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Mega Millions lottery jackpot reaches whopping $310 millionReply
I'd say. Mega Millions has awarded only SIX jackpots this year so far (soon to be seven)! The previous record LOW amount of MM jackpots won during a full year was set in 2000 (the year of the record annuity jackpot), with only nine jackpots won. In contrast, the record HIGH amount of MM jackpots awarded during a full year was thirteen, which was set in 1998, and that record was matched in 2002. The record low amount of PB jackpots awarded during a full year was eight, set in 2001. In contr
Nov 14, 2005, 10:15 pm - ryanm - Lottery News

Mega Millions lottery jackpots will get bigger, quickerReply
The Powerball jackpots seem to be hit more often than the Mega Millions jackpots lately.
Feb 14, 2005, 9:44 pm - ryanm - Lottery News

Powerball lottery sales, starting this morning, going smoothlyReply
When all those jackpots were won last year, they were barely out of the guaranteed range. Powerball was lucky the jackpots were hit every third drawing instead of every other drawing or every drawing. While Powerball's guaranteed cash jackpots are $7.3 million, in reality, they sell only enough to fund a $4.3 million cash jackpot at that level, assuming 30.28855% of sales goes toward the jackpot. They only guarantee minimum jackpots and minimum rollovers because they don't expect those jackpot
Jan 16, 2006, 12:06 pm - ryanm - Lottery News

Lottery officials forsee $500 million Mega Millions jackpotsNews Story
California, the Golden State, will bring a lot of green to the Mega Millions Lottery jackpots when the state joins the multistate game next month. That's green as in greenbacks.Mega Millions Lottery officials expect jackpots, under the right circumstances, to reach a staggering half of a billion dollars, said Michigan Lottery Commissioner Gary Peters. With California in, the computer model says there is a high probability of a $500 million Mega Millions jackpot, Peters said. The largest Mega Mi
May 8, 2005, 7:54 am - Todd - Lottery News

Mega Millions and Powerball roll to combined $785 million jackpotNews Story
2021 begins with two massive lottery jackpots ready to be won By Kate Northrop With many people aching to finally cast aside 2020 and breathe a sigh of relief, the United States' two biggest multi-state lottery games feature jackpots worth nearly $800 million combined that will instantly change the fortunes of whomever is lucky enough to win them. No one was able to match all six numbers for either the Mega Millions or Powerball drawings this week. As both jackpots sit near the $400 mil
Dec 31, 2020, 3:19 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Texas Lottery officials testify that public was deceivedNews Story
Texas Lottery Commission Chairman C. Thomas Clowe told lawmakers Wednesday that the public was deceived by recently inflated jackpot estimates and vowed the agency would take action to keep it from happening again.Clowe said lottery Executive Director Reagan Greer was responsible for the deception but declined to say if he should be fired. This was a deception, and it was wrong, said Clowe, who opened nearly four hours of testimony on the inflated jackpots before the House Licensing and Adminis
Jun 30, 2005, 12:30 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Texas Lottery considering guaranteed jackpotsNews Story
Texas Lottery officials are considering guaranteed jackpots to help avoid inflated estimates like the one in June that prompted a consumer complaint to the state attorney general and cost the agency director his job.New jackpot prize guidelines proposed Monday include a guarantee the winner collect either the advertised amount or the amount calculated by sales, whichever is greater. The guarantees would apply to jackpots paid with the 25-year annuity, not to winners who choose the immediate cash
Aug 16, 2005, 6:53 am - Todd - Lottery News

California could be golden for 12-state Mega MillionsNews Story
At Bluebird Liquors in Hawthorne, California, where there's almost always a line to buy lottery tickets, owner Frank Kumamoto is eagerly awaiting California's entry into the multistate Mega Millions game. So are his regular customers. Oh, yeah, I'll play, because there's a bigger jackpot and more to win, said Barbara Fluffy Brown, a Boeing worker who drove from nearby Los Angeles to play the numbers here. It's only a dollar, so what the heck? A week from Wednesday, California will become the
Jun 15, 2005, 12:33 pm - Todd - Lottery News

NEW VIDEO: The largest lottery jackpots in historyNews Story
Will these jackpots ever be dethroned? By Kate Northrop Today, Lottery Post released its latest video on the biggest lottery jackpots in history. Since there's no telling when a jackpot will be won in the future, this list is subject to change. Quite honestly, we're hoping it does! At the time we recorded this video, the Mega Millions and Powerball jackpots had just almost reached a combined $1 billion , so we thought it would be fitting to take a look back at the five largest lott
Sep 24, 2021, 5:22 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Streak of jackpot winners is bad luck for Powerball lottery salesReply
Its not that the sales are low for a 10 million dollar drawing. In fact the sales are normal for very low jackpots. What is killing powerball is the lack of large jackpots. Sales are higher in Megamillions now because the jackpots are 2-4x what powerball has been recently. I haven't played both for a while now because the jackpots have just stank. Neither game is living up to its potential recently.
Mar 19, 2005, 1:41 am - dvdiva - Lottery News