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pb at 240 or 117 cashReply
I just check the video of the drawings at http://www.musl.com/videos_pb.asp where they announce the annuity jackpot amount (usually a little higher) before picking the numbers.
Oct 9, 2005, 1:19 pm - twisted - Jackpot Games Forum

Probability of a MegaMillions rollover.Reply
The Megamillions has rolled over again, and the cash value has risen from $31.6M to 38.6M, the annuity value from $53M to $65M. The MM lottery is therefore predicting $24.4M in sales. The probabilities of the number of winners is given in the table below: 087.04%112.08%20.84%30.04%The sales performance on this run is actually somewhat better than on the last run and long range probabilities have thus become a little more difficult to determine based on history. Still a decent estimate is poss
Oct 8, 2005, 11:32 am - Prob988 - Jackpot Games Forum

What lottery game is better?Reply
Powerball is slightly better because of PowerPlay. The graduated annuity is not a factor, as I would obviously take lump sum.
Oct 7, 2005, 9:35 am - CASH Only - Lottery Discussion Forum

Lottery winner hangs self 7 years after collecting winReply
Annunity was not available from the Lottery Corporation for this particular game. If the winner wants an annuity, they would have to purchase it from a financial institution.Some Canadian lotteries now have annuity options. For example, the scratch game in Ontario called Cash for Life. There is also the unique Payday lottery that pays a $1,000 per week (tax free) for the rest of the winner's life. It has no fixed payout period. So if an 18 year old wins it and lives a long life, they can receive
Oct 5, 2005, 11:38 am - Jake649 - Lottery News

Lottery winner hangs self 7 years after collecting winReply
Jake may have ended the debate, with a very good point: was an annuity even available?
Oct 5, 2005, 11:27 am - Todd - Lottery News

Lottery winner hangs self 7 years after collecting winReply
Item 1: He ran out of moneyItem 2: He self destructed.Item 3: He probably wouldn't have run out of money if he'd taken the annuity.Item 4: He'd have had more money to take to the grave, maybe hanged himself on a silk rope.There's no reason at all to believe the two issues are related. Anyone who chooses to self-destruct has deeper problems than money can solve. The story contains plenty of hints about what those problems might have been.So the lottery related story here is that he ran out o
Oct 5, 2005, 11:22 am - Rip Snorter - Lottery News

Probability of a MegaMillions rollover.Reply
The MM pot has rolled, and the annuity value is $53,000,000. The cash value is $31.6 million. If the sales continue to be similar to what they the were last run, but running about 1 million higher per run, the number sold should be around 19 million. The probabilities of the numbers of winners occurring is given in the table below:089.75%19.70%20.52%30.02% The overall probability of the jackpot reaching the level of the last run, around $250 M annuity, is around 16%. The overall probability
Oct 5, 2005, 8:17 am - Prob988 - Jackpot Games Forum

New Jersey LotteryReply
I'm in my 60's - I never consider annuity. Cash is spendable.
Oct 4, 2005, 9:07 pm - Chewie - Lottery Discussion Forum

New Jersey LotteryReply
You could probably convert your Annuity to Cash at any time, their are Companies out there that Purchase Annuities (JG Wentworth) comes to mind, but their must be others.
Oct 4, 2005, 4:43 pm - Raven62 - Lottery Discussion Forum

what's better? Annuaty or Lump sumReply
Lottery Post: cash vs. annuity,i did an in depth poll on this here recently.ENJOY
Oct 3, 2005, 6:37 am - LOTTOMIKE - Lottery Discussion Forum