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Quote: Originally posted by ryanm on April 2, 2006Unfortunately Powerball's cash jackpot is 46.2% of the annuity. Mega Millions' dropped as well to 57.1%. Instead of Powerball's current cap rule on annuity jackpots, they should instead cap the CASH JACKPOTS and let them increase a maximum of $12.5 million per roll or something due to fluctuating interest rates affecting the size of the annuity, or at least increase the maximum annuity rollovers to $50 million or something. If the curren
Apr 5, 2006, 12:38 pm - ryanm - Lottery Discussion Forum

Probability of a Rollover in Powerball.Reply
Yeah, if you think in terms of odds of winning, Mega Millions and Powerball are approximately equal bets when their annuity jackpots are equal.
Apr 3, 2006, 12:31 am - ryanm - Jackpot Games Forum

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Unfortunately Powerball's cash jackpot is 46.2% of the annuity. Mega Millions' dropped as well to 57.1%. Instead of Powerball's current cap rule on annuity jackpots, they should instead cap the CASH JACKPOTS and let them increase a maximum of $12.5 million per roll or something due to fluctuating interest rates affecting the size of the annuity, or at least increase the maximum annuity rollovers to $50 million or something. If the current ratio holds, the cash value at the $390 million
Apr 2, 2006, 1:12 am - ryanm - Lottery Discussion Forum

N.C. Lottery begins todayReply
Congrats to NC for being the 42nd Lottery in the U.S. I hope that when Powerball gets there that you make my jackpots nice and big for me to win.-weshar75
Mar 30, 2006, 6:21 pm - weshar75 - Lottery News

the future of mega millions and powerballReply
A merged PB and MM should be so big it doesn't NEED an annuity jackpot!! Its cash jackpots alone would be eye catching!!
Mar 25, 2006, 1:01 pm - ryanm - Lottery Discussion Forum

why play the pick 4?Reply
pick 3 and 4 are steady income. the jackpots are a dream.
Mar 17, 2006, 3:11 pm - emilyg - Lottery Discussion Forum

Math Lesson for the today.Reply
And the one that was robbed by the Compassionate Robber takes the $2 and puts $1 on the MegaMillions and $1 on the PowerBall and Wins both Jackpots!
Mar 12, 2006, 11:11 pm - Raven62 - Mathematics Forum

Powerball Sets A New RecordReply
Believe me, Powerball probably won't be setting any more record jackpots once North Carolina starts playing, in which case the current matrix will be more realistic for the population. Quite the contrary. An increase of the population base of players, increases the probability of record jackpots.
Mar 9, 2006, 1:35 pm - Jake649 - Jackpot Games Forum

Mega Millions lottery jackpot increases to $31 millionReply
Right now both PB and MM are at levels they'd typically be at if they'd had one more roll than they've actually had. I think that they'll both return to the same sort of rollover amounts we've seen in the recent past within the next roll or two, and that when the jackpots are claimed they'll still just be about one roll ahead of usual. The appeal of the recent jackpots seems to have carried over and made a lot of people decide to buy tickets at a lower threshold than usual, but I'm extremely sk
Mar 8, 2006, 11:46 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Probability of a Rollover in Powerball.Reply
If the jackpots keep jumping the way they are, it will take $300 million for the media to take a look.
Mar 5, 2006, 12:05 pm - ryanm - Jackpot Games Forum