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my idea for a multi-state lotteryReply
My idea is to have a game that costs $1.00. The buy 5, get one free is similar to promotions that lotteries run, but make this a permanent part of the game. For those who don't mind spending $5 on a progressive draw game, they get an extra chance to win. $20 million isn't as much as hundreds of millions, but it's still life-changing. It's about the same as MM starting jackpot but without the absurdly low chances of winning. 1 in 18 million instead of 1 in 300 million. More frequent winners i
Dec 13, 2025, 9:56 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
We have our pool tickets for the next Mega Millions draw. This time we got one ticket with a 5 times multiplier and one ticket with a 10 times multiplier. It is great getting the bigger multipliers but we need them to hit. We had a lot of larger multipliers in the previous draw but none of them hit. I may be the only one on this site that likes the Mega Millions game. There is a simple reason why I like the game. It costs me very little to play and there is the potential to win a life chang
Nov 9, 2025, 5:47 pm - winoneday - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
Was there Another $10 million scheduled rollover for the MM???. Is that number 9 ? They may want to consider just changing the game to an RNG, so they can save money and not prop up the rollovers for those that participate.
Apr 19, 2026, 5:44 am - CDanaT - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
Everyone excited for tonight for your chance to win a life changing amount of denero? If you got some skin in the game for tonight. Good luck!
Aug 20, 2025, 6:27 pm - Justing618 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
I think what winoneday meant was that it was bad luck for the house. In the long run, the average jackpot won will equal the expected value. In a game like this, a drawing every few days with odds of 1 in 300 million, the long run could be many years. In a short period of time, the players can be lucky which means the house (MUSL) is unlucky. Unlike other games like pick 3 or any table game or slot machine in a casino, where more jackpots are good for business because the long run for th
Mar 12, 2026, 2:56 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

Lucky For Life to Millionaire For Life - $5 TicketReply
I re-did the calculations and it's the typical draw game, in terms of payback %. But it is still far better than MM, in my opinion. Here's why: Probability of winning the top prize is just over 12 times better. $18 million (or the annuity of $1 million/year) is still life-changing money. M4L (Millionaire for Life) has no silly multipliers. You win exactly what it says on the prize chart for matching x number of balls. MM (and PB) is a progressive jackpot game, which is why it can
Jan 25, 2026, 12:00 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

You Can't Lose If You Don't PlayReply
As an occasional Clown, I here and now admit that I have down voted a few of your posts. Only the ones in which you proclaimed yourself the Greatest I know most of those posts followed receiving the wrath of a few of the folks here on LP. This time I up voted your post. I have not worked on Pick 3 in a very long time. Once upon a time, I created quite a few Excel files that filtered Pick 3 by just about every Idea presented here on the Forum. Shout out to Winsulosum for creating a file
Oct 7, 2025, 10:35 pm - AllenB - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
I bought a bunch of Powerball tickets for the last drawing when the annuity jackpot was $2 billion. I normally don't play that game because the odds of winning are approximately zero. For the same price, I can get far better odds of winning less money but still life changing money. I was willing to try it because it would be fun to spend $600 million in today's money after tax. For Megamillions, the equivalent annuity jackpot would have to be $5 billion for me to play (even then, maybe not,
Sep 26, 2025, 4:59 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

my idea for a multi-state lottery
1) Choose 6 numbers from 1 to 68. 2) Tickets cost $1. 3) Match all 6 to win the jackpot, which starts at $25 million. 4) 10 cents of each ticket gets added to the jackpot. 5) Match 5 of 6 to win the 2nd prize of $100,000. 6) Buy 5, get one free. For $5, you get 6 lines, which is either 6 QP or your playslip of 5 sets of 6 numbers plus one QP. 7) Both prizes are all cash (subject to taxes, of course, we can't get around that). No annuity BS. If you win $25 million and want
Dec 12, 2025, 9:28 am - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum