Quote: Originally posted by JimmySand9 on August 09, 2004
Jackpot have reached over $300 million dollars over the the past few years. And lotteries are making the odds longer and longer to get these jackpots to grow bigger and bigger. The question is, when will the odds become too long? When will players find a game and just say "Nobody can win this!" and just not play. When will jackpots hit such high levels that chaos will break out?
People managed to win the PA 6/69 game and that really stunk. The online lottery WebMillion now defunct had a 6/96 game they thought no one could win, yet someone won the $3 million prize and bankrupted them. They went on for a short time becoming the online lottery everyone was warned not to play when they offered the majority of the next prize as a balloon payment after 40 years in the fine print.
Lucky for most of us most states offer a good balance of games so we always have some choice. Eventually people will back off the high odds games, the prizes will come down forcing a change to a different game matrix.
The real problem is the laws/rules that created the games where the prizes are limited to a percentage of each dollar taken in, so the games can only move dollars around the prize tiers, they can't improve the game overall.
If your state won't offer a good game you can always try the games on the left side of the Lottery Post page you're reading this on or visit
http://www.lotto-logix.com/ozlotteries.html if for nothing else to see how lottery games can be when the state isn't crazy for every last cent. BobP
