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ideal lottery pool size
do you like to play the lottery in a pool or by yourself? what's the best size for a lottery pool in your opinion?
Mar 13, 2026, 12:20 am - Brock Lee - Lottery Discussion Forum

ideal lottery pool sizeReply
I chose just me. I don't need any lottery drama like what happened with Philip Tsostos when he won the lottery and his coworkers sued him each for a cut of his winnings because they had participated in a lottery pool with him. Philip claimed he bought a separate lottery ticket aside from the pool's ticket and claimed that his solo lottery ticket was the one that won not the lottery pool ticket. It was a huge mess. He won his lawsuit case but this is a cautionary tale on why lottery pools can be
Mar 13, 2026, 7:17 am - Lotto Motto - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
I have been wanting to start a lottery pool for PB/MM/other games for a long time now. But, as I am retired and do not have any office/work buddies any longer I have been am unable to locate enough people to make it feasible. I have no family close by and very little contact with anyone else these days, but no pity please, I am one happy individual with this 99% of the time. I have spent quite a bit of time researching the subject and have sketched an outline (still very incomplete) of what
Jun 20, 2025, 1:47 pm - IAmABadOne - Lottery Discussion Forum

$1.7 BILLION: Powerball jackpot juggernaut keeps rollingReply
80 people in your lottery group at work. I am sure a lot of work is not being done there. No business owner or boss should even allow lottery pools at work. Are you the organizer of it. I bet you spend at least 4 hours a day on this pool nonsense. If you win 80 people are going to get 7,900,000.00 each before taxes. What will 1 show up to work there the next day. The business will go under. Never mind the non production that goes in there when everyone is all hyped up over Power Ball. It would d
Sep 4, 2025, 12:44 pm - billybucks - Lottery News

MM $5, PB $2, Powerplay $1IReply
If a lottery pool buys Powerplay, it means the last 1/3 of the pool's money has a zero chance to win the jackpot. The purpose of a lottery pool is to maximize the participants' chances of winning the jackpot. Throwing away the last 1/3 of the pool's money on Powerplay will not change the amount of each participant's share should they win, but will reduce their chances of winning by 1/3. That makes no sense. There is a way to guarantee a $2 million win for second prize (assuming this is n
Oct 2, 2025, 4:55 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

29 co-workers split $1 million Powerball lottery prize in New YorkNews Story
28 New Yorkers and one Pennsylvanian split second-tier prize By Kate Northrop 28 New Yorkers and one Pennsylvania resident claimed and split a $1 million Powerball lottery prize last week, the New York Lottery announced. 29 co-workers all went in on a lottery ticket together as part of an office pool and won $1 million in Powerball, a press release from the Lottery revealed. The group consists of 28 New York residents spanning Nassau, Suffolk, and Queens counties, plus one member
Feb 16, 2026, 7:41 am - Todd - Lottery News

ideal lottery pool sizeReply
Just me. One time I tried to join a very small lottery pool (total two people) but the other person forgot to purchase the ticket before the cut-off time.
Mar 13, 2026, 3:28 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

Arizona lottery retailer employee sued after buying $12.8 million ticket knowing it was a winnerReply
$85 worth of tickets is a lot. it's weird for someone to try to buy that much, then look in their wallet and see they only have $60, then spend every last dollar on tickets. i wonder if it was someone buying for their lottery pool and miscalculated how much they had collected from the other members. if not, sounds like a gambling problem.
Feb 27, 2026, 12:33 pm - Brock Lee - Lottery News

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
01) Payments to the administrator: Someone out sick and fails to pay for a drawing - cover for them or not - are they out for the drawing or out forever? This one should be very easy. If you had a pool of say 100 people, I would be shocked at a 100% collection rate for every drawing. If someone fails to pay for a drawing (sick or not, that's irrelevant, people can fail to pay for any reason), why would they be included in the drawing? If you played the same numbers every week for years
Jun 20, 2025, 3:18 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions jackpot closes in on $1 billionReply
Winner is in Georgia. I'm in the lottery pool that buy the tickets in GA. I hope it's us .:) last time, we collected $5000, bought 1000 tickets.
Nov 15, 2025, 12:50 am - TwoMillion - Lottery News