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Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?

No - None

[ 121 ]

[ 56.5% ]

Very Little - One Line

[ 45 ]

[ 21.0% ]

Some - I Cut Back

[ 13 ]

[ 6.1% ]

Yes - Business As Usual

[ 35 ]

[ 16.4% ]

Total valid votes

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Discarded votes

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adulane62

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Aug 7, 2025, 6:03 pm

Quote: Originally posted by JADELottery on Aug 7, 2025
Ok, ok, ooo kay...

No one won our PB & J.

Gonna give it a go again.

Our Miserable Millions Money has a home at Powerball.

Good Luck Everyone.

Hi Jade,

Do you still have the softwares you used to share here? They were awesome. Where can we download them?

Thanks!

Go Broncos!
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Eagle Sun

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Aug 7, 2025, 6:32 pm

Quote: Originally posted by adulane62 on Aug 7, 2025
Hi Jade,

Do you still have the softwares you used to share here? They were awesome. Where can we download them?

Thanks!

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CDanaT

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Aug 8, 2025, 11:40 am

Broke down and bought a PB ticket for Saturday. Almost forgot what they looked like. Good luck to all of us that participate in tomorrows draw.

Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
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Aug 8, 2025, 9:20 pm

Quote: Originally posted by CDanaT on Aug 8, 2025
Broke down and bought a PB ticket for Saturday. Almost forgot what they looked like. Good luck to all of us that participate in tomorrows draw.

If your car broke down next to a gas station and you took the opportunity and went in and bought a PB ticket, that would be an awesome story if you win.

I am yet to buy my ticket for tomorrow, will do so between noon and three pm 😁

Good luck to all.

I believe winning the lottery jackpot is a 💯 % factor of luck.

May Fortuna, goddess of chance or lot vindicate me.
CDanaT

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Aug 9, 2025, 8:08 am

Oh boy, another $16 million dollar rollover for the Measly Millions. I do have to give them credit....First all 10's for 10 consecutive

rollovers and now 2 $16's. Consistent lil critters, I must say......... Dilly dilly for them

Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
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Eagle Sun

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Aug 9, 2025, 12:42 pm

Got one self pick and one quick pick for PB & J tonight using my Miserable Millions Money.

Actually, some one left me a $3.00 balance in a lottery self serve machine on one of my stops.

I added an extra $1.00 and made my selections... Woo-Hoo... I'm A Winner!!

We went back and reviewed the $2.00 a line data.

Seems the previous jackpot should have been closer to $212,000,000.

This jackpot should be closer to $235,000,000 based on $2.00 a line data.

Short by $53,000,000, hmm, seems that inflationary $50,000,000 was gobbled up in the last 12 draws.

Good Luck Everyone.

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JustMaybe

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Aug 9, 2025, 1:27 pm

Quote: Originally posted by JADELottery on Aug 9, 2025
Got one self pick and one quick pick for PB & J tonight using my Miserable Millions Money.

Actually, some one left me a $3.00 balance in a lottery self serve machine on one of my stops.

I added an extra $1.00 and made my selections... Woo-Hoo... I'm A Winner!!

We went back and reviewed the $2.00 a line data.

Seems the previous jackpot should have been closer to $212,000,000.

This jackpot should be closer to $235,000,000 based on $2.00 a line data.

Short by $53,000,000, hmm, seems that inflationary $50,000,000 was gobbled up in the last 12 draws.

Good Luck Everyone.

Hahaha the $3 was them paying it forward to charity 😂

Now when you win the jackpot today, you get to keep 25% of the win and donate 75% to charity 😂

But that's just for today's draw 😂😂😂

Good luck 🤞

I believe winning the lottery jackpot is a 💯 % factor of luck.

May Fortuna, goddess of chance or lot vindicate me.
JADELottery

Eagle Sun

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Aug 9, 2025, 1:35 pm

Quote: Originally posted by JustMaybe on Aug 9, 2025
Hahaha the $3 was them paying it forward to charity 😂

Now when you win the jackpot today, you get to keep 25% of the win and donate 75% to charity 😂

But that's just for today's draw 😂😂😂

Good luck 🤞

How you know I'd be giving away lots of our money?

There's at least one event we'd be giving many dollars to.

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grwurston

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Aug 9, 2025, 2:23 pm

Why is $5 for a MM ticket so bad when you have people that are paying $50 to win $5 Million on the scratch offs.

List Pick 3 singles by low sums, high sums. Separate each sum row by consecutive pair and non consecutive pair combos. These 3 pair groups. 14 17 47, 25 28 58, 36 39 69 are in 63 combos. 54 combos do not have them. Which sums do the 3 pair groups appear and not appear? Look at root sum groups 147, 258, 369. Play accordingly.
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Eagle Sun

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Aug 9, 2025, 5:55 pm

Quote: Originally posted by grwurston on Aug 9, 2025
Why is $5 for a MM ticket so bad when you have people that are paying $50 to win $5 Million on the scratch offs.

Appears the MM used this same logic and lost.

Good thing most online lottery players are intelligent enough to know the difference between apples and oranges.

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Tucker Black

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Aug 9, 2025, 6:46 pm

Quote: Originally posted by grwurston on Aug 9, 2025
Why is $5 for a MM ticket so bad when you have people that are paying $50 to win $5 Million on the scratch offs.

The probability of winning the jackpot on a $50 scratcher is far higher.

If you bought 25 Powerball tickets, you would have a 1 in 12 million chance of winning the jackpot (or 10 Megamillions tickets, even worse at 1 in 30 million). For the same $50, the Arizona $50 scratcher has a 1 in 900,000 chance of winning the jackpot (and overall prize payout is much higher, at 83% instead of 50%).

I'm okay with winning $5 million, and apparently lots of other people are as well, given the increasing popularity of those games.
IAmABadOne

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Aug 9, 2025, 6:51 pm

Quote: Originally posted by grwurston on Aug 9, 2025
Why is $5 for a MM ticket so bad when you have people that are paying $50 to win $5 Million on the scratch offs.

$50 for a scratcher?

As W. C. Fields has said "You can fool some of the people some of the time -- and that's enough to make a decent living."

It seems like Mega Millions listened to W. C. Fields very carefully, but lots of us know that now...

Best wishes for a $2 Powerball win.

I Am A Bad One, But I am not bad all of the time...
JustMaybe

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Aug 9, 2025, 7:13 pm

Quote: Originally posted by JADELottery on Aug 9, 2025
How you know I'd be giving away lots of our money?

There's at least one event we'd be giving many dollars to.

I know that because out of the $4 spent your contribution was 1$ which is 25% of the total 🤣🤣

That's how am getting my calculation on what you can keep and what goes to other LP members who are the charity 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I can also volunteer to take 25% of the winning on behalf of other LP members and let you keep the 75% 🤣🤣🤣

Is that a better deal 🤝

I believe winning the lottery jackpot is a 💯 % factor of luck.

May Fortuna, goddess of chance or lot vindicate me.
grwurston

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Aug 9, 2025, 9:32 pm

Quote: Originally posted by Tucker Black on Aug 9, 2025
The probability of winning the jackpot on a $50 scratcher is far higher.

If you bought 25 Powerball tickets, you would have a 1 in 12 million chance of winning the jackpot (or 10 Megamillions tickets, even worse at 1 in 30 million). For the same $50, the Arizona $50 scratcher has a 1 in 900,000 chance of winning the jackpot (and overall prize payout is much higher, at 83% instead of 50%).

I'm okay with winning $5 million, and apparently lots of other people are as well, given the increasing popularity of those games.

But would you spend $50 for one scratch off ticket?

List Pick 3 singles by low sums, high sums. Separate each sum row by consecutive pair and non consecutive pair combos. These 3 pair groups. 14 17 47, 25 28 58, 36 39 69 are in 63 combos. 54 combos do not have them. Which sums do the 3 pair groups appear and not appear? Look at root sum groups 147, 258, 369. Play accordingly.
Tucker Black

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Aug 10, 2025, 12:31 am

Quote: Originally posted by grwurston on Aug 9, 2025
But would you spend $50 for one scratch off ticket?

I will once I finish playing through my stack of $3 and $5 tickets. A $70 purchase weeks ago keeps circulating in smaller wins that I exchange for more tickets.

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