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Powerball reaches $643 million: highest lottery jackpot of 2025Reply
Yep it's not even a top 25 jackpot per the cash value. My current buy ins at these after tax jackpots and ticket prices are $750,000,000 for Powerball and 2,500,000,000 for mega millions. Maybe Todd can start a Jokepot list starting with this one as the number one Jokepot. There are plenty of other games to play until the Jokepots get high enough To buy into
Aug 20, 2025, 11:02 am - Think - Lottery News

Arizona Lottery bans Fast Play bulk ticket purchasesReply
Fast Plays are Scratcher-like games (some are duplicates of scratcher games) except instead of card, the play ticket is generated on the fly by the kiosk and replaces the play card. This opens up a number of security vulnerabilities in my mind if you have physical access to hack and reverse engineer a machine. I think they are putting too much confidence in a TPM chip securing the boot sequence. Some Fast Plays have progressive jackpots (9 of 36 games currently). A person can calculate the p
Jul 13, 2025, 6:36 pm - Wavepack - Lottery News

Arizona Lottery bans Fast Play bulk ticket purchasesReply
9 out of 36 Fast Games show a progressive jackpot. And for whatever reason, the jackpot estimate shows up now when I visited the arizonalottery.com website. Go figure. My main points were Anti-buyout rules make more sense for Pick6 and Fantasy5, where the player picks the numbers and so can guarantee a buyout of all possibilities. Currently, AZ has no such anti-buyout rules for Pick6 and Fantasy5. So, AZ is highly inconsistent with their anti-buyout rules. They should have rolled out an
Jul 9, 2025, 11:01 am - Wavepack - Lottery News

New Jersey Lottery lowers odds of winning Fast Play Progressive jackpotReply
Rocks of ruck with that. Michigan started out at 300k to 1 and then went to 400...then 500 and now 600k to one and the game just drags and the jackpots are not that much bigger. I hope the New Jersey system is better. Good luck to everyone that plays it.
Jul 8, 2025, 10:56 am - Think - Lottery News

$83.5 million Lotto Texas winner reveals name in court battle: "Tired of being ignored"Reply
The problem as I see it is that the Texas Lottery made their first mistake when they essentially caved to that attention-seeking woman who makes her living by trying to make the lottery look bad. You can't appease a person like that. When she initially started bad-mouthing couriers, the lottery should have ignored her. Instead, they should have explained to the public that no, couriers are not bad, and they have nothing to do with lottery jackpots being purchased . The entire problem with this p
Jun 11, 2025, 6:47 pm - Todd - Lottery News

US Powerball multi-state lottery game expanding to the UKReply
Man, I could write a book on this one. So I'll keep it brief... How do you expect the prize pool to grow faster when you're adding 20% more players ??? (Not really- see next item.) UK players will reject this based on the ticket cost and taxable (US portion) jackpots. This is just a test market to see if Powerball can sell a $5+ ticket ( 4= $5.44 US). Why in your own back yard when you can do it in someone else's? MegaMillions is paying the price of greed and Powerball is next.
Apr 15, 2026, 11:07 am - play4shekels - Lottery News

New Hampshire Lottery launches $30 scratch-off ticket offering record $3 million top prizeReply
Well put ..... For thirty dollars I can buy 10 to 15 powerball tickets for a cash value of 9 mil or six tickets of megamillions for a cash value of around 22 mil. Of course, it's a lot harder to win than the scratcher but that's another thing. Have a shaggy day! ShagE3 PS On another topic, tho lottery related .... What's with Ark and Del twice winning multistate mega lottery jackpots as of recent memory?
Apr 8, 2026, 10:32 pm - ShagE3 - Lottery News

Winner of $877,800 Idaho Cash jackpot is infamous bulk buyerReply
When you buy a ticket for a progressive jackpot game, you have no right to receive a refund of the progressive jackpot contribution. Anyone who expects to get their lost money back should never play this game. The entire point of the game is that your ticket price includes a contribution to the jackpot which will go to the winner. Whether it's your neighbor or an out-of-state visitor is irrelevant. If the state lottery doesn't want someone to win a progressive jackpot who didn't buy any
Feb 25, 2026, 1:28 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery News

Arkansas lottery winner of $1.8 billion Powerball jackpot comes forwardReply
Congrats to the lucky winner. You know I've been thinking lately ..... in your estimation considering all factors: MM $5 .... Tues/Fri vs PB $2 to $3 .... Mon Wed Sat how much of a lead in jackpot would MM need for PB NOT to eventually match and surpass that jackpot and go on to a mega like Castro/Cal? I know I am not making my thoughts clear so let me put it this way: last night PB was 209 mil ..... and Fridays MM is 266 mil. For arguments sake let's say no one won pb last night .... an
Jan 22, 2026, 7:59 pm - ShagE3 - Lottery News

MUSL to launch "X's and O's," a new multi-state Powerball NFL gameNews Story
New game to focus on experiential prizes over jackpots By Kate Northrop A new multi-state lottery game coming later this year will take two of America's favorite things Powerball and football and smash them together. The Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL) has announced a new multi-state Powerball game in partnership with the National Football League (NFL) called X's and O's. Players can expect to see the new game coming later this year, which will focus on awarding players w
Jan 17, 2026, 12:10 pm - Todd - Lottery News