$237 MILLION: Mega Millions lottery jackpot raised again

Comment #73

KSplayer — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 19:20:09 GMT

wow sales must be up big time, good luck to everyone but still hoping this small town Kansas girl has the winning numbers!!!!!!!!!!!

DREAMS DO COME TRUE

Comment #72

RJOh — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 19:08:57 GMT

If you really want to play, take a road trip up to Georgia. Ohioan use to drive to all the surrounding states for tickets before MegaMillions and PowerBall came to Ohio and once it was shown the neighboring state was making money that Ohio could have been making, the lottery commission sought to bring those games to Ohio. One of the largest PB win went to a group of workers from Columbus, Ohio who traveled a hundred miles to Indiana for PB tickets regularly when the jackpots got large.

Comment #71

dpoly1 — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 19:08:36 GMT

I even spent more than $1 on this one I am very frugal with my money!

I will be in the sunshine when I get that EFT from the PA Lottery, I am hoping for at least $100 Million

Comment #70

APOBABOY — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 18:54:43 GMT

Wowowee

Comment #69

luisM — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 18:18:39 GMT

Yep, looks like everyone wants to ring in 2011 filthly rich. Actually it's a great way to ring in the new year for whoever the lucky person ends up to be.

Comment #68

JWBlue — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 18:15:57 GMT

The California Lottery website just checked in with a $242,000,000 jackpot.

Comment #67

luisM — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 18:10:30 GMT

Correction to my previous post. I mean CAN NOT play

Comment #66

luisM — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 18:09:11 GMT

Wow. I can't believe they raised it again! Unfortunately, I'm in Florida and can play.

Comment #65

TheOtherOne — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 18:01:18 GMT

yea even the mega millions site hasnt update yet. Usa Mega hasnt either.

Wow that is a lot of scratch. Just a fraction of it and I am set.

Good luck everyone

Comment #64

joshuacloak — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 17:58:09 GMT

tn has jsut updated, , thro tn flash news update sure reads 237 on tn , guest it just got updated, nice catch theotherone

also kentucky lottery has it in their news, Mega Milllions Jackpot is NOW $242 MILLION!

For Friday December 31, 2010, Mega Millions jackpot is NOW $242 million! Get your tickets today!

so its offical, by them

Cash Option: $154 Million, rofl it went up nearly 4m in cash, their sales must be heavy :D

Comment #63

TheOtherOne — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 17:45:27 GMT

Now it says the JP is 242 million!!! WOW! They raised it another 5.

I saw this on GA's site ... TN has not updated yet; havent checked Mega Millions though

Comment #62

freeobama — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 16:07:46 GMT

Thank you dpoly1 for that information about the taxes i did not know that! The winner of the jackpot will still have a great amount of cash after taxes

Comment #61

RJOh — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 16:01:48 GMT

7-20-32-45-46 (mega ball 28)

If even 4 of those numbers hit Friday, it could be up setting to MegaMillions as those fortune cookie numbers were to PowerBall a year or so ago.

Comment #60

dpoly1 — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 14:54:52 GMT

They only take 25% you are responsible to pay the remaining 10% to pay the 35% tax rate.

Look it up, the Federal Tax rate is 35% for that kind of money!!!!!!!!!

Someone help me here, I can't be the only person that knows that the Federal Tax Rate is 35%!

Yikes

Comment #59

Spare Change — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 14:20:41 GMT

Si, es verdad, Luis

Comment #58

luisM — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 13:33:18 GMT

Pure BS. If Richard knew what the winning #'s were, trust me, he would use the #'s to win for himself. He's won several Fantasy 5 and Mega Money Jackpots here in FL but never Florida Lotto or Florida Powerball. He has a book which he sells for $40.00 a pop, from which he uses the profits to buy more tickets

Comment #57

Jani Norman — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 12:37:55 GMT

Lottery Post shown in background of Good Morning America, while speaking with a supposed big jackpots winner named Richard Lustig and these are the winning numbers he picked on tv for a Good Morning America journalist: was just shown 15 to 20 minutes ago about 7:15-7:20 am eastern time..

7-20-32-45-46 (mega ball 28

Comment #56

Nino224 — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 11:19:55 GMT

It takes a state roughly six months from the time they decide to join to when they start selling tickets.

Comment #55

ttech10 — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 10:54:19 GMT

Whattaker didn't really mismanage the money as much as he just threw all logic out of the window. You just don't carry $200,000 or $545,000 in cash in your car, and especially not to a strip club and you don't give a 17 year old an allowance that's more than most of America's income as well as 4 brand new cars.

Comment #54

dingo — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 10:36:24 GMT

Tremendous pressure would fall on the shouder of whoever gonna win this jackpot. If money is mismanaged, disasters follows in. Jack Whittaker is a nice example. Lately, I have beeen thinking about handling this windfall, but I don't think I can handel this.

Seriously, I just want to have moderate house and an easily life. Winning this huge jackpot would be too much for me to handle. I'll let it pass. I'd play Supper Lotto Plus; it's around $21 million now. I am sure the spot light will not on... [ More ]

Comment #53

ttech10 — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 05:18:24 GMT

That's similar to why I'd want to win, but add having complete financial security and no need to ever work again . Part of me wants to collect the winnings myself to see if I could handle the money and dealing with all the people coming out of the woodwork. I already have ideas as to what I would do to keep myself busy during the days and nights, I just need to win and put those ideas into action. I think I'd make a pretty good and successful winner, it'd be nice to get the chance to prove that.... [ More ]

Comment #52

tg636 — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 04:25:10 GMT

I'd like to win, not because I need $100+ million, but as an experiment in how I would handle $100 million and the attendant pressures, temptations, luxuries, beggars, groupies etc that would come with it. Could I get it under a trust and keep it secret? Would I become like Jack Whitaker and go down the tubes? Or could I keep myself together like Paul Newman, my role model for staying sane, healthy and monogamous despite similarly astounding fame, fortune, talent and good looks? If I quit my job... [ More ]

Comment #51

Colt45ML — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 04:16:18 GMT

You know good and well that you will be cruising up 95 to the first exit after you hit the Georgia line.

Comment #50

sully16 — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 03:48:55 GMT

wow, thats alot of cash...

Comment #49

C0w Pi3 — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 03:27:17 GMT

It's Delaware's/Pennsylvania's time to win! I'm playing both, maybe even New Jersey, and Maryland :P

Comment #48

ttech10 — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 01:28:04 GMT

These are the top 9 jackpots and the current one would be the 10th largest (there was a $230 million winner in Virginia in 2004).

09/16/2005 - $250 Million - New Jersey

05/04/2010 - $266 Million - California

02/28/2006 - $267 Million - Ohio

02/22/2008 - $270 Million - Georgia

07/02/2004 - $294 Million - Massachusetts

11/15/2005 - $315 Million - California

08/31/2007 - $330 Million - Maryland/New Jersey/Texas/Virginia

08/28/2009 - $333 Million - California/New York

03/0... [ More ]

Comment #47

LotteryTechInc — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 23:59:22 GMT

I'm 45 min from St.Mary's GA so I play there Win 4 Life game

Comment #46

RJOh — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 23:43:39 GMT

Why would she be tired of winning? Joan Ginther won the grand prize of four lotteries but her total winnings were only $20.4 millions.

https://www.lotterypost.com/news/216670

The winner of the next MegaMillion lottery could win more than six times that amount in cash if they opt not to take the annuity.

Comment #45

luisM — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 23:28:01 GMT

lucky 4 u. I live in South Florida and not near the border. If I lived near the border of 2 states I'd play both lotteries. In fact, a lot of people from Alabama win the lottery in Florida

Comment #44

B$Rizzle — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 23:25:53 GMT

Looks like I will be taking a road trip to GA tomorrow

Comment #43

Grovel — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 22:51:36 GMT

I couldn't think of a better way to end this year then by winning this huge jackpot. I need to go find some bald guy so I can rub his head for luck.

Comment #42

luisM — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 22:26:08 GMT

Are you guys giving Joan Ginther free accounting advice when she wins for the 5th time? LOL

Comment #41

freeobama — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 22:11:33 GMT

dpoly1 after 25% federal taxes and 4% state taxes it will be $107,210,000 remember the cash option is $151 millions.

Comment #40

freeobama — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 22:07:04 GMT

$365 million one single ticket sold in Nebraska to 8 co workers at a meat plant in 2006 Powerball.

Comment #39

JWBlue — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 22:02:52 GMT

What is the highest cash value jackpot in US lottery history

Comment #38

dpoly1 — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 22:02:14 GMT

Actually ............. after 35% Federal Tax ............... it would be about $98,000,000!

and some don't think that almost $53,000,000 in Federal Taxes is enough!

The people that don't think that $53,000,000 is enough in taxes! (Barry, Nana Harry

Comment #37

butterflykt — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 21:57:18 GMT

Great Idea...if only WE had her number LOL

Comment #36

freeobama — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 21:50:51 GMT

There will be more winners

Comment #35

luisM — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 21:50:20 GMT

Get tired of winning? LOL Somehow I don't think she's tired. I'll be more than happy to give her my money so that she can play on my behalf, LOL

Comment #34

butterflykt — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 21:46:30 GMT

I bet she's tired of winning the lottery, so she decided not to play this time LOL

Comment #33

luisM — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 21:36:53 GMT

Unfortunately, it's non of us, I'm sure 4 time Lottery Winner Joan Ginther of Texas will win it, LOL

Comment #32

butterflykt — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 21:30:47 GMT

I totally agree with you....as long as it's me

Comment #31

Todd — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 21:30:28 GMT

Although the number of jackpot winners hasn't exactly skyrocketed, I think the years with only 8-11 jackpot wins are over. That means gone are the days when we see jackpots worth nearly $400 million. It would have to be a pretty extreme fluke, I would think.

Comment #30

freeobama — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 21:01:55 GMT

Madad you are welcome even though your odds of winning is much better than mine in Virginia,You will see me on the news monday morning in Richmond collecting your funds

Comment #29

Madad — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 20:55:50 GMT

I thank all you people for playing the mega and bringing it up to over 200 million. But I will take this money on Friday. But don't worry I will give some back to the communities.

Comment #28

luisM — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 20:52:02 GMT

NY Lottery also has the only sort of famous lottery spokesperson : Yolanda Vega

Comment #27

freeobama — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 20:42:35 GMT

N.Y. have a lot of QP jackpot winners i understand they have the majority of players, how is they machines keep spitting out winners. Its not like they are picking their own numbers all the time.

Comment #26

freeobama — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 20:37:49 GMT

More players=More jackpot winners

Comment #25

luisM — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 20:35:17 GMT

Well, I'm assumming that most people who win the lottery in NY are actually residents of NY City and not NY state. With such a humongous population that NY City has(larger than any other city is the USA), I'm never surprised with the amount of winners NY City has. There must be more lottery terminals per square foot in NY City than anywhere else in the USA.

Comment #24

freeobama — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 20:29:15 GMT

How things been looking in 2010 the grass have been much greener playing in N.Y. ODDS tend to fold in that direction

Comment #23

LotteryTechInc — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 20:28:25 GMT

Yeah it would but I don't really play Power Ball or FL Lottery I'm only interested in Mega-Money,Fantasy 5 ,GA Win For Life and Play 4

Comment #22

RJOh — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 20:27:47 GMT

I wouldn't expect the jackpots to get higher unless the matrix changed which would also change the odds of winning it. My point was the jackpots were getting as high as they ever did with a 5/56+1/46 matrix regardless of the number of states added.

Comment #21

luisM — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 20:24:40 GMT

Well when Florida added Powerball, the matrix changed, so I assumed that MM would do the same. If they add MM to Florida w/o changing the odds that would be great

Comment #20

LotteryTechInc — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 20:21:46 GMT

We don't need Mega-Millions we got Powerball they had a choice and went with Powerball it doesn't make sense too have 2 mega jackpot games competing against each other like that FL has PowerBall,FL Lotto,Mega-Money and Fantasy 5 that's more than enough JACKPOT games for us here.

Comment #19

freeobama — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 20:20:06 GMT

I dont think the jackpots is getting higher than ever, considering that it have not reached 300 million since the addition of the other states.

Comment #18

Todd — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 20:10:19 GMT

I guess that's pretty much true. Here's the number of jackpot wins for Mega Millions by year:

2001 - 11 2002 - 12 2003 - 11 2004 - 11 2005 - 8 2006 - 15 2007 - 9 2008 - 12 2009 - 9 2010 - 13 (perhaps 14th on Friday

Comment #17

RJOh — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 20:02:52 GMT

When MegaMillions went from 13 states to 40 states the matrix didn't change so the odds of winning didn't change and yet its jackpots are getting as high as they ever did. The only effects of adding more states have been more winners with jackpots climbing faster. Adding Florida would just make the jackpots climb even faster.

Comment #16

RJOh — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 19:49:20 GMT

I went to Florida website and there's no mention of adding MegaMillons so it's likely the article is incorrect. When Ohio added PowerBall, it had a flashy notice about it a couple of weeks before it actually started.

Comment #15

freeobama — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 19:30:48 GMT

The chances of winning will change drastically!I remember when it was just a 12 state game, here in virginia i had a better chance of winning then, now i just play for fun it is exciting

Comment #14

luisM — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 19:20:52 GMT

Well, I don't know who edited that Wikipedia article but it is not correct. I live here in Florida and the Florida Lottery has done no advertising that it will add Mega Millions on January 5, 2011 which is just next week. Hopefully Florida will add Mega Millions but the odds of winning will get worse, the more states that join the MUSL then they change the odds and with Florida being such a populous state and heavy lottery state it will change Mega Millions odds of winning drastically

Comment #13

freeobama — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 19:18:24 GMT

$107 million here after taxes WOW!!! Spend ,Spend,Spend.Party Party Party if i WIN

Comment #12

Todd — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 19:12:41 GMT

Oh. Maybe that's right, maybe it isn't. Whoever updates Wikipedia gets it right only sometimes. They post a lot of stuff with absolutely no proof or attribution, and remove the stuff that doesn't pan out.

I'm not a big fan of Wikipedia because of that. I would much rather read information that has a source. The Lottery Wikipedia topic is just some guy who decides to write about the lottery -- not a definitive source.

Comment #11

joshuacloak — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 19:04:53 GMT

the current cash jackpot record is

$233,000,000 cash , this is what it was 1 draw before that , $164,000,000 cash

see how fast it can fly up in 1 draw at these levels LOL

our current 150m would need 2 more rollovers to set the new world record for the cash jackpot,

when its this high, it does not rain, it pours

if it rolls, and the public see 300m plus Annuity all bets are off, gl guesting the amount ,

, hell, news outlets already starting story's on it

Comment #10

RJOh — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 18:45:03 GMT

Read it actually. Wikipedia had an article about PowerBall in which there was a chart showing PowerBall was in Florida in 2009 and MegaMillion is scheduled to start January 5,2011.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powerball

Comment #9

KSplayer — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 18:40:06 GMT

maybe someone in kansas will finally win the jackpot, i will be buying my ticket and hopeing for a small town girl (me) to win the jackpot.

DREAMS DO COME TRUE

Comment #8

ressuccess — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 17:40:58 GMT

I hope somebody wins the Mega Millions Jackpot in this upcoming draw.

Comment #7

Todd — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 16:37:07 GMT

Where did you hear that

Comment #6

RJOh — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 15:54:59 GMT

Hang on, I hear you will be able to play next week in Florida.

Comment #5

Abdi — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 15:42:18 GMT

It seems that one regular lottery player will walk away with $ 237 Millions! But this attract one question:

What is the highest amount of jackpot money won by a lottery player who play's the Mega Millions?

can anyone answer my question?

N/B if your not sure of the answer pls do not reply to this post.

Comment #4

dpoly1 — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 14:59:27 GMT

Oh ............ and ............... one ticket with one winner

Comment #3

B$Rizzle — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 14:43:41 GMT

Wish I culd play here in FL

Comment #2

sully16 — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 14:13:15 GMT

What a great way to bring in the New Year.

Comment #1

dpoly1 — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 13:57:27 GMT

So ....... now they picked the wrong numbers again ..................

........... and I have to figure out how to spend about $98,000,000 after taxes when I win!

It would really be a Happy New Year with a win on Friday

$237 MILLION: Mega Millions lottery jackpot raised again

Lottery Post — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 13:20:07 GMT

New Year's Eve drawing will be huge

By Todd Northrop

Will an incredibly lucky lottery player end 2010 with a life-changing windfall, or will the first jackpot of 2011 be more than a quarter billion dollars?

We'll find out Friday night, when the $237 million Mega Millions drawing takes place.

Friday's Mega Millions jackpot is the accumulation of 14 consecutive drawings without a top prize winner. The current jackpot run-up started on Nov. 12 as a $12 million grand prize.

The lump... [ More ]