+33 @WaitingForReplies It's a huge mistake. They are going to lose loads of players with this. One big appeal of the draw games is that putting down $1 (or $2 in this case) is something people will do without second thought since it's such a small cost for a chance at winning millions. Going to $5 sends that thinking right out the door. Now with the all the tariff crap going on, $5 is going to sound even worse than it already did.

+27 @TXfire22 I'm out!

+24 @DecisionPlastic9740 I don't like it. Price went up 150% but odds of winning only went up 4%.

+20 @callPeopleonTheirBS They are about to lose boatloads of ticķet sales... And I'm talking massive loss in ticket sales come April 5th... People like bill gates or truly wealthy people aren't buying lottery tickets.. I mean yeah some do but my point is vast majority are lower class middle class And at this point vast majority of middle class has been decimated and destroyed and once tariffs destroy the economy and prices hyperinflate on common goods and food and oil and necessities, mega millions sales at 5 bucks a pop will plummet like never before.. I honestly think they are planning to do the same with powerball prices this summer.. no way they going to watch mega millions barely sell while powerball gets massive sales from old mega millions players.. I say expect lottery to do the same with powerball... P.s. anybody with half a functioning brain cell can see this price hike is a major racket The jackpot odds go from 1 in 302 million to 1 in 290 million (Yet powerball odds for a jackpot are 1 in 292 million) So your literally paying and extra 60-65% for same odds as powerball And their nonsensical claims of "well we are adding in the megaplier automatically" is a big joke. If people want it let them pay the extra dollar, but the odds of you winning are still insanely slim and they can claim "more people will win the smaller prizes and your likely to atleast win your money back claims but that's hogwash. Watch the megapliers hardly hit 5x or 10x. The odds of you even winning back your 5 dollars is so unlikely.. I mean to buy 6 lines/tickets is a whopping 30 bucks... Where 6 tickets or lines would only cost 12 bucks before.. You do the math. It's an absolute scam to the fullest. Thankfully everywhere I go and look, seems 85-90% of people are going to stop buying mega millions tickets come April 5th. I see nothing but a resounding response in the gambling community of disgust and people willing to stop playing mega millions altogether . The people at the lottery are just hoping your foolish enough to buy into all their word salad bs hype train P.S. if they were smart and took a true SURVEY of real people I'm willing to bet the overwhelming majority would say, we don't need bigger jackpots, go back to the old formula, charge either a dollar like you use to and go back to the 1 in 170 million odds or atleast stay at the 2 dollar cost and keep it the same... I'm willing to bet way more people would be perfectly OK if there could be multiple jackpot winners or more March 5 million dollar opportunities Nobody needs 500 million 1 billion or more plus jackpots.. The lottery would do people so much better if more abd more people could win say a million bucks each or more people could win jackpots together Let's be real.. no 1 person needs 500 plus million.. that's just straight greed and if you had smaller jackpots yet more frequent winners, I guarantee the majority in the gambling community would be content with that... crap.. from a marketing standpoint.. if they did that , lottery sales would skyrocket to the stratosphere just based off that premise alone

+13 @buffer5108 Buh-Bye

+13 @czljer89 I was already pissed enough when it went to $2 !

+11 @BrewsandBass I'll play when it hits two billion.