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Powerball reaches $643 million: highest lottery jackpot of 2025Reply
While I have yet to set my buy in point that high. I am running a reasonably tight 2nd. PB - $200,000,000.00 Cash Value MM - $500,000,000.00 Cash/ $1.11 Billion Annuity Good luck to all of us this coming Saturday, if you are a participant
Aug 21, 2025, 11:54 am - CDanaT - Lottery News

Powerball reaches $643 million: highest lottery jackpot of 2025Reply
Quite the difference between the #2 all time Annuity jackpot and the one for tonight. Same game, same starting point, same price per ticket 1 rollover difference and a mere $1,121,900,000 less in value
Aug 20, 2025, 10:07 am - CDanaT - Lottery News

Virginia Mega Millions $348 million lottery winner plans to buy lawnmower with record prizeReply
All this talk about annuity vs cash value and tax rates on sed winnings makes me think of one word. LIVERWURST! There I got that off my chest. The Shag has spoken .......
Aug 16, 2025, 10:05 pm - ShagE3 - Lottery News

Florida Scratch Offs - Post Pictures if posibleReply
I traded in my recent 500X Star win for the 1st 10 of a book on Monday and played 5 that evening and the next 5 yesterday. I won $100 on tickets 000, 007, and 009, so $300 back. I'll probably get some more this evening. One subtle but not insignificant detail to the new game is the fact that the top $500K isn't structured as an annuity. The $1M prizes in the other $50 games pay ~$640K if taken as a lump sum, but on the new game you get the full amount (Uncle Sam of course takes a bite either
Aug 13, 2025, 10:55 am - Cape $cratcher - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
I plan to get in when the Annuity is $500M as long as PB is ahead. But should PB reset to $20M, I may give MM a shot once a week though it's not at $500M. I feel at that $500M, my $5 contribution will be valid, but at the same time do acknowledge that all games can be won at whatever amount and that there is no magical number when the chances to win are better. Good luck to all.
Aug 11, 2025, 4:09 pm - JustMaybe - Lottery Discussion Forum

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Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
We find it interesting that back in 2020 Powerball went from a $40 Million starting jackpot to a $20 Million starting jackpot, but yet, seems to be doing pretty well building up to that Billion Dollar prize with a $2.00 a Line Play and the Optional Added $1.00 Power Play . Powerball History Years Matrix Multiplier Price Jackpot Odds Jackpot Annuity Minimum Jackpot Maximum Jackpot Lower Tier Payouts Power Play 5 + 0 4 + 1 4 + 0 3 + 1 3 + 0 2 + 1 1 + 1 0 + 1 1992-04-22 to 1
Aug 26, 2025, 3:04 pm - JADELottery - Lottery Discussion Forum

Connecticut couple of 25 years celebrates with $100,000 Powerball lottery winReply
Today l asked my DeepSeek Ai a very interesting question . How much do l need to win in lottery to receive $1,000,000,000 cash after lump sum and after Tax ? The answer was interesting To determine how much you need to win in the lottery to receive **$1,000,000,000 cash after lump sum and taxes**, we need to account for two main deductions: 1. **Lump-Sum Reduction**: Lottery jackpots are typically advertised as annuities (paid over 30 years), but winners usually opt for a lump-s
Aug 2, 2025, 12:52 pm - Powerball765 - Lottery News

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
This is the second largest Mega Millions jackpot since the launch of the revised game and behind first place by $276 million. Or it's $332 million behind the highest jackpot under the new format. With the current annuity to cash ratio it will take an advertised jackpot of nearly $1.04 billion to equal the $452.2 million cash that was awarded to the winner of the current record. It is also only 5 rolls away from breaking the record for the largest number of consecutive rolls. And it
Jul 19, 2026, 4:52 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
MM went for 40 draws under the $5.00 ticket to produce a jackpot of $485.2 cash/$980 annuity. If you can do math, that's 5 months. The pretax expectation value was 0.49 using a Poisson distribution for probable prizes. At that time there was a 8.15% probability of one winner, 0.36% for two winners, and a 0.01% chance of three winners. Perhaps you're expecting rollovers for a year in predicting an expectation value greater than or equal to 1.0. It's not likely
Jun 23, 2026, 6:43 pm - Prob988 - Lottery Discussion Forum