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Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
Yes, it's very telling the advertised jackpot increase is only $10 M after 8 rollovers. Do you understand how the game and its financing work? Both PB and MM have always started with artificially high jackpots that aren't fully funded, and never had more than the minimum increase until there's enough cash to fully fund the jackpot. The smaller jackpot of the old format was funded quickly. With the new format the jackpot would remain artificially high for more drawings with exactly the same
Jul 27, 2025, 5:17 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
The cash value is only running at 10% of what it would be when it was at $2.00 a line. What are you failing to say correctly? Both annuity and cash value are lagging behind previous runs, but the cash value, as always, is the percentage of the annuity that it necessary to pay for the annuity. Right now that's about 44.3%. Although the MM jackpot may be lagging behind previous MM runs it's well ahead of PB on a per drawing basis. When the previous MM run was hit on the 21st drawing the adver
Jul 26, 2025, 1:09 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
This is the largest jackpot increase in this run and is mainly due to an increase in interest rates. Please don't forget my $5 that I put into the increase (because I did not win anything, it counts) Hope I win something on Tuesday
May 16, 2026, 12:06 pm - JustMaybe - Lottery Discussion Forum

Lotto Max to undergo significant game changes, price increaseNews Story
Bigger jackpots, but they're harder to win By Kate Northrop The multi-province Lotto Max game is getting an overhaul this spring, which will include a bigger jackpot cap, additional $100,000 prizes with every draw, and a ticket price increase. Lotto Max, the multi-province draw game of Canadian lotteries, is set to deliver higher jackpots, additional prizes, and more lines per play, all at the cost of a ticket price increase and more difficult odds at hitting the jackpot. Last we
Oct 17, 2025, 10:49 am - Todd - Lottery News

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
There's that increase to 1.4! I agree I think it's going to end up between 1.45 and 1.5 tonight. Saturday is projected at 1.7 but I'll be surprised if it's not between 1.8 and 1.9 My thinking is the out of ordinary factor is when people are nervous about the economy, lottery sales increase, we also haven't had a jackpot over 1B for awhile so there isn't the burn out. And personally I'm putting money I would have spent on mega into PB instead so a lot of other people probably are too. Me
Sep 3, 2025, 11:12 am - SoCola - Lottery Discussion Forum

Powerball reaches $643 million: highest lottery jackpot of 2025Reply
It rolled, and there's a very good chance it will be past the billion mark when the drawing happens. NY has been showing the final amount on the results page, and Monday's jackpot is reported as $776.7 million. That's a jump of $60.9 million over the previous drawing and Mondays have the worst increases, typically being less than the previous Wednesday to Saturday increase. For Wednesday's drawing the original $815 million seemed very conservative, and at a reported $861.2 million we got an incr
Aug 28, 2025, 2:07 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
Whoa !!!! an $18 Million dollar increase for the Measly Millions A new pattern to throw us off on the standard increase that they have portrayed so well?? Orrrrrrrrrrr is $18M going to be the new standard increase for a few rollovers ??.... Either way, wake me when its gets to the $500M Cash Value mark. PB Tonight 8/16 = $255,300,000. Cash Value Good luck to all of us that are participating !!!!
Aug 16, 2025, 10:13 am - CDanaT - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
they've got it wrong. greed has made them blind to the fact that this kind of games would need widest participation. 1-return money back to the public by cutting down the 60% tax to 40% 2-I agree to bring back a dollar and a dream (increase the second tier prize to $2 million from the 60% tax reduction). ========================================/ The price increase of Mega Millions tickets from $2 to $5 was decided by the Mega Millions Consortium , which is the governing body of t
Oct 27, 2025, 11:05 am - TwoMillion - Lottery Discussion Forum

$1.8 BILLION: Powerball jackpot now second-largest ever as ticket sales surge across the USAReply
I hope no one wins tomorrow so the record gets broken! I've been waiting along time for that, but the real record is something north of $997.6 million in cash. To get there we need an annuity of $2.173 billion or so (assuming the interest rate doesn't change). I think we should be at the point where sales for Monday should at least be almost as big as Saturday's, and that's what we saw last Monday. If we see 1.844 tonight that's an even $400 million more than Wednesday, so we'd need an incr
Sep 6, 2025, 4:34 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
Sales would have to increase by about 50% to get the odds of a win to 3%.
May 25, 2026, 12:36 am - winoneday - Lottery Discussion Forum