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$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

Florida Lottery Fantasy Five going to twice a day--will you still play?Reply
Agreed that there will be plenty of midday drawings and also evening draws that there wont be a jackpot winner. That's what happened in New York's 5/39 game, Take5, when The New York Lottery went to two Take5 draws per day. I expect that when there is a jackpot winner, the larger amount will appear in the evening drawing. The midday draw sales window has the overnight hours in it when ticket sales will be low. At about 6 AM ticket sales will probably increase but there are only six hours until 1
Mar 20, 2023, 6:20 pm - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

Florida Fantasy-5 PlayersReply
The amount of a Jackpot prize payout is determined by the amount of ticket sales. Less sales, lower jackpot. The fewer number of hours tickets are on sale guarantees there is no way one of two drawings per day will have the same ticket sales as a once per day drawing. If tickets are available for purchase for 12 hours as opposed to 24, then players can expect half the current amounts to be paid out for each draw. Some players will play twice per day, but the majority will not. To me, that s
Mar 7, 2023, 6:43 am - GiveFive - Pick 5 Forum

$1.9 BILLION POWERBALL JACKPOT SETS WORLD RECORD OF UNIMAGINABLE WEALTHReply
If the amount of sales I read is correct, 279,269,971 tickets were sold for 11/05 drawing and with a 95% chance, someone should have won. I believe the record ticket sales was set on Jan 13, 2016 when 635,103,137 tickets were sold and three divided the $1.58 billion advertised jackpot. Based on that statistic, it looks like sales were over twice as much six years ago with almost an equal size jackpot. Read where lots of players say they would be ecstatic winning the second $1 million prize
Nov 6, 2022, 9:02 pm - Stack47 - Lottery News

$825 MILLION: Powerball jackpot raised due to surging ticket salesReply
I recognize all the words but I'm not sure what you said. Does I don't think a billion if no one hits this draw mean you think it won't reach a billion, or you think it will go well beyond a billion and set a new record? The other day I said I figured it would probably reach a billion if it rolls from 850, but after thinking about it I'm not so sure because the next drawing is on a Monday. I didn't check every Monday drawing since they started, but I did check all of them when the jackpot wa
Oct 29, 2022, 7:50 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Florida Fantasy-5 PlayersReply
I also get the fact that ticket sales for all lottery games is way down these days. You can see the effect of the high cost of groceries and gasoline on lottery ticket sales just by looking at the amount paid out for any FF5 jackpot. Saturday FF5 jackpots are $10 to 15 thousand dollars lower than they were last year. The reason FF5 has as many jackpot winners as it does is because the odds are low. They sell $500,000 to $600,000 worth of FF5 tickets every day. That produces sufficient covera
Jul 10, 2022, 9:25 am - GiveFive - Pick 5 Forum

There doesn't seem to be a huge frenzy for the 1.1 Billion Megamillions prize. :/Reply
Ticket sales are down quite a bit from the last time Mega Millions had a billion dollar JP in July. The advertised JP started out at 1.02 billion for the July 29 drawing and ended up moving to 1.1 billion and then finally ending up at 1.28 billion. Ticket sales for that drawing were 703 million dollars. For this drawing the advertised JP started at 1.1 billion and never moved. Ticket sales for the drawing were 287 million. Maybe the 2 billion PB drawing in Nov has something to do with it.
Jan 11, 2023, 8:17 pm - alexnt55 - Lottery Discussion Forum

1 billion lottery proves we're in a recessionReply
The lottery machines here were lagging because of strong sales. Over 1 1/2 million tickets were sold for the Tuesday drawing and sales for tonight could beat the old record in sales. And most players probably believe the jackpot will be won so they are buying tickets regardless of economy opinions.
Jul 29, 2022, 9:34 pm - Stack47 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Florida Fantasy-5 PlayersReply
Interesting how even with a maximum jackpot the current JPT promotion cant drive enough extra ticket sales to produce a jackpot winner. Lottery ticket sales for many games have been down lately. Must be the high cost of everything that's cutting into ticket sales. G5
Jun 29, 2022, 8:47 am - GiveFive - Pick 5 Forum

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