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Money and the Crime of Kidnaping
Like so many people in The USA, I've been closely following the national news kidnapping story coming out of Arizona. I saw one particular former detective being interviewed about the Ring Doorbell video that's been shown so many times. The Detective said Most criminals think they are smarter than anybody else, but this guy might be a little different in that he actually is smart. While he probably is smart, he's not smarter than The FBI criminalist's trying to catch him. And there you
Feb 12, 2026, 11:03 am - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
They had to have cheated. Don't be ridiculous. It's so easy to win there's no reason to cheat even if you could. One complaint would justify being upset with the price increase, a constant complaint is overkill. You know that there are two of you that are making your complaint over and over, right? I could understand someone like Elon Musk calling $10 million measly I don't imagine anyone here actually thinks any of the advertised jackpots are chump change, but so far I do
Dec 6, 2025, 12:23 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
The supported jackpot is $69.7 million whereas in the previous run, the supported jackpot was $66.9 million. And the cash value is now 41.9 vs 39.9. The annuity value is 4.19% higher than in the previous run, but cash value, which is a direct measurement of sales is 4.77% higher. That may be an indication that as players buy in when the jackpot gets bigger the $5 price becomes something they're okay with at lower jackpot levels, too. Or it might just be because very high jackpots tend t
Nov 30, 2025, 7:59 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
Here are some possibilities about what's coming. It takes 201 million tickets to reach a 50% chance of getting a winner. We obviously can't get a winner in any of the previous drawings, so from this point there's a 50% chance that the cash value will reach about $668 million. At the current interest rate that would be an advertised annuity of $1.44 billion. On average it takes 292.47 million tickets to produce each winner, so once the cash value has reached $391.7 million (tonight's valu
Nov 8, 2025, 1:56 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
We went back and looked at both Powerball Mega Millions during the period of when they both had starting jackpots of $20 Million and $2.00 per Line. In addition, we correctly scaled the time frames by which each performs their draws on a weekly interval. Below is Powerball's $20M / $2.00 run and we can see it breaks the Billion Dollar Barrier on average in its 13 th week of draws. Below is Mega Millions' previous $20M / $2.00 run and we can see it breaks the Billion Do
Oct 13, 2025, 7:19 pm - JADELottery - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
I'm not sure what numbers from the Texas spreadsheets you used in your previous post to determine the chance of a roll but what do you think are the chances we see another 2 billion jackpot? There's a worksheet for every drawing, and you'll find a link to it on the page that shows the current advertised jackpot. Somewhere around noon on the day of the drawing (or Friday for Saturday's PB jackpot) they add the next jackpot if it rolls. https://www.texaslottery.com/export/sites/lottery/Gam
Aug 30, 2025, 1:13 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Help Me Understand This 😭Reply
I actually am not focused on the jackpots, any win is a good win, and a jackpot win is an even better win. In that case, I think you will like this. Just for fun, I downloaded all the Millionaire for Life draw results to see if anything funny jumped out at me. Then I noticed something very peculiar (well, two very peculiar somethings) about the 3/15 - 3/18 draws. 03/15/2026; 01 ,21,29,46,50; Millionaire Ball: 1 03/16/2026; 02 ,16,30,41,49; Millionaire Ball: 4 03/17/2026; 0
Apr 17, 2026, 2:51 pm - parlayman - Lottery Discussion Forum

Once in a blue moon powerball X10Reply
MUSL added the 10X multiplier to PowerBall on 10/7/2015. According to The Texas Lotto Report ( https:///PB2015Rule.htm ) - Ya gotta Google Texas Lotto Report due to The LP's software not allowing the full link above to appear! But here's a cut and paste from The TLR - PowerPlay prizes can be multiplied by 2, 3, 4, 5 or 10 times. They added the 10x to the mix BUT they have the option to announce the 10x may not be available for a particular draw. And the 10x is not applicable to
Jan 4, 2026, 10:12 am - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

Lottery Numbers Aren't Meant To Be RandomReply
So, your new answer after your first flopped where you said its because they wanted to make sure the machine is working properly. Now, you have a revised answer: 'because people don't trust the lottery.' [Pausing for a moment of laughter] Oh boy.... ! Anyway, you might want to revised that answer for a 3rd attempt because the Texas Lottery only show a live drawing .....they never show the pre-test process. And have no intention of doing so. So from here, you j
Dec 19, 2025, 3:51 pm - Ney1 - 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