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Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
I haven't touched Mega Millions since the price hike in April. I used to be a consistent 1 ticket per drawing player prior to that. It's sort of become irrelevant from my perspective. It started as $1 and a dream. Then it became $2 and a distant hope. Now it's $5 and a hard pass. Good luck to everyone with the upcoming drawings. Seems like a few of these jackpots have been rolling over for a while. Would be nice if someone finally won them.
Aug 22, 2025, 7:58 pm - GoodLuckDude - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
Look at the history of jackpots for each drawing. When one is hit, the next one starts at 50 Million. Then it increases a minimum of 10 million for each drawing, until it gets hit again. The history show that it is taking a lot more drawings before it starts to increase more than 10M. Compare those numbers to before the changeover to $5 per play. There's a lot of people not buying anymore. I was posting to a thread from when the change first began, with the last post in May, and it actu
Aug 15, 2025, 5:17 pm - Cruzincat - Lottery Discussion Forum

Lottery Post for the Hobbyist and Serious Lottery PlayerReply
What are you talking about about? The lottery has lots of games. Some have progressive jackpots and some have fixed prizes. Unlike a few casino games, none of them have any play strategy. Selection of which game to play can have a bit of a strategy. I know about that book. It's excellent. I know basic strategy for any rule set, and I know how to count cards. I also know that a three digit lottery game cannot be beat.
Aug 10, 2025, 9:51 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

The $29.95 Non-BelieverzReply
but in the realm of random jackpots, the Laws of Probabilistic Mathematics reveal randomness, not a path to guaranteed success. Go Where NO Gambler Has Gone Before? Been there, done THAT -Stat$talker
Aug 2, 2025, 7:22 am - Stat$talker - Lottery Discussion Forum

chad g petey told me it only gives numbers that "appear random"Reply
Ok that makes sense. If it used the actual draw history attempting to create combinations that feature attributes like combinations that win (much like we do with filters) and achieved a 60/40 hit rate within 10,000 combinations it would put jackpots within the range of Pick-4 Straight more often then not. BobP AI isn't what it used to be.
Aug 2, 2025, 4:36 am - BobP - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
It appears many do not understand the jackpot has only been growing by the minimum $10 million per draw in order for sales to fully support the jackpot. For a place that's all about the lottery a lot of people here don't seem to know much about how things work. The jackpot for the Friday, August 1 draw will probably be around $140 million and will be fully supported by sales (or very close at least). It will be $140, and the supported jackpot is $139,672,438 (I love how the estimat
Jul 29, 2025, 3:14 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
I can't imagine any way that MM can get ahead of PB other than PB being hit and resetting. Faster growing jackpots that's what MM told us I thought it would grow fast enough to erode PB 100M lead
Jun 29, 2025, 10:51 pm - JustMaybe - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
Exactly! No one would be upset about winning millions of dollars whether its 1 million or 800 million. The point I'm making is they more than doubled the price saying it would be bigger faster jackpots and so far that just isn't the case at all. It's interesting since the odds haven't changed that much but they are selling half as many tickets.
Jun 28, 2025, 2:30 pm - SoCola - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
I think the issue that SoCola is raising is not with the players that win, whether they feel the money is enough or now. I think the issue is that MM put forth a narrative of bigger jackpots in their advertising during the months before the change in price - well, maybe it's too early. We will wait and see.
Jun 28, 2025, 2:00 pm - JustMaybe - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
The ratio depends on the return interest rate of government bonds. Jade is usually good at doing math calculations, but I've got no idea what insights those recent graphs are supposed to be offering. That run in the first graph that looks normal shows a range of a maximum of 7% more than the low annuity value of 211% of the cash. In the second one with the sudden drop has a range with a maximum of only 3.96% over the lowest annuity value of 219.8%. What both of them show are the perfect
Jun 13, 2025, 2:13 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum