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Lottery is not random it's predeterminedReply
I've always believed that state lotteries truly want winners, especially big jackpot winners. What does rigging a draw do for the state? I think there are two obvious reasons for the lotteries themselves to rig the game(s). One would be so that a few insiders could divert prize money to themselves. The other, and better, IMHO, reason would be to allow a jackpot to continue growing in order to boost sales. The problem is that no matter how much the people running the lottery might apprec
Feb 11, 2026, 2:24 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

I'm done playing the lotteryReply
I lied. THIS will be my last post about working for IBM! I decided to write it because of what I think will be some GREAT laughs. Hang in there while reading it because it will be lengthy. I worked for IBM for more than 30 years, most of which I spent working in and around IBM's massive data centers in New York. One raised floor I worked on was 100,000 square feet. (That's more than 2 acres) In that data center IBM had every kind of hardware and software you could possibly think of. There we
Jan 7, 2026, 11:49 pm - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

$1.1 BILLION: Powerball jackpot increased in longest-ever winless streakReply
Yeah but the ticket isn't really yours until 1. You sign it 2. You present it to a lottery official right ? The ticket is yours the moment you buy it. What it isn't is an financial instrument worth millions. Even after the drawings it's not worth anymore than you paid for it. The ticket only becomes valuable when the lottery validates it and says it's worth the prize it won. As a practical matter it becomes valuable as soon as you submit the claim, but the money isn't yours until the ticket
Dec 16, 2025, 2:11 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Virginia Lottery Director Khalid R. Jones appointed as Mega Millions Lead DirectorReply
A bit of context for people who might not be aware. California's multiplier numbers do not work like the other states' do. California divides the prize money derived from sales into 8 different buckets representing the 8 non-jackpot prize levels. Each bucket is its own prize pool that all the winners of that prize level share. The multiplier number on each winner's ticket represents its share of that prize pool. So someone with a 2x on their ticket has 2 shares . A 5x multiplier has 5 sh
Dec 6, 2025, 8:55 am - Todd - Lottery News

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
the price hike could have been a response to slowing sales There's absolutely no question about it. Lottery revenue has been generally going downhill for years and the lotteries have been trying to stop the decrease or at least slow it down. One of the first huge jackpots was when MM reached $656 million in March 2012 on the 18th drawing. It reached 290 on the 16th drawing and then increased 73 363 and 293 656. A year and a half later in December 2013 it reached $257 million on drawing
Nov 27, 2025, 3:04 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mississippi Lottery halts Cash 3 triple payout promotion one week inNews Story
Overwhelming player response leads Lottery to halt promotion early By Kate Northrop One week after it launched, the Mississippi Lottery prematurely halted the Cash 3 promotion that tripled all prize payouts for what was supposed to be the entire month of November. The Mississippi Lottery abruptly announced the conclusion of the Cash 3 Times 3 prize enhancement today, Nov. 7, after receiving an overwhelming player response to the limited-time promotion. It was originally slated to
Nov 7, 2025, 4:21 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
they've got it wrong. greed has made them blind to the fact that this kind of games would need widest participation. 1-return money back to the public by cutting down the 60% tax to 40% 2-I agree to bring back a dollar and a dream (increase the second tier prize to $2 million from the 60% tax reduction). ========================================/ The price increase of Mega Millions tickets from $2 to $5 was decided by the Mega Millions Consortium , which is the governing body of t
Oct 27, 2025, 11:05 am - TwoMillion - Lottery Discussion Forum

$1.8 BILLION: Powerball jackpot now second-largest ever as ticket sales surge across the USAReply
Good point. But still .... why can't someone from Rhode Island or Delaware Montana or Alaska win every now and then? Why? Why?? Why??? Or even more personally ...... Why can't ShagE3s win win win? P.S.: what stinx? I'll tell you what stinx! What stinx is that all my sales pitches for liverwurst and OLIVELOAF seem to have fallen on deaf ears around here. P.S.S.: my updated projection for the final jackpot tally is ... .... 1,888,444,222. There will be 2 ..... Two ....,
Sep 6, 2025, 9:33 pm - ShagE3 - Lottery News

$1.7 BILLION: Powerball jackpot juggernaut keeps rollingReply
At the risk of generating a post generating obsessive, unreadable, tiresome and useless nonsense about memos and such, I would like to suggest that the Poisson distribution for probability of numbers of winners, based on the estimated number of sales for this drawing as posted on the Texas Lottery website, $467,466,068 (corresponding to 233,733,034 tickets) suggests the following number of winners: k, number of winners p(m,k) 0 43.52% 1 36.21% 2 15.06% 3 4.18% 4 0.87
Sep 5, 2025, 10:13 am - Prob988 - Lottery News

$1.3 BILLION: Powerball jackpot soars to 5th-largest in game historyReply
The jackpot is now 1.4 Billion, with a 634.3 Cash level. This suggests sales of $425M and 212.5 tickets. The probability of different numbers of winners, including no winners is shown in the following table: k, number of winners p(m,k) 0 46.94% 1 35.50% 2 13.43% 3 3.38% 4 0.64% 5 0.10% 6 0.01% This is based on the Poisson distribution.
Sep 3, 2025, 11:34 am - Prob988 - Lottery News