. The Texas 2 Step starts at $200,000 with odds of 1 in 1,832,600. I hardly win anything on that.

  But, it only takes one ticket, one time.

  It's worth a buck.

  CAN'T WIN IF YOU'RE NOT IN

  A DOLLAR AND A DREAM (OR $2)