And now I'll focus on MARKETING and how the recent changes to Lotto Max (began Tuesday May 14th) SHOULD have created less winners and more rollovers, but the exact opposite has happened.
First, let's remember they added the number 50 to the mix thereby creating a game with just under 1 in 100 million chance to match all 7 numbers (up from 1 in 680 million or something)
As previously noted, THEY LIE ABOUT THE ODDS just because they give you 3 plays per ticket, and somehow that fractions away over 66 million of the 7 out of 50 number combos from being drawn. It should be a class action lawsuit nationwide that one in 33,294,800 is the official line continually fed to us, but I only made it to grade 11 math...what do I know?
I have checked sales for the Tuesday and Friday draws (thank you Loto Quebec) and it's not like people are regularly playing both draws. Friday sales still kill the Tuesday sales, no matter the jackpot amount.
But what has happened since the change on Tuesday, May 14th, 2019? Well, it's been a marketer's dream!! They couldn't have asked for these "random" draws to go any better in order to get people hooked and in line to double their Lotto Max spending and play both Tues and Friday.
Tuesday June 11th - 65 million winner Quebec - total sales 38 million
Tuesday June 25th - 20 million winner Ontario -
total sales 16 million
Tuesday Aug 6th - 26 million winner Ontario -
total sales 16 million
Tuesday Oct 29th - 20 million winner B.C. -
total sales 16 million
Tuesday Nov 26th - 50 million winner Quebec - total sales 23 million (when it was Friday only sales typically matched the jackpot amount, give or take a few million)
That's right!! Already five jackpot winners on the new draw day in just under 8 months, playing a game which is now much harder to win than before, and with way less tickets sold than before!! Friday draws have produced another six jackpot winners!!!
Like I said, a MARKETER'S DREAM has occurred since the new format rollout. Jackpot winning tickets sold since the new format :
11 (16 total for 2019 - the most since Lotto Max began!)
To further the MARKETER'S DREAM the following provinces have all had a winner or two - ONTARIO, QUEBEC, ALBERTA, B.C. and MANITOBA (nobody cares about the Atlantic region!)
In my province of B.C. we got screwed and went without a Lotto Max win for 21 months (March 10th, 2017 to Dec 28th, 2018). The MARKETERS were like "damn, BC is starving...we better feed them and get the new format in their minds!" and suddenly we won two jackpots back to back (20mil and 10mil) late last year. Funny enough this has happened just once before, right around the time Lotto Max was in it's early days, BC's first ever jackpot wins - 25mil Feb 26, 2010 then two winners of 9.5mil each on the very next draw. Same back then as it is now, a MARKETER'S DREAM occurred!
Human beings can't help it. We have biases and when we have too much power, we think nobody is watching and we leave patterns for all to see. Luckily nobody pays attention except crazies like me who present evidence in a thread that hasn't been posted in for a few years
I keep playing now and again cuz I'm desperate to never work again. Best of "luck" folks! Hope they pick a winner in your region soon!