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Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
One clerk at a random Murphy gas station isn't indicative of sales throughout the country.
Aug 20, 2025, 11:10 am - MsBee18 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Oregon Lottery proposes rules regulating courier services and preventing bulk ticket purchasesReply
Please, someone explain to me how international ticket sales hurt us!
Jul 29, 2025, 3:04 pm - LottoFanBoy - Lottery News

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
Where are they putting the additional unexpected $2M in sales? They're putting it in the same places as every other $5 in sales. They skim half off the top and the rest goes into the prize pools. The ads are only for estimated jackpots, and higher sales increase it. They're not going to change the advertised amount unless sales are substantially higher than expected, and if you got those numbers from the site that shall not be named (which you must have, because the Texas worksheet doesn't
Sep 20, 2025, 12:35 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
is anyone going to bother with Mega Millions tonight? Even without PB being a bit more than 3 times as big MM is still well shy of my entry point, given the price and odds. I'm thinking some time in October is when I'll get in the game, assuming it's still rolling (and it probably will be). Under the prior ticket pricing structure I would have purchased my usual 1 ticket per drawing. Sorry to tell you but: They. Don't. Care. No tickets for me under any circumstances but am cu
Aug 26, 2025, 3:48 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

The Florida Millionaire Raffle is back!Reply
This just in to The Interesting to Note But Nobody Cares Department - This time around The Florida Lottery did in fact revamp this edition of The Millionaire Raffle. I think they probably copied some ideas that were instituted by The Pennsylvania Millionaire Raffle. I'm a transplant from the Northeast to Florida, and I used to live less than an hour's drive of Pennsylvania. PA has offered their version of a Millionaire Raffle every Fall for many years. I made the trip over to PA each Fall qu
Mar 29, 2026, 10:02 am - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

Answer Me This...Reply
One more 'one more thing'...... I firmly believe that The Florida Lottery knew well in advance of implementing the midday drawing that ticket sales would go down. By how much they'd go down was probably the only question they had on their minds. They also were very likely aware (probably advised by an advertising/marketing firm) that tampering with something that works very well could have very negative consequences in terms of ticket sales. (Like happened to Coca-Cola when they changed
Dec 18, 2025, 7:09 am - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

Answer Me This...Reply
Just like you, I'm sure many players would think they'd make more money from extra ticket sales, but to answer your question requires me to ask you a question. That question is - WHAT extra ticket sales? Today's Florida Fantasy5 jackpots are way down. The winners prize pool contains 62% of all ticket sales for the sales period of the upcoming drawing. Single winner jackpots are now approximately $110,000 when prior to going to two draws per day they were approximately $200,000. 62% of $
Dec 15, 2025, 10:38 am - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
I agree I think it's going to end up between 1.45 and 1.5 tonight. The worksheet is reporting a supported annuity of 1.411, and I'd imagine they're still being deliberately conservative, so 1.45 seems likely to be close to the least we should be expecting. Saturday is projected at 1.7 but I'll be surprised if it's not between 1.8 and 1.9 They're forecasting sales of $467 million, and a supported annuity of 1.762, so I'd think it should easily get to 1.8. Based on the current foreca
Sep 3, 2025, 3:00 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Impact of World Cup on Lottery Sales
I don't know about Las Vegas and the Casinos across the country, but, is it fair to say that the World Cup being held in the US has had no impact on Lottery Sales? I think the jackpots increase has been consistent with the past before the games started. I thought when fans from around the globe come in and see our PB and MM billboards they would want some part of the pie. At least, I know alcohol sales are on another level
Jun 28, 2026, 12:45 pm - JustMaybe - Lottery Discussion Forum

The Florida Millionaire Raffle is back!Reply
The Florida Lottery finally updated their weekly sales data. Their potential total sales figure comes to 379128. One thing I saw that I hadn't noticed before was this note on the bottom of the sales update page: *Ticket sales will continue through June 30, 2026, or until 2,000,000 tickets are sold, whichever occurs first. Uh, Florida Lottery, reality is calling...
May 29, 2026, 2:19 pm - Sum Buddy - Lottery Discussion Forum