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MM $5, PB $2, Powerplay $1IReply
None of the other games charge $5 to pretend to be something they are not! Would it make you happy if pick 3 was $5 and had a $1,000,000,000,000 annuity jackpot that had 50 quintillion to 1 odds of hitting and paid the annuity out at a dime a year for ten trillion years? and a second prize of $10,000,000 with 672 trillion to 1 odds of hitting? I'm sure the state lottery commissions would love to have you as a customer on that ticket too! It looks to me like you are not c
Oct 1, 2025, 3:28 pm - Think - Lottery Discussion Forum

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Jackpot fever has not taken hold yet. The revised jackpot estimate (and the lowish estimates on the last few jackpots) suggests that it might be starting. Therefore, there is a very good possibility Powerball will break the record number of consecutive rolls. The current record stands at 40. The Powerball jackpot has to roll just 4 more times to break the record. The chance of 4 more rolls based on the current worksheet on the TX lottery website is 21%, but it's probably lower. I d
Aug 27, 2025, 4:16 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

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The Mega Millions jackpot reached $166 million after 11 rolls. In the previous Mega Millions run, the jackpot reached $189 million after 11 rolls. This time around the cash value for drawing #12 is $75.2 million while PB is advertising a $482 million annuity. Last time around the cash value for drawing #12 was $82.7 million, which is only 10% more, and a much smaller difference than the annuity inflated by a higher interest rates suggests. Still a long ways off from the 11 roll record o
Aug 7, 2025, 2:27 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
MM went for 40 draws under the $5.00 ticket to produce a jackpot of $485.2 cash/$980 annuity. If you can do math, that's 5 months. And? How long it takes is irrelevant to the probability of happening. Given your username I'd think it should be easy enough to understand. play all ya want, no one is gonna win till the breaks the billion dollar mark Somebody could win this Friday, but it's more likely that it won't be won until they sell about another 145 million tickets. If
Jul 8, 2026, 3:01 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

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Hahaha a pool would never agree to take the Annuity. I wonder if different people in a pool can opt for different payout methods - that would be a lot of math for the lottery commission.
Jun 11, 2026, 9:08 pm - JustMaybe - Lottery Discussion Forum

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We plan to definitely take the cash. I do not thing a group of players can take the annuity. Does not matter though to us.
Jun 11, 2026, 2:36 pm - winoneday - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
For us to even remotely consider looking at the chance of thinking about reviewing the possibility of plopping down our hard earned $5.00, the Jackpot Annuity would have to be greater than or equal to $32,000,000,000.00; that's $32 Billion Dollars or about $16 Billion Cash.
Jun 10, 2026, 9:54 am - JADELottery - Lottery Discussion Forum

I know that this is technically not a lottery question, it's about PCH Sweepstakes bankruptcy .Reply
Thank you for telling me the right terminology, bankruptcy, not cancel. I used the wrong phrase when I said cancel a Mortgage. I guess all the PCH Annuity Sweepstakes winners will have to file for Bankruptcy. I don't know why the guy chose to buy a house with a 30 year Mortgage in the first place when he was already 51. He would have been 81 when the Mortgage was over and most likely would have been dead by then . It wasn't as if he were a young 21 year old who would have most likely still been
Jun 9, 2026, 4:01 pm - Lotto Motto - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
On Page 3 of this thread I said, I will probably play when the CASH VALUE is at $500,000,000 + , referring to the new $5 MM ticket price. Now, the PB is playing their gormless games...SO....If this UK thing happens ?? I will most likely develop the same starting point--$500 Million CASH VALUE. PB leadership has shot themselves in the foot(IMHO) with their failing to restart the jackpot at $40 Million due to Covid mess in 2020-2022. That medical problem has been subsided now for 3+ years but the
Jun 2, 2026, 12:15 pm - CDanaT - Lottery Discussion Forum

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I was comparing the annuity value of the jackpot and you are comparing the cash value of the jackpot. We are not comparing the same things.
May 16, 2026, 3:04 pm - winoneday - Lottery Discussion Forum