Mega Millions Rolls On

Reply #16

Just6ntlc — Sun, 26 Jun 2005 09:01:15 GMT

California sales will help Mega Millions get bigger jackpots, but other states will see sales shift from time to time. The new matrix actually improves the odds of winning any prize from 1 in 43 to 1 in 40, but winning the jackpot will be 1 in 176 million instead of 1 in 136 million.

Reply #15

TonyB — Sun, 26 Jun 2005 04:31:41 GMT

Sales in other states may have been down slightly. Remember, with the matrix change everyone playing had to buy a new ticket for this drawing. A lot of people buy multidraw tickets and since no ticket could cover the Tuesday and Friday drawings, there were probably a larger than normal number of people forgetting to buy new tickets.

Reply #14

tony2222 — Sun, 26 Jun 2005 00:52:06 GMT

I expexted the jackpot to grow a lot more since there are 39 milion more people playing.

Reply #13

RJOh — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 17:05:57 GMT

FIXED prizes will be paid if the number of winners are reasonable, however if a group of players played the same numbers and win, the rules change. Such rare occurrences can happen when players get their numbers from a single source such as fortune cookies(PowerBall a few weeks ago), news papers, news events or lottery *software that predicts the same numbers for all of its users. *No such software exists as all known software packages give different sets of numbers to each of their users play... [ More ]

Reply #12

Todd — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 16:48:12 GMT

Anyone who wants to watch the video of the drawing last night can do so on USA Mega:http://www.usamega.com/mega-millions-drawing.asp?d=6/24/2005In fact, all drawing videos since Jan. 1, 2004 are available there by going to the past results page, then clicking the drawing date.Interesting that they did not use the same machines that are used in the studio during normal drawings. If I were to seriously compile statistics for Mega Millions drawings, I would filter out last night's drawing, for tha... [ More ]

Reply #11

CASH Only — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 16:22:04 GMT

rj:3+0 pays $7; 2+1 is $10.

Reply #10

ryanm — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 16:20:08 GMT

What? That's cheap. Fixed prizes should mean, well, FIXED

Reply #9

RJOh — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 16:10:05 GMT

I was surprised to see California paid $8 for a 3+0, Ohio paid $10: California paid $1 for 0+1, Ohio paid $2. Ohio does have a cap if there are more winners than expected at any prize level, so if there are 70+ second prize winners (5+0)as in PowerBall several weeks ago, they will not pay $250,000 to each winner(each State will pay according to their local sales). I'll be surprised if PowerBall doesn't have a similar rule when they change their matrix next month since that has happen twic... [ More ]

Reply #8

CASH Only — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 16:03:41 GMT

Only TX has the Megaplier.

Reply #7

ryanm — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 15:59:03 GMT

Yeah, that's probably because they had fewer second place winners than statistically expected.

Reply #6

twisted — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 14:41:17 GMT

There was one winner in CA who will get paid $290,411.source: http://www.calottery.com/Games/MegaMillions/WinningNumbers/default.htm?DrawNum=0001Over $40,000 more than the winner in NY and MA. If you check out the link above, you will see how pari-mutuel payouts compare to other states.

Reply #5

JimmySand9 — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 09:37:08 GMT

No. It's a pari-mutuel. That's why I said it could be more or less.

Reply #4

LOTTOMIKE — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 08:12:39 GMT

does california have a megaplier like texas

Reply #3

JimmySand9 — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 06:52:51 GMT

Yeah, only difference is the CA winner won't be getting $250,000. They'll get more or less (probably more).

Reply #2

TonyB — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 06:40:13 GMT

For those wondering.5/10/05 jackpot $34,000,000 rolled to $42,000,000 then rolled to $50,000,0006/21/05 jackpot $31,000,000 rolled to $42,000,000 then rolled to $52,000,000It looks like they probably overestimated tonight's jackpot.Still, it appears to be growing about 25% faster.

Reply #1

Tnplayer805 — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 06:30:07 GMT

There were 3 winners of $250,000. One of them was in CA.

Mega Millions Rolls On

JimmySand9 — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 06:17:29 GMT

Even with a very large amount of CA players wanting to try the new game, there was still no winner in the first 56/46 Mega Millions drawing. Tuesday's jackpot will be $52,000,000.