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VIDEO: Viral video of woman claiming she won the $1.08 billion Powerball jackpot — is it real?Reply
Haven't paid attention since the conviction announcement
Jul 28, 2023, 10:07 am - CDanaT - Lottery News

$875 MILLION: Powerball lottery jackpot surges on rolloverReply
They botched that for sure......over estimated... As near as I can tell they're outright lying to us. Sales being a lot less than their forecast is one thing, but somewhere around noon on Friday (Todd posted about it at 12:39PM), after they had a day and a half of ticket sales to dial things in they claimed that the cash value had gone up by several million dollars. Not only did they do that when sales should have made it obvious that they were going to come up short, they did it while stil
Jul 16, 2023, 3:24 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Ohio woman buys same lottery ticket as customer in front of her, wins $500,000 prizeReply
Scratch offs are different from draw games in that the winning tickets are predetermined. They print so many tickets and distribute them throughout the state, winning a jackpot is like finding a needle in a haystack. It's irrelevant that the winner announced she was going to purchase the next ticket.It could have gone the other way.Its just coincidental that she made the announcement and won
Sep 4, 2024, 9:21 am - Tony Numbers - Lottery News

Virginia man who won $1,000 a week lottery prize in Cash4Life says it's just "good"Reply
Lucky for Life is now MUSL drawn on RNG in Iowa. I believe they changed from Connecticut RNGs to Iowa RNGs around September this year. There really wasn't a big announcement.
Dec 21, 2023, 12:04 pm - Think - Lottery News

$835 MILLION: Powerball jackpot set to deliver ultra-wealthReply
Public Service Announcement #2 Of a $23,400 lifetime cost of powerplay powerball tickets, you have ~ 99% chance being down $19,600 when you die. This assumes you have no pick advantage over uniform random selection. You can reduce that near certain lifetime loss by $6540 by playing with regular powerball tickets. You can reduce that near certain loss even further by not playing low-odds numbers-racket State-run lottos.
Sep 27, 2023, 1:33 pm - Wavepack - Lottery News

$835 MILLION: Powerball jackpot set to deliver ultra-wealthReply
Public Service Announcement: If you want to maximize your total PB lotto lifetime losses, then spent $3/ticket on the powerplay option. Why? Because the extra 50% cost on your losing tickets totals to more than the extra money gained when you do hit, on average.
Sep 26, 2023, 6:40 pm - Wavepack - Lottery News

New Jersey Lottery increasing Jersey Cash 5 ticket priceReply
So in its quest for greater profits, as if having a record breaking 2023 wasn't enough, the New Jersey Lottery continues its trend of raising ticket prices while adding gimmicks and reducing prizes. In this case, what the Jersey Lottery did not include in their announcement is that they have discontinued the $2 win for matching two numbers, they have effectively reduced the Second Tier prize of Matching 4-out-of-5 numbers to $250, a fixed amount versus the $500 to $800 that it used to regularly
Jun 29, 2024, 11:01 pm - jplayer33 - Lottery News

One California winner of $395 million Mega Millions lottery jackpot comes forwardNews Story
Now we wait for the second winner, who bought their winning ticket at the same store By Kate Northrop One of the lottery winners splitting a $395 million Mega Millions who bought their winning ticket at the same store as the other jackpot winner has come forward to claim their share of the prize. The California Lottery announced on Tuesday that one of the winners of the $395 million Mega Millions jackpot has claimed their prize, which will be split with another jackpot-winning ticket
Jun 27, 2024, 7:49 am - Todd - Lottery News

$1.7 billion in combined jackpots, as USA multi-state lottery games peak togetherReply
If it is won tonight, it will be over $1billion once the final prize is determined. Strikes me as unlikely. The decision to post a revised cash value was made based on a 15% increase over the initial sales prediction. Reaching an even billion would have required an increase of 24% over the revision they made sometime on Friday when they had over 2 days of actual sales for predicting the final total. On the worksheet on the TX website the supported jackpot was reported as $982.35 million. MM
Mar 23, 2024, 1:56 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News

California Lottery reveals winner of $1.27 billion Mega Millions jackpotNews Story
She's the winner of the largest Mega Millions prize in the state By Kate Northrop The California Lottery officially announced the winner of the historic $1.27 billion Mega Millions jackpot, the game's largest win in the state. California Lottery officials held a live press conference in Cottonwood on Monday to reveal the winner of the $1.269 billion Mega Millions jackpot drawn in December 2024. Someone in the state of California started off 2025 a lottery winner of a billion-doll
Mar 18, 2025, 7:59 am - Todd - Lottery News