Powerball and Mega Millions both had $10 million increase

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billionaire2bee — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 00:08:20 GMT

I think it used to only go up by 5 million when the baseline was 20 million...so it is right....right

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RedStang — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 22:41:13 GMT

Guessing they keep the jackpots even so players buy both.

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THRIFTY — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 20:36:25 GMT

Powerball jackpots increase by a minimum of $10 Millions with each roll.

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RJOh — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 19:34:41 GMT

When ever PB and MM jackpots are with $10-$20M of each other, PB is going to come up short because the odds per dollars spent of winning something are so much for MM plus MM cash value is probably more.

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zinniagirl — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 16:51:46 GMT

That and more likely for this past draw, people spent too much on Wednesday's draw.

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Ronnie316 — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 14:05:42 GMT

It just proves that people have cut PB purchases in half to offset the new price.

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ttech10 — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 13:38:25 GMT

I don't think PB has had more than a $10m increase under the new format until it's around the $100m mark.

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hearsetrax — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 10:46:01 GMT

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Nikkicute — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 08:47:20 GMT

Let them roll and keep on rolling, I hope they both go up couple $100 million at the sametime lol

Powerball and Mega Millions both had $10 million increase

whiteballz — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 07:34:47 GMT

Powerball is 50 mil up from 40 mil. Mega Millions is now 55 mil from 45 mil. Why did Powerball only go up 10 mil?

Powerball tickets are twice the cost, so that should mean more money to make the jackpot grow faster, also since it was the drawing after the huge jackpot you'd think people bought mutli-draw tickets thinking the jackpot might roll.