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Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
Anyone willing to guess the next increase on the Measly Millions when it rolls over tonight ? According to Jades chart up above, my best guess will be $23M.The TX lottery hasn't posted their projections for the next increase yet. Even with 4 days in between draws, I just don't believe it will do $24M+ for the next draw on 9/16. Could be wrong but the MUSL kids redesigned this toy for minimal increases. Good luck to all that have purchased a ticket for tonights draw.
Sep 12, 2025, 8:14 am - CDanaT - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
The Mega Millions jackpot increased by $24 million to $277 million after 17 rolls. This was the largest jackpot increase in the current run of Mega Millions. At $24 million, it also ties the largest jackpot increase in the previous run of Mega Millions.
Aug 27, 2025, 9:28 am - winoneday - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
Powerball is still clearly winning the race with a jackpot of $526 million. The increase was $25 million compared to the latest Mega Millions increase of only $16 million. But the Powerball jackpot is growing relatively slowly. The jackpot has rolled 31 times. The 31 roll record is over twice as large as the current jackpot at $1,066 million.
Aug 12, 2025, 9:59 am - winoneday - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
The Mega Millions jackpot is now $326 million. That was a good increase of $24 million - the biggest jackpot increase since the $5 ticket price was introduced. The difference between the Mega Millions jackpot and the Powerball jackpot increased by $8 million. Maybe the game will prove to be a success after all.
Jun 21, 2025, 9:08 am - winoneday - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
The Mega Millions jackpot is now $243 million. The increase in the jackpot since the last draw was $20 million whereas Powerball experienced a $14 million increase. It appears certain that Powerball will not overtake Mega Millions until the Mega Millions jackpot is won. Now the wait is on. Will Mega Millions reach $1 billion in this run? Or will it be $2 billion?
Jun 7, 2025, 9:07 am - winoneday - Lottery Discussion Forum

New Mega Millions game reports 300% increase in non-jackpot prizes in first monthReply
They should have done some polling to see how a price increase would go over with the players. Plus making bold claims before the price increase came about didn't help either. The old format produced jackpots of over 1 billion dollars twice a year plus many secondary prizes of 1 or 2 million. Hopefully things will change .
Jun 1, 2025, 2:21 pm - lengua65 - Lottery News

New Mega Millions game reports 300% increase in non-jackpot prizes in first monthReply
The 300% increase vs. what those 1.89 million winners would have won under the old prize structure is incorrect. I'm of the opinion that the MM spin doctors failed to consider that 25 % of those winners would have purchased the Megaplier (conservative figure based on similar jackpots as reported by USA Mega) and taken home another $6.6M in winnings based on an average 3x Megaplier. That would give us a realistic increase of closer to 175%.
May 14, 2025, 8:47 am - play4shekels - Lottery News

DC Lottery introduces Washington D.C.'s first $50 scratch-off ticketReply
They used COVID to increase the price point on goods and services. They implement tariffs to increase the price point even more. Now lottery is getting into the act. Outright greed is what this is. Heck that's five dozen eggs!
Apr 17, 2025, 12:58 pm - Tony Numbers - Lottery News

First drawing of new Mega Millions game produces 5X more winnings compared to older versionReply
Glad to see that day one sales tanked. Perhaps in part due to no advance plays sitting in the system. Time will tell. The bad part is, the last time there was a $50-something million jackpot on 1/31/25, they paid out $1.5M more than they did on Tuesday. So they're raking in way more money, playing out way less and the increase in the two jackpots was identical. The only party that made out on the price increase was the game itself.
Apr 10, 2025, 4:59 am - play4shekels - Lottery News

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
Yes, it's very telling the advertised jackpot increase is only $10 M after 8 rollovers. Do you understand how the game and its financing work? Both PB and MM have always started with artificially high jackpots that aren't fully funded, and never had more than the minimum increase until there's enough cash to fully fund the jackpot. The smaller jackpot of the old format was funded quickly. With the new format the jackpot would remain artificially high for more drawings with exactly the same
Jul 27, 2025, 5:17 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum