My Lottery Dream Home

My Lottery Dream Home on HGTV is a pretty cool show. I recommend checking it out.

Now Powerball has Ruined its Matrix

The first Drawing for new Powerball matrix was 10/07/2015. The new Powerball matrix is now 5/69 + 1/26 when it was 5/59 + 1/35. You know the new matrix makes the odds of winning the jackpot astronomically worse and the odds of winning the 2nd-tier prize much worse. The odds of winning the 2nd-Tier prize are now 1 in 11,688,054.

Philly Lottery Stands

I recently went on a trip to Philly. While walking around downtown I noticed newsstands/lottery stands scattered around the streets but these stands seemed more centered around selling lotto and scratch-off tickets than newspapers. They also had Pennsylvania Lottery signage on the sides of them. I have never seen these kind of stands in other cities I have been to but I hardly travel to the East Coast, so maybe it's an East Coast thing. Anyways, I just thought they were kind of cool.

TLC's "Lottery Changed My Life" Needs New Episodes

TLC (The Learning Channel) is airing reruns of the show "Lottery Changed My Life" on Saturday 02/15/2014 and on Monday 02/17/2014. This show chronicles the unique experiences of individuals who won big and struck it rich by playing the lottery. The episodes are kind of old so I'm sure most lottery enthusiast have seen them before, if you have not seen them check them out, they are pretty interesting. However, TLC is long overdue for some new episodes of this show.

Mega Millions Jackpot is Over Half a Billion Dollars at $550 MILLION

It's no surprise that the Mega Millions jackpot has reached over half a billion dollars at its current $550 MILLION jackpot for 12/17/2013. With the super astronomical odds to win the jackpot at 1 in 258,890,850 who knows how large the jackpot could grow? Will we see a billion dollar jackpot one day? Only time will tell. The downside of the new Mega Millions odds is that there will be less jackpot winners but bigger jackpot amounts. I'd rather have more jackpot winners with lesser jackpot amounts, so I like the old odds of 1 in 175,711,536 to win the jackpot. Besides, who really needs $550 MILLION? I'm sure most people would be happy just to win the Mega Millions jackpot starting amount of $15 million.

Power Play variable multiplier returning to Powerball on Jan-22-2014

Beginning on Jan-22-2014, the current fixed Power Play prizes will be replaced by prizes that depend upon a randomly drawn Power Play multiplier number of 2, 3, 4 or 5, to determine Power Play prizes for the bottom seven Powerball prize tiers. The multiplier will not apply to the Match 5+0 prize, which will remain at its current $2 million if the Power Play option is purchased.

It's about time that Powerball brought back the Power Play variable prize multiplier. Multiplying the prizes by 3, 4, or 5 should increase the prize amounts from the current Power Play fixed prize amounts. This is also a good change because the current fixed Power Play prize amounts with no multiplier number drawing is kind of boring anyways.

A Big Thumbs Down for the new Mega Millions matrix

The new Mega Millions matrix, match 5/75 + 1/15 started on 10/22/2013. The previous matrix was match 5/56 + 1/46. Hey thanks Mega Millions, for making the Jackpot and 2nd-Tier prize way harder to win. I don't care that the overall odds to win any prize have improved to 1 in 15.

The previous odds to win the 2nd-Tier Prize were 1 in 3,904,701. The new odds to win the 2nd-Tier Prize are 1 in 18,492,204. These new odds are much worse than the odds to win the jackpot for a standard 6/49 lotto game, which are 1 in 13,983,816.

The previous Mega Millions odds to win the jackpot were 1 in 175,711,536. The new odds to win the jackpot are 1 in 258,890,850. Are you kidding me? The old odds were already astronomical and the new odds are super astronomical.