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Once homeless, now a lottery winner: Colorado man gets his $1 million comebackNews Story
Tough sales day leads to a big break in luck By Kate Northrop What seemed like an impossible situation is now one Colorado man's reality after he successfully lifted himself out of homelessness and proceeded to win $1 million in the lottery. A formerly homeless Colorado man worked to remove himself from his unfortunate circumstances, and in doing so indirectly won a $1 million lottery prize. Jonathan G. was having a tough sales day while working as a cell phone representative. He
Mar 10, 2026, 8:32 am - Todd - Lottery News

Lucky For Life to Millionaire For Life - $5 TicketReply
I've been reading the posts in this thread and it seems to me that the consensus of opinion is most people intend to play Millionaire4Life despite the $5 per line price tag. In other threads about paying $5 for one line of MM, many players say the game is doomed at that price point. I think an important point is being over looked by many players. In the gaming industry, Las Vegas, MUSL and state lottery's have something in common. The house always wins because the house can afford to lose. T
Jan 29, 2026, 5:42 am - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

$1.25 BILLION: Epic Powerball winless streak marches onReply
Interesting that cash and annuity are both #11 at the moment. The annuity will almost certainly move up to at least the #10 spot and has a reasonable chance to move up as high as #7. There's a good chance for the cash value to move up one spot, but pretty much zero chance of moving up to #9. What percentage of possible ticket combinations will be sold for Wednesday s draw? Their first forecast is for 23.2% but it's going to be higher than that. I don't know if they'd bump the jackpot to
Dec 16, 2025, 1:49 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Three $1 million winning Powerball lottery tickets sold at the same New York storeReply
Although it's theoretically possible for each ticket to have been a QP, that's so highly unlikely that it's just plain crazy to think that's what actually happened. The retailer probably sold only a few thousand PB tickets for that drawing. To make it simple let's call it 11,688 tickets, or 1 for every 1000 5+0 combinations. That makes the odds of one ticket winning a 5+0 prize 1 in 1000. The odds of 3 winning tickets is then 1 in 1 billion. Based on NY's total sales and the number of retai
Oct 29, 2025, 2:57 am - KY Floyd - 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

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
The estimated Powerball jackpot for the July 22 draw, the first draw that includes UK players, increased by a cash value of $10.2 million. The previous jackpot increase was $8 million. The next estimated jackpot increase for the July 25 draw is $14.6 million. They are definitely expecting a significant boost to sales based on including UK players. The Powerball jackpot also may reverse the trend and start increasing at a faster rate than the Mega Millions jackpot.
Jul 22, 2026, 1:25 pm - winoneday - Lottery Discussion Forum

Powerball lottery tickets go on sale in the UK on July 21Reply
One downside for US players - Faster growing jackpots mean the 10X multiplier when you buy the PowerPlay option will be removed from play sooner. It gets removed from play when the jackpot exceeds $150,000,000. If the jackpot gets to $150,000,000 sooner due to UK ticket sales then the 10X multiplier gets removed sooner. Not that the 10X multiplier happens a lot, but it'll probably be seen even less than it does now. G5
Jul 8, 2026, 9:44 pm - GiveFive - Lottery News

Powerball is coming to the U.K.Reply
It also sets a very dangerous precedent that individual state lotteries will follow. Imagine if you're a resident of New York who plays the state lottery regularly and that state decides to open up to global online sales. You start seeing players in Turkey or South Korea winning the jackpots, how would you feel about that?
Jul 7, 2026, 9:31 am - jjtheprince14 - Lottery Discussion Forum

All Virginia lottery winners can now remain anonymousReply
The federal government doesn't benefit from lottery ticket sales. They should collect taxes. My state of Colorado wins money off the lottery and taxes winnings. It's one reason I don't play very much.
Jul 2, 2026, 8:57 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery News

The Florida Millionaire Raffle is back!Reply
Come next Tuesday night around 9PM we'll have a pretty good idea of the total number of tickets that were sold during the sales cycle. It still doesn't look to me like there has been a big rush to buy tickets. That 2,000 to 3,000 tickets sold per day number just doesn't change. G5
Jun 26, 2026, 7:05 pm - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum