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Powerball reaches $643 million: highest lottery jackpot of 2025Reply
Yep it's not even a top 25 jackpot per the cash value. What really matters is that the advertised annuity is #23 but the cash that a winner will almost certainly take is only #37. It's getting there, but as of now this one isn't a huge jackpot in terms of the biggest jackpots of the last few years. The 5% annual increase in payments makes the lump sum even less than it would be with constant annual payments. I'm surprised that you got that completely backwards. With fixed annual pa
Aug 21, 2025, 3:43 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Mega Millions confirms ticket price increase to $5, other changes coming April 2025Reply
This will probably reduce the sale of tickets by more than half That's one of the mysteries. At $2 a pop selling 100 tickets results in about $215 in revenue (about 15% of tickets have the $1 multiplier), so the lotteries will collect the same revenue as long as they can sell 43% as many tickets as they do right now. I suspect that they'll be able to do that for the early drawings in a run because a lot of the people who play for the tiny jackpots are the problem gamblers that have to be in
Oct 17, 2024, 3:05 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Las Vegas: 6 FIGURE Jackpots HIT @ STRIP CADINO :-)
Three 6 FIGURE jACKPOTS HIT @ STRIP CASINO this past weekend at caesar's Palace A video poker player landed a $240,000 jackpot A player won won $200,000 playing video poker. Five hours ... A slots player hit a $219,000 jackpot playing Diamond Queen Bonus: ne lucky Bingo player was shouting more than just bingo! after winning over $200,000 on a progressive jackpot at a casino off the Strip congratulations are in order for lucky winners! Pro-Player Advo
Jul 19, 2023, 6:13 pm - eddessaknight - Gaming Forum

Florida' Jackpot Triple Play
I posted this info about Florida's Jackpot Triple Play in The PICK5 Forum's Florida Fantasy5 Players thread but thought I'd put it here too. Although there aren't many jackpot winners with JPT, you really are better off playing it than FF5. All JPT jackpot winners have won at least multi-hundred thousand dollar jackpots. Some have won more than a million. FF5 winners don't win greater than $100,000 all that often. If you look at the FF5 Top Prize Winners and Retailer Information report,
May 12, 2023, 8:06 am - GiveFive - Jackpot Games Forum

Florida Fantasy-5 PlayersReply
I think about FF5 a lot. (Probably too much!) Something I recently thought about has an answer, but only The Florida Lottery knows that answer and has the capability to answer it. Out of the total amount of lines sold each day, I wonder how many of them are truly unique? By a unique line, I mean only YOU have that line. No other player has the exact same line that you do printed on their ticket. If you're the only player with that line, then you will be the sole winner of the jackpot if you m
Mar 24, 2022, 8:59 am - GiveFive - Pick 5 Forum

Take5 NYReply
First, because I've recently moved to Florida from New York, I don't have a dog in this fight . As an ex-New Yorker who spent thousands of dollars chasing a T5 jackpot that I never won, I feel I can legitimately sound off in this thread. Although I don't think The NY Lottery can do this without a corresponding change to gaming laws by the NY State Legislature, but could it be possible they have reduced the players share (the percentage) of the prize pool allocated to jackpots and lower tier p
Mar 22, 2022, 9:43 am - GiveFive - Pick 5 Forum

$850 MILLION: Mega Millions jackpot to spark ticket-buying frenzyReply
it's possible that people put down all they had not thinking both games would roll. When PB set its record in 2016 the last 3 drawings all got bumped up after the initial announcement, and topped out at 528, 948 and 1,586 million. Those last 3 drawings all had sales that were vastly higher than any of the drawings leading up to them. A lot of the sales were to people who hadn't played for the previous jackpots, but any previous players who decided to spend more than usual only had 3 chances
Jan 20, 2021, 1:45 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News

"Lottery Lawyer" Jason Kurland charged with robbing jackpot winners of millionsReply
@lejardin RE your quote ... The lottery winners paid between $75,000 and $200,000 in upfront payments to hire Mr. Kurland and his law firm, according to court papers. Mr. Kurland then charged monthly fees of between $15,000 and $50,000 . If I were to win a big jackpot, and then if someone quoted me upfront and monthly figures similar to those above, I'd immediately recognize them as red flags, especially the monthlies since over time they'd end up costing you way, way more than the u
Aug 19, 2020, 11:13 am - frank0sport16 - Lottery News

Mega Millions to adjust starting jackpot amount, eliminate minimum increasesReply
they need to adjust the ticket price downward to match the lower jackpot. I'm pretty sure that if they adjust the ticket price it's going to automatically adjust the jackpot by a corresponding amount. The result is that unless the reduced price results in a significant increase in ticket sales the reduced price means the jackpots will get even smaller. Anyone who's been paying attention knows that PB and MM have proved over the past few years that the higher ticket price results in bigger j
Apr 4, 2020, 3:34 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Just curious on the MM/PB jackpots
Perhaps I wasn't paying attention or missed the article/announcement. When did the PB and MM jackpots start going up to an 80% ratio of Annuity to cash value ? It was usually around the 66% mark or so I thought. PB Jackpot as of 3-11-20 is $110M Annuity to $88.1M Cash Value which equals .8009 MM Jackpot as of 3-11-20 is $80M Annuity to $65.4M Cash Value which equals .8175 I went back to look at the last couple of comparable's 11-30-19 PB $110M Annuity to $75.8M Cash Value which equal
Mar 11, 2020, 7:10 am - CDanaT - Lottery Discussion Forum