"Typical day" turns into $2 million Mega Millions win for Washington man

Comment #28

billybucks — Thu, 29 May 2025 16:27:17 GMT

So you propose that buying 5 lines every drawing to get higher multipliers is going to satiate those players who now are spending 50.00 a week to play minimum. Not fair to those that cannot afford that much of a price tag I believe. The lottery itself laughs at your proposal. Accept the fact that most of your multipliers are going to be 2x and live with it if you play this game.

Comment #27

Bleudog101 — Thu, 29 May 2025 14:52:54 GMT

When I first heard/played it with the RNG multiplier my first thought was.....this may lead to RNG for Mega Millions. Hope not.

Comment #26

Tucker Black — Thu, 29 May 2025 02:44:45 GMT

The probabilities of getting the various multipliers are not the same. 10X is the least likely, a 1 in 32 chance.

Comment #25

mypiemaster — Tue, 27 May 2025 23:47:12 GMT

Players who are willing to buy 1-4 tickets will still be on the current system. But those that purchase the typical 5 line tickets are the ones I'm talking about. I just purchased a 5 line ticket and got 4 2X and 1 3X YIKES!!!. I'll like to see someone purchase a 5 line ticket and get 4 10X and 1 5X. That's probably highly unlikely to happen but you never know.

Comment #24

billybucks — Tue, 27 May 2025 20:59:40 GMT

Players who can only afford one or two lines twice a week for what is now a prohibitive 10.00 or 20.00 or 520.00 or 1040.00 a year wouldn't like it.

Comment #23

mypiemaster — Tue, 27 May 2025 20:00:31 GMT

You are right, at least that's what my experience has been. The big question is: How difficult is it to program that system so that when you purchase the typical 5 lines of tickets, line 1=2X, line 2= 3X, line 3= 4x, line 4= 5X and line 5=10X respectively?. If they can do that, it will help minimize the genuine complaints that people have .

Comment #22

mypiemaster — Tue, 27 May 2025 19:43:48 GMT

Lottery wins should never be taxed. When you tax lottery wins, you adversely impact the level of generosity that the winner can deliver to family, friends , and the community.

Comment #21

jarasan — Tue, 27 May 2025 19:01:19 GMT

and don't forget they also take ~ $660,000 in taxes. So no, it isn't a $2M windfall it is a $1.34M windfall. Not bad, but maybe they could drop fed lottery win taxes like over time and tips..........better for the economy IMHO.

Comment #20

PrisonerSix — Sun, 25 May 2025 22:13:04 GMT

That is interesting. I've been playing it sporadically since it started. I've bought 8 tickets total and 5 were 2X and the last 3 I bought were 5X, 3X, and 4X. I was buying single tickets.

Haven't won anything yet, but hopeful.

Comment #19

Powerball765 — Sun, 25 May 2025 01:30:28 GMT

I noticed something with this New Mega Millions. If you buy ten tickets at same store or same time you get lots of 2X but if you buy Ten same tickets single at Ten different stores you get more multiplier with 10X Just a nice Tip for my fellow lottery post Players Good Luck

Comment #18

JohnGalt3 — Sat, 24 May 2025 20:21:01 GMT

jjtheprince14,

Megamillions ticket sales in units have dropped by 50% They have not skyrocketed. By the time the jackpot reached $150,000,000 under the old price, they used to sell 10,000,000 tickets by now. These days it is 5,000,000 units and has been stuck there since they raised the price from $2 to $5.

Comment #17

jjtheprince14 — Sat, 24 May 2025 16:32:32 GMT

Why have sales of MM skyrocketed since it went to $5 a ticket? Are people really that stupid?

Might as well just raise ticket prices to $100 a piece, people will pay up.

Comment #16

Bleudog101 — Sat, 24 May 2025 14:57:04 GMT

Todd and Kate....news scroll bottom of screen on Good Morning America this morning. NJ couple finds a $1 million Mega Millions in the 'junk drawer'. Was it you guys? How I wish.

