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Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
I hear ya MsBee.... I always thought it was nice having 2 options at the same price to have the jackpots rise at noticable rates. The MM is a big yawn and isn't creating the interest that it used to just 10 months ago. Look at the increase for the run for the last Billion dollar jackpot that happened last December 27,2024: https://www.texaslottery.com/export/sites/lottery/Documents/jackpotestimates/mm20241227.pdf It got to the $619M Annuity on Tuesday and the next draw skyrocketed to $6
Oct 15, 2025, 1:28 pm - CDanaT - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
Updated a little info on MM PB Powerball History Years Matrix Multiplier Price per Play/Line Jackpot Odds Jackpot Annuity Minimum Jackpot Maximum Jackpot Lower Tier Payouts Power Play 5 + 0 4 + 1 4 + 0 3 + 1 3 + 0 2 + 1 1 + 1 0 + 1 1992-04-22 to 1997-11-01 5/45 and 1/45 None $1.00 1 in 54,979,155 20 Year $2,000,000 $111,240,463 $100,000 $5,000 $100 $100 $7 $5 $2 $1 1997-11-05 to 2001-03-03 5/49 and 1/42 None $1.00 1 in 80,089,128 25 Year $10,000,000 $295,700,000 $100,000
Oct 12, 2025, 11:59 am - JADELottery - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
The Previous $2/$3 a Line ratio of Annuity to Cash is an average of about 170.3% We rounded it down to 166.7% to give MM a benefit of the doubt and match the starting ratio from our Power Regression Average. It makes the Previous Annuity slightly smaller than what it would normally average to. The Current $5 a Line ratio is about 222.5% and it comes from the current values established by MM's own posted jackpots. Average = 170.3% Average = 222.5% Index Date Annuity Cash Rati
Sep 24, 2025, 12:49 pm - JADELottery - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
The Power Regression can now be used to make the $2/$3 a Line Cash and Annuity average regression. Relative Cash Jackpot $2/$3 a Line Jackpot Run Average Power Regression Cash Annuity 1 $1,000,000 $1,000,000 $12,000,000 $20,000,000 2 $4,934,146 $4,851,607 $16,000,000 $26,000,000 3 $10,491,892 $10,710,725 $22,000,000 $36,000,000 4 $16,950,000 $17,258,986 $28,000,000 $47,000,000 5 $24,513,889 $24,242,686 $35,000,000 $59,000,000 6 $32,302,857 $31,685,916 $43,0
Sep 23, 2025, 8:56 pm - JADELottery - Lottery Discussion Forum

$1.8 billion Powerball jackpot to be split by two tickets sold in Missouri and TexasReply
l won only $8 on Powerball 17 . But am not too worried l believe Mega Millions is the only Voyage that once the frenzy starts can grow to $4,500,000,000 . This is what makes Mega millions Dangerous it may look slow at moment but once it picks up speed at $1,000,000,000 it will grow twice as fast as powerball and people will be Shocked by the Speed zoom To Buy fifty percent of Powerball possibilities cost $300,000,000 but to buy fifty percent of mega millions possibilities will cost $750,
Sep 7, 2025, 10:53 am - Powerball765 - Lottery News

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
Hooray for you! I like reading the writings of a wise person! I haven't touched MM since the price hike either. But, I will buy a *very* few tickets when/if MM reaches some breathtaking cash value. Why? Because you do have to be in the game to win the game, no other reason. Till then I am taking the funds that I would have spent on MM ($5 tickets) and dedicating them to PB. I think of that as a sort of punishment for MM and a bonus for PB because of what MM did with the price hike and fo
Aug 22, 2025, 11:51 pm - IAmABadOne - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
I do chuckle at the MM statement they put in their news release on 3/25/25: The game will feature bigger prizes at every non-jackpot prize tier, better odds to win the jackpot, better odds overall, larger starting jackpots, and faster-growing jackpots. Starting at $50 Million didn't seem to energize much needed sales to support that claim. Let's see if the sticker shock of 150% increase wears off after a year or as one poster put it, they have a few runs that go for 30 drawings or more .
Aug 21, 2025, 11:27 am - CDanaT - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
The Mega Millions jackpot is growing slower than last time because it is being over shadowed by the much larger Powerball jackpot. And/or more of the people who aren't addicted are sitting it out for more general reasons about MM itself. The sales forecast for Friday are up about 5% over the previous Friday, so maybe we'll see another modest increase for Friday 8/1, too. Based on the last couple of increases we'll almost certainly see it advertised as 130 next Tuesday (funded at about 1
Jul 24, 2025, 12:23 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
It's almost as if probability only suggests what's likely and not what will actually happen, isn't it? I think when they sold us Faster growing jackpots they forgot to factor in what could actually happen i.e the jackpot being won sooner. But again, everything is still in its infancy, so we can afford to give them the benefit of doubt. Looking forward to a $3.5 billion jackpot. I would take the annuity if I win that
Jun 29, 2025, 11:08 pm - JustMaybe - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
It appears the $5.00 price hike has had an effect on the Cash growth. We got some data on the Annuity and Cash values. In our analysis, we strip out the inflationary starting jackpot and base line the cash growth by starting at $1,000,000.00 for all jackpot runs to give a relative cash jackpot run. Below shows the current $5.00 price hike as compared to the previous $2.00 price beginning back in 2018. Some data was not included due to crossing over two different price and matrix
Jun 5, 2025, 11:23 am - JADELottery - Lottery Discussion Forum