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Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
At least the new Measly Millions jackpot has broken into the top 25 Annuity jackpots of all time. PB - 14 winners MM - 10 Winners(1 new Pending) https://www.lotterypost.com/news/355949 The following is a list of the Mega Millions jackpots and where they are on the top 25 List: #4) Mega Millions: $1.602 billion, Aug. 8, 2023 ( 31 rollovers, starting at $20 million ) - Florida winner #6) Mega Millions: $1.537 billion, Oct. 23, 2018 ( 25 rollovers, starting at $40 million
Oct 29, 2025, 11:52 am - CDanaT - Lottery Discussion Forum

MM and PB jackpot increases.Reply
MM went up $25M and PB$ 13.7M yet MM is the one that gets criticized for smaller increases. MM is offering a bit more than twice as much money, not counting the larger non-jackpot prizes. M is also putting about twice as much money toward the jackpot for each ticket thanks to the $5 price. Powerball has a lot more regular players who are not addicts. Maybe. Ignoring the current run because initial sales are always bigger than normal after a run that reaches $1 billion or more, the
Oct 16, 2025, 2:58 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
Measley Millions Annuity increases during the 7/01 - Present run: @ $5 ticket Jackpot starting at $50 Million 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 +10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 16 + 16 + 16 + 18 + 18 + 19 + 24 + 25 + 34 + 22 + 23 + 19 + 23 + 28 + 23 + 23 + 23 + 27 ( roll 28 ) 28th roll = $547M/ $251.7 M Cash * The lone $34 Million increase on 9/05/25 was also at the same time that the PB had the 1.8 Billion jackpot won on 9/06/25 Source https://www.texaslottery.com/export/sites/lottery/Documen
Oct 6, 2025, 8:04 am - CDanaT - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
Here is further evidence Powerball is still winning the race. ... After 5 Mega Millions draws .. PB has fairly consistently grown faster than MM, including under the $2 per ticket format, because of the 3rd weekly drawing, with short variations when MM has a really big jackpot. The consensus seems to be that Sunday drawing are unlikely, so MM has to work with just the 2 drawings per week. The differences you're comparing are advertised jackpots of 358 vs 20 and 474 vs 145. Over those drawin
Oct 2, 2025, 2:05 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
Sorry my friend....Coming up with a reasonable projection for the $5 cost value will be a wild guess(at best) if and when the traditional frenzy would start. There has been no run to reach the $1B mark for a gauge. Past practice has shown, in my opinion, that the frenzy starts roughly around the $735- $750M point($2 ticket). If this jackpot gets up to that point ? I think the advertised annuity jackpot is going to have to be another $75 million higher, somewhere around $815 - $840 range for the
Sep 22, 2025, 11:15 am - CDanaT - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
I guess they would have liked paying 70% in taxes like back in 1980. Since I'm not a moron, I'd love to have paid taxes in the 70% bracket. To do that I'd have needed taxable income of more than $215,400, which is equivalent to about 844k today. Also because I'm not a moron I know that I'd only have paid 70% on the taxable income in excess of that 844k (in today's dollars). Still, even if I'd had to pay 70% on all of that, I'd still have had the equivalent of 253k after taxes, plus whatever
Sep 4, 2025, 7:37 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

89 second prize winners for the powerballReply
Top 10 Total 5 + 0 Wins Total Occurrence Interval Draws Jackpot Winners State Winners 5 + 0 Index Date Days Year Month Day A B C D E PB xN Annuity Cash Sales Total 5 + 1 5 + 0 4 + 1 4 + 0 3 + 1 3 + 0 2 + 1 1 + 1 0 + 1 5 + 1 5 + 0 5 + 0 Wins Total Regular Power Play All -xN +xN -xN -xN +xN -xN +xN -xN +xN -xN +xN -xN +xN -xN +xN -xN +xN -xN +xN -xN -xN +xN 1 89 1525 740100 2026 4 29 03 19 35 51 67 15 2 $143,000,000 $65,200,000 $21,340,047 $18,886,422 $2,453,625 361,663 268,353
Apr 30, 2026, 3:35 pm - JADELottery - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
I see what you did. Just a difference in in the division equation and the average over 7 years Heres where I disagree Projecting the 503 to 302 ratio = 166.5 and thats great if it was 2018 but it isn't. If I went back to 2017 it was 09/26/2017 $15 M $9.4 M which is 159.5% In 2016 it was 09/27/2016 $25 M $16.8 M which is 148.8% The very last time we had anything even close to that ratio range, according to your chart was in May of 2022 2610 2022-05-27 $157,000,000 $93,100
Sep 24, 2025, 1:58 pm - CDanaT - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
I am beginning to wonder if I should stop buying and just wait and keep saving for the Big One and hope that the no win streak ends there. Or is someone going to sneak in and grab the jackpot before it becomes truly humongous when I would go all in for it? If you knew how big it would get before somebody else won the best strategy would be to wait and spend it all on the drawing before that one. Of course you can't know when it will be hit, but you can know what's probable. The table at htt
Aug 21, 2025, 2:19 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
It appears many do not understand the jackpot has only been growing by the minimum $10 million per draw in order for sales to fully support the jackpot. For a place that's all about the lottery a lot of people here don't seem to know much about how things work. The jackpot for the Friday, August 1 draw will probably be around $140 million and will be fully supported by sales (or very close at least). It will be $140, and the supported jackpot is $139,672,438 (I love how the estimat
Jul 29, 2025, 3:14 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum