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• Karen Nathan

  

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  Lucky Lines draw game was AWFUL... To this day, I still cringe at the thought of Lucky Lines.... :/ It was touted as "The game that played like Bingo, but paid out like Lotto" , but it REALLY wasn't all that fun. No one looked all that happy playing this game. I saw much more friend than smiles with this game. It thankfully died very early. Only lasted like 2 months in Florida....

  "What's your ADDRESS?" May be the CREEPIEST question EVER asked to a Lottery Winner! O.O WTF?

   

  At first, I found the one digit away draws kind of amusing, but now I am PISSED! 15 or 16 times I was off by just one digit in recent times!🤬 No longer find this amusing, it's making me REALLY angry now!🤬
• KY Floyd

  

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  The lottery that Shirley Jackson wrote about really sukked.
• Karen Nathan

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by KY Floyd on May 19, 2021

  The lottery that Shirley Jackson wrote about really sukked.

  That Shirley Jackson Lottery was even way worse than The Hunger Games Lottery. At least in The Hunger Games Lottery, you had a CHANCE to survive. The Shirley Jackson Lottery, you had to stand there while a bunch of People, even FAMILY MEMBERS stoned you to Death! :(

  "What's your ADDRESS?" May be the CREEPIEST question EVER asked to a Lottery Winner! O.O WTF?

   

  At first, I found the one digit away draws kind of amusing, but now I am PISSED! 15 or 16 times I was off by just one digit in recent times!🤬 No longer find this amusing, it's making me REALLY angry now!🤬
• Todd

  

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  I'd have to give the award of the worst game to the failed Monopoly Millionaires Club, a huge multi-state game played by 22 states, which only lasted two months before they pulled the plug:  https://www.lotterypost.com/news/283882

  It was a massive investment by the states, when they attempted to create a game to satisfy all the people who always complain that they don't want just one winner of a big multi-state jackpot.  People say they want a multi-state game that creates many winners — but now we can clearly see what happens when they try to create such a game.

   

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• GiveFive

  

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  The New York Lottery once offered a game called 'Sweet Million'.

  It actually had pretty good odds to win a million dollars - 3.8 million to 1, and it was NOT parimuteul.  No state anywhere offered a game with lower odds to win a million bucks.

  So why did NY pull the plug on it? Sweet Million had the reverse problem you've asked about.  The game really didn't suck, but players in NY hated it anyway. They hated it because the lower tier prizes were awful.  2nd place (having 5 out of 6 numbers on the same line) paid a lousy $500 and the odds to win that were 18,000 to 1!!  Ticket sales were abysmal because players in NY voted with their money and didn't play the game.  After a couple of years The NY Lottery pulled it. G5

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• Stat$talker

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by GiveFive on May 24, 2021

  The New York Lottery once offered a game called 'Sweet Million'.

  It actually had pretty good odds to win a million dollars - 3.8 million to 1, and it was NOT parimuteul.  No state anywhere offered a game with lower odds to win a million bucks.

  So why did NY pull the plug on it? Sweet Million had the reverse problem you've asked about.  The game really didn't suck, but players in NY hated it anyway. They hated it because the lower tier prizes were awful.  2nd place (having 5 out of 6 numbers on the same line) paid a lousy $500 and the odds to win that were 18,000 to 1!!  Ticket sales were abysmal because players in NY voted with their money and didn't play the game.  After a couple of years The NY Lottery pulled it. G5

  "The New York Lottery once offered a game called 'Sweet Million'.It actually had pretty good odds to win a million dollars - 3.8 million to 1"

  Yea, I remember that Game alright,.. I was in "The Big Apple" once,.. Played "Sweet Millions" for the 1st time...and these tickets are proof that it really wasn't a bad game at all... Even gave out really decent QP's as you can see.

  At that time , I believe Lottery Officials were doing a special with the Game , whereas you'd get 1 free Bonus QP with every betslip submitted, if I remember correctly.

  Thus the 3 Free QPs spitout on 1 ticket slip..because I spent $30. which incidentally had 4 correct numbers from that drawing.( 15, 24, 35, 39) YOU SEE THAT  GEORGIA LOTTERY?..as opposed to 5 QP printouts WITH NOT EVEN 1 correct number on ANY OF'EM..!! ok?..  This is not my 1st Pony ride..!! Reprogram that lousy Mainframe of yours to spit out decent numberz..

    The Official Winning Numbers were

          NYSM    4-15-24-33-35-39

  I bought my tickets in Brooklyn..just proof,

  I may be near

  or I may be far,

  I'll try ta rob yo State

  by Plane, Train or Car..!! 

  And that was my 1st time playing the Game, as Probability Math doesn't care WHAT Game it's measuring..

   

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  ...To boldly go,... Where NO Player has gone before...!!
• Speler

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  Quote: Originally posted by GiveFive on May 24, 2021

  The New York Lottery once offered a game called 'Sweet Million'.

  It actually had pretty good odds to win a million dollars - 3.8 million to 1, and it was NOT parimuteul.  No state anywhere offered a game with lower odds to win a million bucks.

  So why did NY pull the plug on it? Sweet Million had the reverse problem you've asked about.  The game really didn't suck, but players in NY hated it anyway. They hated it because the lower tier prizes were awful.  2nd place (having 5 out of 6 numbers on the same line) paid a lousy $500 and the odds to win that were 18,000 to 1!!  Ticket sales were abysmal because players in NY voted with their money and didn't play the game.  After a couple of years The NY Lottery pulled it. G5

  3 / 6 paying $1 for $1 with 6 / 40 is horrific.

  We had 6+R / 42 paying 5 * the price of a line costing 50 euro cents, many years ago. A 5/6 paid me >1650 euros, over $2300 at the time.
  That game used to be a 6/40 and now is a 6+R/45. They screwed up the payouts, 2+R pays less than 3/6 and the 3/6 still pays 5 times the price of one line. We now pay €1.25 for one combination, $1.53 today.