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• CASH Only

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  Assuming the Ohio Lottery decides on one of its four proposals recently presented on their website, I still would prefer that the new version be one of the games that DOES NOT renew the "Kicker".
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  Tomorrow night's (21st) Ohio Lotto $6 million.
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  RJ:

  I'm surprised you haven't seen this yet.
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  CASHonly,

  I've seen your post, but haven't read any news locally to support your prediction.  The lottery commission did have a survey with 3K replies, but they never posted any follow-up.  They have been giving a free QP with $5 Buckeye5 play, a free QP with a match3 in the 649P game and a raffel ticket for a trip to an all star game in Chicago with $5 Megamillions tickets.  For now it looks like they are going with these cheap kinds of promotions to increase ticket sales.

  I don't send in my raffel tickets because I can drive to Chicago in 4 hrs.  If I won a free flight to Chicago, I would have to drive 2 hrs. to a city airport, find a week-end parking spot, spend an hour getting throgh security, take a 45 minutes flight to Chicago, hail a cab, get a hotel room and hail a cab again to get to the game.  It would take just as long to get back home.  The 4 hrs drive would be less of a hassel. If they raffeled off the baseball tickets and $1000 to cover expenses it would be more attractive and I would spend the $.37 postage per raffle ticket to enter the drawing.

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  May 21, 2003, 9:34 am

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  RJ:

  I believe a story Todd posted Monday morning included a mention of early 2004 as when Ohio expects to come out with the new/revised game.
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  I like that RECENTLY, Ohio has been updating the Lotto jackpot amount on its website soon after the drawing.
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  I believe there are only three SINGLE-STATE lottery games with starting jackpots above $3 million:

  California $7 million

  Ohio & Texas $4 million
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  I'm interested in what Ohio does, even though I live too far from there.
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  The neighboring Hoosier Lotto (6/48) awards a free play for matching TWO numbers.
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