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• WhoaMama

  

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  Will MM get the Billion-Dollar Jackpot in the upcoming drawings?
• weshar75

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by WhoaMama on Jul 25, 2017

  Will MM get the Billion-Dollar Jackpot in the upcoming drawings?

  Powerball has the record jackpot not mega millions and your poll is misleading.-weshar75

  
• WhoaMama

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by weshar75 on Jul 25, 2017

  Powerball has the record jackpot not mega millions and your poll is misleading.-weshar75

  

  I must have worder a poll choice wrong. Yes, Powerball has the record, but all I'm saying is will Mega Millions have a billion-dollae jackpot like PB. considering MM is rolling over a lot....
• Todd

  

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  I don't think it has a chance with the lower ticket cost. Once they go to $2 per ticket in October Mega Millions will have a chance to get there. With $1 per ticket there are too many tickets sold, meaning too many of the possible combinations are covered to get there.

   

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• Redd55

  

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  I've finally realized how important how many tickets sold is to whether there is a winner or not.  I'm always complaining about lack of CA SL winners. Even in a state with 35 million, they dont seem to be selling as many tickets as they use to, which accounts for the drop in number of winners per years.
• winoneday

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by Redd55 on Jul 26, 2017

  I've finally realized how important how many tickets sold is to whether there is a winner or not.  I'm always complaining about lack of CA SL winners. Even in a state with 35 million, they dont seem to be selling as many tickets as they use to, which accounts for the drop in number of winners per years.

  "I've finally realized how important how many tickets sold is to whether there is a winner or not."

  And that took you only two years to figure out? Good for you!
• wander73

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by WhoaMama on Jul 25, 2017

  Will MM get the Billion-Dollar Jackpot in the upcoming drawings?

  Nobody can promise anything at all.  However we may never see and I seen it on the news.  The tri state mall before the turn of the century when at that time the line went from the supermarket all the way down to the opening of the parking lot.   6 hr wait for tickets to be sold to all customers.
• Redd55

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by winoneday on Aug 1, 2017

  "I've finally realized how important how many tickets sold is to whether there is a winner or not."

  And that took you only two years to figure out? Good for you!

  It only took two of your posts to realize that there is something mentally wrong with you.  Take your meds. 
• KY Floyd

  

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  Back when the odds of winning were 1 in 175 million MM sold enough tickets without producing a winner to generate a cash jackpot of $474 million. The probability of that happening was the sae as the probability of selling enough tickets without a winner to generate a cash jackpot of $698 million with the current odds of 1 in 258 million. Based on the current cash/annuity ratio a cash value of $698 million would be advertised as $1.13 billion, so it's clearly possible that MM could reach $1 billion.

  The chances that the current run will reach $1 billion could be less than 1% or as high as 5% depending on the progression of the advertised jackpots.