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North Carolina lottery winners of $5 million and more could remain anonymousReply
But lottery sales would plummet. The whole fun of the lottery is seeing what someone does with the money. No one would believe that it is legit if you couldn't expose the winners. They would think it is like the Publishers Clearing House scam.
Sep 1, 2025, 10:58 am - billybucks - Lottery News

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
If it rolls from Saturday, our best estimate puts the PB Jackpot Annuity at $1.03 Billion . I'll be very surprised if it's not bigger than that if it rolls on Saturday. The increase from last Saturday to Monday was $60.9 million, so it would be very unusual if this Saturday to next Monday wasn't bigger. The increase from Monday to Wednesday was $83.4 million, so the increase to Saturday will almost certainly be bigger. Starting from Wednesdays final tally of $860.1 the same increase of
Aug 28, 2025, 4:45 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
No, it sure isn't. Wouldn't it be nice if everyone checked with clerks at the stores they buy tickets at and reported back?? Sales are indicative and even the poll taken on this thread is indicating otherwise. Best of luck to all, if you are participating in tonights draw.
Aug 20, 2025, 11:19 am - CDanaT - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
If the Mega Millions jackpot is not won tonight, the jackpot will increase by $18 million to $216 million. This will be the largest jackpot increase since the start of this jackpot run. With sales of around $26 million, there is about a 98% chance the jackpot will roll again. Meanwhile, the Powerball jackpot's most recent increase was $34 million.
Aug 15, 2025, 1:08 pm - winoneday - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
Three times larger jackpot for 60% less cost per line.... I do not understand why anyone is playing Megamillions. Their sales should be zero.
Aug 6, 2025, 3:07 am - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
The Mega Millions jackpot increased by the minimum $10 million to $150 million. It is estimated the current jackpot is OVER funded from sales by about $0.7 million. Even though the jackpot is fully funded, it was not enough to raise the jackpot more than the $10 million minimum. The Mega Millions jackpot is growing very slowly since the Powerball jackpot is so much larger at $410 million. The Powerball jackpot is the largest US jackpot since the Mega Millions game was changed to the latest forma
Aug 2, 2025, 12:16 am - winoneday - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
The Mega Millions jackpot increased by the minimum $10 million to $130 million. It is estimated the current jackpot is under funded from sales by about $4.8 million. In the previous Mega Millions run, the jackpot was fully funded at this point. The Mega Millions jackpot is growing slower than last time because it is being over shadowed by the much larger Powerball jackpot. The Powerball jackpot at $350 million, is the largest Powerball and Mega Millions jackpot since the start of the Mega Millio
Jul 26, 2025, 12:16 am - winoneday - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions Drawing IncreaseReply
I'm aware of that. You were implying that Megamillions was taking a larger share of sales, resulting in the jackpot being less than what it should be.
Jul 25, 2025, 8:41 am - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

Powerball drawing produces huge number of big winners, including two who split the jackpotReply
It is a fluke but it came in on row 5 this time. Just to be clear, there are plenty of patterns and lots of people playing them so the fluke is that the 5 winning numbers happened to match one of the relatively few combinations that can be played by using a pattern. I'm not going to try to count how many possibilities there are, but if we include all of the sequential possibilities, simple/obvious multiples or skips, and straight and diagonal lines I'll guess at about 150 to 200, but call i
May 3, 2026, 4:45 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery News

89 second prize winners for the powerballReply
Be nice to see a breakout of the 89 winners as to how many were QP's Without knowing the actual breakdown we won't know for sure, but we can see what the probabilities are. There were about 9.5 million tickets sold and it's fairly safe to assume that no more than 80%, or a maximum of 7.55 million, were QP. For that many tickets the chances of selling 1 to 5 5+0 winners are, respectively, 33.82%, 10.89%, 2.34%, 0.38%, and 0.05%. I deliberately rounded up in a few places so the actual chances
May 2, 2026, 4:47 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum