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ideal lottery pool sizeReply
I ran a pool at the furniture store I worked at several years ago. Had 8-10 people. I would buys tics and text a pic of the tics to the members. Any winnings went back into buying extra tics. Alas, never had any large wins.
Mar 13, 2026, 9:59 am - rcbbuckeye - Lottery Discussion Forum

ideal lottery pool sizeReply
If you run a pool make copies of the tickets and hand them out to each member before the drawing. It avoids all the drama if someone wins with their own ticket.
Mar 13, 2026, 9:16 am - grwurston - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
The pool is going to wait until one of the jackpots gets much larger. We start playing when the jackpot is at least $150 million cash. It makes a difference since the plan is to split the jackpot many ways.
Mar 12, 2026, 9:10 am - winoneday - Lottery Discussion Forum

89 second prize winners for the powerballReply
Be nice to see a breakout of the 89 winners as to how many were QP's Without knowing the actual breakdown we won't know for sure, but we can see what the probabilities are. There were about 9.5 million tickets sold and it's fairly safe to assume that no more than 80%, or a maximum of 7.55 million, were QP. For that many tickets the chances of selling 1 to 5 5+0 winners are, respectively, 33.82%, 10.89%, 2.34%, 0.38%, and 0.05%. I deliberately rounded up in a few places so the actual chances
May 2, 2026, 4:47 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Balancing Odds and Cost 😁Reply
A lot of players talk about or are thinking about value when buying a lottery ticket. That's fine if that's important to a player. As for me personally, because of the ridiculous odds against players, I don't give value any thought at all. When I buy tickets all I'm thinking about is What could/would I do with it if I won a big pile of money? I know and accept the fact that I'll probably never actually have the pleasure of making that decision. My attitude is if I don't win, it's no bi
Apr 26, 2026, 9:38 am - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

The Florida Millionaire Raffle is back!
Beginning March 1st, The Florida Lottery began selling Millionaire Raffle tickets. Some of the Official rules are as follows - Play Period. March 1 June 30, 2026, dates inclusive, or until 2,000,000 Millionaire Raffle tickets (hereafter Raffle ticket/s ) have been sold, whichever occurs first. Ticket Price and Quantity. A maximum of 2,000,000 Raffle tickets will be available for sale at a price of $20.00 each. Upon the sale of the 2,000,000 th Raffle ticket, tickets will no longer be sold. A
Mar 8, 2026, 1:42 pm - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

US Powerball multi-state lottery game expanding to the UKReply
After reading the article a few more times very carefully here is what I get from the article: Everything in the article above the following section is yadda, yadda, yadda from the PB Lottery until some solid information (maybe subject to change?) comes along. US state lotteries and the UK National Lottery will pool funds only for the Powerball jackpot, not lower-tier prizes. Tickets purchased in the UK will contribute the same fixed US dollar amount per play to the jackpot pool as ticke
Apr 16, 2026, 12:59 pm - IAmABadOne - Lottery News

Secrets of a lottery lawyer-Kurt Panouses interviewReply
You are forgetting that more and different online gambling is being permitted by some states such as sports gambling and casino gambling apps. There is a limited pool of player money with more and more competitors. Hey! The Powerball jackpot is $50 million... Wait,oh! Look at the squirrel
May 5, 2026, 8:29 am - Think - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
Since the Powerball jackpot was just won, again it is highly unlikely it will catch up to the Mega Millions jackpot. Looks like your pool will be on the PB sideline for quite a while
May 3, 2026, 12:43 pm - JustMaybe - Lottery Discussion Forum

89 second prize winners for the powerballReply
Approximately 75% of all lottery tickets sold are QP's Therefore I'd expect 67 of the 89 second place prizes to be QP's. I think the big question now is do they have enough money in the second place prize pool to pay out the total second place prize value of $117 million? My guess is they don't and the 89 second place prizes are going to be paid out on a parimutuel basis. G5
Apr 30, 2026, 1:56 pm - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum