Wednesday, April 13, 2005

Powerball Odds to increase drastically

The link attached to this post was found using google news search. base on a rumo, which turns out to be true. The folks at Powerball headquarters in Iowa has decided to add 2 more balls to the powerball game changing it from 53 white balls to 55 white balls. This has the effect ofincreasing the odds by 16 million. If that doesn't sound bad enough. That's an increase from 120 million to 146 million to 1. They clai this is to keep the game 'interesting'. Yet when they do make changes to odds always increase. Apparently the folks in charge of Powerball only know how to make it 'interesting' in their favor. Anyone who reads this should pass it onand write the various state lotteries complaining about this anddemand powerball revert the changes or allow other competing multistate games in to their various states.
The truth is there are patterns in any game and the more they are played the more the patterns show up. This is another reason why they're adding 2 balls to always keep the total amount of balls odd. making it difficult to pin down a pattern.