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$1.55 BILLION: Biggest Mega Millions jackpot ever to be drawn TuesdayReply
So random has a lot to do with sales? Is it bcuz the machine cld qp the same numbers?
Aug 8, 2023, 9:07 pm - EnReval - Lottery News

$1.05 BILLION: Mega Millions keeps rolling after no winner FridayReply
How are tix sales? What are the percentages of rolling over?
Jul 31, 2023, 8:07 pm - heisenberg991 - Lottery News

$900 MILLION: Powerball jackpot rises, but sales miss in last draw makes for small increaseReply
I agree... and less discretionary income due to high inflation could be a reason why ticket sales aren't what they once were. Adding to the fact that inflation is high, and that extra large jackpots probably aren't seeming all that out of the ordinary to people might be why lottery officials overestimated ticket sales for the next jackpot. G5
Jul 16, 2023, 9:27 am - GiveFive - Lottery News

Florida: 7/1 - 7/31/2023Reply
These QP must be to boost cash 3 sales . I haven't come close to winning.
Jul 10, 2023, 6:01 pm - MzMoney941 - Pick 3 Forum

Texas Legislature proposes bill to block online lottery courier servicesReply
Note that Texas State only profits more from 3rd party facilitators because their proceeds per ticket remain the same, and more tickets are sold due to extra ticket sales from these facilitators. Texas State is shooting themselves in their proverbial foot by coercively preventing 3rd party profits from ticket sales.
May 10, 2023, 12:21 pm - Wavepack - Lottery News

$1.55 BILLION: Biggest Mega Millions jackpot ever to be drawn TuesdayReply
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 wou
Aug 8, 2023, 8:41 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Mega Millions Just The JackpotReply
To your point about variance, yes, JTJ is obviously going to be higher than a regular ticket. Both are going to be a huge variance, regardless. So, if variance is the concern, don't play the games to begin with. You will get a few bucks back by playing a regular ticket and hitting the minor prizes, but as percentage of $ spent, it's still very low. The return is basically predicated on hitting the jackpot, which the average person more than likely would not hit in a thousand lifetimes. Ther
Jul 17, 2023, 8:17 pm - Orange71 - Mathematics Forum

$900 MILLION: Powerball jackpot rises, but sales miss in last draw makes for small increaseNews Story
By Todd Northrop Powerball lottery players might be wondering this morning why the jackpot only increased by $25 million after nobody won last night's $875 million grand prize. The answer is that the last jackpot was estimated too high. During the live drawing it was announced that after all proceeds were counted, the final jackpot tally came to $829.4 million $45.6 million shy of the expected amount. Likewise, the cash value that was initially estimated to reach $452.2 million only in f
Jul 16, 2023, 6:41 am - Todd - Lottery News

$1.23 BILLION: Powerball jackpot juggernaut keeps rollingReply
I wouldn't call it an adjustment, but it's not at all rare for the cash:annuity ratio to remain the same from one drawing to the next. According to the worksheets on the TX website the last two runs have consistently kept the same ratio for 3 consecutive drawings before changing for the next 3 drawings. What's unusual is a change as big as this one. The annuity estimate was increased by $70 million, while the cash value only increased by $13.8 million. We've seen mistakes in some of the reported
Apr 6, 2024, 1:27 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Big Prize Winners on LPReply
Only a tiny percentage of members are active so even if several of the inactive members won a big prize , we'll never know. It looks like the consensus here is claiming anonymous or trying to remain anonymous as much as possible. If we assume that 50% are active in playing different lottery games If half the lottery post members bought two PB tickets each for last Saturdays drawing, it's only 0.76% of the total sales. Not saying nobody here won a big prizes, but a quarter of a million
Nov 7, 2023, 2:25 pm - Stack47 - Lottery Discussion Forum