Mega Millions sets world record with $1.6 billion lottery jackpot for Tuesday drawing

Comment #503

Coin Toss — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 18:57:37 GMT

@KY Floyd

\Without QPs the lotteries would lose 70% of their sales.....

don't ever apply for a lottery director job

Comment #502

Tucker Black — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 18:55:32 GMT

Probability is different than the arithmetic we normally use for a lot of other things, and not very intuitive. The number of combinations sold isn't linear, so selling twice as many tickets doesn't use twice as many combinations. With small sales there aren't a lot of repeats, so selling 30.26 million tickets (about 1/10th as many tickets as possible combinations) would use 9.82% of combinations. Doubling sales to 60.52 million would use 18.13%, so fairly close to twice as many combinations.... [ More ]

Comment #501

KY Floyd — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 16:04:08 GMT

It's a wonder that every jackpot doesn't roll up to a billion plus

Probability is different than the arithmetic we normally use for a lot of other things, and not very intuitive. The number of combinations sold isn't linear, so selling twice as many tickets doesn't use twice as many combinations. With small sales there aren't a lot of repeats, so selling 30.26 million tickets (about 1/10th as many tickets as possible combinations) would use 9.82% of combinations. Doubling sales to 60.52 mill... [ More ]

Comment #500

Power8411 — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 10:05:33 GMT

Going by this unofficial link from The Lotter, there is the only winner from South Carolina.

Comment #499

BuyLow — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 08:31:40 GMT

Comment #498

TheMeatman2005 — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 07:27:32 GMT

Dee Mullins - Love Makes The World Go Round, But Money Greases The Wheels

Comment #497

Coin Toss — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 05:34:05 GMT

Interesting read; Can Money Buy Happiness for Lottery Winners?

https://www.thedailybeast.com/mega-millions-jackpot-begs-question-can-money-buy-happiness-for-lottery-winners?ref=scroll

Comment #496

Kyle7824 — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 05:21:34 GMT

Well, we still have powerball

Comment #495

JWBlue — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 04:58:41 GMT

I was going to say it might roll. There was not a winner in California.

Comment #494

keepitreal — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 04:57:30 GMT

It look like someone hit jackpot. I hope there more 1 million dollar winner this time.

Comment #493

benjibanks — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 04:42:57 GMT

Congratulations to the winner(s

Comment #492

wander73 — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 04:35:23 GMT

I just read on all the search engines so we will see for sure. This is almost like watching the fixed presidential races.

Comment #491

joshuacloak — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 04:27:38 GMT

We won't know if there any other winners to later. For now, SC lottery knows they got one.

Comment #490

weshar75 — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 04:27:18 GMT

Looks like south carolina will be the new home to the single winner record unless their is another winner.-weshar75

Comment #489

Kyle7824 — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 04:25:31 GMT

still nothing in mega millions search...

Comment #488

MsBee18 — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 04:24:06 GMT

That looks right to me. One winner in SC.

Comment #487

CDanaT — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 04:20:06 GMT

http://www.sceducationlottery.com/games2/3winningnumbers_megamillions.asp

Comment #486

Revolution777 — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 04:18:39 GMT

LOOKS LIKE A WINNER IN SOUTH CAROLINA!

CONGRATS

Comment #485

Kyle7824 — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 04:16:20 GMT

got to be a error, there is nothing on mega millions search...

Comment #484

wander73 — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 04:15:34 GMT

Yes it's strange. I honestly will say something is fixed with all this. At least whoever has those tickets be happy their getting what $400k each after taxes.

Comment #483

toxicsteve13 — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 04:14:48 GMT

South Carolina is reporting a winner on their website! Not sure if it is in SC though.

Comment #482

Kyle7824 — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 04:13:50 GMT

yea, 9 5 of 5 tickets from the same state in back-to-back draws... :( *STRANGE

Comment #481

NY216 — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 04:11:53 GMT

California saying they have 8 winners for 5 out of 5.

Comment #480

wander73 — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 04:10:04 GMT

I went on all the search engines and I seen from previous comments. So they drew the 65 and 70 again and used a 5 twice. They don't want anyone hitting this. Crazy.

Comment #479

toxicsteve13 — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 04:07:49 GMT

Colorado still crunching numbers but someone won the Cash 5 tonight for 20k. South East Denver suburb of Parker.

Comment #478

MsBee18 — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 04:07:26 GMT

Well California only had one 5 of 5 winner that draw.

Comment #477

Power8411 — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 04:06:28 GMT

How long did it take last week

Comment #476

Kyle7824 — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 04:04:58 GMT

yea, didn't CA have a few 5 of 5's then also

Comment #475

MsBee18 — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 04:03:33 GMT

This is deja vu or ground hog day of last Friday.

Comment #474

Kingofearth — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 03:59:19 GMT

Probably went to each state's website until they saw Delaware.

Comment #473

Kyle7824 — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 03:55:09 GMT

Just as I thought, 1st two 246 miles apart, 2nd two 160 something miles apart, didn't bother searching the others, something real fishy going on in CA... this happens nearly every draw...

Comment #472

toxicsteve13 — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 03:54:45 GMT

Getting some random people saying that a single winning ticket in Cleveland, Tennessee won it. But I don't see it on any of their outlets

Comment #471

toxicsteve13 — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 03:53:07 GMT

Same as an Australian news outlet. I can't find a reliable source anywhere though.

Comment #470

scarchelli — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 03:52:04 GMT

An Hispanic news outlet is reporting it rolled. No idea how they would know...

Comment #469

toxicsteve13 — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 03:50:31 GMT

San Luis Obispo, Stockton, Rancho Cucamonga, San Diego, Chatsworth, Arcadia, Norwalk and San Francisco

Comment #468

Kyle7824 — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 03:46:39 GMT

yea, I bet all the counties are within 200-300miles of each other...

Comment #467

toxicsteve13 — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 03:45:01 GMT

8 tickets hit the first five but no MB in California.

They seem to be the only one's checking tonight. Have lots of state's twitters and websites up. Delaware is still showing it as rolling.

Comment #466

Revolution777 — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 03:36:59 GMT

Great name ToxicSteve! Someone needs to go through every state lottery website that offers MM and look for announcements of NO WINNER IN OUR STATE ! Then we could get results before 3am

Comment #465

CDanaT — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 03:36:42 GMT

Tennessee Lottery won't know until at least Thursday

Comment #464

toxicsteve13 — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 03:32:04 GMT

California Lottery says no winners from their state

Comment #463

Kyle7824 — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 03:31:49 GMT

Great time to swoop in on Powerball haha

Comment #462

Revolution777 — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 03:30:12 GMT

I give it a 50/50 chance to roll to $2B

Comment #461

Power8411 — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 03:29:59 GMT

Of course...in fact a hell of a lot. Except maybe not for a lucky few. We will see. $2 billion if it does...WOW

Comment #460

Kyle7824 — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 03:26:35 GMT

No, them double repeats are going to hurt some hopeful tickets...

Comment #459

Power8411 — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 03:22:53 GMT

Auto-pick might just do that. And there are those who do pick the PB number the same as the 1st drawn for the reasons already outlined. I've got a feeling between 1 to 4 winners based on this.

Comment #458

CDanaT — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 03:21:58 GMT

well...... 4-28-31-33-70 MB 17 doesn't do me much good ....Good luck to the rest of our fellow posters

Comment #457

toxicsteve13 — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 03:21:15 GMT

Delaware lottery has it rolling....

Comment #456

Kyle7824 — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 03:15:44 GMT

No one got that...

5/5 left and right side

Comment #455

Kingofearth — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 03:13:27 GMT

It has both a 5 White and 5 Megaball, 3 numbers over 60 and the 70 which is rarely picked, especially given it came out in 2 of the previous 3 draws. I'll be extremely shocked if it doesn't roll.

Comment #454

Six balls — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 03:13:07 GMT

I think that if someone wins, it'll definitely be a QP because no one filling out a card is going to go Yes, the Mega and the lowest will be the same number, then something in the 20s, and the final three will be in the last 10 numbers possible. This is a good choice.

Comment #453

Power8411 — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 03:10:57 GMT

Good point...or a big chance of having only 1 or maybe 2 winners.

Comment #452

Kingofearth — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 03:09:31 GMT

Comment #451

Power8411 — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 03:08:55 GMT

OMG!!....I absolutely don't believe it!! I got no numbers!! LOL

Comment #450

Revolution777 — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 03:08:40 GMT

Two 5's ...interesting. I think it has a decent chance to roll

Comment #449

MsBee18 — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 03:08:27 GMT

$2B here we come

Comment #448

CDanaT — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 03:07:24 GMT

Your #2 is the other option that i mentioned but didn't comment on. Thanks for putting that out there for fellow posters to look at. I had to have my source explain that paticular aspect to me 2-3 times before I finally understood. For purpose of easy understanding and recommendation from my source, I used the 4 qtrs of equal payments. Then again, that is why hiring professionals is the best practice.

Comment #447

Six balls — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 03:05:35 GMT

Per ABC: 05 - 28 - 62 - 65 - 70 MB 05

Comment #446

toxicsteve13 — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 03:05:11 GMT

28 70 5 62 65 MB5

Comment #445

Power8411 — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 02:58:50 GMT

It's why I'm already on the MM site...might be hard to get in due to traffic after the draw.

Comment #444

MsBee18 — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 02:58:34 GMT

I bought 4 tickets. Draw in less than two minutes.

Comment #443

dognabit — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 02:53:08 GMT

6-7, but I also get the multiplier.

Comment #442

Revolution777 — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 02:51:50 GMT

How many tickets did everybody buy? I got 13

Comment #441

lowellm — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 02:43:12 GMT

How close? For MM selling 1 billion tickets selected randomly would use 96.33% of combinations. It takes 1,394 billion random tickets to use 99%. If we still had the usual 70 to 80% QP and 20 to 30% self picks we'd probably see 1 or 2% of combinations freed up. All the people playing birthday numbers, etc could mean that it takes 3 billion or more to really use at least 99% of combinations if that QP/SP ratio held. If sales ever got much past a billion tickets I imagine QP's would account for 90... [ More ]

Comment #440

Revolution777 — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 02:37:13 GMT

I vote for KYFloyd to be the Lottery Post member of the year! What do you do for a living

Comment #439

KY Floyd — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 02:33:58 GMT

you have a duty to pay quarterly estimated taxes.

Three things. 1. You normally pay estimated taxes based on what you owed the previous year. Based on that you wouldn't need to make big payments because of your higher income. Of course having your income go up my several hundred million isn't something most of us deal with, and I'm not sure how that might change the requirements. 2. If you needed to make payments they would only be on the balance of estimated taxes. The 24% that was withheld... [ More ]

Comment #438

Horsegeek40 — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 02:15:18 GMT

This jackpot is going to break the internet in 43 minutes.

Comment #437

lowellm — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 02:09:57 GMT

I can tell ya'll one thing for certain: In an hour LP will be out of commission just when you need it! lol.

Comment #436

lowellm — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 01:57:06 GMT

Wowzers! My jaw officially hit the floor

Comment #435

LottoMetro — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 01:54:08 GMT

Assuming random selection it would require approximately 1.4 billion tickets to be sold for there to be 99% coverage, 2 billion tickets to reach 99.9%.

Comment #434

lowellm — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 01:36:14 GMT

This is definitely fuzzy math but maybe an $800M bump would bring us close

Comment #433

lowellm — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 01:34:36 GMT

Yep.

lottery officials estimate 75 percent of all number combinations will be purchased, Maryland Lottery and Gaming spokeswoman Carole Gentry told The Washington Post.

I'd hate to think of how many tickets would need to be sold before they were close to running out of possible combinations.

Comment #432

Teddi — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 01:25:35 GMT

From the number of tickets that would have to be sold to run out of combinations, there would have been a bump already. It's an hour until cut off time and the JP still hasn't budged.

Comment #431

lowellm — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 00:59:46 GMT

Well. Every little bit helps

Comment #430

lowellm — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 00:56:53 GMT

Let's roll

Comment #429

benjibanks — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 00:56:36 GMT

Just noticed the cash value is now at 913, up from 904.

Comment #428

Horsegeek40 — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 00:55:40 GMT

Hope everyone is strapped in for this roller coaster ride in under 2 hours.

Comment #427

lowellm — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 00:46:09 GMT

Heck, I might just send my new jet to pick ya'll up

Comment #426

lowellm — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 00:44:54 GMT

Bwahaha! You guys are too much, lol! Just put it all on my brand new American Express Centurion card! No worries

Comment #425

CDanaT — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 00:41:19 GMT

Free rooms, meals and all the alcohol you can drink is usually a good start

Comment #424

CDanaT — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 00:40:04 GMT

That was the SWAT helicopter comin' in hot

Comment #423

BuyLow — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 00:31:08 GMT

Don't worry your precious mind about such details. Your personal concierge will arrange this. I prefer business or First class travel. Thanks in advance

Comment #422

Kyle7824 — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 00:22:09 GMT

Saw a green meteor about 1 1/2hr after I picked my numbers...

Comment #421

lowellm — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 00:11:11 GMT

I thought it would be cool to host a Lottery Post member meet up, if I won (I'm a new poster, but I've been lurking around LP for years, lol)... It would be cool to meet some of the other posters. I don't know how to arrange the logistics of such a meet up, though.

Comment #420

MsBee18 — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 00:09:46 GMT

I know right LOL. I've heard too many stories where the wrong game wins a jackpot.

Comment #419

Revolution777 — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 00:03:52 GMT

It's a sign MsBee! Sometimes the quirky stuff produces the big winner!

I'm so disappointed in tonight's lame $1.6B jackpot I am going to burn my tickets now! LOL

Comment #418

MsBee18 — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 00:00:01 GMT

I drove 15 miles to a liquor store tonight. I told the clerk two mega one powerball . She hands me three PB. I go back in the store to have her print my two mega's. She apologized. I don't think she was a rookie or nothing, but I kept all of them.

Comment #417

brees2012 — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 23:57:02 GMT

I wonder what store they were at ..........

There's no way I could stand in a line that long , pass

Comment #416

BuyLow — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 23:56:24 GMT

Same. Same. Totally disappointed.

Comment #415

JBounds — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 23:53:04 GMT

From what I've seen they are saying they are running out of combinations. But who knows

Comment #414

Kyle7824 — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 23:46:57 GMT

just saw it said 193,000+ users, nevermind lol

Comment #413

Teddi — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 23:40:56 GMT

I know it's absolutely illogical for me to be disappointed in a 1.6 billion dollar jackpot, and yet, I am. Either they over exaggerated the anticipated sales, or ticket sales fell way off. I would have expected it to be impossible not to see a bump at this stage. Did people run out of discretionary funds in the earlier rounds? Are more people understanding the odds? We've seen numerous bumps for jackpots that were much smaller. Something seems off. As is the apparent level of excitement this go... [ More ]

Comment #412

Revolution777 — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 23:27:19 GMT

MM Jackpot is going to end up about $1.62B or so. No need to raise it.

Comment #411

Bleudog101 — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 23:14:04 GMT

Read that the Mega millions consortium which I understand is made up from folks around the country, not just Georgia. That group decided not to up the estimated jackpot but increased the cash option 'just a little'.

Comment #410

Kyle7824 — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 23:07:22 GMT

How many LP users are there?

trying to figure up my member donation fund if my ticket hits...

picked my own, If only the 2nd prize I ll be keeping that though lol

Comment #409

Suzy-Dittlenose — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 22:51:51 GMT

I was thinking the same thing. I'm a little stunned to see that it hasn't increased by now. What gives

Comment #408

Original Bey — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 22:14:12 GMT

Comment #407

Soledad — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 22:08:25 GMT

Good point. Forgot about that. Guess I got caught up thinking about no winners yet all this time. How this jackpot got so big is beyond me. With all the tickets sold.

Hey anybody got 300 million they can lend me

Comment #406

Stack47 — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 21:45:20 GMT

Early Sunday morning the Delaware Lottery posted the MM jackpot at $1.6 million and one of our members posted that on LP. They were told somebody in Delaware jumped the gun because something like that happened with PB. But nobody called fake news .

A better term fake news might be sensationalist, exaggerating or inaccurate.

Comment #405

Revolution777 — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 21:27:10 GMT

The MM jackpot is at $1.617 with a CV of $913M. Should go to 1.625B when all tickets are bought! $625M increase from Friday

Comment #404

paymentplan-man — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 20:43:21 GMT

LOL the things you learn. Yeah I had no idea about that thanks mate and good luck on tonight's draw.