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Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
If it rolls, $448 annuity, $207 cash. More tix sold on Friday than on Tuesday....?
Sep 19, 2025, 8:56 am - rcbbuckeye - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
It Has Begun... If it rolls from Saturday, our best estimate puts the PB Jackpot Annuity at $1.03 Billion .
Aug 28, 2025, 8:11 am - JADELottery - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
That rollover is pretty interesting when it comes to the Annuity payout. The differences between $850M $950M around payment 8 starts talking a smidge louder. https://www.texaslottery.com/export/sites/lottery/Documents/jackpotestimates/pb20250827.pdf
Aug 27, 2025, 12:52 pm - CDanaT - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
TOLD YA ....... Powerball rollover ...... Saturday is now a nice tidy sum of $482M Annuity/ $218.9M CASH Value . Now I can wade in play
Aug 7, 2025, 12:26 am - CDanaT - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions constant $10 million increasesReply
A $2 prize (times whatever multiplier, so $4 to $20) for matching two white balls would add 18% to the value of all non-jackpot prizes in total. That's a lot for such a small win. More accurately a $2 prize for matching 2 white balls would reduce the money that goes to the jackpot by about 14.6%. That would reduce the current cash value of $67.9 million to $58 million. For those who believe the advertising it would reduce the current $150 million annuity to $128 million if they abandoned or
Aug 4, 2025, 3:19 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

LOTTERY POST 25TH ANNIVERSARY GIVEAWAY #2Reply
When I win the lottery, I would not tell anyone for years. Sudden wealth can attract a lot of attention, and privacy becomes a top priority. I would consult with a tax professional for tax strategies. At the current jackpot amounts, I will most likely go with the annuity. Would then create a plan on how I would want to live. Won't buy a house, prefer to rent and be able to move every two years. Would probably move to Europe at some point. Would invest half the annuity payment
Jun 26, 2025, 10:15 pm - JustMaybe - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
If they advertise $794M, they get less excitement/sales than if they advertise $800. I more or less agree with your reasoning because, even though it's a small difference in the grand scheme the lottery would be offering a few million bucks more. If you look at advertised jackpots from the past I think you'll find that for whatever reason they take their best guess at sales and stick with that number. Four weeks ago they advertised the jackpot as $547 million instead of a nice round 550 whi
Nov 4, 2025, 1:40 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Annuity or Cash ValueReply
That is a very reasonable explanation. Another key consideration would be taxes and the ability to lock the current tax rate when you go with the cash option. Politicians may not necessarily raise taxes for all, but there is a hight chance that 15 years from now the direction would be to tax those in higher income brackets more. The way the annuity is structured, you earn more in the later years, so that becomes a real risk. Thank you for all your very valid points
May 14, 2026, 9:41 pm - JustMaybe - Lottery Discussion Forum

Secrets of a lottery lawyer-Kurt Panouses interviewReply
Conspiracy anyone? Any statistics on the number of years these people live after the win? Are there any mysterious passings? Can you imagine being whacked by a private contractor getting paid a percentage of the annuity to take it off of the Books after 20 years?
May 4, 2026, 1:25 pm - AllenB - Lottery Discussion Forum

would you rather win 1, 10, 50, 100, or 500 million $Reply
$1 million That's enough for me to live comfortably while continuing to work. Early retirement sounds boring unless it's a massive amount of money, and that brings problems. I bought tickets for the $2 billion (really $1 billion with the stupid 50% annuity haircut) for Powerball only because it was a player's advantage. It didn't work out because of the massive variance, which I was expecting. But it was fun to imagine what I would do with $600 million after tax. The starting jackpot
Jan 9, 2026, 10:29 am - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum