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• Lucky4Life

  

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  I'm the one who is quitting Florida's Fantasy Five because they are changing to twice a day draws.  Trying to decide which to play next.  I live in a non lottery state so I drive down once a month to play.  Can't decide which one to play.  I like the tradition of Saturday night draws, but maybe I need a break from the norm
• thaencyder

  

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  Definitely megamillions. The second prizes alone are worthy of consideration (powerball limits second prizes to 1 million or 2 million with power play while Megamillions has can go up to 5 million with megapliers.) Also in most draws there's a winner for second prize with megamillions more so than powerballs, it seems.
• Siriuspick3

  

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  Mega millions because the multiplier actually means something past 2x
• Artist77

  

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  Good question. I always play for 2nd place so like the mm multiplier. But I favor PB because my grandmother used to play it for $1 when it first started. She would win her money back about every 2nd or 3rd try.

  
• Stack47

  

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  In response to Lucky4Life

  Quote: Originally posted by Lucky4Life on Mar 15, 2023

  I'm the one who is quitting Florida's Fantasy Five because they are changing to twice a day draws.  Trying to decide which to play next.  I live in a non lottery state so I drive down once a month to play.  Can't decide which one to play.  I like the tradition of Saturday night draws, but maybe I need a break from the norm

  Considering the poor Fantasy 5 secondary prizes, the pick 5 games may be a better choice. The odds of winning the same $50,000 prize playing PB is 1 in 913,129 compared to 1 in 100,000 playing pick 5. And a $2 straight win pays $100,000.

  "When will we ever learn?"
• Kandiapple

  

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  I say the MegaMillions. It's personal preference for me and I seem to win more on it. I won 3 times consecutively on MM recently. I only buy one ticket with the megapiler when I feel like playing . I like that the megapiler goes up to 5 times .
• rcbbuckeye

  

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  Most times I play both but recently with Lotto being so high I've been playing extra $$ on Lotto. Just playing MM along with Lotto because the jackpot is higher than PB.

  CAN'T WIN IF YOU'RE NOT IN

  A DOLLAR AND A DREAM (OR $2)
  
• Think

  

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  I put Powerball because of the game behavior here in Michigan.

   

  For example  I set the date for  January 1 2022 and the prize amount as 25k and over and since then there have been

  2   $1 million dollar prizes on the MM

  1    $50k prize

  3   $40k prizes

  1   $32k prize  and

  7    $30k prizes

  for a total of 14 big non-jackpot prizes in the last 15 months

   

  With the same settings Powerball prizes in Michigan since then are as follows

   

  12   $1million prizes

  2    $500k prizes

  1    $200k prize

  11  $150k prizes

  10  $100k prizes   and

  111 $50k prizes

   

  for a total of 147 big non-jackpot prizes in the last 15 months  which is 10 times more than Mega Millions with 6 times as many million dollar prizes as mega millions.

   

  I then looked at the 5x Mega Plier and noted in the 10 years that it has been available there have been two $5,000,000 second prize winners in Michigan ( on average 1 every 5 years).

   

  Mega Millions is pretty much a dead duck here in Michigan.  I have not won much at all since the last matrix change so I have decided to buy one ticket once the cash amount on the jackpot is $700 million or over and that isn't because I don't want to  play for less but it's because nobody wins including me!

  What fun is a game that nobody wins?
• Hermanus104

  

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  I play only daily numbers games because I do not like Powerball and Mega Millions hosing lower-tier prize winners. See how you can win more with better odds and less investment playing the Pick 3 than matching 4 balls in Powerball: 

  Powerball:

  4 numbers

  $100 $2 ticket cost

  1 in 36,525

  Pick-3

  Exact order

  $500 $1 ticket cost

  1 in 1,000

  Today's winning 3-ball is going to be a number between 000 and 999.

  In a lot of states, lotteries benefit education. That makes the REAL winners the only people who can't play!
• Stack47

  

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  The MM jackpot is $355 Million and PB is at $147 Million so if I HAD to choose, it would be obviously for the higher jackpot. The secondary prize payoffs create logical choices, but the question here is "if you could only play one".

  "When will we ever learn?"