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Lottery mega-jackpots generating less 'buzz'News Story
Rhode Island Lottery chief predicts Powerball and Mega Millions will merge in the future Just a few years ago, a $240 million Powerball jackpot would have drawn long lines at gas stations and convenience stores across the state. But last week there was little buzz. And forget about lines. Call it jackpot fatigue. Rhode Islanders' appetite for gambling has lowered. And we're not alone. Elsewhere in the region, sales of lottery tickets and other forms of gambling are either less th
Jan 27, 2007, 9:23 am - Todd - Lottery News

US Powerball multi-state lottery game expanding to the UKReply
Right? I was thinking of this. Americans cannot participate any other foreign countries lottery games unless they are visiting the country . Will we be able to play the UK's National lottery ? Or Canada's Lotto Max? Or Australia's Powerball ? No. We can't even nationally play a lottery game through an app like they can with the Euromillions. It seems the Powerball keeps chasing growth despite a of ticket sales. Instead of asking why ticket sales are declining they think price increase or mo
Apr 15, 2026, 7:45 am - Kandiapple - Lottery News

Answer Me This...Reply
A couple of years ago, The Florida Lottery added a midday drawing ... these days the midday drawing offers ... What happened to jackpots immediately after they added the midday drawings? You seem to be telling us what the jackpots were before the change and what the jackpots are a couple of years later. Lottery sales for games that are exactly the same as they were a few years ago are also down. Declining sales is why MM costs $5 now, and likely why FL added midday drawings. It's als
Dec 15, 2025, 1:17 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Idaho Lottery alerts retailers to possible bulk buying attempt over $877,800 Idaho Cash jackpotReply
The difference between Las Vegas casino games and rolling lottery jackpots is that casinos will quickly kick you out for winning too much *house money*. They don't care as much if you win too much *player money*. They still make money on every bet placed on progressive jackpots no matter how big it gets. Lottery rules make it almost impossible to win too much house money. But every single rolling jackpot game has the potential to turn a ticket from a gamble into an investment, and investors
Oct 19, 2025, 4:18 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery News

Mega Millions $5 price increase and game changes take effect this weekendReply
Predictions if people stop playing MM. 1) PB will have more frequent but smaller jackpots due to big increase in players and more combinations being played. 2) Eventually people will say they want bigger jackpots. 3) To provide bigger jackpots PB will either increase the game matrix or raise ticket prices or both.
Apr 6, 2025, 1:56 pm - grwurston - Lottery News

UPDATE: Proposed changes to Mega Millions game will raise ticket price to $5Reply
Resets to $50 Million ???? You can't even get the game back to $40 Million on a restart.....Remember that nice article you folks put out on 10/18/2017 ?? 10/18/2017 Mega Millions is being redesigned to bring more value to its players with larger starting jackpots and faster rolls. Starting jackpots will more than double from $15 million to $40 million, and jackpots will grow faster overall. There will be better odds to win $1 million prizes and higher secondary prizes. The ticket pric
Jun 14, 2024, 1:21 am - CDanaT - Lottery News

$1.04 BILLION: Massive Powerball jackpot increases againReply
The reason jackpots rollover has everything to do with how many tickets are purchased, and something all lottery's call coverage . The more tickets that are sold, the higher the number of all the possible combinations are covered. In Powerball there are 292.2 million possible combinations of 6 numbers. If 146.1 different combinations are sold, then the coverage is 50%. That also means there are 146.1 million combinations that are not sold. In this case there is a 50/50 chance the drawing wi
Oct 2, 2023, 9:20 am - GiveFive - Lottery News

Florida Lottery updates Fantasy 5, adds additional daily drawingReply
Same odds, just lower payouts. That's precisely what happened. Maybe it will cause an uptick in ticket sales. Maybe it wont. That remains to be seen. Cant really tell right now because there is a win $25 instantly promotion going on. The midday draw jackpots will be less than $100,000 while the evening drawing will see jackpots over $100,000. That tells me that the majority of players will pass on the midday draw in favor of the evening. And remember too that Fantasy5 is a pari-mutuel g
Mar 24, 2023, 12:50 pm - GiveFive - Lottery News

Two $31 million Mega Millions lottery jackpots won in Massachusetts in one weekNews Story
Same jackpot amount won in the same state on two consecutive Tuesdays By Kate Northrop In just one week, two Mega Millions lottery jackpots both valued at $31 million were won in Massachusetts. There's something in the water in Massachusetts, where a lottery player won a $31 million Mega Millions jackpot just one week after another player in the state won a jackpot of the same value. On Tuesday, Jan. 24, one ticket won the $31 million jackpot in the multi-state Mega Millions game
Feb 1, 2023, 4:38 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Player wins pair of $100K video poker jackpots :-)
Player wins pair of $100K video poker jackpots within 15 minutes of each other at Caesars' Congratulations Winner ! Pro-Player Advocate Eddessa_Knight w/Lucky LIGHT
Jan 22, 2023, 5:57 pm - eddessaknight - Gaming Forum