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Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
Jade, I am a bit uncertain of your recent graph your ratio's which are completely different from the current Annuity vs Cash ratio for the next draw. Recent ratios are hovering around 46.1 - 46.5 % fairly consistently. $503 Annuity vs 302 Cash = 60.03% $474 Annuity vs 219.4 Cash = 46.28% Using $503 Annuity figure at the current 46.28% = $232.78 Cash not $302 Can you explain this for my understanding ?? please and thanks
Sep 24, 2025, 12:24 pm - 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

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

Mega Millions constant $10 million increasesReply
A $2 prize (times whatever multiplier, so $4 to $20) for matching two white balls would add 18% to the value of all non-jackpot prizes in total. That's a lot for such a small win. More accurately a $2 prize for matching 2 white balls would reduce the money that goes to the jackpot by about 14.6%. That would reduce the current cash value of $67.9 million to $58 million. For those who believe the advertising it would reduce the current $150 million annuity to $128 million if they abandoned or
Aug 4, 2025, 3:19 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
Based on the worksheet I figured a roll should be about 1.011 billion, but playing it safe and advertising an even billion isn't a surprise. The most recent worksheet estimates the supported annuity at 1.017. Monday's jackpot finished almost exactly at the estimate for the supported annuity (a hair over 40k higher, based on the numbers I've seen), and last nights was about 3.6 million higher (935.5 vs an estimated 932.4). Now we just wait and see if advertising a jackpot starting with a B will g
Dec 11, 2025, 2:35 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
We are also skipping Mega Millions this week. Waiting for the jackpot to get a lot bigger. At least bigger than Powerball. My reasons are very different than MM's reasons, but I'm hoping that we'll see a ridiculously large jackpot in 3 months or so. By that time PB will either have been won or be well beyond the current record. Either way, at $5 per ticket for essentially the same odds I think it's foolish to buy a MM ticket unless it's substantially bigger than PB. Regardless of what PB is
Jul 26, 2025, 1:39 am - KY Floyd - 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

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