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• lootch

  

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  I used to like you guys(yankee fans) Just kidding!
  
  GO SOX!!!!!!!!!
• CASH Only

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  Any lottery thoughts, Lootch?
• lootch

  

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  Hi Cash, lottery thoughts? Don't get me going.About 2 yrs ago I thought I had come up with a system
  
  (complicated) that worked very well for a month.
  
  23 wins in the month of August,5 of those straight.
  
  Nothing even close since.Still trying(just like the sox)
• lootch

  

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  sorry I fat fingered the total. Should have been 13 wins,not 23. Still was good to me!!
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  Which finger, Lootch?
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  It took THREE rollovers for the 6/42 to reach $900,000-which of course is paid over 20 years, no cash option.
• AnnuityIsGreat

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  Just think.  20 great years of "free money".  You can't beat that idea.  You just have to love this game.

  Don't blow all your winnings in one place - Choose Annuity
• CASH Only

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  Mass. now has a "HARDLY Davidson" scratch game whose top prize almost certainly is annuity-only.
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  Of course, if this were _not_ a lottery website, I could ask: "Which team will win the World Series first- the Boston Red Sox, or the Detroit Tigers?"
• tg636

  

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  I'm from Mass and would like a cash option on these games, though I am not sure I'd take it (See "Hitting the Jackpot of Questions" Washington Post article).  The new treasurer, Tim Cahill, is a big disappointment on doing anything to kick some life into these 2 sluggish games.  Are things so entrenched and unchangable in Massachusetts that they can never be changed? What is going on there? What could be the real reasons they don't have a cash option? 

  If anyone works for the state or MA lottery and knows anything, please post your theories...

   

   

   

   

   
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  TG:

  My guess is that the INSURANCE COMPANIES (or whatever sell annuities to the Mass. Lottery) want to keep making money off of players' winnings. If the 6/42, 6/49, and scratch game winners were allowed to choose lump sum, the vast majority would, and the annuity sellers would have fewer chances to make money.

  As to why Mass. winners of Mega Millions ARE allowed to choose cash, it has to be the fact that Mega Millions is a multi-state game.
• tg636

  

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  Yeah, that makes sense. When it comes to keeping
  
  corrupt practices that ignore the will of
  
  customers, the public, and the more advanced
  
  practices of other states, MA can't have many
  
  rivals. The thing is, I am sure sales and interest
  
  in these 2 games is way down. Jackpots build
  
  painfully slow and no one cares what they are.
  
  They need to do something, and adding a cash
  
  option would be so easy.
  
  
  
  I've had a Megabucks season ticket for 10 years,
  
  and last won something besides a free ticket in
  
  March 1998 when I won $1500. Cash option or not,
  
  I am pretty sick of not winning and the lack of
  
  a single change in the game in 10 years. I'll
  
  probably drop it when it expires and just keep
  
  my Big Game one. Like the Catholic Church and the
  
  Red Sox, the MA lottery needs to reach an extreme
  
  level of pain before they make any changes.
  
  
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  TG:

  Next time you're in NH, play Hot Lotto.

  Hot Lotto finally is expanding (to North Dakota), so it's going to be around a while.
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  While there is no doubt the Mass. Lottery has been very successful, it should NOT be "copied" by new lotteries.
• CASH Only

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  Aren't New Englanders really "Yankees"?