Search

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
That rollover is pretty interesting when it comes to the Annuity payout. The differences between $850M $950M around payment 8 starts talking a smidge louder. https://www.texaslottery.com/export/sites/lottery/Documents/jackpotestimates/pb20250827.pdf
Aug 27, 2025, 12:52 pm - CDanaT - Lottery Discussion Forum

Powerball reaches $643 million: highest lottery jackpot of 2025Reply
A billion is an eye opener, that is for sure !! But $815M Annuity/367.9M CASH is in a pretty nice neighborhood for a $2 investment. Good luck to all of us on Wednesday
Aug 26, 2025, 11:24 am - CDanaT - Lottery News

Powerball reaches $643 million: highest lottery jackpot of 2025Reply
I don't know if my post was that clear but I meant those as advertised annuity values. Anyway good luck to all who are throwing their money away at these fake jackpot levels.
Aug 21, 2025, 3:20 pm - Think - Lottery News

Virginia Mega Millions $348 million lottery winner plans to buy lawnmower with record prizeReply
Yes, they prefer for you to take the annuity. They probably make some extra off of that. What they don't do is use your winnings to pay smaller pots. But the age of winners is on the elderly side so they just take the lump sum it seems. The more common 1 million dollar winners end up with around 460k. If you don't know that going in it must be a jolt to your cardiovascular system after you held a million dollar check for the picture and 20 minutes later they come out with a check for 463,219.00
Aug 16, 2025, 4:06 pm - billybucks - Lottery News

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
TOLD YA ....... Powerball rollover ...... Saturday is now a nice tidy sum of $482M Annuity/ $218.9M CASH Value . Now I can wade in play
Aug 7, 2025, 12:26 am - CDanaT - 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

US Powerball multi-state lottery game expanding to the UKReply
Someone Above said if someone in Uk wins the lottery they can take the money and run away and not pay complete Federal tax later. And am thinking Now how can you run away in the first place when they gave you no Lump sum option only annuity. If you run away they freezes the rest of your Annuity Payments Ok when people win Powerball the top tax is like 37 percent. There are two ways to pay federal government. One way is the player pays 37 percent and the other way is l guess each sold t
Apr 18, 2026, 1:07 am - Powerball765 - Lottery News

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
If they advertise $794M, they get less excitement/sales than if they advertise $800. I more or less agree with your reasoning because, even though it's a small difference in the grand scheme the lottery would be offering a few million bucks more. If you look at advertised jackpots from the past I think you'll find that for whatever reason they take their best guess at sales and stick with that number. Four weeks ago they advertised the jackpot as $547 million instead of a nice round 550 whi
Nov 4, 2025, 1:40 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

$1.8 BILLION: Powerball jackpot now second-largest ever as ticket sales surge across the USAReply
I hope no one wins tomorrow so the record gets broken! I've been waiting along time for that, but the real record is something north of $997.6 million in cash. To get there we need an annuity of $2.173 billion or so (assuming the interest rate doesn't change). I think we should be at the point where sales for Monday should at least be almost as big as Saturday's, and that's what we saw last Monday. If we see 1.844 tonight that's an even $400 million more than Wednesday, so we'd need an incr
Sep 6, 2025, 4:34 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Powerball lottery tickets go on sale in the UK on July 21Reply
Call me a conspiracy theorist but, what I see is a billion dollar jackpot before September to 'welcome' the UK players. Which will be split between a UK ticket and a US state. I'm not saying they control the numbers... but they sure as hell know about the probability cycle and they can estimate when a draw is close to winning. The UK is coming in at about 700 million est... Just wanted to say this out loud to someone even if you don't agree or tell me they can't control 'random'. It's going
Jul 12, 2026, 1:51 am - adamc224 - Lottery News