Although a $400 million jackpot would be "fun and interesting", why does anyone on here - who I am quite sure have never hit the astronomical 135 million to 1 jackpot odds - think they have to make the odds even more astronomical? Is it because you are concerned with the states not making enough money, or because a jackpot of $100-150 million somehow isn't enough? I don't get it. Okay, I admit it does seem strange that the jackpots have been won so often after they increased the odds (wasn't there a $363 million jackpot under the old "better" odds?). But that's why odds are called odds; it is a probability and not a certainty that the jackpot will be missed enough weeks in a row to get to $400 million. I don't think every possible combination was bought on those winning weeks and it could easily go even higher than $400 million in the future - all it takes is the number picked being one of the thousands or millions of combinations that haven't been chosen for 20 drawings. The odds are that the #51 megaball should have been picked at least once in 144 drawings, but no one is saying they should change the game because of that; it could come up 5 times in the next 6 weeks.
It will be very interesting to see the jackpots and frequency of winners once Texas is in MM.
