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Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
I see the Measly Millions rolled again. Annuity Cash 18) $277,000,000 $ 120,400,000 * up $8.1 Million Cash --------------Projected (After tax value of $5.1 Million Cash) https://www.texaslottery.com/export/sites/lottery/Documents/jackpotestimates/mm20260515.pdf **3rd consecutive drop in cash value after 17 rollovers. *** Started with a $22.6 Million Cash Value Jackpot 17 rollovers later now at $120,400,000. Total increase of $97. 8 Million Cash Average Cash rollover of $
May 16, 2026, 6:50 am - CDanaT - Lottery Discussion Forum

Annuity or Cash ValueReply
Certainly cash value for me because that is the only *real* number. And, I am not a spring chicken any more... And, as always, I fervently hope that the guy in Washington D.C. would issue an executive order making a mandatory interest rate of 0.00% for all lottery annuities and removing taxation for all lottery winnings, forever. That would end all of the foolishness about many people not understanding how the interest rates affect the advertised annuity value vs cash value jackpot amou
May 11, 2026, 10:45 pm - IAmABadOne - Lottery Discussion Forum

Annuity or Cash ValueReply
2 primary items are of concern for this participant when it comes to the choice of going with the C ash value vs Annuity . 1) Taxes 2) Age I know that the 37% tax figure will be addressed this year just 1 time and no state income tax. There are no assurances that my state(TN) couldn't implement a 1 time tax similar to what CA WA states are proposing or start a state income tax. I have no idea what the Fed tax rate in 5, 10, 15, 20 or 25 years might possibly change to either. https:/
May 9, 2026, 9:40 am - CDanaT - Lottery Discussion Forum

Lottery is not random it's predeterminedReply
Here's Gasoline... https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1333453565477336 set=a.636197345202965 Occurrence Interval Draws Jackpot Winners State Winners Index Date Days Year Month Day A B C D E PB xN Annuity Cash Sales Total 5 + 1 5 + 0 4 + 1 4 + 0 3 + 1 3 + 0 2 + 1 1 + 1 0 + 1 5 + 1 5 + 0 All -xN +xN -xN -xN +xN -xN +xN -xN +xN -xN +xN -xN +xN -xN +xN -xN +xN -xN +xN -xN -xN +xN 764 733590 2008 7 2 04 33 46 48 52 17 5 $84,900,000 $41,305,109 $18,155,586 507,
Feb 2, 2026, 2:49 pm - JADELottery - Lottery Discussion Forum

Lucky For Life to Millionaire For Life - $5 TicketReply
I re-did the calculations and it's the typical draw game, in terms of payback %. But it is still far better than MM, in my opinion. Here's why: Probability of winning the top prize is just over 12 times better. $18 million (or the annuity of $1 million/year) is still life-changing money. M4L (Millionaire for Life) has no silly multipliers. You win exactly what it says on the prize chart for matching x number of balls. MM (and PB) is a progressive jackpot game, which is why it can
Jan 25, 2026, 12:00 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
I am pretty confident that their estimation is too low. In the estimate file (published before Tuesday drawing), that were forecasting $94M sales for this coming Friday. But they sold $98M on Tuesday (that is +38% v. the prior Tuesday). So on Wednesday they will sell at least $113M (that is +45% v. the prior Friday - those percentages are now finally growing exponentially, given the jackpot levels). That means roughly +$18M in additional advertised jackpot (computed as +$28M of sale
Nov 13, 2025, 11:20 am - positano - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
Where the MM jackpot sits now on the all time record list: 12) Powerball: $1.0798 billion, Jul. 19, 2023 ( 38 rollovers , starting at $20 million) 13) Mega Millions: $1.05 billion, Jan. 22, 2021 ( 36 rollovers , starting at $20 million) ** Mega Millions $965M Annuity/$445.3M Cash Value 11/14/2025 (39 Rollovers, Starting at $50M) PENDING 14) Powerball: $842.4 million, Jan. 1, 2024 ( 34 rollovers , starting at $20 million) 15) Mega Millions: $800 million, Sep. 10, 2024 ( 27 r
Nov 12, 2025, 8:46 am - CDanaT - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
Oh look another rollover for the Measly Millions and a $25M increase to the annuity. Looking at the MM jackpot history that had 31 rollovers and is in the top 25 jackpots of all time: April 21, 2023 - Aug. 8, 2023, $1.602 Billion/783.3M Cash - 31 rollovers Jackpot won Current Run: July 1, 2025 - Present day, $ 625M/$288.8M Cash - 31 rollovers Jackpot pending Not bad MUSL, you are only about $1Billion short ........ Actions have consequences
Oct 15, 2025, 10:17 am - CDanaT - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
I think they're underestimating the sales tonight and they're going to be closer to matching saturdays sales of 230 It looks like you nailed it after all, and for the first time in a long time sales for a Monday weren't significantly smaller than for the previous Saturday. The final jackpot is reported as $1.201 billion, which is very close to $230 million in sales. Not that it wasn't already obvious that 1.3 billion was conservative for Wednesday, but since we're now starting about $10
Sep 2, 2025, 3:08 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
If a free ticket does not contribute to the jackpot, it is worth 35 cents. This is the expected value of winning $4, $7, $100, $50,000, $1 million, or $9 million. $9 million is the cash value (with today's interest rates) of the starting jackpot of 20 million . Of course, the actual value of a ticket is more than 35 cents if the jackpot is more than $20 million annuity, but anything extra is player money. The cost to Powerball would be just the 35 cents. With five lines and all 25+5 numbers
Aug 21, 2025, 1:13 am - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum