$230 MILLION: Mega Millions jackpot rolls

Comment #56

THRIFTY — Sun, 01 Dec 2013 16:59:11 GMT

The lottery pick you as the jackpot winner. Do not forget to play the lottery someday.

Comment #55

THRIFTY — Sun, 01 Dec 2013 16:53:06 GMT

Buying more lottery tickets increases your chances of winning. Many lottery players do not realize it, because they are spending very little money per drawing. They buy 1 lottery ticket per drawing.

Comment #54

THRIFTY — Sun, 01 Dec 2013 16:49:17 GMT

Lottery players spent more money on the Mega Millions. You should do the same.

Comment #53

THRIFTY — Sun, 01 Dec 2013 16:47:27 GMT

You are spending more than $2? You are the lottery whale of LOTTERY POST.

Comment #52

THRIFTY — Sun, 01 Dec 2013 16:44:30 GMT

Lottery players are spending more money on the lottery in New York.

Comment #51

THRIFTY — Sun, 01 Dec 2013 16:42:53 GMT

Are you hitting the MM jackpot by spending $1? Good Luck.

Comment #50

THRIFTY — Sun, 01 Dec 2013 16:41:16 GMT

Spending more money increases your chances of winning.

Comment #49

THRIFTY — Sun, 01 Dec 2013 16:38:43 GMT

You have to play to win the lottery. You lose zero dollars by not playing. The choice is yours.

Comment #48

THRIFTY — Sun, 01 Dec 2013 16:36:51 GMT

You will never win a lottery jackpot. Do you believe me

Comment #47

THRIFTY — Sun, 01 Dec 2013 16:35:03 GMT

I agree. Spending $100 on the Megaplier makes sense. How much do you spend $2 or $10

Comment #46

THRIFTY — Sun, 01 Dec 2013 16:32:32 GMT

Your chances of winning the jackpot are very low with $2. Spend $100 to increase your chances of winning. I will spend $1.

Comment #45

THRIFTY — Sun, 01 Dec 2013 16:30:17 GMT

You will be the solo jackpot winner someday. Buying more lottery tickets increases your chances.

Comment #44

THRIFTY — Sun, 01 Dec 2013 16:25:43 GMT

99% of lottery players will never win a lottery jackpot in their lifetime. Good luck.

Comment #43

THRIFTY — Sun, 01 Dec 2013 16:22:30 GMT

Buying multiple lottery tickets confuse some lottery players. I wonder why? Maybe because it takes 1 lottery ticket to win

Comment #42

THRIFTY — Sun, 01 Dec 2013 16:18:18 GMT

Run the $5 play slip twice through the lottery machine, and you have spent $10 to qualify for the $2 free ticket.

Comment #41

THRIFTY — Sun, 01 Dec 2013 16:14:10 GMT

Turning $10 into $5 Millions is a great return on investment. Is the lottery considered an investment?LOL

Comment #40

THRIFTY — Sun, 01 Dec 2013 16:10:24 GMT

The lottery is numbers game. Buying more tickets per drawing increases your chances of winning the jackpot. I only spend $1 most of the time though. LOL

Comment #39

THRIFTY — Sun, 01 Dec 2013 16:07:29 GMT

Buying more lottery tickets increases your chances of winning. You should try it.

Comment #38

THRIFTY — Sun, 01 Dec 2013 16:05:14 GMT

Playing for $1 Billion is nice, but it does not mean that the lottery will pick you as the winner.

Comment #37

KY Floyd — Sun, 01 Dec 2013 07:55:52 GMT

Of course it changes the numbers. If you turn left instead at an intersection you should easily be able to come up with 5 to 50 things that will be different than if you had turned right. Do you think everything else in the world will be exactly the same, just because you don't know exactly what causes them to change?

I don't understand why people would think that if they had done things differently one particular event still has to happen exactly the same way. As long as you know that some e... [ More ]

Comment #36

veganlife125 — Sat, 30 Nov 2013 03:22:11 GMT

Good luck to you as well helpmewin!

The media now have a barrier of about 275 MILLION before they start running with it. If it makes it that far it will fly high

Comment #35

helpmewin — Sat, 30 Nov 2013 02:11:41 GMT

Would be a great Christmas gift, Good Luck everyone

Comment #34

mypiemaster — Sat, 30 Nov 2013 00:36:32 GMT

Your assumption about all the 5+0 winners, are actually baseless, and therefore has no merit. I simply stated the fact that, the cost of any single line of MM ticket with megaplier, bar none is an extra $1.00{promotions not included}. You can buy a hundred MM tickets with megaplier for $200.00, and if you are so fortunate as to have one line match 5+0, based on the X5 multiplier drawn, you win $5,000,000.00, that same ticket without the $1.00 megaplier, gets you only $1,000,000.00. That $1.00 yo... [ More ]

Comment #33

LottoMetro — Fri, 29 Nov 2013 22:12:21 GMT

Quick calculation by adding up the probability of a Megaplier prize higher than $2 million, since expected value for $2 million under MP is the same as the expected value of $1 million when buying 2 regular tickets. Odds: $3 million for 1 in 3.75, $4 million for 1 in 5, and $5 million for 1 in 2.5.

0.266667.... + 0.20000 + 0.40000 = 0.8666667 or ~87%

So 13% of the time the 2nd tier Megaplier prize will only be equivalent to buying 2 regular tickets instead.

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Comment #32

RJOh — Fri, 29 Nov 2013 22:06:22 GMT

How did you come up with that 87%. Lottoreport publishes the regular ticket sales with those of the multipliers for both PB and MM and just looking at them I would think it would be a lot less.

Comment #31

dallascowboyfan — Fri, 29 Nov 2013 20:56:04 GMT

Same here....

Comment #30

LottoMetro — Fri, 29 Nov 2013 20:11:28 GMT

Agree......

However, roughly 87% of the time the 2nd prize tier value will be more valuable using Megaplier versus more tickets.

Even still, terrible odds for $5 million either way IMO.

Comment #29

RedStang — Fri, 29 Nov 2013 18:29:40 GMT

Usually add the buck, but sometimes i wonder if adding the Megaplier would change the numbers. Just one of my weird lotto superstitions.

Comment #28

RJOh — Fri, 29 Nov 2013 17:24:36 GMT

It's being Black Friday, I think I'll pickup five of the cheap MM tickets for tonight's drawing.

Comment #27

RJOh — Fri, 29 Nov 2013 17:17:10 GMT

You assume all the 5+0 winners brought only one ticket and they could have won four times as much by spending an extra dollar but if they instead bought more tickets and one of the extra ones won then they are happy they decided to buy more tickets instead paying double for half as many. There's a HUGE DIFFERENCE between winning nothing and $1,000,000.00

Comment #26

mypiemaster — Fri, 29 Nov 2013 15:02:36 GMT

They are double-cringing. First they missed the jackpot, and they did not spend a buck for the megaplier. $4M is a great consolation prize for for missing the jackpot had they spent the extra dollar. They may never ever pick a 5+0 again in their lives. $1.00 = $4,000,000.00, HUGE DIFFERENCE. Where can you ever find a deal like that?.

Comment #25

sully16 — Fri, 29 Nov 2013 13:32:29 GMT

I'm ready, let my numbers fall.

Comment #24

Piaceri — Fri, 29 Nov 2013 12:56:47 GMT

I have a 5 ticket slip (4 QP + 1 Picked) with megaplier for $10 I've been playing, and have gotten the promo ticket. Have yet to play the numbers for tonight with the holiday and stuff. Will have to do so before tonight

Comment #23

dpoly1 — Fri, 29 Nov 2013 03:23:52 GMT

Yesseriebob they are

Comment #22

mypiemaster — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 23:31:05 GMT

Smart players always add the megaplier. Big difference between $1M and $5M. $4M is nothing to sneeze at.

Comment #21

RJOh — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 20:29:54 GMT

MM sold twice as many tickets as PB and I think it will continue to do so.

You'll probably be saying something similar if someone wins the jackpot before Christmas too.

Comment #20

RedStang — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 15:01:14 GMT

More second place winners then PB. Never thought that would happen.

Comment #19

Anfang71 — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 10:26:17 GMT

Suppoe some of these 5+0 winners are really cringing....knowing they beat those odds an then there are just 15 Mega Balls but they just did not get it.

Another draw perhaps

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Comment #18

rdgrnr — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 07:10:48 GMT

No problem.

They're a dollar each.

Comment #17

weshar75 — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 04:27:04 GMT

I would be happy with the million prize and since I added megaplier to my ticket I would be really happy. I have noticed that new york has had a nice run of second prizes these last few draws. So hopefully I get my million before new york gets the jackpot.-weshar75

Comment #16

keepitreal — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 02:47:49 GMT

I have a feeling someone will hit the Mega Millions jackpot from Michigan. I just hate this. Some person hit the Mega Millions and there from Michigan. I'm not asking for alot but by my house. I wish they would fix the road. They said they will and it been 3 years or so. Still not fix. I was thinking about getting people to give money to fix it. Why not if someone hit Mega Millions and from Michigan. Why not give money to fix the road. If you live by me. It's 28 1/2 mile road. They have some gre... [ More ]

Comment #15

BBLL — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 02:10:49 GMT

I think the MM will roll to Christmas maybe.

Comment #14

RJOh — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 02:09:27 GMT

IF YOU WANT TO PLAY MEGAMILLIONS, PLEASE PLAY IT WITH MEGAPLIER!!!.

Sorry no can do, will not do.

Comment #13

hearsetrax — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 23:51:11 GMT

think I might wait a drawing and two more

Comment #12

mightwin — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 22:53:17 GMT

Maybe just maybe we might have a few more rolls, it is the holiday season. The jackpot did get up there a holiday season ago!.....lol

Comment #11

mypiemaster — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 22:38:07 GMT

IF YOU WANT TO PLAY MEGAMILLIONS, PLEASE PLAY IT WITH MEGAPLIER!!!. We all know that winning $1M 2nd prize is better than nothing. Keeping mega millions mind-numbing odds in mind, I cringe when people win the 2nd prize, but never bothered to add the megaplier. Take last night's drawing for instance, with a megaplier of X5, that's $1M instead of $5M or instead of . With the extra $4M, you can put a lot of turkeys on the table, for the homeless shelter, do a lot of good in the community, solve a l... [ More ]

Comment #10

dpoly1 — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 21:47:23 GMT

I spent $2 .......... that is enough

I am hoping for the 1st Mega Millions Jackpot winner for Pennsylvania

1 Ticket .......... 1 Winner

Comment #9

RJOh — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 21:24:48 GMT

Everyone who buys a ticket deserves a chance to win but I'm sure if two or three hundred players matched all six numbers for the same drawing none of them would be a very happy winner.

Comment #8

Slick Nick — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 21:07:59 GMT

We all deserve a chance to win...

Comment #7

helpmewin — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 20:33:06 GMT

$230 MILLION: Mega Millions jackpot rolls

Comment #6

rcbbuckeye — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 18:51:26 GMT

I was wondering that myself. I've been buying our pool tics. $12 worth, but I have picked the numbers lately, and I don't buy the megaplier. I haven't got the free tic, so I think to get the free tic I have to buy 5 tics w/ the megaplier to equal $10, to qualify for the freebie.

Comment #5

RJOh — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 17:16:49 GMT

I wonder if those 10 MM lines on one ticket are QPs because Ohio had a similar promotion on one of its games a few years ago but the play slips only had five boards. The only way you could buy 10 lines on one ticket was to ask for ten QPs.

Even though today you can play 10 lines on their Classic Lotto play slips there are only five boards on it and any addition lines have to be quick picks.

Comment #4

rcbbuckeye — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 16:17:52 GMT

Yeah I just cought that on Tx Lottery's website. You have to buy $10 MM on one tic and you get a free tic w/ megaplier. I haven't played that much myself, but it's pretty cool that it was a free tic.

Comment #3

LottoMetro — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 16:07:48 GMT

P.S. The winning $5 million ticket in Texas was a free quick pick. The lottery is running a promotion.

Although technically not free since it required an initial purchase, I'm sure it made the win that much sweeter.

Comment #2

Kee12 — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 15:19:49 GMT

For once, there are five second prize winners. Maybe a sign that a lot more players are into it now.

Comment #1

schmuckatelly — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 14:00:54 GMT

I may need to move my $1billion prediction to jan 7th or 10th instead of jan 10th or 14th. Jan 7th would be awesome because thats my oldest daughters birthday, and 1 month away from mine.

$230 MILLION: Mega Millions jackpot rolls

Lottery Post — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 13:43:58 GMT

By Todd Northrop

Lottery players across the United States are buying their Mega Millions tickets in preparation for Friday's massive $230 million drawing, after nobody won Tuesday's $205 million jackpot.

The cash value stands at a staggering $125.1 million.

Friday's Mega Millions jackpot is the accumulation of 16 consecutive drawings without a top prize winner. The current jackpot run-up started on October 4 as a $12 million grand prize.

Players should note that jackpot amounts are c... [ More ]