I don't often play the $30 scratchers, maybe Christmas and birthday. Too often I recall looking down at a worthless piece of paper and thinking there goes another 30 bucks.
But i do pay attention to them out of curiosity and when PA just released a new one called $3 Million Mega Moolah, I took a look and checked out a couple youtube channels where they do scratchers pretty much every day. I quickly noticed something different about this one. Normally, the $30 scratchers come with five $3 million jackpots. This new one only comes with 3. So a reduction to the total payouts of $6 million. Big change.
My first thought was that the odds on the lesser amounts must be better, kind of divvy up that 6 million in smaller prizes. But according to the chances of winning page, the odds on the lesser prizes are pretty close to the $30 scratchers that came with 5 top prizes.
So $6 million less in prizes for the same low, low price of $30. Sign me up...NOT! 