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.
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Saturday, November 9, 2013
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.
Thursday, October 24, 2013
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.
Friday, February 15, 2013
LOTTOSOUP
In addition to scratch-offs, I also play lotto games. I just want to give a shout-out to lottosoup.com, this is a great website for serious lotto players who want comprehensive lotto statistics about past winning numbers. They cover all sorts of stats on all major North American and UK lotto games.
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