$420 million of lottery jackpots in two days

Comment #13

CASH Only — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 19:28:50 GMT

Now it's $535 million between the two games. Not counting the PB Match 5 pool.

Comment #12

Chewie — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:19:02 GMT

always heard there was alimit by law. Don't know what law, or the limit, just heard. You're saying nether hava a limit, other then volume

Comment #11

ryanm — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 19:40:37 GMT

The MUSL says they slow the growth of record Powerball jackpots to increase the number of times they can claim a record jackpot, since some players only play when there is a "record," and if Powerball hit a record of $700 million, it would miss chances to have records at $400 million, $500 million, etc. However, what the MUSL overlooked is if they don't take the records away from themselves, Mega Millions will, since MM does not slow the growth of its record jackpots.

Comment #10

KY Floyd — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 17:03:19 GMT

No and yes. Sort of.

I specifically referred to PB's cap that was instituted about a year (?) ago. That cap is specifically imposed by the rules. When the annuity jackpot reaches the highest amount it has reached previously the rollovers are limited to an increase of 25 million. The current maximum is 340, so if nobody wins the next draw the most it will be for Saturday is 365. The next draw could be less than 365 if ticket sales aren't high enough. My guess is that the amount advertised if i... [ More ]

Comment #9

mylollipop — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 12:31:14 GMT

KY Floyd

So, are you saying that MM and PB have a maximum jackpot amount OR maximum rollover amount

Comment #8

Down — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 09:47:11 GMT

The stroy is wrong true no one has won in 2006 yet, but the last MM jackpot winners was on 12/30/05 the $1.00 QP

Comment #7

KY Floyd — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 09:41:34 GMT

Maybe you didn't have your morning coffee before you posted it? As soon as I read it I thought there's no way it took 3 months for the jackpot to reach 120 million, so I checked. All of the recent jackpots in the 250+ range have taken about two months to get there. Powerball would be limited by the rollover cap, but a 3 month dry spell with Megamillions will probably mean the first billion dollar jackpot, or it will show us that the number of tickets sold stops going up shortly past the 300 m... [ More ]

Comment #6

fja — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 21:56:50 GMT

I was just thinking that same thing....if one person won both jackpots how ironic that would be,,,it would be like the numbers 1,2,3,4,5+6 coming out

Comment #5

jeffrey — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 19:03:41 GMT

That would be something, wouldn't it? Wonder what people would think of that

Comment #4

mylollipop — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 18:06:42 GMT

Quote: Originally posted by Just6ntlc on February 14, 2006 Well good luck to all the players playing MM and PB for real. It would be a shock if both MM and PB continues to roll.

And even more of a shock if the same person wins both MM and PB!!! An eerie feeling came over me when I read your post. It is possible---and what a long shot! Ooooohhh

Comment #3

Todd — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 17:18:16 GMT

weshar: I'm sure you're right about that. I posted the story without doing much in terms of fact-checking.

Comment #2

weshar75 — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 17:00:28 GMT

Mega millions has had four winners since the $315 million winner on 11-15-05. On 11-29-05 two winners of $35 million 1 in California and 1 in Michigan. On 12-30-05 1 winner of $88 million in California. On 1-6-06 1 winner in Ohio of $15 million. Source is the USA MEGA news archive section.-weshar75

Comment #1

Just6ntlc — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 16:21:15 GMT

Well good luck to all the players playing MM and PB for real. It would be a shock if both MM and PB continues to roll.

$420 million of lottery jackpots in two days

Lottery Post — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 15:43:20 GMT

There're more than 400 million reasons to buy a lottery ticket - or two - this week.

No one has won the Mega Millions or the Powerball jackpots since last year, making the combined jackpots swell to a staggering $420 million.

The multistate bout of bad luck means it could be a very happy Valentine's Day for Mega players in New York, New Jersey and 10 other states when tonight's jackpot of $120 million is drawn.

But the Mega payout pales next to the Powerball top prize, which is now pegg... [ More ]