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• SilverLion

  

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  Mar 6, 2016, 8:56 pm

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  Quote: Originally posted by jjtheprince on Mar 6, 2016

  I've switched to MM for now, it's cheaper to play & the minimum/lower jackpots for Powerball suck anyway.  $40-$50 million would do nothing for me lol

  Are there any trends that you like lately jjtheprince?  I agree.  40-50 million probably would do nothing for me either.  I wouldn't even be able to buy a REALLY

  nice yacht.  I could buy about 100,000 skiffs though and three trips to the moon.
• SilverLion

  

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  Mar 6, 2016, 8:59 pm

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  Quote: Originally posted by lulu1feather on Mar 5, 2016

   YES! Exactly my thinking!

  I will keep playing both!

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  As for the billion dollar mark being reached again, for either PB or MM, isn't anything I am waiting for. 

  Any million(s) is more millions than I have now! My plans wouldn't change too much if I were to win $50M or $250M.

  I'd rather see jackpots won more frequently and spread all that wealth around.

  For me " The more, the merrier" means the more winners, the merrier!

  Could MM have the next billion dollar jackpot? I guess so, but I feel like it would take twice as long to reach the amount.

  Can it be done? Sure, anything is possible.

  Maybe you are right.  Thats why you have to plunk $50 dollars down instead of $25!!  We have to play more at lower odds!  Otherwise they will panic and

  change the matrix again.
• KY Floyd

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by MaximumMillions on Mar 5, 2016

  MM has odds of 1:258 000 000.

  But I do agree that the lower ticket cost makes a 700M$ jackpot unlikely.

  $700 million is unlikely for PB, too, despite the $2 ticket price and steeper odds.

  Still, until 7 weeks ago MM had the record for the biggest jackpot, and it reached that record with $1 tickets and 1 in 175 million odds. Applying that probability to the current odds an equivalent jackpot would be just a hair under $700 million for the cash value, or almost $1.1 billion for the annuity value.