Let me win please.

While I was not one of the 2 winners of the 2nd place prize from TN, I am  going to have to update the sharing list..AGAIN........Onward for Tuesday we go. Good luck to all LP members

Will it be California again? Good 👍 luck 🤞 to all

My prediction was right it rolled again and it will surpass the record from 2018.

Best of luck to LP members.

I wasn't the match 5 winner in Louisiana, but I'll be in again on Tuesday.

Well! I guess I'll be funding buying more tickets! You got to be in it to win it no matter how you feel about it! If the guy from California who won $2 Billion could win it and decide to show his face and waste hundreds of thousands of dollars on security why not me. Everyone has a chance 🤷🏾‍♂️

Good luck everyone 🍀🤞👍

I hope there's a winner,  Tuesday. 

I don't think half the members on this site would know what to do with it, and everybody just keeps getting all hyped up technically over nothing

Downer

thats up to them.  I don't quite believe the amts.  It should be past $1.9

Anyone who wants a refresher on how jackpots are calculated and the difference between the cash and annuities should check out the excellent video Kate put together on the subject: https://www.lotterypost.com/news/340649

I think the next drawing date 8-8 is considered one of the luckiest days of the year. 

I just bought one ticket online. I aim for 2nd place. Too much stress and time to manage all of that jp money.

*  Curious: Almost every 2nd prize winner followed the Alphabet, with a few exceptions at the end.

*California willingly surrendered the 2nd prize in last night's drawing, in order to go for the whole enchilada. California cares..

Hope it's more than one winner--spread the wealth around

Donald trump =88

Mote than one, but not too many.

Considering the size of the jp last drawing, normally we would have had more 2nd place winners.

Here's hoping for 100 plus 2nd place winners on 8-8.

Good luck to all.

* One cannot fight destiny.  It will be CA, whether they pull it off alone or with other State winners. That's how the West was won,being both generous & fearless. You heard it here first.

So u think the other winners got the time to join in on the shenanigans?

Good luck to everyone on Tuesday!!

 Oh well, here we go again.

I invested 9$ in the last draw - 3 lines with MP.

Did not match even a single digit 🤣🤣🤣

But who are we to give up - never say never.

So the next drawing the prize is .....

$ 1,549,999,991 plus my $9 = $1,550,000,000.

You and me are all entitled to win because we put our $$$ into it.

Never disqualify yourself.

I have always been a Cash Option fan, but the Annuity is so tempting. At 40 years, if I consistently eat my fruits and vegetables -  I think I could see 69 🕺🕺 

Good luck to all.

Well I got a ticket and logically I know it can win  but I just don't feel it because it has a similar pattern to the last numbers drawn...Maybe the RNG is telling me to pick em myself..

Hahahaha I totally feel you in this one.

I bought a QP for tonight's PB drawing and it has 2 digits from the last drawing (23 and 24) the powerball # in the last drawing was # 5. On my ticket I have # 4.

Lots of similarities but then they say each drawing is distinct from the last and the fact that a number was draw in the previous drawing does not disqualify it from being drawn again.

Got my fingers crossed.

I wish you luck 😁

Good Luck to the Players!

you need to be at least 18 to see 69.

I think the very first thing I'll do after winning the megamillions on Tuesday is to call my proctologist because I am a real pain in the a** and I'll be 1.5 billion times worse when I collect my prize.

PS Who cut the cheese on this board?

Reminder to everyone ... Should you happen to win and not me and you find out about it while you are in the water closet remember to flush and wash your hands .... You may be rich but you don't want to be filthy rich.

Hahahaha if am 18 now, I will be 47 when I get my last annuity after 29 years.

One could be broke by the time they are 70 even with annuity lol.

