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• lalotto

  

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  May 28, 2004
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  May 29, 2004, 1:39 pm

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  The CA lottery just came out with a 5 dollar scratcher for the first time.  Its top prize is 77,000.  So I looked in the Lotto People magazine for the odds... and can you believe it's a 1 in 600,000 chance to win.  That is just insulting.  For every 3 million dollars spent they pay out (1) 77,000 top prize.  And the next highest prize is 777 dollars.  Normally the 3 dollar scratchers with 30,000 top prize are about 1 in 240,000. 

  Not to mention they have had 3 dollar scratchers for 77,000 and 100,000 that were close to the same odds as this 5 dollar one.  Sorry to vent here but this pisses me off. 

  Might as well play the Fantasy 5 and have a 1 in 575,000 chance to win the same amount of money or even more if it rolls for just 1 dollar a chance.