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US Powerball multi-state lottery game expanding to the UKReply
You sure about that? Publication 519 (2025), U.S. Tax Guide for Aliens Gambling Winnings In general, nonresident aliens are subject to the 30% tax on the gross proceeds from gambling won in the United States if that income is not effectively connected with a U.S. trade or business and is not exempted by treaty. However, no tax is imposed on nonbusiness gambling income a nonresident alien wins playing blackjack, baccarat, craps, roulette, or big-6 wheel in the United States.
Apr 20, 2026, 6:24 am - kao1632 - Lottery News

Lucky For Life to Millionaire For Life - $5 TicketReply
For me ... I play lucky 4 life maybe twice a week (like it was mon Thur originally) when pb and or mm are below the 250 million threshold for me to jump into those games . Now with the merged millionaire 4 life and the three dollar increase in price .... I'll still play but only once per week. I look forward to the new game but I'm not going gaga over it. What will the matrix look like? Will it still be a twenty year annuity? Will there be a cash option? All questions to
Jan 15, 2026, 5:59 pm - ShagE3 - Lottery Discussion Forum

my idea for a multi-state lotteryReply
I think you've made a mistake, presumably in point 4. You know the chance of matching 6 of 68 is 1 in 109.45 million, so you should expect 1 jackpot winner for every 109.45 million tickets. With 10 cents from each ticket going to the jackpot you'll have just under $11 million each time you pay a winner $25 million. You could do that with an annuity, but if you hand out cash you have a problem. To fully fund a cash prize of $25 million you'd need 22.84 cents from each ticket to go to the jackpot.
Dec 12, 2025, 4:53 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

my idea for a multi-state lotteryReply
4) 10 cents of each ticket gets added to the jackpot. Thoughts? I think you've made a mistake, presumably in point 4. You know the chance of matching 6 of 68 is 1 in 109.45 million, so you should expect 1 jackpot winner for every 109.45 million tickets. With 10 cents from each ticket going to the jackpot you'll have just under $11 million each time you pay a winner $25 million. You could do that with an annuity, but if you hand out cash you have a problem. To fully fund a cash prize of $
Dec 12, 2025, 2:40 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
They had to have cheated. Don't be ridiculous. It's so easy to win there's no reason to cheat even if you could. One complaint would justify being upset with the price increase, a constant complaint is overkill. You know that there are two of you that are making your complaint over and over, right? I could understand someone like Elon Musk calling $10 million measly I don't imagine anyone here actually thinks any of the advertised jackpots are chump change, but so far I do
Dec 6, 2025, 12:23 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
The supported jackpot is $69.7 million whereas in the previous run, the supported jackpot was $66.9 million. And the cash value is now 41.9 vs 39.9. The annuity value is 4.19% higher than in the previous run, but cash value, which is a direct measurement of sales is 4.77% higher. That may be an indication that as players buy in when the jackpot gets bigger the $5 price becomes something they're okay with at lower jackpot levels, too. Or it might just be because very high jackpots tend t
Nov 30, 2025, 7:59 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
Measly Millions past Billion Dollar Jackpots other than 12/27/24 3/26/24; April 21, 2023 - Aug. 8, 2023, $1.602 Billion/783.3M Cash - 31 rollovers Oct. 18, 2022 - Jan. 13, 2023 $1.348 Billion/$707.9M Cash - 25 rollovers April 19, 2022 - Jul. 29, 2022 $1.337 Billion/$747.2M Cash - 29 rollovers Sept 18, 2020 - Jan. 22, 2021 $1.05 Billion/$739.6M Cash - 36 rollovers Remaining 3 MM Jackpots below $1 Billion in the top 25: Jun 7, 2024 - Sept. 10, 2024 $800 Million/$401.8
Oct 13, 2025, 12:35 am - CDanaT - Lottery Discussion Forum

If You Won BIG, Would You Perform Risk Management?Reply
A few factors would play into my path forward: 1. After tax amount won. Is it $200M take home? Taking the Annuity or Cash Value(roughly 46% of $200M) minus fed taxes ? 2. Estimation of years life left(plus 5). 3. Purchase of Gold and Silver to cover life expenses for at least 25 years - through private sales and places such as APMEX/Hero Bullion etc. 4. Cash on hand(depends on #1) 5. CDs at multiple local banking facilities 6. Hire the professional....There are numerous
Sep 24, 2025, 10:10 am - CDanaT - Lottery Discussion Forum

LOTTERY POST 25TH ANNIVERSARY GIVEAWAY #4Reply
The Lucky for Life jackpot can be payed out as: 1. A lump sum of $5,750,000 before taxes . 2. An annuity of 365,000 a year before taxes. The prize is guaranteed for 20 years in the event of the death of the winner. If you collect the first 365K and die that year, your beneficiaries will be paid out 365K each year for 19 years. That's what they mean by a 20 year guaranteed. Otherwise you will be paid 365K until you die, whether that's for 21, 30, 40 or 50 years. Not su
Sep 16, 2025, 3:05 pm - JustMaybe - Lottery Discussion Forum

Virginia Mega Millions $348 million lottery winner plans to buy lawnmower with record prizeReply
@Tucker Black I do agree with you on the interest. The winner gets all the interest and that is why the amount being paid out after the 30 years is way more than the cash at hand/bank today. What I like about the lump sum is that the money is invested in very safe government bonds. If the US government bonds fail, then the economy is all failed, doesn't matter where your money is, there would be a ripple effect. If I won the jackpot today, I would put all the money in government bond
Aug 16, 2025, 8:37 pm - JustMaybe - Lottery News