Virginia Lottery Director Khalid R. Jones appointed as Mega Millions Lead Director

Comment #23

KY Floyd — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 08:34:34 GMT

Hopefully he's intelligent enough to decrease the game price

Unlike a lot of people here he's intelligent enough to know that the lottery's only marketing concern is maximizing revenue, and the $5 tickets are probably doing that.

I'm pretty certain they wouldn't be changing leadership if they were happy with the current set of changes

Did you read the story? The lead directors serve terms of 1 year, and they're usually also holding the job of lead director for a state lottery. The... [ More ]

Comment #22

JADELottery — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 19:10:13 GMT

Seems like a reasonable person for the position.

https://www.valottery.com/aboutus/leadership

Comment #21

Bleudog101 — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 16:13:59 GMT

Though I won $30 twice the week of the big jackpot, that was it for me until the jackpot rises way up there. Sure lower 'millions' sounds great, but too hard to win.

Won $1500 and $500 Saturday @ Derby City Gaming. The former was tax free since we don't have casinos, based on horse races. I had a high bet negating taxes.

Comment #20

Wavepack — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 15:40:04 GMT

The ultimate power lies with the players, and many players took their purchasing power elsewhere. The boycott is working. I haven't played MM since the $5/line cost.

I recommend lowering the ticket cost back down to $2.

MM will continue to lose sales to competitors like Powerball until then. The people playing one line per draw MM and losing $200 in the run up will get tired of bleeding $500/year at a 96% losing rate.

Comment #19

DELotteryPlyr — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 10:02:59 GMT

Bet we see a whole lot of MM jackpot winners from VA now..

Comment #18

TwoMillion — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 06:12:44 GMT

1-MM should bring the price back down to $1. You want wide public participation in this type of game to pump the jackpot up.

2-most of lottery players are low-income people.

3-play the game three times / week like PB has done (T-R-Sun).

4-$1 price wouldn't make people to think twice about spending money to play the 1:292M odds (I'll try my luck with chump changes).

5-take 45% cut of the jackpot instead of 60% (return some of the money back to those initial jackpots).

Comment #17

grwurston — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 05:16:49 GMT

Every time time they change the matrix to make it harder to win and/or increase the price they tell us it's because players want bigger jackpots. So now we pay more and get fewer big jackpots due to the reduced sales. I liked it better when the matrix was smaller and the jackpots were around 100M. It wasn't as much money but people would win more often. And I don't know anyone that would turn down 80-100 million.

Comment #16

ShagE3 — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 23:52:13 GMT

Hmmmm first mega millions now cash+lucky=millionaire 4 life. $5 a ticket .... wow!

Seeing as I only play lucky 4 life when pb and or mm are less than 250 million .... and then no more than twice per week .... like it used to be Mon and Thur. I think if I decide to play ..... it will be no more than once a week if even that.... when pb and mm are less than $250 mil.

I think I'll have to eat more liverwurst and or oliveloaf sandwiches in the future when the lotto storm comes this January.... [ More ]

Comment #15

Wildbill78 — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 22:31:19 GMT

I read everyone comments and I actually agree with everyone who has different perspective on the price increase. And there's the problem, no one is playing the piece of crap new structure game. I never purchased a $5 ticket since it's new structure and I'll never will as long it stays at this price. I don't care if it reaches 2 Billion, NOPE because PB will probably between $400-$800 million levels if MM reaches those levels and I have a piece mind my $2 going towards jackpots that's more fair t... [ More ]

Comment #14

Justing618 — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 21:31:04 GMT

It used to show pick 3-5 together. Then I could click which pick game. And look at previous numbers. Now I have to look at each pick game separate. There front page now is filled with trying to get you to play computer games...

Comment #13

OhSoClose — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 14:36:51 GMT

The states are constantly leaning on those who run the lotteries to generate more revenue. I'm sure that's what led to them bumping up the cost and odds on the MM. States love it when jackpots are high and millions are pouring in each drawing because people who don't normally play are chasing the billion dollar payouts.

I imagine a meeting after the last big jackpot got hit when the weekly revenues dropped back to normal levels. The question is asked how do we change things to get those big... [ More ]

Comment #12

NJPiney — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 13:55:43 GMT

Hopefully he's intelligent enough to decrease the game price

Comment #11

Ranett — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 13:24:03 GMT

Looks the same to me both on a computer phone.

Comment #10

hearsetrax — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 10:34:23 GMT

Comment #9

sully16 — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 08:09:50 GMT

Congrats and good luck

Comment #8

Justing618 — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 02:15:46 GMT

They just changed there web page. And it kinda sucks now. I dunno why they can't leave the web pages alone.....

Comment #7

Coin Toss — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 02:00:27 GMT

Can you imagine the emails, texts and phone calls he will get about the $5 ticket price? It's really doubtful it will change though.

Comment #6

LottoFanBoy — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 15:47:33 GMT

Increasing the price of the MM ticked to $5 was a failure. There is a Psychological barrier about it. Where they can, people is playing more Powerball. We can't care less about minor prices. We play these lotteries for the jackpots.

Comment #5

Common — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 15:46:03 GMT

Wow this'll surely help it grow more than $10m a draw

Comment #4

Think — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 15:16:39 GMT

I really don't care much. If you ask me Mega Millions jumped the shark over 10 years ago. This year MM died when it rolled 40 times and didn't even get to a fake billion.

Say what you will but Mega Millions is in a state of collapse.

The only other question is will Powerball follow? .

I quit playing Mega Millions totally after the $5 ticket price run to 40 rolls with almost no second place prizes and no multibillion dollar jackpot as promised.

I doubt this new person will do anyt... [ More ]

Comment #3

Bleudog101 — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 14:10:36 GMT

Thank you Todd for the information.

Now to back to CA on the $775 million Powerball Wednesday. Normally in all other states one would receive $1 million for having five #'s....but not good old CA. Their Powerball paid $255,789. Grant it, sometimes as in the case of the MM winner, it is much higher

Comment #2

Todd — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 13:55:02 GMT

A bit of context for people who might not be aware. California's multiplier numbers do not work like the other states' do.

California divides the prize money derived from sales into 8 different buckets representing the 8 non-jackpot prize levels. Each bucket is its own prize pool that all the winners of that prize level share.

The multiplier number on each winner's ticket represents its share of that prize pool. So someone with a 2x on their ticket has 2 shares . A 5x multiplier has 5 sh... [ More ]

Comment #1

Bleudog101 — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 13:32:34 GMT

Speaking of Mega Millions, some lucky soul had X2 multiplier in CA with five #'s. Though no fan of parimutuel like they have, they scooped up just over $5 million.

We'll see what direction, if any, this new Director takes.

Virginia Lottery Director Khalid R. Jones appointed as Mega Millions Lead Director

Lottery Post — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 13:13:48 GMT

Torch for leading the game's future is passed to Virginia Lottery Director

By Kate Northrop

The Mega Millions Consortium announced the selection of the game group's new Lead Director on Tuesday: Virginia Lottery Director Khalid R. Jones.

Virginia Lottery Director Khalid R. Jones will take the role as Lead Director for the Mega Millions Consortium this coming year.

The Lead Director is responsible for steering discussions regarding game policies and rules, serving as the national... [ More ]