I just had an aha moment and got the joke - where I live if you are 16 you qualify to see 69 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    YO  WORD UP. JUST HEARD -  THE WORD IS NEWS WILL SOON DROP REGARDING A HUGE POWERBALL JACKPOT THAT WAS WON IN JERSEY A FEW YEARS AGO. WE'RE TOLD IT WILL BE MORE SENSATIONAL THAN TIPTON. WE ALL ASKED WHO DROPPED THIS, IT WASN'T THE TWITTER BIRD, ITS BEEN X'ED OUT, SOMETHING  STOMPED ON HIS LITTLE ASS, SMASHED, RUBBED OUT. WE'RE TOLD TO STAY TUNED, GREED HAS LET THE CAT OUT OF THE BAG. GREED & HIS BUDDY AVARICE WILL DESTROY EVERYTIME.  

man i hate it when people yell at me in comic sans.

Sadly that is very true.

Am thinking the kitty will go up by @ least $15 million more come draw time.

Excited for Tuesdays drawing. I hope that if there is a winner someone from LP group wins big! Best of luck to all of you and I hope that you are able to do good in this world for whoever wins!

How much will federal taxes be on this amount? 50%???

37%

If there are no winners Tuesday i wonder how high the next drawing will be for. I used to be able to tell but forget what site would show it.

If no winner, I think maybe increase $300mil to 1.9

Geez. Is it something from your childhood?

Thanks for the wishes.

I plan to do a lot of good.

The amount is just so astronomical not to do any good.

I believe earth, air, wind and water would be very disappointed with me if I did not do any good.

While everyone is looking to win MM, I will sneak in there tonight and take home a PB jackpot.

I know it's only $174 Mil ($71.1 Mil CV) but, you won't hear me complain.

Good luck all!

The way the annuity is set up I don't see why many people older than 56 would take it.  They really should offer a choice of annuities with 20, 25 and maybe 30 year flat payments along with the one they offer now.

I don't see who, in their right mind, over 60 would want an increasing annuity.  The annuity payment structure right now on both PB and MM is very ageist!

One of the investors on The Shark Tank had a video on YouTube.  He boasted that annuity is the way to go no questions about it.

So if you take an annuity I thought you'd be in a high tax bracket year after year?

Am curious about states like mine that will cut separate checks for a lotto club for instance---in store purchases only do they cut separate checks for 29 years?   I seriously doubt it.  If the mood hits me will send a PM to KLC on their FB page and ask the experts.

I have a PB ticket too and I wouldn't mind sneaking in either!

If you take annuity in an anonymous state, they will announce your name 30days after

annuity is nice but most people don't want their name published

I tried doing that during the last draw, I thought I was the only one who had such a brilliant idea - turned out 10 million other people thought the same way.

But who knows, maybe today no one would be looking, just you and me and 20 million other people  🤣🤣🤣

That would be a great idea.

However, I think and I could be wrong, that they base the duration 29/30 years on the interest earned. That's why the cash option is significantly less because that's the cash in hand. The annuity option on the other hand is based on returns on the invested amount.

Thus they need a bigger window for that and probably buy the 30 year Treasury Bond.

One of the flip sides of taking the annuity is that you are only certain of the current year tax bracket.

In the following years, the tax could go up, go down or remain the same. That's one of the gamble as far as taxes are concerned with annuity.

With a win this high it doesn't really matter because you'll be getting paid more than the max for all filing status, so you'll be in the current 37% tax bracket for the next 29 years if the tax brackets remain constant.

Let's be honest here.  You have a better chance of winning the lottery than taxes going down.  Another thing to consider, federal taxes are due to go up about 2.6% in 2026.  And, unfortunately, I live in Taxachusetts where they just increased the income tax rate from 5% to 9% for those that earn $1 million+ per year.

I'm not greedy, just let me win One Mill

For those who this is offered, is anyone going to do 'Just the Jackpot?'    Sometimes I do, but not certain if the IGT machine end of road even has this on the screen.   Usually play it @ home, but no money in there to play!!

It appears from their answer that Kentucky will cut separate checks for group play annuity win.   Kind of surprised me.  Will check later to see if they responded to my reply that if it were up to me it would be cash option multi checks cut...but I don't write the rules do I?   LOL.

I will play Just the Jackpot today

I just did, there she was on the big blue IGT machine ready to bite me.

Trucker came in.   Rig #249, so played that straight for mid-day.

You guys think the Jackpot will increase to 1.6b before the drawing? Also, hello good people it's been a long time since I've logged in.

I thought another $15 million or so by then.  If PB hit tonight, MM will really soar to even higher heights!

"If there are no winners Tuesday i wonder how high the next drawing will be for. "

I'm surprised that it's past 3 on Monday afternoon and they haven't bumped it up yet. The last increases was roughly $250 million, from 1.1 to 1.35 billion, so you'd think that this one would increase by at least that much and that by now they'd have plenty of sales data for the confidence to announce a higher jackpot unless sales have been a bit lackluster. I'd expect that this one should make it somewhere past 1.6, and that a rollover would get to at least 1.9, though we might see an initial advertisement of 1.8 or 1.85. We should see that around noon (eastern) tomorrow: https://www.texaslottery.com/export/sites/lottery/Games/Mega_Millions/Estimated_Jackpot.html
https://www.texaslottery.com/export/sites/lottery/Games/Powerball/Estimated_Jackpot.html

"I don't see who, in their right mind, over 60 would want an increasing annuity "

The lotteries will tell you that the annual increases are to account for inflation, and it you get $1 million in the first year here's something to be said for getting  a present day equivalent in future years. That said, I'm pretty sure that the real point of the graduated annuity is inflating the claimed jackpot they can advertise. Other than inflating the jackpot I can't think of any sensible reason to have increased the duration of the annuity.

"He boasted that annuity is the way to go no questions about it. "

I suspect they're getting  a ROI that would make the annuity really stupid, but I also suspect that they think the average person has no clue about managing large amounts of money, and that they think a lot of people are just plain stupid. It's harder to squander $50 million or more, but we know how many past winners have managed to lose $5 to 20 million. Other than  calling JG Wentworth annual payments make it much harder to lose much more than this year's payment.

"So if you take an annuity I thought you'd be in a high tax bracket year after year? "

If you win a $20 million annuity the first payment will only be about 300k. If you're married that's potentially taxed at a maximum of 24% depending on your other income. Even if the first payment is $30 million the effective rate on the first million is 32.8%, so $42,000 less than on the next million. Over 30 years that's $1.26 million less income tax if none of the parameters change. Of course the parameters will change, but in the future the lower tax brackets will probably apply to more of the income. Of course unless you're trying to go broke there's a good chance that taking the lump sum would still result in enough annual income to be paying the highest rate on some of your income.

Question. 

This is after all the taxes and it says you are paid $355 million, are there more money that will be taken out

to pay uncle sam?    Just curious!                               jackpot analysis

I have always thought about playing just the jackpot.

But this silly voice in my head always tells me that the day I decide to do that is the day that I will win a second tier prize.

And  just like that I will watch the one million go down the drain.

The horror! The horrors!!

🥵🥵🥵

Ill be honest with anyone ,  I think it goes up and next week a winner or two. 

Trump= 88.  just like back to the future.

Well do what I do

purchase or then replay the same numbers 

know it's more $$ but at least you save $1

lol

Here's how it goes.

The cash option is 757 million.

Before you see any of it, the lottery agency will take out 182 million and send it to the IRS for the legally required tax withholding.

You get a check for 575 million.

You still owe the IRS an additional 98 million no later than next April 15.

That leaves you with 477 million.

Depending on where you live and/or bought your ticket, your state income tax will be somewhere between zero (in states without income tax or where lottery winnings are exempt) and 75 million (in New York). A few cities (for example, NYC) also have a local income tax.

What's left after that is yours to keep.

Good luck to you as well, fingers crossed everybody.

Its my understanding you can use 30% off the top to create a non profit. That would be 227,160,000. Then total federal taxes would be 196,114,800.  Your personal amount would be 333,925,200. But you would also have the $227... avail for charitable causes for a total of 561,085,200. If thats correct you could save almost 100 million in taxes.

last night, Dr. Emmett Brown flew his Delorean "Back from the Future", and told me don't play these following numbers below for the tomorrow draw.

11 30 45 52 56 20     
8 24 30 45 61 12     
5 10 28 52 63 18     
3 5 6 44 61 25
29 40 47 50 57 25

but he told me to play these numbers:

1 13 25 27 62 / 9

I like 4oddz n 1 even

If my initial personal amount is 477M plus.

But as a result of reducing taxes through charitable giving my new personal amount is 333M plus.

I don't think I will have saved 100M in taxes.

I would have lost 144M in personal amount.

The 227M once given to charity as an endowment doesn't belong to the winner. Yes you could have it in a Donor Advised Fund but still one can't revert it to themselves.

You can't include it in your net worth and say that I am worth 333M and another 227M that I gave away 😁

I would love to see a tax strategy where if my take home before charitable deductions is 477M, my new take home is 477M or more after the tax deductions strategies.

Most, if not all lottery winners tax strategies reduce your tax amount and equally reduce your take home amounts.

I'm not saying its part of your net worth. And no it can't revert back to you.  Im saying its available to you to decide how its spent.  Ethics aside, wealthy people use this strategy to buy influence and access. And with so many lottery players saying they would donate to charity, its just something to consider.

well... we'll see if you're right, or rather, Doc Brown wasn't steering you towards dud numbers

This should help you with taxes:

https://www.usamega.com/mega-millions/jackpot

I am glad that we agree in part.

It's also good that you said "Ethics aside" because where the rubber meets the road most rich people are only looking out for their interest.

I am heavily involved with private foundations and over the years I can tell you for free that most rich people are not generous - they don't give because they have a generous heart, they give because of whats in it for them. The tax breaks.

"Im saying its available to you to decide how its spent."

That right there👆 is the biggest problem. They give with the right hand and hold onto it with the left hand 🥵 They park billions into DAFs, get the tax breaks and deductions, but then hold onto it year after year never wanting to relinquish control 🤷🏾‍♂️

You'll notice that most charitable giving happens in the last two weeks of December. By then the rich have worked out their annual income, their expected taxes and finally how much they can "give" to maximize on tax breaks and deductions.

But again that's a story for another day.

I wish you luck in todays drawing and should you win, give because what you are giving to is dear to your heart, whether it earns you a tax deduction or not 👍.

Have a good day.

to a most curious evening and to those that have jinxed themselves

Well said.

Good luck to you and all the other MM players out there.

The jackpot was increased to $1.58 billion, with a cash option of $783.3 million.

Now the 4th-largest cash option in history!

Well, is it now #2 for annuity?

Maybe after sales calculation it will be number two. But honestly i think it will roll. Not enough sale through is happening. According to the estimate from TX there is only a 40% coverage. It could still hit, you never know.

Still #3 for annuity but highest MM ever!

I have 6 tickets and my wife has 3, hope that will be enough.

Still the third-largest annuity jackpot ever.  The second-largest is the $1.5864 billion Powerball jackpot from Jan. 13, 2016 (see top 25 lists in the story above).

We need 3.5mil more to be #2

Thank you 

gonna buy $2 qp and work fr that one

I did buy two more  MM/MP after I saw a rescue PB/PP ticket taped to their machine.  Nice gal said I thought of you when I saw it...do you want it??   Yes, I bought him!

IMHO the "just the jackot" is a terrible option, they're giving you a extra ticket but just look at what you're giving up.

Wonder why they won't increase bk to 40mil to start

Though I agree with you 100%, the urge to mash the button came so I hit it.

you may have a gambling problem.

Ticket sales for Powerball and Mega Millions were slowing prior to the pandemic.  The pandemic gave them an excuse to lower the starting amount to $20 mill.  And, they no longer have to guarantee a minimum bump between draws.  Prior to the pandemic it was $5 mill for Mega, and $10 mill for Powerball.  Now that they've made the change, they aren't able to change it back unless all states that participate in the MUSL also agree to the change.

It's winning time folks. Everyone jumps in over a billion. Jackpot only this time. Good 👍 luck LP players. We will see which state is next .

"Just the jackpot" is a great option for playing in a pool.

I am currently in a pool in California. I wish I could join a pool in a state with "just the jackpot" option and no state tax.

I like that California has no state tax. Makes a big difference when the jackpot is being split many ways.

Is it draw time yet??? 

Austin Austin Austin

would like to know how close we r in sales of all combinations 

spent $50 since last Friday with multi-draws until next week

where the last PB winner at?

I am honestly surprised how low sales have been once it got to a Billion. A 30 million bump was just a rounding error when the pots first started getting to a billion.

They raised the Jackpot to $1.58 Billion Annuity, & $783.3 Million Cash Option!◝(⁰▿⁰)◜

"Just the jackpot" is a great option for playing in a pool. "

No, it's not!

Let's say there are 20 people in your pool and you get the five white balls which would normally be worth $1,000,000 (or $2 mil or more if multiplier is purchased) your pool gets ZERO, ZILCH, NADA, $0.

So now, in stead of everyone in the pool getting $50,000 (or $100,000 or more with Megaplier) you don't get anything. 

Sorry, but "Just the Jackpot" is not a great option at all.

"Maybe after sales calculation it will be number two. "

The TX MM worksheet is reporting the supported jackpot as $1,588,588,007. If they manage that it wil be the #2 annuity by a modest margin, but even if it gets past 1.6 the cash will miss the 3rd place position by about $80 million and the 2nd place position by almost $200 million.

A roll will give us an advertised jackpot starting at $1.8 billion, and $892.4 million cash. That will still be almost $100 million shy of 2nd place. It would need t o be almost $200 million higher than the advertised annuity to reach the 2nd place cash value. A week ago I would have figured 1.350 to 1.990 in 2 rolls was a sure thing, but now I'm not at all confident about getting that high.  At this point I'm almost certain it needs to roll to next Tuesday to take take #1 spot back from PB.

"would like to know how close we r in sales of all combinations "

Depending on just how many non-random tickets have been played (patterns, calendar numbers, etc) about 40 to 41.5% of combinations should be in play, based on the sales estimate of 162.6 million tickets.

I'll take the annuity.... I just want a garage with a lift, is that too much to ask?

I disagree,

The point of playing the lottery is win a large sum of money.

Joining a pool when the jackpot is very large works towards that aim.

With the "just the jackpot" the pool gets more tickets and more chances of winning the jackpot.

Now of course, there are many people in this group that believe buying more tickets does not increase the chances of winning. I hope you are not one of those.

So random has a lot to do with sales? Is it bcuz the machine cld qp the same numbers?

Just the jkpot wld mean more tkt combinations sold but what if u only hit 5 numbers u get nothing

More tickets means more chances to win, but the odds of winning are always the same.... somewhere between slim and none.

When it comes to "random," I've actually used more than one random number generator to pick my numbers. I used the terminal plus a couple of different online random number generators, which will appear to the Lottery as if I picked the numbers because I had to fill out playslips for them. 

Whether any of these methods will work, I'll have to wait and see.

And if you hit no numbers you get nothing.

No, please, not one of those with no understanding of mathematics.

one time i played the lottery in a pool. the tickets got all wet and the numbers and barcode were unreadable. 0/10 do not recommend

$1.58 as of now so maybe a bit above.   I think no one hits and i want to find out what it might be friday night.

