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Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
They had to have cheated. Don't be ridiculous. It's so easy to win there's no reason to cheat even if you could. One complaint would justify being upset with the price increase, a constant complaint is overkill. You know that there are two of you that are making your complaint over and over, right? I could understand someone like Elon Musk calling $10 million measly I don't imagine anyone here actually thinks any of the advertised jackpots are chump change, but so far I do
Dec 6, 2025, 12:23 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
The supported jackpot is $69.7 million whereas in the previous run, the supported jackpot was $66.9 million. And the cash value is now 41.9 vs 39.9. The annuity value is 4.19% higher than in the previous run, but cash value, which is a direct measurement of sales is 4.77% higher. That may be an indication that as players buy in when the jackpot gets bigger the $5 price becomes something they're okay with at lower jackpot levels, too. Or it might just be because very high jackpots tend t
Nov 30, 2025, 7:59 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
Here are some possibilities about what's coming. It takes 201 million tickets to reach a 50% chance of getting a winner. We obviously can't get a winner in any of the previous drawings, so from this point there's a 50% chance that the cash value will reach about $668 million. At the current interest rate that would be an advertised annuity of $1.44 billion. On average it takes 292.47 million tickets to produce each winner, so once the cash value has reached $391.7 million (tonight's valu
Nov 8, 2025, 1:56 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
We went back and looked at both Powerball Mega Millions during the period of when they both had starting jackpots of $20 Million and $2.00 per Line. In addition, we correctly scaled the time frames by which each performs their draws on a weekly interval. Below is Powerball's $20M / $2.00 run and we can see it breaks the Billion Dollar Barrier on average in its 13 th week of draws. Below is Mega Millions' previous $20M / $2.00 run and we can see it breaks the Billion Do
Oct 13, 2025, 7:19 pm - JADELottery - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
I'm not sure what numbers from the Texas spreadsheets you used in your previous post to determine the chance of a roll but what do you think are the chances we see another 2 billion jackpot? There's a worksheet for every drawing, and you'll find a link to it on the page that shows the current advertised jackpot. Somewhere around noon on the day of the drawing (or Friday for Saturday's PB jackpot) they add the next jackpot if it rolls. https://www.texaslottery.com/export/sites/lottery/Gam
Aug 30, 2025, 1:13 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

$1 million Powerball lottery ticket purchased in West Virginia expiring in two weeksReply
I'll bet you all a liverwurst sandwich with ....... that the jackpot will end up being $849 mil.! I'll bet you all an olive loaf sandwich ....... that the jackpot will end up being $851 mil. P.U.! What Stinx? I'll tell you what stinks! What stinx is projected jackpots! Now bring on Powerball. ShagE3
Aug 27, 2025, 2:09 pm - ShagE3 - Lottery News

Texas: 6/1 - 6/30/2025Reply
These Texas lawmakers are making it hard for players to play and creating laws that players don't want, as if there will be no consequences and players will just accept it. Games like the Pick 3 4 have nothing to do with people buying jackpots which is what started this whole mess. All they had to do was create a rule limiting the number of combos you can buy in jackpot games only. I care more about their results than their words. Their results show they don't care about what TX players want
Jun 24, 2025, 2:45 pm - LottoIntuitive - Pick 3 Forum

New Mega Millions game reports 300% increase in non-jackpot prizes in first monthReply
They had to, we were calling them out on it. They had to, because the jackpot is based on how much cash they have, and as of tonight they have enough cash to fund a $122 million annuity. They are selling less tickets but bringing in more money. I don't know why so many people seem confused. What's happening is pretty much exactly what happened when PB added a 3rd drawing. Fewer tickets were sold for the Wednesday and Saturday drawings, but sales for Monday drawings increased the to
May 16, 2025, 5:59 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery News

North Carolina woman sets record for state's largest online instant lottery win at $6.7 millionNews Story
Digital multi-state game means faster growing jackpots and bigger records By Kate Northrop A North Carolina woman set a new state record for the largest online instant lottery win when her $2 ticket scooped a $6,745,117 jackpot. Online North Carolina lottery players have a new record to beat for digital instant wins one woman just set the bar higher with her $6.7 million jackpot win. On April 8, Man Yo of New Bern spent $2 on the Monopoly digital instant game and ended up taking
May 9, 2025, 9:51 am - Todd - Lottery News

First big win of new Mega Millions game is one ticket in Ohio worth $112 millionReply
I have always seen the lottery as a fun way to pay taxes, which in my state goes to education, something I support. However, I only play by the value of the pretax expectation value, agreeing to lose money playing the lottery when even when it's ridiculously low, 0.2. Below 0.2 I don't play. As the expectation value increases, the number of tickets I play increases, adding tickets as it hits 0.3, 0.4, etc. There have been a few rare occasions, with huge jackpots where the expectation val
Apr 25, 2025, 12:13 pm - Prob988 - Lottery News