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Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
https://lite.cnn.com/2025/12/13/business/powerball-billion-dollar-jackpot-mega-millions Sounds to me like the author doesn't know much about how lotteries work or appreciate that the results of just 3 or 4 jackpot runs may not be representative. The headline screams that he's missing the clue that even if PB sales were up (they're not) due to MM's price increase it's still probability that results in billion jackpots. The average PB jackpot should have a cash value of about $195 million
Dec 15, 2025, 2:07 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
My contention is that this run is already at the 40/41 rollover point because of the $50M starting point as opposed to $20M. I don't think anyone's arguing against that, including the people at MM. Unlike some people here the people at MM probably don't care, even if they wish it had grown faster. For about 35 of those drawings revenue was up compared to the $2 price, and only the last few drawings have seen revenue drop relative to the $2 tickets, but MM is playing the long game. The curre
Nov 12, 2025, 2:14 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
The Mega Millions jackpot is growing faster because sales for the game are higher than Powerball sales.
Jun 6, 2026, 5:09 pm - winoneday - Lottery Discussion Forum

The Florida Millionaire Raffle is back!Reply
248156 sold as of 05/14, so only six days instead of seven between sales updates. That averages to 2625 sold per day for the past six days. Seventy-five days into Raffle sales, the average sold per day is 3308. If the average stays in this neighborhood for the entire 122 days of sales, we're looking at somewhere around 415,000 tickets sold.
May 16, 2026, 11:03 am - Sum Buddy - Lottery Discussion Forum

The Florida Millionaire Raffle is back!Reply
Per Florida Lottery, the Raffle sales weekly update is 190300 as of 4-24. We're 55 days in, so average daily sales are at 3460 per day, slightly under last week's 3540 average. So 3460 times 122 (total days of sales in the raffle) would equal 422,120 tickets sold. 640900 Tickets need to be sold just to fund all of the prizes.
Apr 25, 2026, 8:46 am - Sum Buddy - Lottery Discussion Forum

The Florida Millionaire Raffle is back!Reply
Bought a ticket today around noon in the 117,000 range. Looking at Winterbird's sales data chart (thanks WB!) it seems reasonable to estimate 4,000 more sales today, to put the total sales for interim draw 1 at around 121,000. So if this estimate is close to actual sales, then it looks like odds of winning one of the 2,498 prizes in interim draw #1 would be 1:48. Odds on both the $100,000 and $10,000 prize tiers would be 1:40,333. $5,000 is 1:24,200 $1,000 is 1: 10,083 $500 is 1:537 $100 is
Mar 31, 2026, 3:54 pm - Sum Buddy - Lottery Discussion Forum

It looks as if the $5.00 MM ticket is doing poorly.Reply
Having a live prime time drawing with a 15 minute cutoff time might spike sales!
Mar 20, 2026, 8:26 pm - meta19 - Lottery Discussion Forum

It looks as if the $5.00 MM ticket is doing poorly.Reply
Straight from AI ------- Mega Millions ticket sales are primarily divided between jackpot prizes (roughly 50%), state-run beneficiaries (approx. 25 30%), and operational costs . Funds support public services like education, infrastructure, and senior programs, alongside commissions for retailers (5 7%). A portion also goes to state general funds or special projects. Are you doing total sales.? Or just jackpot sales?
Feb 28, 2026, 4:33 pm - Justing618 - Lottery Discussion Forum

It looks as if the $5.00 MM ticket is doing poorly.Reply
The sales figures used are in dollars, not tickets.
Feb 27, 2026, 6:33 am - Prob988 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
The 40 roll record for Powerball is $2,040.1 million - more than double the current jackpot. A lot more than double this one. The cash value of the PB record jackpot was a hair over $997 million. If this run gets to the same 2.04 billion it will only be worth $941 million, coming up $56 million shy of the record. If this run gets to 2.05 billion PB will brag about a new record, but to simply equal the record we need an annuity of $2.1627 billion if the interest rates stays the same. lot
Dec 9, 2025, 2:14 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum