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Over $9.5 million in unclaimed lottery winnings expiring soon in WashingtonReply
No, there is nothing fishy about the retail system in Washington. Just like every other state, there are millions of dollars worth of unclaimed tickets that expire every year. People buy tickets put them in the glove box in their car, an old shoe box or drawer in their home and forget all about the tickets. I have read countless stories where someone was cleaning out their car one day and found a bunch of lottery tickets in the glove box. They had the tickets checked and found a major winner, da
Apr 26, 2026, 6:29 am - winterhug - Lottery News

$1.7 BILLION: Will Powerball create a Christmas billionaire?Reply
Wow, no bumps in the jackpot anymore these days. Looks like no one cares about Powerball anymore Sales are slower than they used to be, but enough people care to buy about 125 million tickets for tonight's drawing, based on the latest sales estimate. What do you think the final jackpot will reach tonight? Will it not make the estimation, will it exceed the estimation or will it pretty much hit the mark? The worksheet posted on Monday estimated the funded annuity at just a hair shy
Dec 24, 2025, 9:59 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery News

$1.7 BILLION: Will Powerball create a Christmas billionaire?Reply
I would like to make special mention of the #24 jackpot on the annuity list, since it is close to falling off the list. Long-timers here may remember what an incredible watershed time that was, when Mega Millions hit $656 million. By the afternoon of the drawing, the jackpot was bumped up to $640 million. Check out the level of excitement in the story and comments: https://www.lotterypost.com/news/244310 By draw time, when the final sales were calculated, the jackpot settled at $65
Dec 23, 2025, 12:20 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Pennsylvania Lottery releases its own Cash Pop draw gameReply
I had another interaction with Cash Pop in Pennsylvania yesterday. I played a mix of Match6, Powerball, P3 and P4 on a vending machine. I fed my slips in and while it was cranking my tickets out, the screen pops up and says my free ticket had been generated. I didn't know I had a free ticket coming. When I sorted through the tickets after I got home, there was a Cash Pop ticket among them. I had played $4 in P3 and apparently playing a P3 generates a chance you'll get a free Cash Pop QP. Wha
Dec 18, 2025, 9:23 am - OhSoClose - Lottery News

Mega Millions jackpot closes in on $1 billionReply
I'd tell you NO! That's because I abandoned MM for PB a long time ago due to the fact that PB's odds were lower. (Not sure if that's still true after the last change to MM) Call me a creature of habit, but after I abandoned MM I simply stuck with PB and completely ignored MM. The other thing for me personally is that I'm trying for a second place win no matter what the advertised jackpot may be. When I buy a ticket I typically don't know (nor do I care) what the jackpot amount is. I do
Nov 15, 2025, 8:28 am - GiveFive - Lottery News

Lottery Post's guide to 2025 holiday raffles across the USAReply
I have 4 Michigan Super raffle tickets :) looking forward to the drawing in a couple weeks. Looks like we are going to have a little break on the odds since most likely this will not be a sell out with such slow sales. I also have 10 Idaho holiday raffle tickets. And after spending the day in Yellowstone I am currently in Montana ready to buy my Raffle tickets first thing in the morning before they sell out. Good luck everyone on your raffle purchases Cheers!
Oct 31, 2025, 7:23 pm - HAMMY WAMMY - Lottery News

Three $1 million winning Powerball lottery tickets sold at the same New York storeReply
I've had people say to me You're crazy for playing the same line of PB numbers multiple times. Adding The PowerPlay option makes it even crazier because that ticket costs you 3 bucks for each stinkin' line! Oh yeah? The current Florida Lotto jackpot for Wednesday October 29th is $1,000,000 . The odds on wining that million dollars is 22,957,480 to 1 . (Or I could add The Double Play for an additional dollar to win $1,250,000. A Total of $3 per line) I could also use that same 3 buc
Oct 28, 2025, 2:09 pm - GiveFive - Lottery News

Three $1 million winning Powerball lottery tickets sold at the same New York storeReply
While it is unusual, people buying multple identical lines isn't all that uncommon. We don't hear about all the times that it was done but it didn't produce a jackpot winner. We only hear about it when it wins big. In New York City, especially Brooklyn, many savvy players buy multiple tickets with the same set of numbers. They do it a lot with Take5 to reduce the pari-muteul aspect of the game. Many times I've read the Top Prize Winners report published on The NY Lottery website that showed
Oct 28, 2025, 9:27 am - GiveFive - Lottery News

Three $1 million winning Powerball lottery tickets sold at the same New York storeReply
Very true but the question I have is did they buy three separate tickets using the same betslip for each purchase, or did they purchase three lines on one ticket using one betslip? As for me, I use one betslip to play five identical lines of five numbers on one PB ticket, with a different PB on each line. I also add the Powerplay option. The article states There were three winning Powerball tickets for the second-tier prize in a drawing last week, and all three came from the same store
Oct 28, 2025, 9:09 am - GiveFive - Lottery News

Three $1 million winning Powerball lottery tickets sold at the same New York storeReply
I think it is highly unlikely it was three separate winners. As above, the lottery already knows if all 3 wins were on a single ticket, multiple tickets played together or in a short time span, or 3 (or more) tickets played over a longer timespan. Since there was nothing special about the winning numbers even having 3 winners in the entire state would have been unlikely. The chance of 3 randomly chosen tickets at a single retailer is basically zero. It very well could have been someone
Oct 28, 2025, 2:15 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News