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Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
Here are some possibilities about what's coming. It takes 201 million tickets to reach a 50% chance of getting a winner. We obviously can't get a winner in any of the previous drawings, so from this point there's a 50% chance that the cash value will reach about $668 million. At the current interest rate that would be an advertised annuity of $1.44 billion. On average it takes 292.47 million tickets to produce each winner, so once the cash value has reached $391.7 million (tonight's valu
Nov 8, 2025, 1:56 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
Please explain what you are referring to. Are you talking about a reduction in sales, annuity value or cash value?
Oct 19, 2025, 3:01 pm - winoneday - Lottery Discussion Forum

$1.8 billion Powerball jackpot to be split by two tickets sold in Missouri and TexasReply
Right now the $164.5 million cash value of MM is 45.95% of the $358 million annuity. With the annuity at 35.8% of 1 billion the cash value at the same interest rate has to be $164.5 / .358 for a $1 billion annuity. That's $459.5 million. Flipping it around, it will take a hair under 2.8 times as much money for 1 billion as for 358 million. Total sales through Saturday are forecast to be $609,162,600 and 121,832,520 tickets. 2.8 time that is 340,314,302 tickets (and total revenue of just over
Sep 7, 2025, 5:43 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
Texas lottery has it at 1.15 currently. Just to clarify, none of the places I checked, including the TX website, is advertising 1.15. The worksheet with the sales estimates OTOH, is now saying he supported annuity is 1.155, and the sales forecast has been bumped up from $133 million to $162 million. A roll (about a 75% chance) will see an advertised annuity of 1.3 and the worksheet is currently listing the supported jackpot as $1.323 billion. The supported jackpot estimate almost certainly
Sep 1, 2025, 1:12 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Powerball reaches $643 million: highest lottery jackpot of 2025Reply
It's now $850million annuity/$383.7million cash. Might have to get another ticket.
Aug 27, 2025, 11:54 am - PrisonerSix - Lottery News

Virginia Mega Millions $348 million lottery winner plans to buy lawnmower with record prizeReply
They don't earn any interest on your winnings. You get all the interest. This is why the sum of annuity payments is about double the lump sum value. The reason why they advertise the annuity value and put the real number (cash, today) in small print is only because it's a larger number. People see a larger number and they're more likely to buy tickets. It's not false advertising but really sneaky and I don't like it.
Aug 16, 2025, 4:40 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery News

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
We are also skipping Mega Millions this week. Waiting for the jackpot to get a lot bigger. At least bigger than Powerball. My reasons are very different than MM's reasons, but I'm hoping that we'll see a ridiculously large jackpot in 3 months or so. By that time PB will either have been won or be well beyond the current record. Either way, at $5 per ticket for essentially the same odds I think it's foolish to buy a MM ticket unless it's substantially bigger than PB. Regardless of what PB is
Jul 26, 2025, 1:39 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

New Mega Millions game reports 300% increase in non-jackpot prizes in first monthReply
I might be wrong, but I think that is a crock of information. They reduced the odds a bit and the tickets now cost 2.5 times as much as they used to. Or maybe 2.3 times as much is more accurate, since there were always some players that took the $3/ticket option and bought the megaplier. Based on that, the only thing that seems odds is having an increase in payouts fairly close to the increase in price/odds when they're only selling about 60% as many tickets. Mega Millions says the jack
May 13, 2025, 2:03 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Mega Vs Power, Something is off..Reply
They are US government securities, so the state going bust does not invalidate the annuity payout. It's in the video. If the US government goes bust you have much worse things to worry about than the annuity payout.
Apr 13, 2025, 8:02 am - Todd - Lottery Discussion Forum

$825 MILLION: Massive Mega Millions drawing set for FridayReply
the advertised annuity value could be $8096578650875096540684590684085 for all anyone cares. the only number players look at is the cash value.
Dec 18, 2024, 12:30 pm - Brock Lee - Lottery News