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It looks as if the $5.00 MM ticket is doing poorly.Reply
Sales are lower. But they are making more money. Do to the price increase. Just one data point, but the first 3 drawings for 400+ had sales of $105 million compared to $117 million for the first 3 drawings for 400 the last time it got there before the price increase. That's just hair under 90%. Looking at PB sales for 3 drawings at 400+ at roughly the same times the more recent run had sales of 88% of the previous sales. Again, that's a limited set of data but it looks like lower MM sal
Feb 28, 2026, 4:01 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
It's now on rollover #29 and the current jackpot is at $575M/$264.6M Cash https://www.texaslottery.com/export/sites/lottery/Documents/jackpotestimates/mm20251007.pdf Jackpot run 9/13/24 - 12/27/24 at rollover # 29 was at $1B/$448.8M Cash https://www.texaslottery.com/export/sites/lottery/Documents/jackpotestimates/mm20241227.pdf Jackpot run 12/12/23 - 3/26/24 at rollover #29 was at $977/$467M Cash https://www.texaslottery.com/export/sites/lottery/Documents/jackpotestimate
Oct 8, 2025, 11:18 am - CDanaT - Lottery Discussion Forum

Texas Lottery Commission votes to ban lottery couriersReply
Both the lottery and the courier businesses have contributed to errant conducts and behaviors that could be deemed to infringe on the antitrust laws. The conducts, practices and business model of the courier services prevents fairness for the majority of the players and other retailers with just 1 or 2 terminals. The in-advertent accommodation of the courier services business models by the lottery prevents fairness for the brick mortar lottery retailers. The 2020 COVID lock down, gav
May 1, 2025, 10:25 am - Participant - Lottery News

Lottery couriers plead with Texas Lottery Commission in last-ditch effortReply
They need to isolate the problem of buying jackpots from the smaller games that don't have jackpots. People can only profit from buying all possible combinations in jackpot games that increase their prize amounts until someone wins. It makes no sense to apply this law to smaller games like Pick 3 4 because the prize amounts never increase, so there is no point in buying all possible combinations. Having a lot machines in a store is great. Players do not like standing waiting to us
Mar 6, 2025, 2:22 pm - LottoIntuitive - Lottery News

US Powerball multi-state lottery game expanding to the UKNews Story
United Kingdom lottery players will soon participate for massive billion-dollar jackpots By Kate Northrop The Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL) and the UK National Lottery have jointly announced that the US-based Powerball multi-state lottery game will be expanding to the UK. It's official: Powerball is growing beyond North America into the United Kingdom, where lottery players overseas will soon have the opportunity to play for the billion-dollar jackpots that only US lottery p
Apr 14, 2026, 6:31 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Mega Millions jackpot closes in on $1 billionNews Story
14th-largest lottery jackpot in history By Todd Northrop The Mega Millions multi-state lottery game continued its jackpot run last night now approaching $1 billion when no tickets matched all six numbers. Last night nobody won the Mega Millions lottery drawing, triggering another jackpot rollover that created a Friday jackpot estimated at $965 million with a cash value of $445.3 million. To get to this massive size, the jackpot has been growing since it started on July 1 as a $50
Nov 13, 2025, 10:13 am - Todd - Lottery News

$1.8 BILLION: Powerball jackpot now second-largest ever as ticket sales surge across the USANews Story
Massive sales triggers jackpot increase to #2 all-time 4th-largest cash value in history By Todd Northrop Due to a ticket-buying frenzy for Saturday's Powerball drawing, the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL) has raised the official Powerball lottery jackpot estimate to $1.8 billion, making it the second-largest lottery jackpot in world history. The all-important lump-sum cash value of the jackpot has been raised to $826.4 million, which is the fourth-largest lottery cash val
Sep 5, 2025, 11:21 am - Todd - Lottery News

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
The pool manager got back to me with an explanation, and I quote: When both the Mega Millions and Powerball jackpots are both large enough , the decision on which game to play is based on which of the two games presents the best expected value given the current size of the jackpots. In this case, Powerball clearly presents the higher value. I guess that makes sense. Winning $4 million is clearly life changing. But winning an additional $2 million does not make much more of a differenc
Jul 9, 2026, 5:43 pm - winoneday - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
Historically, albeit rarely, MM would occasionally approach pre-tax expectation values of greater than 1.0. This is sure to never happen with the $5 ticket. It's entirely possible that the current format could reach 1.0 before taxes. In fact, it's even more likely thanks to the $5 ticket price, and 4 of the top 5 MM jackpots show that it's possible. The five biggest MM jackpots all exceeded a pre-tax 1.0 expectation value (about $605 million cash), with cash values of $877.8 million, $7
Jun 17, 2026, 11:23 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

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