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

No - None

[ 121 ]

[ 56.3% ]

Very Little - One Line

[ 46 ]

[ 21.4% ]

Some - I Cut Back

[ 13 ]

[ 6.1% ]

Yes - Business As Usual

[ 35 ]

[ 16.3% ]

Total valid votes

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Discarded votes

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HoLeeKau

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Apr 23, 2026, 1:46 pm

Well, apparently Idahoans haven't cut back on lottery due to price increases. The small Fred Meyer I go to just installed a THIRD vending machine. It's a small enough store that they only carry about 75% of the products the other stores in town do. So I bought my MM for tomorrow night from the new machine and got a 10X. Just the 10X feels like good luck, so we'll see if it holds.
CDanaT

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Apr 24, 2026, 6:13 am

Will the Measly Millions produce yet another $10 Million scheduled rollover ?? ......Stay tuned kids and good luck if you are participating tonight

Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
Justing618

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Apr 24, 2026, 8:36 am

Quote: Originally posted by CDanaT on Apr 24, 2026
Will the Measly Millions produce yet another $10 Million scheduled rollover ?? ......Stay tuned kids and good luck if you are participating tonight

@ measly ....... But I do wonder if it was still a dollar a draw. What the average jackpot would be right now.
CDanaT

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Apr 24, 2026, 12:19 pm

Quote: Originally posted by Justing618 on Apr 24, 2026
@ measly ....... But I do wonder if it was still a dollar a draw. What the average jackpot would be right now.

With the $5 price tag on the Measly and the PB going multinational...what the geniuses should do is bring the dollar game back with the old odds from Mega Millions maybe even add 1 number to the Mega Ball, draws on Thursday & Sunday and let it roll.....That will tell them what the players really want.

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

JADELottery

Eagle Sun

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Apr 24, 2026, 12:27 pm

Well, we're just going with these in our next run of LA with the Bonus Feature...

	Lotto America
	DisimulateNexus(N, D, Z₁, Z₂)												Disimulate Inverted Distribution
	Normal						Symmetrical						Normal						Symmetrical
Index	A	B	C	D	E	SB	A	B	C	D	E	SB	A	B	C	D	E	SB	A	B	C	D	E	SB
1	06	07	14	37	43	05	10	16	39	46	47	06	10	30	35	42	50	08	03	11	18	23	43	03
2	10	11	17	18	30	06	23	35	36	42	43	05	04	19	26	39	48	10	05	14	27	34	49	01
3	03	29	32	34	37	04	16	19	21	24	50	07	16	17	26	31	40	07	13	22	27	36	37	04
4	08	26	27	34	38	05	15	19	26	27	45	06	01	07	23	33	37	03	16	20	30	46	52	08
5	04	07	14	24	37	07	16	29	39	46	49	04	12	23	31	42	52	06	01	11	22	30	41	05

The One Over None
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CDanaT

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Apr 24, 2026, 1:12 pm

I see the leaders of the CV on LA have dropped that back $40K today............Fudgers

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Justing618

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Apr 24, 2026, 2:36 pm

Quote: Originally posted by CDanaT on Apr 24, 2026
With the $5 price tag on the Measly and the PB going multinational...what the geniuses should do is bring the dollar game back with the old odds from Mega Millions maybe even add 1 number to the Mega Ball, draws on Thursday & Sunday and let it roll.....That will tell them what the players really want.

I agree! But it seems common sense is not so common anymore. Good luck if your playing! And have a great weekend......
Coin Toss

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Apr 24, 2026, 7:29 pm

Quote: Originally posted by CDanaT on Apr 24, 2026
Will the Measly Millions produce yet another $10 Million scheduled rollover ?? ......Stay tuned kids and good luck if you are participating tonight

It must be nice to think of nine dollar digits to the left of a decimal as measly.
Tucker Black

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Apr 25, 2026, 1:36 am

Quote: Originally posted by Coin Toss on Apr 24, 2026
It must be nice to think of nine dollar digits to the left of a decimal as measly.

It is measly given the odds of winning and the fact that it's a 30 year annuity. It's worth 1.5 cents.

A prize worth 1.5 cents would be fine if the tickets were 5 cents per line. They are not 5 cents. They're five dollars. What a joke.
CDanaT

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Apr 25, 2026, 8:01 am

Kudos to the MM and their participants for finally getting out of the automated $4.5 Million Cash Value increases for the last month and a half(3/13/26)

Keep up the good work, only 29 more draws to break the $1 Billion figure...... Best of luck to all that participate.

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Coin Toss

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Apr 25, 2026, 12:37 pm

Quote: Originally posted by Tucker Black on Apr 25, 2026
It is measly given the odds of winning and the fact that it's a 30 year annuity. It's worth 1.5 cents.

A prize worth 1.5 cents would be fine if the tickets were 5 cents per line. They are not 5 cents. They're five dollars. What a joke.

Let's say somehow you found yourself in a room with new millionaires. Not billionaires, millionaires. You mention that you consider $163,000,000 measly. You would be laughed at and told to leave. Your sanity would also be questioned for the 1.5 cents remark.
winterbird

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Apr 25, 2026, 2:15 pm

I talked to Confucius and he says that a person who expects to have a chance to win thinks that a $5 entry fee is worth it. But a person who thinks that winning is as likely as getting struck by lightning three times will rather spend $2 on the other big lotto, and use the remaining $3 (x number of times played) for life expenses.

Because most of us aren't rich... yet, and likely ever. I can dream just fine with a $2 powerball ticket.

Calling megamills names like "measly" is just making fun of it. No need to take it so literally.
Tucker Black

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Apr 25, 2026, 4:20 pm

Quote: Originally posted by Coin Toss on Apr 25, 2026
Let's say somehow you found yourself in a room with new millionaires. Not billionaires, millionaires. You mention that you consider $163,000,000 measly. You would be laughed at and told to leave. Your sanity would also be questioned for the 1.5 cents remark.

That's not how lottery tickets work, where you pay $5 and in exchange for that they pay you $163 million every time.

If I buy a ticket, I haven't won yet. At that point the prize is worth just a few pennies. Most of the ticket price goes to the jackpot winner (which is almost guaranteed to be someone else) and profit.

No thanks!
Coin Toss

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Apr 25, 2026, 6:11 pm

winter bird, Calling Mega Millions measly by people who do not have near the jackpots says a lot about those people. Tucker Black, One more time no one is pointing a gun at you and demanding you play.
Lotterologist

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Apr 25, 2026, 9:57 pm

Quote: Originally posted by Coin Toss on Apr 25, 2026
winter bird, Calling Mega Millions measly by people who do not have near the jackpots says a lot about those people. Tucker Black, One more time no one is pointing a gun at you and demanding you play.

...Calling Mega Millions measly by people who do not have near the jackpots says a lot about those people.

What do you think it says about them?

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