OMG what I find shocking is the fact that the population of Cottonwood California that won $1,220,000,000 mega millions has less than 6000 people living there I love to Root for my fellow black guys but it's not looking good only 1 percent of the population is black. Maybe a miracle lol or more likely to be struck by lightning ⚡️

California had to go ruin the party.....on to Powerball.

How long do you think this winner will have to wait to see the money in their bank acct?

 Good Ole Cali hits another billion dollar winning ticket

Nice gas station.    heck of an advertisement for the road too.

I went to bing.com images and it looks like sacremento.

Actually it will take only four weeks or less maybe two weeks you know why top Jackpot like this are priority am pretty sure California doesn't want to be like Illinois iou 😄👍🥳 The guy that had problems cashing $44,000,000 is explainable California lottery department deals with Billions so $44,000,000 is like a <snip>roach 😁🐕

California strikes again! Need to start calling them California Billionaire! They have 5 of the 11 top Billion dollar pots and have 8 out of the top 25 on this list! I had a feeling California was going to win it again!

A tourist getting a ticket on their way back to SanFran?

No tourist will stop in Cottonwood California not even to pee they don't have even a star bucks lol personally l will use the City Bypass 😁

Not surprised that it's California

It was pretty easy to predict a California win. There's typically a winner out of California every year for Mega Millions and Powerball (each). This latest win would be the first Mega Millions win for California for 2024.

Same state winning again.  Can we get one big game that California isn't a part of?

Before thinking about California winning lets take a step back and change our play strategies . Look at it this way California is  a very big and rich State. If you put states like planets on a map California is like Jupiter . So don't fight Jupiter instead Change your strategies 🎅🎅

Strategy, like can you recommend?

l decided to dig a little deeper and asked what percentage of California is United States And l got 11 percent or 38,000,000 this Numbet is crucial because when l gamble and win a lot l use ten percent to my advantage. So everything is maths California is playing at a rate of 11 percent which is pretty Good and ask yourself what will happen if everyone in California that plays for $5 decides to play $15 that is the magic number they will go from 11 percent chance to 22 percent chance. So it's not that California is more lucky 🍀 it's just that they are more funded . In Gambling it's called play money. There is play money and there is win Money and the more play money you have the easier it is to bully the table. So in other words people talk about how much win from California but guess what Nobody talks about how much California losses playing . Play money and win Results is directly proportional Like l said if states are like planets California is like Jupiter. What this means is even if you lived in California and played in California all your life your chances of winning is the same because not the state that matters but your Numbers and strategies . So if someone in California wins with Number 6 then someone in Florida wins equally with 6.  The only problem is California has a population of 38,000,000 that is like five different states combined power lol 😆 

Might be a good time to post this video for people bemoaning another California win.  (Myself included!)

The most important strategy that can put other states in Equal Computation Power with California requires a Power of Ten to one of your numbers meaning you must buy a minimum of Ten Tickets.

      For example let say you play the number 

 01. 11. 21. 31. 61. With ball 01

  you must convert one of your five digits to power of ten . So let's say l decided to convert 61 to power of ten that means l will buy ten tickets like this

      01. 11. 21. 31. 60

      01. 11. 21. 31. 61

     01. 11. 21. 31. 62

     01. 11. 21. 31. 63

     01. 11. 21. 31. 64

      01. 11. 21. 31. 65

     01. 11. 21. 31. 66

     01. 11. 21. 31. 67

     01. 11. 21. 31. 68

     01. 11. 21. 31. 69. 
 
And if l decide l want to power 21 to ten then play 

     01. 11. 20. 31. 61

     01. 11. 21. 31. 61

     01. 11. 22. 31. 61

     01. 11. 23. 31. 61

     01. 11. 24. 31. 61. 
     01. 11. 25. 31. 61. 
     01. 11. 26. 31. 61. 
     01. 11. 27. 31. 61. 
      01. 11. 28. 31. 61

      01. 11. 29. 31. 61. 

    My point is you must power one of your numbers to Power of Ten that is the only way you can compete on equal level with California Power of 11 percent Simple maths . 

   So you can even buy one Quick pick and Power up one number to Power Ten   . If you do decide to power up the Red ball only just play five numbers up five numbers down . For example if l pick 15 as my Red ball then I play ten tickets with final ball 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 😃

 To understand how best to use this strategy look at your current lossing tickets and see if it helps 😃

Oh I see

maybe I will save up for next bil $ prize

thanks so much

Was the ticket a quick pick?

Big surprise when they sell more tickets than 20 other states combined. Why isn't it obvious that it does not matter where you live. Selecting the correct numbers is all that matters.

Oh well, maybe next time. Seems like its always the big states or cities .. Maybe Tennessee will b next ..

That is the Problem before a Poor state can come up with the Power to match California the Jackpot is Gone . You think you need right numbers True and you think you need play power True. This is what makes California different They have the right numbers and the Play Power   .  For every one win from a poor powered state California will have ten. So the ration of Big win for California is at 11:1 precisely. So for every ten Billionaires in California maybe Florida get one or two lol

Finally!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Back to my routine $3 ticket.

Yeah Detroit, has never won the Mega or power ball all the metropolitan cities around it have won. I'm not sure Dearborn, has either its mostly middle eastern. When someone in Detroit, finally win it will be the downtown area  where blacks don't patronize much due to everything being so expensive.

There are 44 other states that play the lottery so your logic is flawed! Its like I have 38 million yellow balls and the 44 other states have 270 million green balls, why do the yellow balls keep winning, because the lottery machines are rigged for California to win simple as that nothing else!

The story has been updated with the final jackpot amounts: $1.269 billion / $571.9 million cash option.

Now the 10th-largest cash value of all time.  Annuity ranking remains the same.

Millions of people in California play the lottery, mostly only one person wins.

Trust me, the other millions of California's curse the winner and say "It should have been me"

You as someone living in a different State look at California as the enemy.

The people living in California look at the winner as the enemy.

When a person wins and that person is not you, it doesn't matter where you live, in the winning State or out of it, the feeling is the same, we all resent the winner and that is being human.

My two cents on the issue.

My Logic is not flawed it is actually flawless. So let me explain it  . Number one I never said lottery is Rig for California that is not my point. So let me explain better so you can understand me . 
            Currently there is a state on the west coast called California with close to  38 to 42 million people it is called California.

           Now let's look at the East Coast and let's create an imaginary state and this imaginary state is called CaliFlorida . And this CaliFlorida is made up of Florida 22 million people Georgia 11 million people South Carolina 5 million people and North Carolina 11 million people and all this four states for this example are called one state Calflorida. 
         So now you have California on the west coast and you have CaliFlorida on the east coast. 
          Now think of all the Biggest winners in Florida and Georgia and South Carolina and North Carolina put them together in population size and you will see that California winners are directly proportional to CaliFlorida winners. 
          So am not saying lottery is rigged for California all am saying is California is a Monster state like Jupiter no single state can touch unless the east Coast form a New monster state called Calflorida then California will look weaker. 

       Another example Mike Tyson has the power to knock you out. Phil Ivey has the power to win poker and Mayweather Jr has the power to knock ✊ you out. All am saying is California has the power to Win a lot too not rigged just the situation. 
         Only Calflorida can compare to California that is my point equal playing state level. 

Not only that but California also borders on Nevada.  Nevada does not have Mega Millions so many of the gamblers come to the state line to play especially when the pots are large.

You're technically correct that a winning ticket has never been sold in Detroit proper.

But if you recall, back in November 2010, a $129 million Powerball ticket was sold at Uptown Bookstore, which is literally just yards outside of Detroit's border in Highland Park (which is even more economically depressed than Detroit proper).

The jackpot was eventually split amongst a (mostly anonymous) syndicate, but I'm wiling to bet some of the folks in that syndicate were also residents of Detroit proper. The guy who officially claimed the ticket was black as well.

P.U.!

What STINKS ?

Well since you're asking ..   I'll tell you what stinks .....

C A L I F O R N I A  STINKS!!!!!

No offense to the winning ticket holder ..... 

I wish Mr John E Smith well .

May he and Joan and the kids live long and prosper!!!!

Always won in California. Everyone needs to stop playing and just let California play the Powerball  instead of us always contributing. California was the last state added to the drawing and the winner always there.

I heard a RUMOR from rumorsareus.com that the folks in cottonwood CA have an understanding regarding the lotto: one person wins all six thousand win.

Can you imagine 1.269 ÷ 6000 = ??????

P.U.: What Stinks??!!

California or my three day old bologna sandwich that I left I in my car in 90 degree weather.

California... shocking.  Just shocking.

Well, I'm just going to make a semi-silent wish that this new winner won't be rushing out immediately to buy a half dozen mansions and 3 dozen flashy sports cars.  Cuz really, I'm quite tired of those stories.

"I love to Root for my fellow black guys but it's not looking good "

Bad news for you, then. It's the white pot farmer that drives the red Tesla

"like a <snip>roach "

I guess that if I ever tell the joke about the <snip>roach with a <snip>ney accent drinking a <snip>tail in the John Han<snip> building nobody will understand it.

"Its like I have 38 million yellow balls and the 44 other states have 270 million green balls "

Interesting that you'd pick those numbers (did you actually add up the population for the 44 states?), because they're  pretty close to sales proportions according to data from the site that shall not be named. Total MM sales from 11/26 to 12/13 (the most recent date with a state by state breakdown) were $302,997,897 (interestingly close to $1 for every combination). CA sales were $44,451,304, which is 14.67% of the total. Total sales from 10/25 through 11/22 were $298,299,215 and CA sales were $45,239,714, or 15.17% of sales. Combining the two, CA accounted for 14.92% of tickets from 1025 through 12/13. That's a bit more than 1 in 7.

"They have 5 of the 11 top Billion dollar pots "

No, CA sold 5 of the 13 tickets that claimed the top 11 jackpots. That's about 38.5% of the winning tickets. It's far better than the 14.92% of tickets sold by CA, but you're looking at 13 tickets out of many billions of tickets and expecting those 13 to be representative. Overall the probability of CA selling 38.5% of winning tickets is fairly low, but it's over a million times more likely than any of those tickets winning the jackpot.

Hey, are you all looking forward to paying $5 a line soon, just so someone can live in a California mega mansion on a hill and featured on every "lucky lottery winner" channel for the next 20 years? 

I will fly to Cali and buy a ticket and stop at In-N-Out next time. Bring on the 2 billion dollar Mega Millions.

Another small town in Cali.

Not looking forward to $5 mm!!!!!

At that price I'll buy one ticket starting at $200 mil

2 tickets @ $500 mil

3 tickets @ $ 1 bil

6 tickets  @ $2 bil

And really I don't think it's a good idea or very enjoyable spending $30.00 on this game.

Maybe I'll cap it at 15 or 20?!

This is getting ridiculous isn't it???

That's why it will  get to $1 bil sooner bcuz people probably won't spend $5 on the tkt

instead of taking 3 months for the bil it will take abt 2 months I think

it will hit $3bil in 3 months

I'm simply not going to do it.  $5/ line is ridiculous.

In my state I can play Powerball with Double Play and have 2 chances to win at $4/ line.  Good enough. I'll play that unless they hike their prices too.

California again ..<snip>....

I think my new lottery strategy pre-mm $200 mil + will be to occasionally buy one lucky for life and one megabucks if it's over 5 mil.

Temperance is key!

FYI: Kaliphornia Kut Da Cheez!!

Every time I play, I am always more optimistic of the second tier prize than the actual jackpot.

That is why I always throw in the extra $1 since am assured of a $2M win should I match five numbers.

Regards of the jackpot amount I throw in my $3 and a shot at second prize 😁

Me too!

I always play the power play and megaplier but come April the megaplier is baked into the recipe so to speak.

Concerning 2nd tier prizes ..  and powerball ...  I can see your point to an extent as it pertains to the 10x when the jackpot is 150 mil or less but to not have the 3x and 4x and 5x for matching the 1st 5 numbers is a shame IMHO.

Thank you for posting this again. It's a numbers game in more ways than one.

In my state(Louisiana), the lottery web site has a Where the Winners Are feature that shows a map where large winning tickets have been sold in the last 60 days. The southeastern part of the state(New Orleans and Baton Rouge), are where the most winning tickets are sold because that is the most densely populated part of the state and generates the most sales. The same can be said for many states I'm sure.

I lived in a less populated part of the state when our lottery first started up and some people I knew were complaining about the big winners all being sold in New Orleans. Considering the population of Orleans Parish was several times larger than the parish I was living it made sense. After telling some of these people about how many more people lived there they decided they didn't like the idea of living in a place that crowded.

The jackpot has reset. Am I going to buy a ticket? You bet!

Since dble play isn't offered in more states maybe that will chng

pretty soon it will be too expensive to play any game

pb shld chng to $3 with 30 mil jkpot start

God bless you!

It's thanks to diehards like you that the 'pot increases.

I know it seems greedy and it probably is but, I only start playing pb/mm when it reaches 200 mil or more.

You deserve to win more than I do that's for sure.

I use to drive from Pa to Del to get the Power Ball

Never hit

24 years of playing  NADA 

My days of playing the BALLS are over.

Rather use the money or other games

Happy New Year

On to the next...Congrats winner.'

Hahahaha I am not a die hard, spending $3 a draw doesn't qualify as die hard.

On the contrary, buying a $50 scratcher, now that is taking it to a whole new level.

$50 is my lottery expenditure for 3 weeks, 21 days, plus change of $5 lol.

Doing it for the fun and the "just maybe"

Anytime one gets angry for not winning, then that is a warning sign, someone is putting their soul into it.

It's a Circle K now.

https://www.instantstreetview.com/@40.389899,-122.287566,156.67h,5p,1z,yyYtajdMsQNHPhN5dvqycw

I'm in a Facebook group that's MUSL lottery related.  I had someone from California try to tell me they've purchased losing tickets in their state before.  I told them to put up or shut up and post their losing tickets.  They never did so there's that lol

Yeah, right  JJ. No one in Californai has ever bought a losing ticket.

Sure,

Go there and drop $100,000 on one Mega Millions drawing.  That will purchase you 50,000 tickets and you are guaranteed a $2 win on each of those 50,000 tickets.  Probably more bc you'll get a couple of bigger winners in there too.

Lucky 4 Life ...  here I come ..... that is after I decompress from the shock of not winning.

I won't play everyday ...  probably Monday and/or Thursday ....  like it used to be before it went daily.

And Megabucks ...  Yeah, I'll play you when you reach $5 mil.  Gotta set some parameters when it comes to dishing out the dollars.

Bye bye MM ...  see you at $200 mil

P.B.??? See you in about $55 mil from now.

Hey folks ...  If this is the last time I post for awhile ...  it's been fun.

Remember: B.O.L.O.G.N.A. is the word for the new year 2025!!!!

ShagE3

Wishing you the best of luck.

I am on board the lucky for life band wagon.

I will see you when we get to One Billion again.

Stay safe.

maybe by Easter??

Does anyone know if the ticket was a QP ?

 I am sure they can get an advance either from the lottery or a bank to tide them over while they wait for the entire amount.

You just don't get it. They sell more tickets than 20 small states combined. It cannot possibly matter what state you buy your tickets in. All that matters is the numbers you choose or the machine chooses for you.

like I say always one winner again with a high jackpot at a gas station I played at a gas station nothing

This CA MegaMillions winner has one year from the draw date to file his claim.  Not 180 days as commented in the above article.

Sure enough one year for Mega & Powerball.

GM

what's the strategy for PB?

coming up next, wonder what cones in 2025 will be made

Congratulations to the big winner. California does it again.

Is it one year by date or 365 days ? What if it's a leap year ?  What happens if it falls on a weekend or holiday ?

I new that was going to happen.