The question here is whether gaining one chance at the jackpot (per $6 spent) is worth losing 72 chances at a million.

Consecutive numbers twice....maybe a roll, time will tell.......

When the jackpot is large, the expected value of a "just the jackpot" ticket is much higher than a regular ticket.

This makes it ideal for playing in a pool. For individual play, one is better off buying regular tickets.

I didn't win anything, but my wife won $4 matching the MegaBall with MegaPlier. How that gets spent depends on tonight's results.

Wait and see.

I think  I'm a billionaire!! ! OMG

Had the 13 and 33 on a single line, the 19 on another single line and the 20 on another single line....and the Megaball all by its lonesome on another line.         will it roll ??    probably not

1.8 according to delaware lottery.  so either fri or next week.

Ok we'll  see

Delaware has always done that,have no idea why they do... Then they correct it when there is actually a winner.. Its the only lottery that puts out the next increase. They do it for MM and PB and Lotto America 

$1.8 Billion isn't the jackpot for next drawing.

It's what the jackpot for this drawing was at draw time. Isn't it?

I dont think it was $1.8 Billion.. Todd said up above it went to $1.58 B  and the cash went to $783.2 Million for this draw....That stuff posted on Delawares lottery would be for next Friday. But I do like the cash value of $892.4 Million they listed on there along with the 1.8 Billion

I'm looking  at all the numbers  here at my ticket.

Winner someplace...back to $20 Million....It was a fun run and I hope the winner enjoys their new found wealth

Where....?????...we should know  where as soon as they say there's a winner.....

Florida...congrats!!

On to Powerball........lol!

No state taxes either.....winner times 2x..lol

I hope it's many winners, and I would definitely have preferred to share the wealth than deal with that much at once.

08/08/2023 WB=13-19-20-32-33 MB=14 x2

14  3x and 3 n 13

wonder was it sold at a Publix again?

Why do so many talk about the billion jackpot amount so much? You have to win it first...I don't care if it is 1 trillion ..advertising annuity jackpot amount is part of their bag of tricks...no one gets that amount so why even mention it..advertise the cash only and leave it at that.. Winning is next to impossible given current game format. 40 rolls and we get one winner and 7 second places. Pathetic given how much money they made in 40 drawings combined. This is a bad game odds/payouts. It will likely get worse in a few years. i didn't play tonite. i wrote down the numbers i was thinking of playing but matched none anyways.

There were only 7 second prize winners. Thought there would be more then 7 but tickets sales are a lot smaller then in the past when there were big giant JP like this. Last July the advertised Jp for a drawin started out at 1.02 billion and they had ticket sales of 703 million. Tonights advertised JP started out at 1.55 billion and they only had ticket sales of less then half of that 703 million. Lottery fatigue i guess or people dont have the money to spend on tickets with inflation being so high. Or people in the past have went nuts and blew way more than they could afford to and are paying for it now. A combonation of different things are driving ticket sales down from in the past

Congrats to Florida

I thought there would have been more 2nd prize winners too with the jackpot that large.

To all the naysayers it wasn't California.    They did well with para-mutuel this time around, even better than states with Megaplier.

Payouts here were awful and even found a rescue ticket for $20 around 5 p.m. and we know the result of money wasted!

Oh well, on to Powerball/Powerplay!!

Publix Neptune Beach Florida is where ticket was sold.

Somehow that rings a bell and remember a Publix somewhere in FL sold a huge ticket, believe to that elderly woman someone let go in front of them in line and bought the winning ticket.  Her, her Son and his boyfriend plastered all over the place.

Anxiously awaiting national news.

3rd time won at Publix

Maybe it's just a setup to getting people anxious.   Obviously the lotteries are weird.

Crazy that people want that much attention.  Now there are machines depending on where spread out.   Up here in philly area you can go anywhere.

That was my thinking too.  I was thinking like why is it so low going up that way.