Mega Millions lottery jackpot increases to $56 million

Comment #11

KY Floyd — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 18:45:50 GMT

justxploring wrote

<< I always read the press releases for Florida and although most people seem to get QPs, many winners say I used my children's birthdays or I used the numbers on my house my license plate and I always hear that's a silly thing to do. I'm sure the winners didn't feel too silly when they collected all that money. >>

All those winners are just letting us know that's how a sizable percentage of players pick their numbers. For some it's just a simple way to choose 5... [ More ]

Comment #10

justxploring — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 06:05:27 GMT

It's sad that even though Powerball's annuity is more bulked up than Mega Millions' is, Mega Millions' annuity rollovers still outpace Powerball's. ryanm

Agree. It's all hype to make the jackpot seem larger. Although there are people who prefer the annuity. (I wouldn't)

Either your numbers come up or they don't, KY Floyd

Yes! Maybe I didn't say it that way, but that's exactly what I meant. It's a game of chance and, no matter how much a person analyzes the probabilities, there a... [ More ]

Comment #9

ryanm — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 05:26:41 GMT

It's sad that even though Powerball's annuity is more bulked up than Mega Millions' is, Mega Millions' annuity rollovers still outpace Powerball's.

Comment #8

mylollipop — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 00:54:43 GMT

I'D LIKE TO SEE THE JACKPOTS GO NECK AND NECK

Comment #7

dvdiva — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 03:49:41 GMT

What's interesting is to keep track of the cash at www.usamega.com

Powerball has large increases with a decrease in what their cash prize is. Mega Millions is also on a roll with no reduction in what the cash prize is. Sounds like only one game is doing it right.

Comment #6

DrumSlinger — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 23:23:44 GMT

Lottery Experts are like Track Experts, pick the numbers most likely to win, toss em out, and pick the numbers least likely to come in and go to the bank.

Comment #5

fja — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 21:51:47 GMT

Quote: Originally posted by KY Floyd on March 15, 2006 Quote: Originally posted by fja on March 15, 2006 Quote: Originally posted by justxploring on March 15, 2006 The winning numbers were 27, 28, 30, 42 and 50. The Mega Ball number was 22.

Congratulations to everyone who won.

I've read articles by a few lottery experts and one suggestion is never to bet mostly even or mostly odd numbers. Another is to make sure you don't have all high or all low numbers like choose 2 from 1-23 and 3... [ More ]

Comment #4

KY Floyd — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 21:10:24 GMT

Should anybody be surprised that about half of the numbers picked are odd and half are even when half of the numbers to choose from are odd and half of them are even? The experts are simply getting basic probability right, without providing any useful information. Still, I suppose that's better than all the times they don't provide any useful info and get things wrong. You can look at past results all you want, but there's absolutely nothing any of us can do, as far as what kind of numbers we... [ More ]

Comment #3

fja — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 18:02:24 GMT

Quote: Originally posted by justxploring on March 15, 2006 The winning numbers were 27, 28, 30, 42 and 50. The Mega Ball number was 22.

Congratulations to everyone who won.

I've read articles by a few lottery experts and one suggestion is never to bet mostly even or mostly odd numbers. Another is to make sure you don't have all high or all low numbers like choose 2 from 1-23 and 3 from 24-46. On Tues 4/5 numbers plus the mega ball were even, and all 5 numbers were high. I usually se... [ More ]

Comment #2

justxploring — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:42:01 GMT

The winning numbers were 27, 28, 30, 42 and 50. The Mega Ball number was 22.

Congratulations to everyone who won.

I've read articles by a few lottery experts and one suggestion is never to bet mostly even or mostly odd numbers. Another is to make sure you don't have all high or all low numbers like choose 2 from 1-23 and 3 from 24-46. On Tues 4/5 numbers plus the mega ball were even, and all 5 numbers were high. I usually see this kind of draw roll over, but wouldn't it be nice to wi... [ More ]

Comment #1

Just6ntlc — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:20:31 GMT

A new roll 4 record has emerged. Congratulations to the 8 tickets matching 5/5.

Mega Millions lottery jackpot increases to $56 million

Lottery Post — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 12:03:00 GMT

The jackpot in the multi-state Mega Millions lottery has grown to $56 million for Friday's drawing.

None of the tickets sold for Tuesday night's $42 million drawing matched all five lotto numbers and the Mega Ball.

There were eight second-prize winners: 1 from California, 1 from Georgia, 1 from Illinois, 1 from Massachusetts, 2 from Michigan, 1 from New York, and 1 from Washington. Each ticket matched all five lotto numbers but not the Mega Ball number to win $250,000.

The California s... [ More ]