Are there any statistics of percentage of PB and/or MM winners from each state?

Reply #6

lekker — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 15:35:17 GMT

Appreciate the clarifications. Wikipedia should indeed include Lottery Post in the credits/footnotes, not only to give credit but also to refer people to this site. They do a disservice to their customers by omitting it. I often click on the source links at the bottom of a Wikipedia page in order to learn more about a topic.

In the March 15, 2018 article you linked to in your last message, it looks like you updated the list at the end: Top 25 26 United States lottery jackpots of all time. Wil... [ More ]

Reply #5

Todd — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 11:51:52 GMT

Yes, if you see multiple states listed then the jackpot was split by winning tickets sold in those states.

The thing with the Wikipedia info is that lottery jackpot amounts and other data is not like copyrighted material. It's just numbers that need to be tracked down.

For years there were bad jackpot numbers included in all the top 25 jackpot lists, because nobody ever took the time to research what the actual jackpot tally was after the draw. This was especially true for cash values, and... [ More ]

Reply #4

lekker — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 22:24:58 GMT

Todd:

Thanks very much for the link! That's exactly what I was looking for. In the article where it lists multiple states for a jackpot, does that mean that there were multiple winners who split the jackpot? It's probably a dumb question, but for example, in the first on the list, was it split between three winners: Powerball: $1.5864 billion, Jan. 13, 2016 - California, Florida, Tennessee.

I didn't realize Wiki and others have taken info from Lottery Post without giving credit. If anyone... [ More ]

Reply #3

Todd — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 20:08:46 GMT

The Wikipedia page has several mistakes, and it is clear that they have used information from Lottery Post without giving credit. It is very hard to compile an accurate list of historical jackpots, because the lottery does not always make it easy to track down the final jackpot tallies for cash and annuity. Yet people continue to steal the hard work we do here at Lottery Post and USA Mega and post it on Wikipedia without proper credit. (And I'm not mentioning the countless other lottery websites... [ More ]

Reply #2

lekker — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 18:57:41 GMT

Thanks. I hadn't tried any searches. After visiting the link you posted, I did a search for top jackpots and winning states. Turns out Wikipedia has a page about lottery jackpot records, with a chart of the amounts won and in which states. I can't post the link since I'm new here.

Reply #1

gy65 — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 20:01:16 GMT

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Are there any statistics of percentage of PB and/or MM winners from each state?

lekker — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 17:54:30 GMT

Hello.

New here. I've long had the feeling that the East Coast states have considerably more winners of the largest jackpots (Powerball and Mega Millions) than the rest of the country. Are there any statistics showing the percentages of winners listed by state? I realize that population density is a factor but am still curious. Thanks.