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Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
It is measly given the odds of winning and the fact that it's a 30 year annuity. It's worth 1.5 cents. A prize worth 1.5 cents would be fine if the tickets were 5 cents per line. They are not 5 cents. They're five dollars . What a joke.
Apr 25, 2026, 1:36 am - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

New Hampshire Lottery launches $30 scratch-off ticket offering record $3 million top prizeReply
The $3 million top prize can be claimed as an annuity paid out over 30 years, but players may opt to claim it as a $1.75 million cash option before taxes. So then it's not $3 million. It's $1.75 million.
Apr 8, 2026, 5:38 am - Tucker Black - Lottery News

Lucky For Life to Millionaire For Life - $5 TicketReply
@TB Actually if you look at the current Powerball cash value it's listed at $9million or 45% of the annuity value NOT half!
Jan 25, 2026, 1:07 pm - Think - Lottery Discussion Forum

$1.5 BILLION: Massive Powerball jackpot fuels rush for ticketsReply
I hope it actually gets to $3 Billion so when I or someone hit it we can literally see someone walk away as a billionaire after cash option and taxes. It's not impossible, but it's going to take a lot more than $3 billion for that to happen unless interest rates go way down. Even if interest rates go way down it will still take the same amount of cash, and the same number of tickets without producing a winner sooner. With the current interest rate you'd net about 29% of the annuity value af
Dec 18, 2025, 12:04 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery News

$1.25 BILLION: Epic Powerball winless streak marches onReply
I think there will be multiple winners. As long as they've sold two or more tickets there's a chance of multiple winners, but the chance is pretty low until sales get pretty big. Actual sales will be higher, but the initial estimate is for about 77.25 million tickets. For that many tickets, if they were all chosen randomly, the chance of any number of winners is 23.23%. The chance of a single winner is 22.21% so if the jackpot is hit there's a 95.6% chance of a single winner. There's a 2.68
Dec 17, 2025, 12:11 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
The 40 roll record for Powerball is $2,040.1 million - more than double the current jackpot. A lot more than double this one. The cash value of the PB record jackpot was a hair over $997 million. If this run gets to the same 2.04 billion it will only be worth $941 million, coming up $56 million shy of the record. If this run gets to 2.05 billion PB will brag about a new record, but to simply equal the record we need an annuity of $2.1627 billion if the interest rates stays the same. lot
Dec 9, 2025, 2:14 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
Any educated guesses what the rollover will go up to after tomorrow nights draw?? $845 Million Annuity is my best guess with only 3 days in between draws
Nov 3, 2025, 1:26 pm - CDanaT - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
Great call Positano. That is the next projected annuity value. $800M/$371.7M Cash https://www.texaslottery.com/export/sites/lottery/Documents/jackpotestimates/mm20251031.pdf
Oct 31, 2025, 10:42 pm - CDanaT - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
Mine is at the $500 Million CASH VALUE point. Which should put the annuity close to $1.1 Billion..roughly 5-6 rollovers.. or more
Oct 28, 2025, 5:37 pm - CDanaT - Lottery Discussion Forum

Scratch off's
I rarely play scratch offs but my wife does. I noticed today that the scratch offs with a top prize of a million or more in Michigan are not that. They are a annuity amount paid over 30 years. I'm assuming the actual cash option is probably around half the advertised amount. I feel like it makes the ticket seem more attractive than it actually is. Do other states do this as well? Or is the advertised top prize amount actually won?
Oct 27, 2025, 7:51 pm - mightwin1 - Lottery Discussion Forum