Posted on 04/06/2025 11:44:39 AM PDT by Strict9
Millions drawing for $2.
Friday, April 4, is the final Mega drawing before the lottery rolls out a new version and prize structure in its next drawing on Tuesday, April 8.
Going forward, tickets will cost $5 instead of $2, but the lottery says players will have improved odds to win, along with larger starting and faster-growing jackpots. The average jackpot is expected to top $800 million, up from around $450 million. Every ticket has a random multiplier, and there's one less gold Mega ball.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnewyork.com ...
Great! Now I’ll save $5 every time I don’t buy a ticket instead of just $2. I’m going to clean up!
Presumably not 2.5X the chance to win.
1. At $2 it's costing too much per transaction for the sellers in the stores to make money.
2. The psychologists and marketers at the consulting firms that the lottery agency hired recognize that the jackpots have to increase in order to keep players in the game. There are a lot of ticket buyers who only buy when the lottery is sizeable.
I watch that Japanese TV show, Midnight Diner. I mostly watch it for the recipes because the plots are often kind of goofy. But I couldn’t help noticing that everything on the menu is always a thousand yen or less.
I play small amounts, only so I will never enter a casino again.
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And what they don't realize is the odds are the same whether one plays or 2,000,000 play.
Buying them with your money, no value, get some mo next munth mentality..
NBD!
At my age, 92, there is no difference between $2 & $5...
My usual one-time purchase (when the lottery exceeds $500,000,000) $20 worth of tickets will now cost $50...
Not too bad when one considers the amount of money my wife spends on slots at the MGM National Harbor every Monday...
Might as well continue pissing the cash away... Cannot take it with me...
The great grandchildren will be claiming it if I have a winner...
I used to spend $15 on the Lotto, getting 5 $2 tickets with a multiplier on all 5. To do the same now, would be $30 which breaks the $20 barrier which I won’t cross. Like smoking, when a pack went to $3, I quit. That was around 2001. Now my wife still smokes, buy cheap and spends $6.25 a pack. Multiply that times 365 and it is $2,281+ a year. You can pay car insurance, and the cable bill. Or the power/sewer/water bill with that every month
I make my own smokes. Costs around 1.50 a pack.
Now REMOVE ALL FEDERAL STATE AND LOCAL TAXES.
Drop the price back to two bucks. It costs them nothing.
I’m trying to wrap my head around these lottery officials raising prices on lottery tickets. These companies hardly employ anyone, they make nothing, they produce nothing and yet they’re jacking up the price of their tickets.
This is just pure unmitigated greed.
This limits the gambling and if there is a win, it'll be big.
Now I'll buy one ticket per $200 million, nothing when below that.
This is the same state that legalized weed.
Do you really think it gives a damn about the body’s politics physical or mental health?
Yep. I expect this game to go away
Demoncrats are stealing from the poor...again. Gotta pay the salaries and pensions for the trough feeders.
LOL, I can remember doing the laredo making cigs for my dad.
I agree. My buddy is a lifelong gambler and said he’d never buy another mega ticket.
Those running the lottery scams are literally sitting on mountains of money. And they are some greedy SOBs.
Lotteries are a tax on those that didn’t study statistics in high school.
Lottery and casinos are a tax on stupid people.
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