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LOTTERY POST 25TH ANNIVERSARY GIVEAWAY #4Reply
The Lucky for Life jackpot can be payed out as: 1. A lump sum of $5,750,000 before taxes . 2. An annuity of 365,000 a year before taxes. The prize is guaranteed for 20 years in the event of the death of the winner. If you collect the first 365K and die that year, your beneficiaries will be paid out 365K each year for 19 years. That's what they mean by a 20 year guaranteed. Otherwise you will be paid 365K until you die, whether that's for 21, 30, 40 or 50 years. Not su
Sep 16, 2025, 3:05 pm - JustMaybe - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
From the week of 03/23-29/2025 until now 06/08-14/2025 my savings for a future monster sized Powerball cash value jackpot is: Mega Millions: $125.00 saved (currently at $10.00 per drawing) Powerball: $66.00 saved (still at $2.00 per drawing) Total saved: $191.00 or 95 future $2.00 Powerball tickets and a dollar left over for something cheap. I have no idea how high this savings plan will reach until I commit to a purchase for a monster Powerball cash value jackpot, but that is wh
Jun 14, 2025, 9:35 pm - IAmABadOne - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
the price hike could have been a response to slowing sales There's absolutely no question about it. Lottery revenue has been generally going downhill for years and the lotteries have been trying to stop the decrease or at least slow it down. One of the first huge jackpots was when MM reached $656 million in March 2012 on the 18th drawing. It reached 290 on the 16th drawing and then increased 73 363 and 293 656. A year and a half later in December 2013 it reached $257 million on drawing
Nov 27, 2025, 3:04 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
In Colorado, we have a $50 scratcher with a top prize of $3 million. Unlike MM, you really do get $3 million, not half that as a cash value. The probability of winning $3 million is 1 in 600,000. This is 48,412% better than MM. It's 4,841% better after adjusting for the price difference (probability of winning the MM jackpot with 10 tickets). The payback percentage for this $50 scratcher is 80%. Even with the current jackpot of $391.7 million, the value of a $5 MM ticket is $2.47, just u
Nov 7, 2025, 4:00 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
At least the new Measly Millions jackpot has broken into the top 25 Annuity jackpots of all time. PB - 14 winners MM - 10 Winners(1 new Pending) https://www.lotterypost.com/news/355949 The following is a list of the Mega Millions jackpots and where they are on the top 25 List: #4) Mega Millions: $1.602 billion, Aug. 8, 2023 ( 31 rollovers, starting at $20 million ) - Florida winner #6) Mega Millions: $1.537 billion, Oct. 23, 2018 ( 25 rollovers, starting at $40 million
Oct 29, 2025, 11:52 am - CDanaT - Lottery Discussion Forum

MM and PB jackpot increases.Reply
MM went up $25M and PB$ 13.7M yet MM is the one that gets criticized for smaller increases. MM is offering a bit more than twice as much money, not counting the larger non-jackpot prizes. M is also putting about twice as much money toward the jackpot for each ticket thanks to the $5 price. Powerball has a lot more regular players who are not addicts. Maybe. Ignoring the current run because initial sales are always bigger than normal after a run that reaches $1 billion or more, the
Oct 16, 2025, 2:58 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
Measley Millions Annuity increases during the 7/01 - Present run: @ $5 ticket Jackpot starting at $50 Million 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 +10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 16 + 16 + 16 + 18 + 18 + 19 + 24 + 25 + 34 + 22 + 23 + 19 + 23 + 28 + 23 + 23 + 23 + 27 ( roll 28 ) 28th roll = $547M/ $251.7 M Cash * The lone $34 Million increase on 9/05/25 was also at the same time that the PB had the 1.8 Billion jackpot won on 9/06/25 Source https://www.texaslottery.com/export/sites/lottery/Documen
Oct 6, 2025, 8:04 am - CDanaT - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
Here is further evidence Powerball is still winning the race. ... After 5 Mega Millions draws .. PB has fairly consistently grown faster than MM, including under the $2 per ticket format, because of the 3rd weekly drawing, with short variations when MM has a really big jackpot. The consensus seems to be that Sunday drawing are unlikely, so MM has to work with just the 2 drawings per week. The differences you're comparing are advertised jackpots of 358 vs 20 and 474 vs 145. Over those drawin
Oct 2, 2025, 2:05 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
Sorry my friend....Coming up with a reasonable projection for the $5 cost value will be a wild guess(at best) if and when the traditional frenzy would start. There has been no run to reach the $1B mark for a gauge. Past practice has shown, in my opinion, that the frenzy starts roughly around the $735- $750M point($2 ticket). If this jackpot gets up to that point ? I think the advertised annuity jackpot is going to have to be another $75 million higher, somewhere around $815 - $840 range for the
Sep 22, 2025, 11:15 am - CDanaT - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
I guess they would have liked paying 70% in taxes like back in 1980. Since I'm not a moron, I'd love to have paid taxes in the 70% bracket. To do that I'd have needed taxable income of more than $215,400, which is equivalent to about 844k today. Also because I'm not a moron I know that I'd only have paid 70% on the taxable income in excess of that 844k (in today's dollars). Still, even if I'd had to pay 70% on all of that, I'd still have had the equivalent of 253k after taxes, plus whatever
Sep 4, 2025, 7:37 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum