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$1.8 billion Powerball jackpot to be split by two tickets sold in Missouri and TexasNews Story
Lump-sum cash option worth $820.6 million By Todd Northrop In a historic run of drawings that produced the second-largest lottery jackpot in world history, two Powerball tickets sold in Missouri and Texas will split a grand prize worth nearly $2 billion. Last night, after 41 consecutive drawings without a winner, the multi-state Powerball lottery game finally produced a winner on the 42nd try, resulting in two tickets sharing a jackpot worth $1.7874 billion in 30 payments over 29 ye
Sep 7, 2025, 7:19 am - Todd - Lottery News

One California ticket wins $1.269 billion Mega Millions jackpotNews Story
Fifth $1 billion+ jackpot won in California Updated with final jackpot totals By Todd Northrop After a run of 30 drawings without a jackpot winner, the 31st drawing of the multi-state Mega Millions game produced a single $1.269 billion winner last night when one lottery ticket sold in California matched all five numbers plus the Mega Ball. It was the 12th time a lottery jackpot had grown to more than $1 billion, and the 11th time a single ticket won $1 billion or more. For C
Dec 28, 2024, 8:08 am - Todd - Lottery News

Powerball lottery tickets go on sale in the UK on July 21News Story
U.S. ticket price and game odds remain unchanged as expansion milestone approaches Powerball officials announced this week that ticket sales in the United Kingdom will begin on July 21, 2026, marking the next step in the game's historic expansion across the Atlantic. Players in the UK will be able to play for the same Powerball jackpot available to players in the United States beginning with the Powerball drawing on Wednesday, July 22. By expanding the player base internationally, Po
Jul 8, 2026, 3:31 pm - Todd - Lottery News

New Mega Millions game reports 300% increase in non-jackpot prizes in first monthReply
I might be wrong, but I think that is a crock of information. They reduced the odds a bit and the tickets now cost 2.5 times as much as they used to. Or maybe 2.3 times as much is more accurate, since there were always some players that took the $3/ticket option and bought the megaplier. Based on that, the only thing that seems odds is having an increase in payouts fairly close to the increase in price/odds when they're only selling about 60% as many tickets. Mega Millions says the jack
May 13, 2025, 2:03 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Texas Lottery bans lottery courier servicesReply
My only concern is the Pick 3 game because it has the best odds for me. It seems that the Pick 3 game is involved in this law Texas put in place so they can have a monopoly on the lottery and/or they don't know any better. It seems they don't want other people like couriers to make money because they see them as competition. To be clear I agree that it's a bad thing to allow players to buy jackpots in games that have jackpots. However, the pick 3 game does not have a jackpot. The amount
Mar 3, 2025, 6:53 am - LottoIntuitive - Lottery News

Impact of "Free Money" on Lottery SpendingReply
JustMaybe brings up a really good question. The data actually backs it up. During the stimulus check period (2020-2021), US lottery sales jumped roughly 20% year-over-year. That wasn't just bigger jackpots driving more tickets, the spike in sales started within days of each stimulus deposit hitting bank accounts. The timing was too consistent to be coincidence. There's a well-documented behavioral economics concept called mental accounting , people treat money differently depending on wh
Apr 10, 2026, 5:00 pm - RichW - Lottery Discussion Forum

Arkansas lottery winner of $1.8 billion Powerball jackpot comes forwardReply
For arguments sake let's say no one won pb last night .... and both jackpots rollover and over and over again ..... when would pb surpass mm on the road to a billion plus jackpot? Based on the recent runs that got big it would probably take about 7 weeks for PB to get bigger than MM, if they're about 210 and 270 at the same time. PB was at 207 on 10/06/25 and 5 weeks later it was at 490. MM was 277 on 8/29 and 5 weeks later it was 520. After 6 weeks they were at 570 and 575. After 7 weeks P
Jan 23, 2026, 11:46 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Virginia Lottery Director Khalid R. Jones appointed as Mega Millions Lead DirectorReply
The states are constantly leaning on those who run the lotteries to generate more revenue. I'm sure that's what led to them bumping up the cost and odds on the MM. States love it when jackpots are high and millions are pouring in each drawing because people who don't normally play are chasing the billion dollar payouts. I imagine a meeting after the last big jackpot got hit when the weekly revenues dropped back to normal levels. The question is asked how do we change things to get those big
Dec 7, 2025, 9:36 am - OhSoClose - Lottery News

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
I suspected that although people are upset about the price increase for Mega Millions tickets, if the jackpot reaches $1 Billion, almost every lottery player will buy at least one MM ticket. One thing that's absolutely certain is that every one of the people who said they'll never play at $5 per ticket is a lottery player, and lottery players play lotteries. Sales are starting to grow and it's probably not because of the people who aren't really lottery players but buy the rare ticket when
Oct 29, 2025, 2:28 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

$1.8 BILLION: Powerball jackpot now second-largest ever as ticket sales surge across the USAReply
Betcha all you MM downers and naysayers will put down $5 - for a ticket next week We're not going to know who's playing, but players spent $49.89 million to buy about 9.998 million tickets for Friday's drawing. The forecast for Tuesday's drawing is $51.94 million and almost 10.4 million tickets. The last time MM offered a jackpot this big an advertised jackpot of $361 million resulted in players spending $33.75 million for almost 16.9 million tickets at $2 each. The run before that got sale
Sep 7, 2025, 2:02 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News