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Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
I don't think it's because of the third drawing in a week. People tend to buy lottery tickets on a per-week basis, not a per-drawing basis. I suspect that many people who were buying multiple tickets for the Wednesday and Saturday drawings stuck with the same weekly expenditure or maybe added one more ticket. A lot of other players were probably the ones that have to have their chance, even if it's only one ticket, so that's a lot of people that started spending 50% more. Whatever the
Jan 22, 2026, 2:31 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

$1.7 BILLION: Will Powerball create a Christmas billionaire?Reply
I can't imagine that the actual increase for Wednesday won't be something bigger than the increase for Monday, and simply matching it would result in a final total of 1.745B. Last week sales for Wednesday were about 37% higher than sales for Monday jackpot, and the same 37% increase this time around would add about 73 million, so 1.815ish seems like a fairly safe bet. Now that they had about that same increase I'm even more surprised that we never saw a bump yesterday. I think they really m
Dec 25, 2025, 9:46 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News

$1.7 BILLION: Will Powerball create a Christmas billionaire?Reply
PB will claim they set a new record if the annuity is more than the current $2.04 billion record, but to beat the $997.6 million cash value of that jackpot the annuity needs to be 2.17B, assuming the interest rate doesn't change. The PB worksheet posted on Monday afternoon suggests that a rollover on Wednesday will give us a Saturday jackpot of about $2.11 billion, but I'm not sure the people behind that estimate really have a better idea than anyone else. They came up over $60 million short on
Dec 23, 2025, 2:19 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
Any guesses as to the next increase for the Measly Millions, should a rollover happen tomorrow night ? Another $40 Million ?? Another $40M would bring it to $794M. I bet they will go to at least $800M, that is a $46M increase. And that should unfold an even higher increase announced Tuesday night (if jackpot is not hit) for the following Friday (Fridays sales are larger than Tuesdays, so the increase leading to a Friday is significantly larger then the one leading to a Tuesday).
Oct 30, 2025, 11:01 am - positano - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
The Mega Millions jackpot increased by $37 million to $533 million after 27 rolls. This sets a new 27 roll record for the current format of the game; an increase of $13 million over the previous record. There is an estimated 2.6% chance the Mega Millions jackpot will be won in the next draw. The larger than normal boost in the Mega Millions jackpot was due to an increase in interest rates. Sales are not projected to increase for the upcoming draw despite the much smaller Powerball jackpot at
Mar 7, 2026, 1:05 am - winoneday - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions constant $10 million increasesReply
A $2 prize (times whatever multiplier, so $4 to $20) for matching two white balls would add 18% to the value of all non-jackpot prizes in total. That's a lot for such a small win. More accurately a $2 prize for matching 2 white balls would reduce the money that goes to the jackpot by about 14.6%. That would reduce the current cash value of $67.9 million to $58 million. For those who believe the advertising it would reduce the current $150 million annuity to $128 million if they abandoned or
Aug 4, 2025, 3:19 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

It looks as if the $5.00 MM ticket is doing poorly.Reply
Sales are lower. But they are making more money. Do to the price increase. Just one data point, but the first 3 drawings for 400+ had sales of $105 million compared to $117 million for the first 3 drawings for 400 the last time it got there before the price increase. That's just hair under 90%. Looking at PB sales for 3 drawings at 400+ at roughly the same times the more recent run had sales of 88% of the previous sales. Again, that's a limited set of data but it looks like lower MM sal
Feb 28, 2026, 4:01 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Did the tax threshold just increase?
I know that the limit for hand pays on casino slots went from 1200$ to 2000$ on January 1st but did the limit on lottery go from 500 to 2000 this year also? I keep getting AI gibberish when I search so I'm not sure.
Jan 16, 2026, 12:59 am - Think - 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

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