Comment #15

JohnGalt3 — Sat, 24 May 2025 13:33:36 GMT

For the tenth straight draw in Megamillions players have only bought 5,000,000 tickets plus/minus. A lot of players have dropped out due to the $5.00 ticket price. At this rate it will be some time before we get a $billion jackpot and even then ticket sales will be restrained. However, that's the idea. They knew this would happen and like it that way.

By the way, remember a year or so ago when the man from France bought all the combinations in the Texas Lotto, spent $26 million and won... [ More ]

Comment #14

Bleudog101 — Sat, 24 May 2025 12:35:27 GMT

First thing this morning seeing MM went up a 'measly' $10 million for Tuesday's drawing. How long do we have to wait for bigger jackpots? At this snail's pace it will be some time!

Anyway congratulations to him and his family and no state tax

Comment #13

rcbbuckeye — Sat, 24 May 2025 12:02:38 GMT

Would you turn down $2 million

Comment #12

ShagE3 — Fri, 23 May 2025 23:47:09 GMT

P. U.! : Wut Stinx ?

I'll tell you what stinks!

2 x megaplier stinks!!

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

ShagE

Comment #11

sully16 — Fri, 23 May 2025 23:16:57 GMT

Congrats to the lucky man, enjoy your winfall.

Comment #10

JPLAY — Fri, 23 May 2025 23:10:27 GMT

Congratulations

Comment #9

THRIFTY — Fri, 23 May 2025 20:55:04 GMT

$5 Turned Into $2,000,000. I will play the lottery someday. Good Luck

Comment #8

JustMaybe — Fri, 23 May 2025 19:43:34 GMT

I feel that if I got a 10x my mind would want the ticket to match even just the mega ball.

But when one has a 2x, you don't feel the pressure at all.

Getting the 10x on your ticket already feels like winning

Comment #7

dickblow — Fri, 23 May 2025 18:15:03 GMT

I got a 10 x ticket a QP nothing dint win its all a bigripoff

Comment #6

JustMaybe — Fri, 23 May 2025 17:28:44 GMT

The few times I have played am yet to get a 10X.

Maybe one day, and then the pressure will be for it to match something lol.

Comment #5

Tucker Black — Fri, 23 May 2025 16:50:39 GMT

He scanned his ticket to see if he won anything? He couldn't bothered to check the actual numbers? It's not hard to see that you've matched 5 out of 5.

Comment #4

PrisonerSix — Fri, 23 May 2025 16:26:10 GMT

I have a 3X for tonight.

Comment #3

billybucks — Fri, 23 May 2025 15:10:26 GMT

Of course the lottery will say but if we didn't force him into a multiplier by making it mandatory since we raised the price of the ticket to 5.00 this guy would have only won 1,000,000.00

Comment #2

Powerball765 — Fri, 23 May 2025 15:06:18 GMT

l don't care if everyone wins 1X or 2X as long as only me wins 10X

Comment #1

mypiemaster — Fri, 23 May 2025 14:46:36 GMT

The dreaded 2X multiplier is what makes the new MM suck royally. Eliminate the 2X multiplier and while at it make the starting jackpot $100M and a lot of us will thank you. Congrats to the winner of $2M because half a loaf is better than none. Come to think of it, $2M is nothing to sneeze at.

"Typical day" turns into $2 million Mega Millions win for Washington man

Lottery Post — Fri, 23 May 2025 12:12:31 GMT

First Mega Millions second-tier prize winner in the state since the game changed

By Kate Northrop

The Washington Lottery awarded the state's first multi-million second-tier Mega Millions prize of the upgraded game to one lucky player, whose typical day turned out to be anything but.

A Washington man won a $2 million Mega Millions prize, becoming the first lottery player in the state to win the second-tier prize since the game's revamp.

On May 12, the Washington Lottery announced... [ More ]