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Probability of a Rollover in Powerball.Reply
Powerball has rolled. The cash jackpot is $22.1. The annuity jackpot is $49M. Since the matrix change, 5th draws in a series have sold 14.9M tickets on average. If this is how many tickets are sold, the probability of various numbers of winners is as follows: 090.30% 19.21% 20.47% 30.02% The mixed linear/exponential model (switch to exponential at draw 13) suggests the following long term probabilities for jackpot evolution, ignoring caps and reserves: Average Jackpot
Apr 27, 2006, 5:47 am - Prob988 - Jackpot Games Forum

Probability of a Rollover in Powerball.Reply
Powerball has rolled. The cash jackpot is $13M. The annuity jackpot is $28M. Since the matrix change, 3rd draws in a series have sold 15M tickets on average. If this is how many tickets are sold, the probability of various numbers of winners is as follows: 090.24% 19.26% 20.48% 30.02% The mixed linear/exponential model (switch to exponential at draw 13) suggests the following long term probabilities for jackpot evolution: $353 $450,061,934.86$207,233,06437.37%1.1
Apr 20, 2006, 8:27 am - Prob988 - Jackpot Games Forum

84 year old millionaire !!
I hope she chooses cash !! Congrats !!!!! DD Widow, 84, Wins Record $10M Slot Jackpot By JOHN CURRAN Associated Press Writer ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. For 84-year-old Josephine Crawford, the golden years just got a lot more golden. About to call it quits after a night playing slot machines, the Galloway Township widow hit a $10 million jackpot late Tuesday, the biggest in the history of casino gambling here. The retired waitress knew when the nickel slot machine's bells went of
Apr 20, 2006, 8:09 am - DoubleDown - Lottery Discussion Forum

Lotto winner faces financial decisions
OK. So you've won the lottery. Now comes the hard part. How do you manage all those millions? The Florida Lottery jackpot is expected to top $82 million for tonight's Lotto drawing -- the seventh-largest jackpot ever in Florida. And the chance of picking all six numbers is 1 in 22,957,480. Still, you've got to dream. (For nonlottery players, those dreams probably will mean frustratingly slower lines at convenience stores today.) If a sole winner chooses to take the jackpot over 30
Apr 19, 2006, 7:30 am - petergrfn - Jackpot Games Forum

Probability of a Rollover in Powerball.Reply
Powerball has rolled over. The cash value is $9.2M, the annuity value is $20M. Second draws in Powerball have averaged 13.8M in sales. If this is how many tickets are sold, the probability of various numbers of winners will be: 090.99% 18.59% 20.41% 30.01% The long term linear/exponential model that I am trying out, predicts the following behavior and probabilities. $353 $450,106,562.42$207,253,61337.37%1.01% $300 $355,504,626.36$163,693,72148.65%2.69% $
Apr 16, 2006, 1:21 pm - Prob988 - Jackpot Games Forum

Probability of a Rollover in Powerball.Reply
The powerball jackpot has been won. The average sales for 1st draw jackpots is 14.5M. If this is the number of tickets that are sold, the probability for various numbers of winners occurring will be: 090.55% 18.99% 20.45% 30.01% I have developed a model that is linear through the first 12 drawings, and becomes exponential at the 13th. This model seems to fit the average sales data very well, when one graphs actual sales vs. model sales. It will be inaccurate where m
Apr 13, 2006, 11:24 am - Prob988 - Jackpot Games Forum

Kansas Lottery adds 'Hot Lotto' gameNews Story
Mini Powerball is coming to Kansas. Sales for the multi-state Hot Lotto numbers game began Sunday for Wednesday's first biweekly drawing that will include the Sunflower State. Like Powerball, winning Hot Lotto numbers are selected and announced every Wednesday and Saturday. Hot Lotto jackpots are smaller than those offered by Powerball, but players have better odds of winning. The odds are 1 in 16 of getting any winning Hot Lotto ticket for prizes that range from $2 to the minimum $
Mar 14, 2006, 8:42 am - Todd - Lottery News

Tennessee lottery winner sues stateNews Story
A woman who won a Tennseess Lottery scratch-off ticket worth over $1 million has sued the state for preventing her from assigning some of her winnings to a financial company in return for a lump sum payout. Like other instant lottery winners, Ethel Newberry of Palmrya wasn't given the option to get the bulk of her winnings in cash up front. Instead, she gets annual payments of about $52,000 a year for a minimum of 20 years. Newberry is asking the Davidson County Chancery Court to allow he
Feb 14, 2006, 11:51 am - Todd - Lottery News

15 New Jersey "Night of Millionaires" Powerball winners claim prizes of $1 million and moreNews Story
From birthday luck to dream-inspired intuition: NJ winners share their joyful tales By Kate Northrop The New Jersey Lottery has been reporting a slew of winners skipping through their doors to claim prizes of $1 million and more after one Powerball drawing in April resulted in a Night of Millionaires. After the April 29 Powerball drawing produced 89 second-tier prize winners of at least $1 million, 15 out of 18 New Jersey lottery winners have claimed their winnings, each coming in w
Jun 3, 2026, 8:50 am - Todd - Lottery News

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
Occurrence Interval Draws Jackpot Index Date Days Year Month Day A B C D E MB Annuity Cash Sales 99 740060 2026 3 20 11 20 51 55 63 04 $50,000,000 $22,600,000 $19,875,885 100 740064 2026 3 24 04 13 52 53 69 10 $60,000,000 $27,000,000 $19,353,580 101 740067 2026 3 27 13 27 28 41 62 16 $70,000,000 $31,500,000 $19,755,795 102 740071 2026 3 31 18 35 45 60 65 17 $80,000,000 $35,600,000 $19,621,740 103 740074 2026 4 3 31 45 62 63 68 15 $90,000,000 $40,100,000 $20,800,875
May 30, 2026, 8:58 am - JADELottery - Lottery Discussion Forum