California Lottery Sales
When someone buys $2,000 worth of lottery tickets, and the highest winning ticket is $5--and when someone else can paper a room with losing tickets on a $2,100 investment, it is time that lottery officials re-evaluate the odds they have established.
The paucity of low-amount winners is rapidly going to make the lottery a ho-hum proposition for most of the potential buyers. Sure, $3 million is great to dream about, but when the odds are considered, it is truly a dream.
Why not take a million or so, and create a few thousand more $500 and $1,000 tickets, thus increasing the enthusiasm for something a little more probable for the buyers?
A.A. WICKS
Agoura Hills
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