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Virginia Lottery Director Khalid R. Jones appointed as Mega Millions Lead DirectorReply
Hopefully he's intelligent enough to decrease the game price Unlike a lot of people here he's intelligent enough to know that the lottery's only marketing concern is maximizing revenue, and the $5 tickets are probably doing that. I'm pretty certain they wouldn't be changing leadership if they were happy with the current set of changes Did you read the story? The lead directors serve terms of 1 year, and they're usually also holding the job of lead director for a state lottery. The
Dec 11, 2025, 3:34 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
There has been considerable criticism of Mega Millions for the slow growth of its jackpot, with many attributing the issue to the ticket price increase. However, the reverse may be true: the price hike could have been a response to slowing sales rather than the cause of them. Powerball is facing a similar trend. The current jackpot of $681 million was reached after 34 consecutive rollovers. In comparison, the record jackpot after 34 rolls is $1,565 million more than double the current amou
Nov 25, 2025, 11:04 am - winoneday - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
The Mega Millions jackpot has increased by $65 million to $965 million after 39 consecutive rolls and is the largest Mega Millions jackpot since December 2024. This is largest jackpot increase since the launch of the new format. There is a 6.2% chance the jackpot will be won in the November 14 draw with projected sales of $94.9 million. This is also the highest sales since the launch of the new game. A new Mega Millions roll record was set at 39 consecutive rolls of the jackpot. The jackpot
Nov 12, 2025, 2:40 am - winoneday - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
Mega millions increased 89 million from Friday to Friday. That's an average rollover of 45 million per draw. Powerball increased 69.5 million from Saturday to Saturday. That's an average rollover of 23 million per draw. Mega millions is growing faster than PB. But both have seen an uptick in ticket sales. Mega millions took a much higher amount for casual players to get on-board. Mega millions appears to be too hard to win largely due to lower ticket sales at a higher price point.
Nov 9, 2025, 7:05 am - MsBee18 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
The Mega Millions jackpot has increased by $57 million to $900 million after 38 consecutive rolls and is the largest Mega Millions jackpot since December 2024. This is largest jackpot increase since the launch of the new format. There is a 5.3% chance the jackpot will be won in the November 11 draw with projected sales of $80.1 million. This is also the highest sales since the launch of the new game. A new Mega Millions roll record was set at 38 consecutive rolls of the jackpot. The jackpot
Nov 8, 2025, 8:13 am - winoneday - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
The Mega Millions jackpot has increased by $43 million to $843 million after 37 consecutive rolls and is the largest Mega Millions jackpot since December 2024. This jackpot increase is surprisingly less than the previous increase. There is a 4.6% chance the jackpot will be won in the November 7 draw with projected sales of $70.3 million. This is the highest sales since the launch of the new game. The Mega Millions jackpot is starting to grow faster than Powerball as evidenced in only the las
Nov 5, 2025, 8:44 am - winoneday - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
Here was my reasoning. If they advertise $794M, they get less excitement/sales than if they advertise $800. And the additional excitement alone brings the additional ca. $10M of sales that generated the $3M cash/$6M annuitized additional roll that bring you to $800M. Advertising less than $800M would have been a self-inflicted missed opportunity.
Nov 1, 2025, 9:02 am - positano - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
The buying frenzy for Powerball spilled over to Mega Millions. I suppose it would be foolish to guess at the logic of people buying lottery tickets, but I don't think it makes any sense to buy a $5 MM ticket just because you're at the store and decided to take a chance on a PB ticket. OTOH, I think it's fairly likely that the people who are basically non-players that decide to take a chance when it's 1 billion + could buy a ticket for the wrong game. At $5 a pop it only takes 3 million tick
Oct 7, 2025, 2:50 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Powerball reaches $643 million: highest lottery jackpot of 2025Reply
I'm surprised that you got that completely backwards. With fixed annual payments the advertised annuity would be less than the inflated advertising value they get by keeping more money invested for a longer time. Of course advertising that smaller annuity would almost certainly reduce sales a bit, making both the cash and annuity even smaller after any given number of rolls. They tell us the graduated annuity makes sense because of inflation, but I feel very confident that that's strictly PR abo
Aug 21, 2025, 9:18 am - Tucker Black - Lottery News

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
Anyone with the tiniest clue knew that tickets sales would go down with even a modest price increase, but a lot of people seem to be missing the clue that the lotteries are interested in revenue, not ticket sales. Revenue for the current MM run, including the estimates for Friday, is a hair over $381 million, vs $426 million for the previous ($5) run after 16 drawings. The current run is about 10.6% behind the previous run, but also competing with a strong PB run. Even so it's a hair over $1 mil
Aug 21, 2025, 3:01 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum