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Virginia: 7/1 - 7/31/2026Reply
IMO your odds just improved significantly for the night draw!
Yesterday, 2:10 pm - Rosco757 - Pick 3 Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
I can spend more, but Im now 72. A 2 Step win would be plenty for my remaining years. I do play TX Lotto, still only a buck for ticket. But the odds on that game is pretty bad. Not MM or PB bad, but.... 2 Step would take care of me for the rest of my life along with a couple IRA's I have. I used to spend 2k a year or more. Yeah, I won more, but nothing really noteworthy. One game I played a lot back then was All or Nothing. $2 a ticket. I would play 5 tickets of the same numbers,
Jul 18, 2026, 9:47 pm - rcbbuckeye - Lottery Discussion Forum

Powerball lottery tickets go on sale in the UK on July 21News Story
U.S. ticket price and game odds remain unchanged as expansion milestone approaches Powerball officials announced this week that ticket sales in the United Kingdom will begin on July 21, 2026, marking the next step in the game's historic expansion across the Atlantic. Players in the UK will be able to play for the same Powerball jackpot available to players in the United States beginning with the Powerball drawing on Wednesday, July 22. By expanding the player base internationally, Po
Jul 8, 2026, 3:31 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
Just look at the odds of any jackpot game is honestly the cleanest filter there is. Everything else is noise on top of a number that basically doesn't move. And your point about Tx2Step is the one people miss: the smaller state games have dramatically better odds for prizes that would still genuinely change a regular person's month. A few hundred thousand at 1 in 1.8M beats a fantasy at 1 in 290M, especially on a fixed budget. Sounds like you already ran that math a long time ago. Do you find th
Jul 18, 2026, 3:08 pm - NumberCruncher2 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Michigan: 7/1 - 7/31/2026Reply
What are the Odds of that, 1 in 1,000 I suppose as they say..glad I saw something before draw cut off caught it twice as 369 2 way.
Jul 7, 2026, 1:14 pm - Sidehussle - Pick 3 Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
Back in the old days when I was making pretty good money, I spent hell bent for leather $$$ on several lottery games, MM included. Now, not so much. I'm on a strict budget, and the $5/ticket is not worth the odds of the game regardless of the jackpot. I even cut way back on PB also. At my age, just winning a few hundred thousand on the little Tx2Step would be quite fine.
Jul 18, 2026, 11:27 am - rcbbuckeye - Lottery Discussion Forum

suppose you won a $1000 lottery gift card promotionReply
Time it right and bet $20 or more on a Pick 3 straight. Cash the tickets, $10,000 a pop. Repeat the process till the $1,000 is gone. Best odds, no taxes.
Jul 17, 2026, 12:42 am - grwurston - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
Voted Very Little myself. The $5 price fundamentally changed the value math, and I don't think enough people have run the numbers on what you're actually getting for the extra $3. The jackpot odds barely moved: the big prize went from 1 in 302,575,350 to 1 in 290,472,336 with the removal of one Mega Ball. That's about a 4% improvement. Statistically real, practically meaningless when you're that deep in the hundreds of millions. So you're not really paying $5 for better jackpot odds. Whe
Jul 18, 2026, 11:16 am - NumberCruncher2 - Lottery Discussion Forum

suppose you won a $1000 lottery gift card promotionReply
How I Would Spend the $1,000 (The Hybrid Strategy) If I were handed this card, I wouldn't pick any of the extreme options above. I would split the amount to balance entertainment, a shot at a massive payout, and a baseline return: $300 on $20 or $30 Scratch-offs: I would buy a sequential pack or a roll. Since the odds for smaller prizes are high, this $300 would likely convert into roughly $100 to $150 in cash, while keeping a real (albeit small) shot at a five- or six-figure prize. $
Jul 17, 2026, 9:07 am - tokecap - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
At the odds and the payouts, you are lucky if you win $$, a free ticket that is won never seems to pay off, EVER!! And my intuition tells me, under deeper scrutiny, we might find these funds being laundered into our political party system. Sorry, I'm still not over the Powerball security debacle, with a delayed drawing that was pushed to 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time. The next morning, the winning store's security tape had the news van in the parking lot next door at 4:30 a.m., waiting for the owner to
Jul 11, 2026, 10:10 am - TMan007 - Lottery Discussion Forum