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Selling an Annuity
I am thinking of trying to buy Powerball tickets in United Kingdom. My motive is to claim the jackpot and pay no taxes. But I do not want to keep the annuity. Does anyone have experience in dealing with annuities? How difficult is it to sell an annuity for close to its present day value? Thanks.
Jul 11, 2026, 4:07 pm - winoneday - Lottery Discussion Forum

Powerball lottery tickets go on sale in the UK on July 21Reply
1st UK Jackpot $300 million Pounds Tonight or $401,400,000 - annuity/30 years only US annuity jackpot is $567,000,000 so we in America pay $2.00 to win way more money than the UK does for over $6.00???? Does that make sense to anyone? All the other British lotteries are way less cost per ticket. I will surprised if they sell many until as others here say the jackpot reaches 1 Billion pounds but with the apparent discounted jackpot in place that would be $1.4 billion. L
Yesterday, 9:39 am - JohnGalt3 - Lottery News

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
MM went for 40 draws under the $5.00 ticket to produce a jackpot of $485.2 cash/$980 annuity. If you can do math, that's 5 months. And? How long it takes is irrelevant to the probability of happening. Given your username I'd think it should be easy enough to understand. play all ya want, no one is gonna win till the breaks the billion dollar mark Somebody could win this Friday, but it's more likely that it won't be won until they sell about another 145 million tickets. If
Jul 8, 2026, 3:01 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Powerball lottery tickets go on sale in the UK on July 21Reply
Call me a conspiracy theorist but, what I see is a billion dollar jackpot before September to 'welcome' the UK players. Which will be split between a UK ticket and a US state. I'm not saying they control the numbers... but they sure as hell know about the probability cycle and they can estimate when a draw is close to winning. The UK is coming in at about 700 million est... Just wanted to say this out loud to someone even if you don't agree or tell me they can't control 'random'. It's going
Jul 12, 2026, 1:51 am - adamc224 - Lottery News

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
This is the second largest Mega Millions jackpot since the launch of the revised game and behind first place by $276 million. Or it's $332 million behind the highest jackpot under the new format. With the current annuity to cash ratio it will take an advertised jackpot of nearly $1.04 billion to equal the $452.2 million cash that was awarded to the winner of the current record. It is also only 5 rolls away from breaking the record for the largest number of consecutive rolls. And it
Jul 19, 2026, 4:52 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
MM went for 40 draws under the $5.00 ticket to produce a jackpot of $485.2 cash/$980 annuity. If you can do math, that's 5 months. The pretax expectation value was 0.49 using a Poisson distribution for probable prizes. At that time there was a 8.15% probability of one winner, 0.36% for two winners, and a 0.01% chance of three winners. Perhaps you're expecting rollovers for a year in predicting an expectation value greater than or equal to 1.0. It's not likely
Jun 23, 2026, 6:43 pm - Prob988 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
Looks like PB's Jackpot run is faster than MM's. PB over takes MM before their 2 nd week run. Also, PB is entering its 9 th week and is at $416 Million; while MM was only at $296 Million in its 9 th week. Below are the tables of data we used. Mega Millions Index Week Run Date Days Year Month Day Weekday A B C D E MB Annuity Cash Sales 0 0 0/7 740060 2026 3 20 Fri 11 20 51 55 63 04 $50,000,000 $22,600,000 $19,875,885 1 0 4/7 740064 2026 3 24 Tue 04 13
Jul 5, 2026, 5:49 pm - JADELottery - Lottery Discussion Forum

how long would you wait to claim a powerball jackpot?Reply
There is a small handful that never claim it because they either lost the ticket, threw it out because they didn't check it properly, or put it somewhere to check later and forgot they had it. Think glove box, car console, kitchen junk drawer etc. Current unclaimed PB tickets. https://www.powerball.net/unclaimed-prizes Current unclaimed MM tickets. https://www.lottery.net/mega-millions/unclaimed-prizes Here are some of the most famous unclaimed lottery jackpots in history: $1
Jul 15, 2026, 9:31 pm - grwurston - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
Yeah, well whatever. I can see the numbers, as can anyone who bothers to look intelligently . If one is unintelligent, that's another matter. It is something called a fact that the $5 version of Megamillions ran for 40 draws without producing a billion dollar (annuity) jackpot. It is also a fact that the pretax expectation value has never gone beyond 0.5, something Powerball, as well as the $2.00 MM did a number of times. If one looks at expectation values, it's immediately obvious to anyone
Jul 8, 2026, 9:48 pm - Prob988 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
So a slow climb to a billion is arguably the game working as designed, not underperforming. Not really design, but I think MM was hoping that ticket sales wouldn't have dropped as much as they did. They're making more money on each drawing for a given jackpot, but it has now been over 18 months since their last jackpot over $1 billion. While I think they hoped for more ticket sales, I think both games are designed to occasionally produce the larger than average jackpots that results in unus
Jul 19, 2026, 5:38 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum