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Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
I tend to think that the Economic Impact Payments aka Stimulus Checks, played a huge role in growing big jackpots. There was so much liquidity in the market and people gambled more. Overall discretionary spending has reduced in the current environment that we are in. Another reason that am thinking and this is not researched based, is the impact of the migrant community on sales. I believe immigrants spend on the lottery could be lower if they are saving more and faced with uncertain
Jul 29, 2025, 12:32 pm - JustMaybe - Lottery Discussion Forum

New PA $30 Scratcher
I don't often play the $30 scratchers, maybe Christmas and birthday. Too often I recall looking down at a worthless piece of paper and thinking there goes another 30 bucks. But i do pay attention to them out of curiosity and when PA just released a new one called $3 Million Mega Moolah, I took a look and checked out a couple youtube channels where they do scratchers pretty much every day. I quickly noticed something different about this one. Normally, the $30 scratchers come with five $3 mil
Jul 3, 2025, 10:15 am - OhSoClose - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
It's almost as if probability only suggests what's likely and not what will actually happen, isn't it? I think when they sold us Faster growing jackpots they forgot to factor in what could actually happen i.e the jackpot being won sooner. But again, everything is still in its infancy, so we can afford to give them the benefit of doubt. Looking forward to a $3.5 billion jackpot. I would take the annuity if I win that
Jun 29, 2025, 11:08 pm - JustMaybe - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
Mega Millions is advertising bigger jackpots because they know that in the long run, this sort of thing won't happen. But again, based on your very detailed analysis which I like, the jackpot has been won once, when statistically it was not to be won. Then it happened again. What happens once, can happen twice, when it happens twice, heaven knows it can happen three times and on and on. I think every time someone wins before it gets to 1 Billion the guys at MM get so mad The fo
Jun 28, 2025, 8:10 pm - JustMaybe - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions jackpot increases
They told us that the jackpot would grow faster with the matrix change. That doesn't seem to be the case. The latest jackpot increase is $14MM. The odds of winning the jackpot better than before. I don't see how we are going to get bigger jackpots. It is clear fewer people are playing.
Jun 14, 2025, 10:42 am - JWBlue - Lottery Discussion Forum

Office Pool conceptReply
My buddy runs an office pool. According to him, you will never get more than 100 people to join. You would be doing well to get 50. He has had as many as 100 people join for particularly large jackpots. But he has been doing it for years. As new people join, others give up and quit. Therefore the pool never gets that large. But then again, you do not need a big group. Even with only 10 people, you have increased your chances of winning 10 fold. Good luck!
May 13, 2025, 5:52 pm - winoneday - Lottery Discussion Forum

Two "Blessed" Illinois lottery winners claim $349 million Mega Millions jackpotReply
The larger jackpots are not enticing the buyers on the sidelines as they used to. That's what it looks like. I don't call US$90 m a large jackpot. The cash value ($40.4m) less tax isn't worth much more than $25m...Just after federal taxes. Meanwhile EuroMillions is worth US$134 m.. after tax that is about US$78 (For an American. AS kiwi, it is worth US$124m to me, while the MM is worth only US$28.28m The jackpot needs to get a lot higher.... Or maybe someone winning 2
May 3, 2025, 6:16 pm - kao1632 - Lottery News

Bill banning lottery courier services passes Indiana House and SenateReply
Megamillions needn't worry. Their sales keep dropping. They only sold 4.6 million tickets for the April 25, 2025 draw. The jackpot rose again by $10 million. At this rate the $2.0 billion threshold will hit around October or 2026. Who knows. Still can't quite figure out who came up the $5.00 ticket idea. Retailers don't like it. Lottery ticket buyers really don't like it, they are not buying the tickets. Megamillions won't admit their mistake or make a change anytime soon. I wo
Apr 26, 2025, 8:53 am - JohnGalt3 - Lottery News

Bill banning lottery courier services passes Indiana House and SenateReply
Couriers have nothing to do with rigging a lottery (which itself is a loaded/incorrect term). I assume by rigging you mean someone buying all the possible combinations. THAT IS NOT DONE THROUGH A COURIER. It would be too expensive, because couriers charge extra money per ticket/order. Just because Texas legislators and the New York Times are unable to differentiate between two separate concepts does not mean that we at Lottery Post cannot correctly separate these two concepts. What they do i
Apr 25, 2025, 7:28 pm - Todd - Lottery News

First drawing of new Mega Millions game produces 5X more winnings compared to older versionReply
3) A new world record jackpot amount will be well over $2 billion and maybe $3 billion. The prior record was in 2023 @ $1.602 billion. That's what the lottery claims, but the actual record is the $877.8 million cash jackpot that could have funded an imaginary annuity of $1.537 billion in 2018. I think #3 is the main reason for the change. I'm sure they'd like to have bragging rights, but the states get the money regardless of which game holds whatever record(s) they might claim. Wh
Apr 13, 2025, 3:29 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News