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$944 MILLION: Mega Millions lottery jackpot set to make holiday wishes come trueNews Story
Biggest jackpot in 9 months closes in on a billion dollars By Todd Northrop Nine months after Mega Millions delivered a $1.13 billion jackpot to one ticket sold in New Jersey, the multi-state lottery game is back with a jackpot to be drawn Tuesday that is also nearing the $1 billion mark. When nobody won Friday night's $862 million grand prize, the Mega Millions jackpot grew to an estimated $944 million the largest since a March 26, 2024 $1.128 billion Mega Millions jackpot was won b
Dec 21, 2024, 7:41 am - Todd - Lottery News

$825 MILLION: Massive Mega Millions drawing set for FridayNews Story
13th-largest lottery jackpot in history By Todd Northrop The Mega Millions multi-state lottery game continued its jackpot run last night when no tickets matched all six numbers. Last night nobody won the Mega Millions lottery drawing, triggering another jackpot rollover that created a Friday jackpot estimated at $825 million with a cash value of $382.2 million. To get to this massive size, the jackpot has been growing since it started on September 13 as a $20 million prize now 28
Dec 18, 2024, 8:26 am - Todd - Lottery News

Powerball reaches $643 million: highest lottery jackpot of 2025Reply
The annual increases in the annuity payment makes the proportion of lump sum to annuity smaller. Right, but you're reversing the cause and the effect. The graduated payments inflate the annuity, making it bigger than it would be with fixed payments. The flip side to that is that with fixed payments the proportion of annuity to lump sum is smaller. Every dollar in the prize pool (the cause) buys less annuity value (the effect). Of course, the lump sum is the real number since it's based
Aug 23, 2025, 2:33 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Is the Annuity payout safe?Reply
I also was thinking about the recent Publisher's Clearinghouse annuity fiasco when they went bankrupt and left annuity winners out in the cold and one annuity winner in particular was left financially ruined as he quit his job roughly 10 years ago when he won the PCH Annuity for Life as he was supposed to be getting millions of dollars from PCH until his death and then the payments suddenly stopped permanently when the PCH filed for bankruptcy. He said that he was having a hard time finding a jo
May 23, 2026, 5:17 pm - Lotto Motto - Lottery Discussion Forum

Is the Annuity payout safe?
What happens to your annuity payments if your state lottery closes?
May 19, 2026, 10:18 pm - justAndy1970 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Powerball reaches $643 million: highest lottery jackpot of 2025Reply
I'm surprised that you got that completely backwards. With fixed annual payments the advertised annuity would be less than the inflated advertising value they get by keeping more money invested for a longer time. Of course advertising that smaller annuity would almost certainly reduce sales a bit, making both the cash and annuity even smaller after any given number of rolls. They tell us the graduated annuity makes sense because of inflation, but I feel very confident that that's strictly PR abo
Aug 21, 2025, 9:18 am - Tucker Black - Lottery News

Is the Annuity payout safe?Reply
Unlike Publisher's Clearinghouse, when you win a large amount of money and take the annuity, the lottery really does have all the money needed to fund the annuity right now. They buy the annuity for you and then you collect from whoever sold the annuity to the state (probably government bonds). You are not depending on the state to raise the money needed to pay you every year.
May 20, 2026, 9:51 am - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

UPDATE: Proposed changes to Mega Millions game will raise ticket price to $5Reply
Cant say I wont play but will say I wont play until the jackpot is over $2 Billion. Nobody is going to win and the odds are still terrible. For $5 the odds should have been around 180,000,000 to 1. I have suggested in the past that they offer players choices on the payout. Take some in cash and some in an annuity or all in cash or all in an annuity. With the player deciding on flat vs increasing annuity and from 11,16,21,26 or 31 year payouts. The current annuity structure is discrimina
Jun 14, 2024, 7:44 am - Think - Lottery News

Michigan woman buys the last three lottery tickets on the roll, wins $1 millionReply
Annuity scam. 30% haircut.
Yesterday, 2:50 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery News

Annuity or Cash Value
Cash values of the MM PB jackpots are around 45% of the advertised Annuity. What would be your choice ?
May 8, 2026, 11:49 am - CDanaT - Lottery Discussion Forum