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Is it growing faster because more people are playing or because the price increase?
Yesterday, 9:38 am - Justing618 - Lottery Discussion Forum

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This is the largest jackpot increase in this run and is mainly due to an increase in interest rates. No, according to the worksheet on the TX lottery website it's the 4th largest of the 7 increases since the jackpot was fully funded on 4/28. The worksheet says the largest increase was $8.9 million on 5/8. Here are the actual increase in (millions of) real dollars that the worksheet says they'll give you when you claim the prize: 5.6 6.7 6.7 8.9 8.6 8.5 8.1
May 16, 2026, 1:31 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

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Are you sure it will increase by more than the scheduled $10M ?
Apr 22, 2026, 8:30 am - CDanaT - Lottery Discussion Forum

Congratulations to grwurston for reaching Elite status!Reply
Thank you increase!!
Apr 15, 2026, 10:39 pm - grwurston - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
No Powerball jackpot winner tonight and the JP increase is $8.8M, when the MM increase is $10M there's a lot of criticism, so where is it for PB?
Apr 12, 2026, 12:11 am - Coin Toss - Lottery Discussion Forum

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I don't think it's because of the third drawing in a week. People tend to buy lottery tickets on a per-week basis, not a per-drawing basis. I suspect that many people who were buying multiple tickets for the Wednesday and Saturday drawings stuck with the same weekly expenditure or maybe added one more ticket. A lot of other players were probably the ones that have to have their chance, even if it's only one ticket, so that's a lot of people that started spending 50% more. Whatever the
Jan 22, 2026, 2:31 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

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The Mega Millions jackpot increased by $37 million to $533 million after 27 rolls. This sets a new 27 roll record for the current format of the game; an increase of $13 million over the previous record. There is an estimated 2.6% chance the Mega Millions jackpot will be won in the next draw. The larger than normal boost in the Mega Millions jackpot was due to an increase in interest rates. Sales are not projected to increase for the upcoming draw despite the much smaller Powerball jackpot at
Mar 7, 2026, 1:05 am - winoneday - Lottery Discussion Forum

It looks as if the $5.00 MM ticket is doing poorly.Reply
Sales are lower. But they are making more money. Do to the price increase. Just one data point, but the first 3 drawings for 400+ had sales of $105 million compared to $117 million for the first 3 drawings for 400 the last time it got there before the price increase. That's just hair under 90%. Looking at PB sales for 3 drawings at 400+ at roughly the same times the more recent run had sales of 88% of the previous sales. Again, that's a limited set of data but it looks like lower MM sal
Feb 28, 2026, 4:01 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Did the tax threshold just increase?
I know that the limit for hand pays on casino slots went from 1200$ to 2000$ on January 1st but did the limit on lottery go from 500 to 2000 this year also? I keep getting AI gibberish when I search so I'm not sure.
Jan 16, 2026, 12:59 am - Think - Lottery Discussion Forum

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This is the largest jackpot increase in this run and is mainly due to an increase in interest rates. Please don't forget my $5 that I put into the increase (because I did not win anything, it counts) Hope I win something on Tuesday
May 16, 2026, 12:06 pm - JustMaybe - Lottery Discussion Forum