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Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
On Page 3 of this thread I said, I will probably play when the CASH VALUE is at $500,000,000 + , referring to the new $5 MM ticket price. Now, the PB is playing their gormless games...SO....If this UK thing happens ?? I will most likely develop the same starting point--$500 Million CASH VALUE. PB leadership has shot themselves in the foot(IMHO) with their failing to restart the jackpot at $40 Million due to Covid mess in 2020-2022. That medical problem has been subsided now for 3+ years but the
Jun 2, 2026, 12:15 pm - CDanaT - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
I was comparing the annuity value of the jackpot and you are comparing the cash value of the jackpot. We are not comparing the same things.
May 16, 2026, 3:04 pm - winoneday - Lottery Discussion Forum

Annuity or Cash ValueReply
Most people reference age when they weigh the annuity or the cash value. What would be a reasonable cut off age where one says, heck no, am taking cash all the way from here
May 12, 2026, 8:27 pm - JustMaybe - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
It is measly given the odds of winning and the fact that it's a 30 year annuity. It's worth 1.5 cents. A prize worth 1.5 cents would be fine if the tickets were 5 cents per line. They are not 5 cents. They're five dollars . What a joke.
Apr 25, 2026, 1:36 am - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

Powerball lottery tickets go on sale in the UK on July 21Reply
Call me a conspiracy theorist but, what I see is a billion dollar jackpot before September to 'welcome' the UK players. Which will be split between a UK ticket and a US state. I'm not saying they control the numbers... but they sure as hell know about the probability cycle and they can estimate when a draw is close to winning. The UK is coming in at about 700 million est... Just wanted to say this out loud to someone even if you don't agree or tell me they can't control 'random'. It's going
Jul 12, 2026, 1:51 am - adamc224 - Lottery News

Annuity or Cash ValueReply
That is a very reasonable explanation. Another key consideration would be taxes and the ability to lock the current tax rate when you go with the cash option. Politicians may not necessarily raise taxes for all, but there is a hight chance that 15 years from now the direction would be to tax those in higher income brackets more. The way the annuity is structured, you earn more in the later years, so that becomes a real risk. Thank you for all your very valid points
May 14, 2026, 9:41 pm - JustMaybe - Lottery Discussion Forum

Secrets of a lottery lawyer-Kurt Panouses interviewReply
Conspiracy anyone? Any statistics on the number of years these people live after the win? Are there any mysterious passings? Can you imagine being whacked by a private contractor getting paid a percentage of the annuity to take it off of the Books after 20 years?
May 4, 2026, 1:25 pm - AllenB - Lottery Discussion Forum

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

Secrets of a lottery lawyer-Kurt Panouses interviewReply
Watch the video. Pretty simple to understand. Reading is fundamental. 1. A state only allowed anonymous claiming for $10 million plus wins and the jp was under that amount. 2. A young guy in his 20s decided to take the yearly annuity of 350k. 3. The attorney argued that based on the expected lifespan of this young person, the total annuities would easily exceed $10 million over his expected lifespan. THUS HE WAS ALLOWED TO CLAIM ANONYMOUSLY. A very creative legal argument that worke
May 3, 2026, 7:15 pm - Artist77 - Lottery Discussion Forum