First big win of new Mega Millions game is one ticket in Ohio worth $112 million

Comment #49

KY Floyd — Thu, 01 May 2025 21:09:52 GMT

I see all these fancy mathematics. Theories, ect. Anyone of you guys ever won using these methods?

For me it's simply about when to buy tickets. I think it's amazingly stupid to buy a chance for a $20 million advertised jackpot when there's a 90% chance that in two weeks you can buy the exact same chance for a $60 million advertised jackpot.

With only 156 chances to play a year you cannot afford to miss any drawings if your intended goal is to hit the thing.

The number of chances y... [ More ]

Comment #48

Justing618 — Thu, 01 May 2025 18:46:27 GMT

Yikes..... did you see last night's numbers 1...2...3 57 59 9 then nine on both games as the bonus ball. But your correct. I know one thing . I ain't got time for 5 dollars a line.

Comment #47

JSeattle — Thu, 01 May 2025 16:47:49 GMT

Anyone notice the Powerball is rising faster each draw from the $20m start than the Megamillions is moving from $70-$80m on the last roll over.

We might see the Powerball pass Megamillions from behind for the first time ever, even with Megamillions large lead to start. I think this comes down to dropping sales for Mega due to the $5 cost.

Comment #46

Prob988 — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 20:05:11 GMT

The idea of using fancy mathematics to win the lottery is absurd. As noted, I play the lottery because its a fun way to pay taxes, as I agree with Oliver Wendell Holmes that paying taxes is the price one pays for living in a civilized country. I consider it a tax.

One can have a fantasy about winning, but it's just that, a fantasy.

Anyone expecting to win the lottery using mathematics, fancy or otherwise, probably doesn't know mathematics.

This said, one can learn about mathematics,... [ More ]

Comment #45

Justing618 — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 18:28:10 GMT

That's good. I never have known of someone hitting a mm or pb starting jackpot.

Comment #44

Todd — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 17:25:32 GMT

Of course, it's happened several times in the past.

Comment #43

hearsetrax — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 16:58:55 GMT

thars been a few albeit uncommon instances of folks hitting the starting jackpot

Todd should have the answers

Comment #42

Justing618 — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 16:41:33 GMT

Your 100% correct. I'm sure they don't want anyone hitting period. But that brings up another question. Has anyone ever hit a starting jackpot? I know the odds are astromical. But I don't think I have ever heard of anyone hitting a starting jackpot. I could be wrong though.

Comment #41

billybucks — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 16:34:13 GMT

Actually, they do not want anyone hitting the jackpot now until it gets to the level they need it to get to in order to get the lost sales revenue back. They have gotten themselves into a Catch 22 situation. No one wants to play it because no one is playing it.

Comment #40

Justing618 — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 16:25:52 GMT

I see all kinds of stuff on here. Charts. Advanced mathematics. Ect ect ect. But have not heard of anyone winning this way. Only people I ever heard of winning was that Richard Lusting. Then I saw some old guy that was winning because it was an elimation game. I can't remember his name And of course the carrier services. And the ones that rigged the games and where caught. That Eddie Tippton b.s. would probably still be going on if he didn't get greedy.

Comment #39

Justing618 — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 16:18:10 GMT

I agree! Only reason I still play it is because I've been playing the same numbers every week for about 20 years. I buy 2 tickets a week. That's it. I will not buy anymore for 5 dollars a line. When the jackpot gets high. I'm still not buying extra .It's a pipe dream to begin with. Because of the odds. All they did was up the price. Remove one ball. And forced a multiplier. And the grouping of balls I frequently see is a huge red flag for me. But that's a whole nother story. I'm hoping someone o... [ More ]

Comment #38

billybucks — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 14:30:26 GMT

Mega Millions is dead in the water. They shot themselves in the foot with this increase. OK, Friday nights numbers were impossible but no one cares because no one is playing it anymore. It is only going up 10 million next Tuesday. watch it only go up 7 million. Players will see that and say I wasn't going to play it anymore anyway because of the 5.00 a line but now for sure I am not playing it with this slow jackpot crawl. There is wholesale panic at Mega Millions lottery headquarters. Heads wil... [ More ]

Comment #37

billybucks — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 21:37:34 GMT

No one has won big using those methods on here anyway.

Comment #36

Justing618 — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 18:35:29 GMT

You didn't answer the question.

Comment #35

billybucks — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 17:20:44 GMT

What this I am not going to play until the jackpot reaches a certain level does is reduce your chances of ever winning. You should pay no attention to the amount of the jackpot. There certainly is always enough in there to satiate anyone. With only 156 chances to play a year you cannot afford to miss any drawings if your intended goal is to hit the thing.

Comment #34

Justing618 — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 16:54:45 GMT

I see all these fancy mathematics. Theories, ect. Anyone of you guys ever won using these methods? I'm not being a smart azz either. I'm seriously curious

Comment #33

Prob988 — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 16:13:18 GMT

I have always seen the lottery as a fun way to pay taxes, which in my state goes to education, something I support. However, I only play by the value of the pretax expectation value, agreeing to lose money playing the lottery when even when it's ridiculously low, 0.2. Below 0.2 I don't play.

As the expectation value increases, the number of tickets I play increases, adding tickets as it hits 0.3, 0.4, etc.

There have been a few rare occasions, with huge jackpots where the expectation val... [ More ]

Comment #32

Justing618 — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 23:31:00 GMT

10 million dollar jackpot increase. Yikes! Doesn't look good.........

Comment #31

NJPiney — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 22:46:47 GMT

They need to DECREASE to $1 tickets again! That will help sales more than a $5 ticket

Comment #30

JSeattle — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 16:29:30 GMT

Sales don't look good.

The cash value from the $50m start point last draw increased only $4m dollars to the rolled over $60m advertised pot.

This after the ticket price went up 150

Comment #29

billybucks — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 21:13:34 GMT

To get the billion dollar jackpots they are going to have to go to 75 numbers in the main matrix. Plus add another in the Mega ball to make it 25 again. That'll get it up there.

Comment #28

winterhug — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 20:13:38 GMT

There is no reason for the Powerball to merge with Mega Millions. Powerball is doing just fine with draws three days a week still at $2 each. Mega Millions is the one to make the mistake by raising the price to $5 each with two draws a week

Comment #27

PrisonerSix — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 17:30:45 GMT

I do play my state lotto but it doesn't often get that high. I decided to get a ticket for Friday picking 5 numbers myself and letting the terminal pick the MegaBall. I ended up with a 2X multiplier.

Maybe this will be my lucky day.

Comment #26

PrisonerSix — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 16:21:33 GMT

If the game doesn't make money, they might have to change it again.

Comment #25

winterhug — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 13:11:17 GMT

Thrifty you don't know what you are talking about. Powerball has winners of smaller prizes EVERY SINGLE DRAWING. For the Powerball drawing for April 21, 2025, there were a total of 303,566 winners of smaller prizes from $4 to $150K, For the Powerball drawing for April 19, 2025 there were a total of 490,843 winners of smaller prizes from $4 to 1M. What sense would it make to play the lottery if no one ever won any prizes. People like you are the ones spreading the lottery is rigged nonsense All o... [ More ]

Comment #24

billybucks — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 12:45:13 GMT

If you want a 2nd tier prize like 2 million why not play a state lotto instead with half the matrix of numbers. Most of those are only 1.00 a line.

Comment #23

JohnGalt3 — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 12:27:31 GMT

Last night. 4/22/25 only 4.5 million tickets sold in Megamillions. Pathetic.

That is 50% of what they were a few months ago at this level.

You could have predicted that. The jackpot only goes up by $10 million for this Friday's drawing. It will be a slow climb now to $1 to $2 billion assuming the 6 numbers drawn are not below 32 as they were for Tuesday's drawing. That happens only twice a year on average, so the birthday folks selecting their own numbers win.

Comment #22

ShagE3 — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 02:21:11 GMT

And when PB is minus 200 mil and MM is minus 400 mil I can always play Lucky 4 Life and or some other in-state game.

Comment #21

Todd — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 02:08:12 GMT

Comment #20

ShagE3 — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 01:55:11 GMT

Todd I'll play PB when it reaches minimum 200 mil and I'll hold my nose and play MM when it reaches minimum 400 mil. And if I were half sane I'd add that those figures are for the cash amt.

P.S. I like choice and competition too btw.

Comment #19

PrisonerSix — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 01:21:10 GMT

$2million sounds good to me too. Didn't get one for tonight but still considering Friday.

Comment #18

JustMaybe — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 21:34:19 GMT

I got my one QP with a 2x on it for tonight's draw.

I will take 2,000,000 any day

Comment #17

reddog — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 20:55:52 GMT

I was at the store today and the same ones who come in there and spends lots on the 20, and 30, and 50 bucks scratchoffs said that they aren't going to buy MegaMillion now that it has gone up to $5 a ticket. Go figure. lolol

Comment #16

PrisonerSix — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 16:17:39 GMT

I won $12 on Powerball yesterday and $5 on Easy5 the day before. Debating if I should just keep it or buy a MegaMillions for tonight or Friday.

I guess I'll think it over.

Comment #15

MsBee18 — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 15:13:16 GMT

Technically it's not the first full run under the new game rules. Because the the jackpot rose from 20m at a price of $2 a ticket. Only four draws at $5 a ticket.

Comment #14

Justing618 — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 13:49:39 GMT

I wonder what tonight's sales are gonna be. I'm think down. We shall see though..............

Comment #13

Todd — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 13:40:38 GMT

There is no way in the world they would merge the games.

To me, it's great for more choice that the games are quite different now. I like variety and more options. If you don't like the higher price, why not just play something different

Comment #12

ShagE3 — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 04:51:38 GMT

P.U.: What Stinx????

I'll tell you what Stinx .

Mega Millions $5- ticket Stinx ! !!

Mark my words ..... this time next year ... PB + MM merger talks due to the 5 dollar fiasco .

Now back to my liverwurst sandwich with ......

The Shag

Comment #11

Petrust99 — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 03:01:59 GMT

112 M advertised but finally it just 30 M ,you get what you don't see lol ...

Comment #10

billybucks — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 21:42:03 GMT

It wasn't that big for most who will not play a 5.00 line unless it is 8 to 10 times higher than 112 million. Ridiculous notion to say it was fixed. They want it to go up to the stratosphere but it is not going to climb as fast as they want it to.

Comment #9

dickblow — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 20:48:44 GMT

all fixed only one player again when jackpot gets big

Comment #8

play4shekels — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 19:28:00 GMT

Man, the big kahunas at MM are in panic mode! I wouldn't wanna work in the media department there. Revenue is down and prize money is up, but they won't tell you that when it's easier to try and get us all excited by telling us about less people winning more money with the multiplier.

Based on the number of winners and the overall odds they took in an estimated $26.4M in sales and paid $5.2M in prizes to roughly 230,000 winners for the Friday, 4/19/25 draw, with the jackpot standing at $112... [ More ]

Comment #7

noise-gate — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 19:22:46 GMT

* l won nothing, no surprise there.

Comment #6

Powerball765 — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 18:06:47 GMT

I won $25 got the mega Ball 01 with 5X

Comment #5

JustMaybe — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 17:31:02 GMT

Mmh, I did not win anything and do not consider my not winning a loss

The money spent is from my entertainment bucket so my entertainment did not end up so well

I am yet to win anything since the game changed, I have played one ticket every draw so that's $20.

Onward we go

Comment #4

THRIFTY — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 17:30:31 GMT

This jackpot win proves that Mega Millions new game matrix is a major success with lottery players unlike Powerball. Players rarely win smaller prizes in Powerball. Mega Millions new game has better prizes, thereof rewarding non jackpot winners with nice wins.

Comment #3

PrisonerSix — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 17:29:14 GMT

I'm willing to try if it hits $250million cash lump sum.

Comment #2

Rabbit Pheet — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 17:10:20 GMT

I might buy a tix if of reached 2 billion, and only 1 at that

Comment #1

Wavepack — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 16:55:54 GMT

An upside to the high ticket cost boycott is that I didn't lose any money in the latest MM run-up.

$5 a loss per line adds up quick on a super low-odds lotto like MM.

Hope you had a hoppy Easter and didn't lose any money to MM.

First big win of new Mega Millions game is one ticket in Ohio worth $112 million

Lottery Post — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 16:22:25 GMT

One jackpot winner four drawings into the new game

By Kate Northrop

Friday's Mega Millions drawing resulted in the first jackpot win since the updated version of the game went live earlier this month, with one ticket in Ohio scooping a jackpot worth $112 million.

The $112 million Mega Millions jackpot was won by a single ticket in Ohio on Friday, making the ticket holder the first official winner of the enhanced game since ticket prices increased to $5.

It took four drawings for... [ More ]