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Tennessee is finally getting that pick 6 lotto...Reply
I think this is really piss poor that TN starts a new lottery game and changes another yet no one at any of the stores I've been to that sales lottery tickets has any idea about how the games are going to be run. All they know is that they start Feb 24th. Then to top that off TN lottery website has no mention of any lottery games changing or any new games. You would think that atleast 7 days before the game starts they would put up some info on the website on how to play the games, prize info, a
Feb 21, 2008, 3:15 am - KyMystikal - Jackpot Games Forum

Powerball & Megamillions GrowingReply
I already accounted for the difference. Assuming that sales for this run match sales for the run that created the 365 million jackpot there would be almost $50 million cash for the jackpot prize pool. Increasing the annuity value by $90 million would require about $42 million. That would leave close to $8 million for the bonus pool (about $15 million if it were annuity, which is where the 105 in my last post came from). Advertising a jackpot of more than 365 could increase sales, but even MUSL i
Aug 23, 2007, 11:13 am - KY Floyd - Jackpot Games Forum

Is powerball sandbagging the jackpot?
The announced growth of a jackpot by 13 million dollars is rather small for an advertised jackpot of $180 million. In fact, the numbers are completely inconsistent with known sales patterns.It may be that Powerball may be under advertising the actual value in hopes of supressing sales on this drawing, thereby raising the probability of another rollover. This would give them the capability of producing a much larger jackpot, and much higher sales over two drawings than they would have by simply
Oct 3, 2005, 5:18 pm - Prob988 - Jackpot Games Forum

Powerball Site Has Merchandise For SaleReply
Quote: Originally posted by keystonechas on February 22, 2004 The offical Powerball web sites now has merchandise for sale. You won't believe the prices. High is a under statement. Some examples: Sweatshirts $47.99, T-shirts $25.99!! The only item in my price range is the twill cap at $7.99.Check it out. ChasYeah I'd have to agree, it's a bit pricey and I think the descriptions that go along with each are cheesy to say the least. About a month ago or so they started putting advertising on the
Feb 22, 2004, 9:29 pm - plnwebguy - Jackpot Games Forum

Probability of a rollover in PB and MMReply
Your calculations would be correct if 13 million tickets were sold. Actually the minimum $10,000,000 jackpots typically sell in the ten million range.You can look up sales in various places, and find them from time to time. I back calculate sales by dividing the number of winning tickets by the overall odds of winning. This (understandably) gives a high standard deviation, however if you do it long enough, you find that the mean converges on the correct (cash) value, roughly 32% of sales de
Feb 22, 2004, 5:39 am - prob987 - Jackpot Games Forum

match 6 first draw tonightReply
I have noticed something tho, you can tell by your quickpick if you possibly even have a chance at the xx in 18 match across the 3 lines.My winning ticket could not possibly have matched more than 7 numbers because there was only 1 repeated number... I really wouldn't mind paying $2 per game if you got to pick ALL 3 lines...my QP for tuesday has 3 pairs of numbers on it, making the max 9... no possible way of matching 10 or more, so I already know that from the multiline portion of the game, I a
Feb 14, 2004, 10:15 am - hypersoniq - Jackpot Games Forum

Mega Millions getting boringReply
I know the Mass Megabuck MassMillions aren't generating the jackpots or attention they used to - probably due to a ban on advertising and the much, much larger Megamillions jackpots. I think to the average person odds of 1 in 5 million or 1 in 135 million are almost equally remote, so why not go for the really big money? If Mass really is one of the best run lotteries they should know it's time to make a few changes to kick some life into them. Cash option for jackpots.Double all lower prizes,
Apr 24, 2003, 11:23 am - tg636 - Jackpot Games Forum

Powerball winner from Indiana for 9/14Reply
From the Powerbal Rules:If a prize is not claimed, then each lottery will treat that money in accordance with their state law or rules. Some lotteries are required to return the money to the players as prizes (you may have seen such things as a special second-chance drawing, etc.). Other lotteries can return the unclaimed prize money to the state's general fund. The claim period is set by each state lottery. It varies from 90 days to one year.It reverts back to the Indiana Lottery Rules, which a
Dec 7, 2002, 7:21 am - Todd - Jackpot Games Forum

Something looks a bit odd with MM jackpot & cash option.Reply
I'm not sure if it's happened before, but the annuity is always an imaginary amount based on what can be bought with the cash value. Because interest rates got cut between jackpot estimates the size of the annuity that can be bought with a given amount of cash went down. Of course most people who don't work for the lotteries realize that the cash value is the only thing that matters, and the cash value will go up based on actual ticket sales. Those who work in marketing for the lottery like t
Mar 9, 2020, 3:18 am - KY Floyd - Jackpot Games Forum

Powerball now biggest jackpot in US history @ 675 million...how high will it go on saturday night?Reply
we now have THE biggest lotto jackpot in US history on our hands. Not yet we don't. Right now all we have is a record for the biggest advertising hype about a lottery jackpot. The real record is the MM jackpot that paid out $474 million as a cash jackpot. In order to set a legitimate record for the biggest jackpot we'll need to see an increase to about $775 million as the advertised jackpot. There's a very good chance that will happen, but it's not guaranteed.
Jan 7, 2016, 11:44 am - KY Floyd - Jackpot Games Forum