Search

$900 MILLION: Powerball jackpot rises, but sales miss in last draw makes for small increaseReply
This makes no sense. I keep track of ticket sales. For Wednesday's July 12th drawing $107,649,307 in ticket sales - Powerball + Powerplay sales $750 million jackpot For last Saturday's July 15th drawing $167,822,992 in ticket sales - Powerball + Powerplay sales $829 million jackpot For next Monday July 17th jackpot = $900 million So from Wednesday to Saturday the jackpot rose $79 million but is only rising $71 million after ticket sales went up by 56% - that makes no sense.
Jul 16, 2023, 9:19 am - JohnGalt3 - Lottery News

Winner of $95 million Lotto Texas lottery jackpot gamed the odds to winNews Story
New Jersey based group turned the odds to win in their favor By Kate Northrop Around this time one year ago, the Texas Lottery's Lotto Texas jackpot was bursting at the seams, boasting the game's third-largest prize ever at a mouthwatering $95 million. One New Jersey-based group gamed the odds to win the jackpot. Following a seven-month period without a winner, the Lotto Texas jackpot had ballooned to $95 million for the drawing on April 22, 2023, the game's largest in over 12 years.
Today, 12:38 pm - Todd - Lottery News

$1.09 BILLION: Powerball jackpot is 4th-largest in game historyReply
Can we get 2-3 winners this tine Probability says no. It takes sales of $405 million just to have any number of winners be as likely as a rollover, and at that point the chances of a single winner are about 2.2 times as likely as multiple winners. The last time that happened was in the last two drawings for the PB record back in November 2022. It takes sales of a hair over $734 million for multiple winners to be just as likely as a single winner. That has happened twice, in the last two dra
Apr 3, 2024, 12:55 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Nebraska Lottery to make changes to Pick 5 gameReply
Lotteries exist to generate revenue for the states. And for the most part, they haven't had to make changes that benefit the players, because players would play whatever was available. Nebraska Lottery may be experiencing the shape of things to come, though, as Nebraska Lottery Scratch ticket sales for fiscal year 2022 decreased 5% over the previous year. In contrast Florida Lottery sales from scratchers has gone from 60% of total lottery sales in 2012, to a whopping 75% in 2022. So if Nebraska
May 20, 2023, 12:03 pm - Sum Buddy - Lottery News

Maybe we are making a mistake in predicting random lotteries as a whole, let's divide it into 4 partReply
It's difficult to determine which lottery game San wants to discuss because he seldom says it upfront. It wasn't until page two when San finally mentioned the path to pick3 . I'm in totally agreement that the majority of MM and PB ticket sales are QP and when the ticket buying frenzy starts, an estimate of 90% of sales are QPs might be on the low side. Don't recall any pick 3 buying frenzies because that jackpot never changes. I won't say for a fact the majority of pick 3 sales are self pic
Oct 3, 2023, 6:25 pm - Stack47 - Lottery Discussion Forum

$70 million Michigan Powerball winner says lottery winners should be able to remain anonymousReply
The lottery knows about scammers and the increased burden on law enforcement caused by revealing names but they don't care because someone else has to deal with that. States that let winners stay anonymous don't seem to have problems increasing sales or selling tickets. Please back your assertion with facts about how much identifying winners increases sales. Michigan went anonymous for state games in 1988/89 and they have had increasing sales almost every year after that! Identi
Sep 21, 2023, 9:46 am - Think - Lottery News

North Carolina Lottery approves online instant gamesReply
Funny the 'big' states still don't offer on-line sales. The consumers like this. As for me I do LESS on-line buying than I used to preferring brick and mortar sales.
Aug 21, 2023, 2:35 pm - Bleudog101 - Lottery News

$1.725 BILLION: Powerball jackpot now 2nd-largest of all timeReply
Most in the press have rounded that number off to $1.73 billion. If it was a normal number 1.725 should get rounded up to 1.73 if that 3rd digit is a problem. In this case it's an advertisement, and even using the annuity that nobody's going to take they aren't planning on giving anybody 1.73 billion. I don't know about actual advertising, but the websites of a few states are calling it 1.72 billion. New Jersey's website lists it as 1.7 billion. Whether any of those lower numbers are the re
Oct 11, 2023, 7:38 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery News

$1.7 billion in combined jackpots, as USA multi-state lottery games peak togetherReply
If it is won tonight, it will be over $1billion once the final prize is determined. Strikes me as unlikely. The decision to post a revised cash value was made based on a 15% increase over the initial sales prediction. Reaching an even billion would have required an increase of 24% over the revision they made sometime on Friday when they had over 2 days of actual sales for predicting the final total. On the worksheet on the TX website the supported jackpot was reported as $982.35 million. MM
Mar 23, 2024, 1:56 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News

$1.76 billion Powerball jackpot won by one ticket sold in CaliforniaReply
Lol that you're saying california has a higher population than China or India combined is totally nuts. If the lottery were rigged, it would be so california and Florida dont win. Sales would be better from other states if people didn't see those 2 winning all the time and the objective of the lottery is to increase sales. I don't believe the lottery is rigged so anyone in any particular place wins it, that doesn't benefit the lottery system in any way. I wouldn't be surprise
Oct 12, 2023, 10:58 am - SoCola - Lottery News