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abjorik

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Jul 9, 2014, 10:28 pm

Do you think that $20 and $30 scratch offs should have 1 in 2 overall odds? I think if you risk that much money in one shot you deserve to have a 50/50 chance.

CT lottery is total crap in that, they offer approximately the same overall odds on $3 dollar tickets and $30 dollar tickets. That does not make sense at all to players. Only to greedy lotteries
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Jul 9, 2014, 10:46 pm

I do not know about 1in2..but I would like to see the min prize amount on high tickets($20 and over) to be $100. That way if you do win..your like 5 times better off then when you started off. A few states are flirting with a $50 ticket..now that should be 1in2. That be the only way I play..otherwise it be a lot less stress, then losing..to just open my car window when driving down the interstate and letting a $50 blow out it!

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Jul 9, 2014, 10:49 pm

The odds of winning something are posted on the tickets so if you don't like the odds don't buy them.

* you don't need to buy every combination, just the winning ones *
MattfromPA

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Jul 10, 2014, 2:00 am

Quote: Originally posted by abjorik on Jul 9, 2014
Do you think that $20 and $30 scratch offs should have 1 in 2 overall odds? I think if you risk that much money in one shot you deserve to have a 50/50 chance.

CT lottery is total crap in that, they offer approximately the same overall odds on $3 dollar tickets and $30 dollar tickets. That does not make sense at all to players. Only to greedy lotteries

I wish $20 tickets in PA were at least 1 in 3 or a little under 3. They are almost always 1 in 3.2+
MDguy

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Jul 10, 2014, 9:26 am

In MD They are usually like 1:3 or 1:2.99 or something. I think the $20 prize structure here isn't that great. I suspect it might be better in other states there seem to be more $500 + winners from other states posted often here. One thing I don't like is our tickets tend to have a $20, $25, and $30 prize. Having that many low tier prizes is lame, when the $20 ticket first came out in like 2005 or so it had a $25 minimum prize and the next prize was $50. That ticket used to be better and I think the odds were more like 1:2.5-2.7 or something like that too.
Speedy5575

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Jul 10, 2014, 5:54 pm

$10 games: 1:3.3

$20: 1:2.8

$30: 1:2.5

That's around where they SHOULD BE. But that's not the case at all. Some $10 games in my state have WAAAY better odds than a $20 game, as much as a point higher. The lotteries are all just a bunch of crooks.
abjorik

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Jul 10, 2014, 11:26 pm

Quote: Originally posted by Speedy5575 on Jul 10, 2014
$10 games: 1:3.3

$20: 1:2.8

$30: 1:2.5

That's around where they SHOULD BE. But that's not the case at all. Some $10 games in my state have WAAAY better odds than a $20 game, as much as a point higher. The lotteries are all just a bunch of crooks.

No, 1:2.8 is almost the same as 1:3.3

$30 dollar scratch tickets definitely should be 1 in 2 because the risk to lose is extremely high. I mean, if you buy $10 dollar scratch you risk to lose 10 dollars, but when you buy $30 dollar scratch-off you risk with 200% more money and should be rewarded with much better overall odds
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Jul 11, 2014, 8:02 pm

Quote: Originally posted by ONEDAY on Jul 9, 2014
I do not know about 1in2..but I would like to see the min prize amount on high tickets($20 and over) to be $100. That way if you do win..your like 5 times better off then when you started off. A few states are flirting with a $50 ticket..now that should be 1in2. That be the only way I play..otherwise it be a lot less stress, then losing..to just open my car window when driving down the interstate and letting a $50 blow out it!

I agree if the odds were 'good' at 1:2 you would only be winning your money back most of the time or make only a $5 or $10 profit. The $30 ticket in CT the overall odds are poor but when you win you win a good amount. I believe its like 1 in 2000 to win between $5000-30,000

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abjorik

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Jul 11, 2014, 8:25 pm

Quote: Originally posted by James1 on Jul 11, 2014
I agree if the odds were 'good' at 1:2 you would only be winning your money back most of the time or make only a $5 or $10 profit. The $30 ticket in CT the overall odds are poor but when you win you win a good amount. I believe its like 1 in 2000 to win between $5000-30,000

Is it bad to be at least break even? What you do not understand that the government gets money from lottery in 2 ways, even when you win you pay taxes. That is after the government took its share.

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