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Well, New Mexico has basically blown it for getting new players into playing their new Pick 4 day and evening draws played 7 days a week. The game has been out for about 6 weeks. The prize payout for matching the front 2 or the back 2 is $28. Or should I say WAS $28. The lottery has decided they were paying out too much for this prize level, so today it was lowered from $28 to $1. Players were given a 1 day notice before the change was made, and notice was only given the NM Lottery web site. Needless to say, when players entered lottery retailers to collect their winnings, they were a little perplexed and a lot mad. From what I've heard, many players are now going to abandon the game, as will I, and Pick 4 will probably go down in flames, just like it did about 4 years ago. What a shame the NM lottery can't plan their new offerings any better than that. FIRE the Director and the Board of the NM Lottery!!
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Quote: Originally posted by gvpazkn on Mar 13, 2019
Well, New Mexico has basically blown it for getting new players into playing their new Pick 4 day and evening draws played 7 days a week. The game has been out for about 6 weeks. The prize payout for matching the front 2 or the back 2 is $28. Or should I say WAS $28. The lottery has decided they were paying out too much for this prize level, so today it was lowered from $28 to $1. Players were given a 1 day notice before the change was made, and notice was only given the NM Lottery web site. Needless to say, when players entered lottery retailers to collect their winnings, they were a little perplexed and a lot mad. From what I've heard, many players are now going to abandon the game, as will I, and Pick 4 will probably go down in flames, just like it did about 4 years ago. What a shame the NM lottery can't plan their new offerings any better than that. FIRE the Director and the Board of the NM Lottery!!
You got that right. I've been asking for a pick 4 for years and they finnally got one. I don't think the other p4 was the same format.
I went in the last couple of weeks to be reimbursed because of the computer glitch. It wasn't a pleasant experience. One clerk was nice and the other one acted like I was taking their money. I turned in alot of tickets that were purchased from Feb 3 to the 19th. The deadline was last Friday.
I don't think they have a clue of the money to be made on this game. I hit the $28 alot and hit over 350 last week on the 0123 last week. The game was very popular because it paid something. My brother and his friends were hitting on a regular basis. He has now quit playing the p4.
I told the lottery workers about the other states and what they pay for front pair ,back pair and they listened but stuck to the $1. I told them the sales will go down the tubes and they didn't waver.
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Quote: Originally posted by lakerben on Mar 18, 2019
You got that right. I've been asking for a pick 4 for years and they finnally got one. I don't think the other p4 was the same format.
I went in the last couple of weeks to be reimbursed because of the computer glitch. It wasn't a pleasant experience. One clerk was nice and the other one acted like I was taking their money. I turned in alot of tickets that were purchased from Feb 3 to the 19th. The deadline was last Friday.
I don't think they have a clue of the money to be made on this game. I hit the $28 alot and hit over 350 last week on the 0123 last week. The game was very popular because it paid something. My brother and his friends were hitting on a regular basis. He has now quit playing the p4.
I told the lottery workers about the other states and what they pay for front pair ,back pair and they listened but stuck to the $1. I told them the sales will go down the tubes and they didn't waver.
Update it looks like the $1 prize for front pair ,back pair is now the payout. I got $3 for the three 77 bp tickets instead of $84 this morning for the 5677 draw. Essentially I got my money back .