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Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
01) Payments to the administrator: Someone out sick and fails to pay for a drawing - cover for them or not - are they out for the drawing or out forever? This one should be very easy. If you had a pool of say 100 people, I would be shocked at a 100% collection rate for every drawing. If someone fails to pay for a drawing (sick or not, that's irrelevant, people can fail to pay for any reason), why would they be included in the drawing? If you played the same numbers every week for years
Jun 20, 2025, 3:18 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

89 second prize winners for the powerballReply
Be nice to see a breakout of the 89 winners as to how many were QP's Without knowing the actual breakdown we won't know for sure, but we can see what the probabilities are. There were about 9.5 million tickets sold and it's fairly safe to assume that no more than 80%, or a maximum of 7.55 million, were QP. For that many tickets the chances of selling 1 to 5 5+0 winners are, respectively, 33.82%, 10.89%, 2.34%, 0.38%, and 0.05%. I deliberately rounded up in a few places so the actual chances
May 2, 2026, 4:47 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Balancing Odds and Cost 😁Reply
A lot of players talk about or are thinking about value when buying a lottery ticket. That's fine if that's important to a player. As for me personally, because of the ridiculous odds against players, I don't give value any thought at all. When I buy tickets all I'm thinking about is What could/would I do with it if I won a big pile of money? I know and accept the fact that I'll probably never actually have the pleasure of making that decision. My attitude is if I don't win, it's no bi
Apr 26, 2026, 9:38 am - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

The Florida Millionaire Raffle is back!
Beginning March 1st, The Florida Lottery began selling Millionaire Raffle tickets. Some of the Official rules are as follows - Play Period. March 1 June 30, 2026, dates inclusive, or until 2,000,000 Millionaire Raffle tickets (hereafter Raffle ticket/s ) have been sold, whichever occurs first. Ticket Price and Quantity. A maximum of 2,000,000 Raffle tickets will be available for sale at a price of $20.00 each. Upon the sale of the 2,000,000 th Raffle ticket, tickets will no longer be sold. A
Mar 8, 2026, 1:42 pm - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
Sounds like your pool is hitting, but just not the big numbers yet. Just out of curiosity, and *only* if you wish to say, how many folks are playing in your pool(s) now and what kind of money are you playing with each draw now? Again, only if you wish to say. I am still in savings mode while waiting for the rollovers to make a really big cash value amount before I commit to a big purchase (or be committed!) . As of the week ending yesterday 07/26/2025 I have 86 draws skipped and $321.00 save
Jul 27, 2025, 7:51 pm - IAmABadOne - Lottery Discussion Forum

Secrets of a lottery lawyer-Kurt Panouses interviewReply
You are forgetting that more and different online gambling is being permitted by some states such as sports gambling and casino gambling apps. There is a limited pool of player money with more and more competitors. Hey! The Powerball jackpot is $50 million... Wait,oh! Look at the squirrel
May 5, 2026, 8:29 am - Think - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
Since the Powerball jackpot was just won, again it is highly unlikely it will catch up to the Mega Millions jackpot. Looks like your pool will be on the PB sideline for quite a while
May 3, 2026, 12:43 pm - JustMaybe - Lottery Discussion Forum

89 second prize winners for the powerballReply
Approximately 75% of all lottery tickets sold are QP's Therefore I'd expect 67 of the 89 second place prizes to be QP's. I think the big question now is do they have enough money in the second place prize pool to pay out the total second place prize value of $117 million? My guess is they don't and the 89 second place prizes are going to be paid out on a parimutuel basis. G5
Apr 30, 2026, 1:56 pm - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

Balancing Odds and Cost 😁Reply
Where does that money go if no one wins? It stays in the prize pool.
Apr 26, 2026, 4:46 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

Probability of winning with multiple ticketsReply
Each ticket is up against the same odds. Take your theory to PB and MM level. Consider that for every drawing those who play do not realize they are all part of one humongous pool. We'll use odds of 300,000,000 to malt it easier. So if the first ticket is up against 300M and the next ticket is up against 150M, etc. somebody will have twin. Oh, wait, many drawings go by with no jackpot winners. Gee, how can that be because Tucker Black said..................,Go to the Florida lottery website and
Mar 29, 2026, 8:09 pm - Coin Toss - Lottery Discussion Forum