MM finally catched up to PB

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dvdiva — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 03:04:27 GMT

It caught up a long time ago to anyone paying attention to the actual money you get.

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Just6ntlc — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 17:07:36 GMT

It will be interesting to see what happens next. I hope that both jackpot games continue to roll. I also hope that MM rolls and takes the lead for one day and then PB rolls again.

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anonymous77 — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 14:51:12 GMT

It seems that MM has a bigger market than PB. Although MM's has bigger cash value than PB's, I would allocate my budget equally between MM and PB because, at the same current ANNUITY jackpot of $220M, both MM and PB now offers almost SAME expected value per dollar spent on buying the tickets.

MM finally catched up to PB

Bradly_60 — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 13:51:05 GMT

At the beginning of this run Mega Millions was two drawings behind PB.

Mega Millions has sensational sales in the first part of this jackpot series but now sales are lower compared to last time we were at this level. But those increased sales in the first drawings of this run really helped out. We are $45 million ahead of the record jackpot after this many rolls.

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