Raise price 2.5x. Call it value.
Who else could raise the price and call it a “value?” In California the lottery when initiated was supposed to get rid of the need to fund schools through taxation. Never happened.
George Carlin had it right: never trust the government for anything.
That's the line that I found really interesting. Currently, if you spend $10, you get 5 tickets, each with a 1 in 302 million chance to win the jackpot, so you have a one in 60.4 million chance. After the change, you'll get 2 tickets for your $10, each with a one in 290 million chance, so your chance to win is now one in 145 million.
No, thanks. I buy maybe one Mega Millions ticket a month now (bought one earlier today, in fact), but I won't play it ever again after they "improve" it.
It was either that, or print smaller tickets.