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New York- The Million Dollar Raffle
New York Lottery held a raffle-style drawing the concluded on October 26, 2025. Buy-in was $20/ticket and the game was advertised as the best odds to win $1,000,000; as the following indicates, those odds got remarkably better for those that played. Reportedly, only 791,352 of the planned 2,000,000 tickets were sold; this was over a many month marketing campaign. Apparently NYL took a bath as there were 15, $1,000,000 grand prize winners, 15, $100,000 second prize winners, 15, $25,000 third plac
Dec 1, 2025, 5:31 pm - Long Odds - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
The Mega Millions jackpot increased by $10 million to $80 million. The Mega Millions jackpot is trending higher in this run. The supported jackpot is $56.1 million whereas in the previous run, the supported jackpot was $53 million. In the previous Mega Millions run, the jackpot continued to increase by the minimum $10 million until it reached $150. It appears the in this run, once the jackpot reaches $140 million, the jackpot increases will be larger than the minimum. That is, by then the jackpo
Nov 26, 2025, 9:17 am - winoneday - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
That's very possible! In any case, maybe we'll see an increase in PB sales now that MM is back down to $50M.
Nov 17, 2025, 4:20 pm - Random Player - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mississippi Lottery halts Cash 3 triple payout promotion one week inReply
Those funds were apparently only enough for six days and not for the entire month of November they advertised. And? They expected to pay out some amount,but players won that amount in about 1/4 of the time the lottery expected. They ended up paying out 97% of all the wagers that month. Don't recall the KY Lottery saying because of an overwhelming player response they would stop sales of triples. And? Triples account for 1% of the possible results and get drawn 1% of the time as a l
Nov 12, 2025, 1:22 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
KYF, Thanks for the break down with needing generated sales and percentages. I haven't considered those particular aspects on the new $5 price tag. My contention is that this run is already at the 40/41 rollover point because of the $50M starting point as opposed to $20M. They eliminated 2 draws and some change by doing so. They also have eliminated the frenzy point(IMHO) that has been a fairly consistent aspect of both the PB and MM games. While the last increase is $57M, I have a suspicion
Nov 8, 2025, 11:46 am - CDanaT - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
MM doesn't decide anything. The jackpot increases are based on sales. It's 27.6305%.
Nov 7, 2025, 6:59 am - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
The Mega Millions jackpot has increased by $46 million to $800 million after 36 consecutive rolls and is the largest Mega Millions jackpot since December 2024. This is the largest jackpot increase since the launch of the new format. There is a 4.2% chance the jackpot will be won in the November 4 draw with projected sales of $62.9 million. This ties the record for the highest number of consecutive rolls at 36.
Nov 1, 2025, 8:00 am - winoneday - Lottery Discussion Forum

New Millionaire for Life multi-state game coming in 2026Reply
You would think that after seeing the huge drop off in sales for Mega Millions they would rethink their 5.00 a ticket plan for a paltry prize of a million dollars a year. No one is going to want that. Most players are older than 45 so all they can win is 30 million or so for 5.00 a line. No thanks. No one likes Lucky for Life or Cash for Life now as it is because of the paltry prize structure. With ten more numbers in the matrix forget it. It will not sell. Throw a wet and moldy blanket on this
Oct 22, 2025, 9:17 am - billybucks - Lottery News

Idaho Lottery alerts retailers to possible bulk buying attempt over $877,800 Idaho Cash jackpotReply
You are correct that no one did anything wrong in buying the tickets because they broke no existing law. However the point is that everyone should get an equal chance and the game should be such that the number of tickets sold per draw has a reasonable chance of winning. That can be deduced by looking at the historical number of tickets per draw. The Texas Lotto, Lotto America, Montana Cash and Idaho Cash fail in that respect. As an example, recently it took Lotto America (2) entire year
Oct 21, 2025, 7:46 am - JohnGalt3 - Lottery News

Does Lottery Software work?Reply
What exactly does Lotto Pro do? I could not determine from the buy me now landing page full of sales pitches and questionable testimonials...
Oct 14, 2025, 6:54 am - hypersoniq - Lottery Discussion Forum