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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

The Florida Millionaire Raffle is back!Reply
Florida Lottery's weekly sales update posted today is 347335. Subtracting last week's update number of 330394 gives 16941 tickets sold in the past week. That averages only 2420 sold per day for the week. After a total of 117 sales days so far, that averages to 2969 sold per day. There are only five sales days left. They might not even hit 400,000.
Jun 26, 2026, 6:08 pm - Sum Buddy - Lottery Discussion Forum

Impact of World Cup on Lottery Sales
I don't know about Las Vegas and the Casinos across the country, but, is it fair to say that the World Cup being held in the US has had no impact on Lottery Sales? I think the jackpots increase has been consistent with the past before the games started. I thought when fans from around the globe come in and see our PB and MM billboards they would want some part of the pie. At least, I know alcohol sales are on another level
Jun 28, 2026, 12:45 pm - JustMaybe - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
$5 a shot for playing 1:292 M odds. everyone would have problem to get over the cost efficiency: it's not worthed it, and it's not fun (one would spend $1 buck to buy a dream)! Yes, Mega Millions ticket sales have dropped significantly since the price increased from $2 to $5 in April 2025 . Data from state lotteries indicates that the number of tickets sold has declined by roughly 24% to 30%. While casual players are less willing to buy tickets at the higher price, the 150% price increas
Jul 20, 2026, 10:09 pm - TwoMillion - 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. 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

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
Fun race to watch. If I'm betting on which one gets caught first, I'd actually lean Powerball purely on cadence - three draws a week vs two means more chances to roll AND more chances to die. Mega's been the slow burner since the format change (1 in 290.5M vs PB's 1 in 292.2M, so basically identical odds per line now), but fewer draws per week means MM jackpots age slower. The thing I always watch in these races is ticket-sales elasticity - once either one crosses ~$800M the casual money flo
Jul 8, 2026, 10:05 pm - NumberCruncher2 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
A high Powerball jackpot can increase sales for Mega Millions. Mega Millions produced two life changing wins last night: 3 million in Arizona, and 7.3 million in California.
Jul 22, 2026, 12:46 pm - MsBee18 - Lottery Discussion Forum

how long would you wait to claim a powerball jackpot?Reply
Don't forget that you don't get the $$$ right away if you claim the day after you win, it takes a while for all the States to pay in their share of the sales, plus other BS to deal with means you might not see the $$ for 6 weeks to three months after you claim.
Jul 20, 2026, 4:57 pm - Rexer90 - Lottery Discussion Forum

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
Normal businesses consolidate or have sales when business slows. The dummies at MUSL did the opposite. They should have consolidated PB and MM and dropped the price to $1. Unlike almost everything else in life, the price of a lottery ticket is not goods or services. You're buying a chance to win. A more expensive chance to win should equal a higher probability. Not with MM. 2.5 times the price for the same (approximately) chance of winning. I'll never understand why MM sales didn't d
Jul 8, 2026, 3:41 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum