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Mar 12, 2026, 11:42 am

Quote: Originally posted by Cmoore50 on Mar 2, 2026
I agree. This game is hard enough. Charging 5 dollars a ticket is a quick way to go to the poor house. Ohio created another new game for 5 dollars. Do I want to buy two or four tickets for that game or 10 or 20 for the rolling cash five. It's an easy answer. They don't want to increase the numbers anymore. So they just increase the cost of a ticket. Insanity is what it is. I hope they're bringing in less and it stays that way.

"They don't want to increase the numbers anymore. So they just increase the cost of a ticket. Insanity is what it is."

Wit Probability Math, it duzzn't matter hoow many numberz they add ...It will tell ya 🗝️ #z ...

GIT IT DONE
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Mar 14, 2026, 8:36 pm

If players would have completely boycotted the game it definitely would have went back to $2.

Greedy idiots.

MUSL should create a came that costs $1,000 per play/draw. Just milk these morons out of everything they have.

I am the Prince of Thieves!!!
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Mar 14, 2026, 8:39 pm

But jj you've told us so many times that it is too easy to win! 🤔
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Mar 14, 2026, 9:36 pm

While there are games that cost more than $5..... $10 scratchers, $20 scratchers, $50 scratchers, $20 raffle tickets, etc., the difference is that in those games, you have a vastly higher chance of winning a large amount of money.

The problem with the new $5 MM is that they didn't change much of anything. It includes the multiplier for lower prizes (instead of giving you a choice to pay the extra $1). They included a 10X possibility but re-arranged the other multiplier odds to give you precisely the same average of 3X.

Under the old multiplier, it was more likely you would get a 3X than 2X. With the new multiplier, it's reversed... it is more likely you will get 2X than 3X. This is why the average is the same in spite of them adding the 10X as a possibility. Nice bait-and-switch they did there.

They slightly improved the odds of winning, and they increased the starting jackpot from $20 million to $50 million.

The starting jackpot is a tiny amount of money, given the ridiculous odds of winning. It's worth 8.6 cents. Under the old rules, the starting jackpot was worth 3.3 cents. So now you get to pay $5 instead of $2 but you get an additional 5.3 cents of value from the starting jackpot for your additional $2 wager (old $2 price+$1 multiplier). Wow, how excitiing!!!

Most of the price increase goes to a higher jackpot contribution and higher profit for MUSL. The higher jackpot contribution doesn't make for higher jackpots when they sell fewer tickets.

MM is a really terrible game and no one should play it.
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Mar 14, 2026, 10:18 pm

But plenty of people do play it or it wouldn't be offered and those that do play are unaware of the 5.3 cents factor and wouldn't care about it if they did know. Pick anywhere lotto tickets are sold, harangue the players with this kind of stuff and see how well it goes over.
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Mar 14, 2026, 10:30 pm

I'm just trying to win before they switch it again.....🤷🤦😉😊🤪😜☠️
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Mar 14, 2026, 10:58 pm

Quote: Originally posted by Coin Toss on Mar 14, 2026
But plenty of people do play it or it wouldn't be offered and those that do play are unaware of the 5.3 cents factor and wouldn't care about it if they did know. Pick anywhere lotto tickets are sold, harangue the players with this kind of stuff and see how well it goes over.

I'm allowed to post facts about this game and my opinion of it. There's no requirement that I participate on this board as if I'm the lowest common denominator lottery player.

"Pick anywhere lotto tickets are sold, harangue the players with this kind of stuff and see how well it goes over."

Did I say I was going to do that? Is it really necessary to post such drivel, or is it because it's fun for you to be a hater?
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Mar 14, 2026, 11:12 pm

Quote: Originally posted by Tucker Black on Mar 14, 2026
I'm allowed to post facts about this game and my opinion of it. There's no requirement that I participate on this board as if I'm the lowest common denominator lottery player.

"Pick anywhere lotto tickets are sold, harangue the players with this kind of stuff and see how well it goes over."

Did I say I was going to do that? Is it really necessary to post such drivel, or is it because it's fun for you to be a hater?

People who play littery games play for fun, for recreationn, and to hopefully make as big score. THEY DO NOT PLAY to lean lessons in accounting.

You're the one posting drivel, not me. Hater huh? Aren't you just woke and pc.

I'm wondering if you do play any lottery games at all since you seem obsessed with things lie a 5.3 cents factor.

Try using some original thought instead of posts convoncing peole that the odds and prpobabillities of people wining are so out of reach that they shouldn't play.
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Mar 14, 2026, 11:37 pm

Quote: Originally posted by Coin Toss on Mar 14, 2026
People who play littery games play for fun, for recreationn, and to hopefully make as big score. THEY DO NOT PLAY to lean lessons in accounting.

You're the one posting drivel, not me. Hater huh? Aren't you just woke and pc.

I'm wondering if you do play any lottery games at all since you seem obsessed with things lie a 5.3 cents factor.

Try using some original thought instead of posts convoncing peole that the odds and prpobabillities of people wining are so out of reach that they shouldn't play.

I'm aware of why most people play the lottery. But the people who participate on this board know far more about lottery games than the average lottery player. Do you hate everyone else on this board too? And how is that "woke and pc" for me to point that out? How pathetic.

And yes I do play the lottery. I'm very particular in what games I play. There are people on this board who are very particular about what numbers to play and what type of bet to make on pick 3, which is a pretty simple game. Do they suck too in your twisted mind? Get a grip.

I have never purchased a MM ticket and I never will. A nickel's worth of jackpot for five bucks? LOL

I have played PowerBall a few times, when the jackpot is gigantic and it's fun to throw away money on an astronomical chance to win an astronomical amount of money.
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Mar 15, 2026, 12:14 am

Who said I hated anybody here? You jump to many conclusions. Preach your 'a nickels worth of a jackpot for five bucks' nonsense to those who have won MM jackpots. I am surprised that you said it's fun to throw away money. I'm not the one with the twisted mind.
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Mar 15, 2026, 12:21 am

Quote: Originally posted by Coin Toss on Mar 15, 2026
Who said I hated anybody here? You jump to many conclusions. Preach your 'a nickels worth of a jackpot for five bucks' nonsense to those who have won MM jackpots. I am surprised that you said it's fun to throw away money. I'm not the one with the twisted mind.

It is fun to throw away money, as long as it's not done too often and never done with money needed to pay bills.

A "nickel's worth of jackpot" is the average jackpot won per ticket. This is the average of the one jackpot for that one winning ticket and zero for the millions of losing tickets.

Most of the time, the jackpot winner gets more than the reset amount. The reset amount is only worth a nickel (on average). When there are many rollovers and the jackpot gets quite large, the reset amount is still worth a nickel, but the rest of it (from player contributions) can be worth a lot more.
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Mar 15, 2026, 2:19 am

So the reset amounts, $50M is only worth one nickel. Must be nice to look at $50M as one nickel. As for you previously using the word guarantee well a bet that can't lose, as so called sure thing is known as a lock. Maybe you should get the following tattooed on you somewhere you'd have to see it when you looked in a mirror: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A LOCK.
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Mar 15, 2026, 3:22 am

Quote: Originally posted by Coin Toss on Mar 15, 2026
So the reset amounts, $50M is only worth one nickel. Must be nice to look at $50M as one nickel. As for you previously using the word guarantee well a bet that can't lose, as so called sure thing is known as a lock. Maybe you should get the following tattooed on you somewhere you'd have to see it when you looked in a mirror: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A LOCK.

Are you sure about that? What if I buy 100 tickets for the front pair of a pick 3 game? Unlike MM/PB where buying all the combinations is logistically impossible, it's not hard to buy 100 tickets, from 00 to 99. It's a terrible idea, because you'll spend $100 to win $50, but that is certainly a lock.
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Mar 15, 2026, 10:34 am

A $50 loss can not be a lock, a lock means a bet that cannot lose, and THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A LOCK. Trying to change the definition of something to make a point reveals a lot about you.
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Mar 19, 2026, 2:51 am

PB > MM. You can buy 3 draws for the price of one MM. (1DP + 1 regular)

May you define all odds. In Lotto and in Life.

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