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A. You re correct: players lost value From a player perspective: Expected value went down Jackpot growth was crippled Pool fragmentation favors the house Long-shot strategies became worse That s why many experienced Fantasy 5 players walked away especially those who understood roll dynamics. Your intuition there is dead on. B. More drawings = more betting opportunities (the core benefit) By adding a midday draw, the Florida Lottery effectively: Doubled the numbe
Dec 15, 2025, 11:11 am - tokecap - Lottery Discussion Forum

Powerball jackpot hits $1 billion after building for monthsNews Story
Powerball ticket sales ramping up as game seeks to create billionaire By Todd Northrop Arriving together with the year's holiday season, the current Powerball jackpot of $1 billion could make the winner into the ultimate real-life Santa Claus. The Powerball jackpot has been building for 41 consecutive drawings since the last winner on September 6 , when two tickets sold in Missouri and Texas split a $1.7874 billion jackpot the second-largest lottery jackpot in history. Both tickets h
Dec 12, 2025, 10:29 am - Todd - Lottery News

It looks as if the $5.00 MM ticket is doing poorly.Reply
What would have sales been, had the ticket prices remained at $2 over the last 11 1/2 months ? Would there have been more/less than 6 jackpot winners since the restart at $50 million ? Would the jackpots have reached $1 Billion + just one time at the $2 price, instead of taking 40 draws to reach $980 Million(7/01 - 11/14/25) ? ( 4 months 13 days ) https://www.texaslottery.com/export/sites/lottery/Documents/jackpotestimates/mm20251114.pdf During this run in particular, that jac
Mar 30, 2026, 10:51 am - CDanaT - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
You spoke my mind, for MM to be won at the 300M mark, not sure about the bigger jackpots advertising - maybe it's too early. Do people here believe the morons who carry a snowball into congress in February and claim that global warming is a hoax because it still snows on some cold winter days? Just as a February snowfall and the recent extremely hot days aren't indicators of the yearly average, those two jackpots are statistically unusual (although vastly more likely than a player winning b
Jun 29, 2025, 12:21 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

The Florida Millionaire Raffle is back!Reply
It is a very good thing from a players perspective. Where can players find lower odds to win a million dollars? Remains to be seen if there will be a last minute rush to buy raffle tickets. (Hope not!) June 30 is when ticket sales end. Final drawing for 10 one million dollar top prize winners is July 2nd. I have to believe the winning numbers will be generated by a computer. (RNG software). G5
Jun 2, 2026, 4:45 pm - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
The Mega Millions jackpot increased by $15 million to $346 million after 21 rolls. The smaller than normal increase is due to a drop in interest rates and a slight drop in estimated sales. There is an estimated 2.1% chance the Mega Millions jackpot will be won in the next draw whereas it is 4.3% for Powerball. The Mega Millions jackpot is growing slower than the Powerball jackpot. The Mega Millions jackpot is $174 million larger than the Powerball jackpot. A week ago, it was $179 milli
May 30, 2026, 8:32 am - winoneday - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
The Mega Millions jackpot increased by $15 million to $311 million after 19 rolls. The smaller increase in the jackpot is due to a drop in interest rates and an estimated drop in sales. There is an estimated 2% chance the Mega Millions jackpot will be won in the next draw whereas it is 4.1% for Powerball. The Mega Millions jackpot is back growing slower than the Powerball jackpot. The Mega Millions jackpot is $180 million larger than the Powerball jackpot. A week ago, it was $191 milli
May 23, 2026, 8:06 am - winoneday - Lottery Discussion Forum

The Florida Millionaire Raffle is back!Reply
263272 tickets sold as of 5/21. Let's work this one from the back end. 640900 tickets need to be sold just to fund all prizes (so, does not includes costs incurred by the Lottery to set up the Raffle, or associated advertising, and does not include funding for education, which is the Lottery's raison d'etre.) 640900 minus 263272 leaves 377628 tickets needing to be sold by June 30, the last day to buy tickets (40 days from now.) 377628 divided by 40 equals an average of 9440 tickets need to
May 22, 2026, 3:45 pm - Sum Buddy - Lottery Discussion Forum

EXCLUSIVE: Weeks-long computerized draw error prevented many DC Lottery tickets from winning a prizeReply
YES they do! But also they see them (ball drawings) as a added EXPENSE that they can cut. In todays business world people get a bonus when they find ways to CUT costs. Marketing for lotteries seems to have been cut across the board. They just keep creating more expensive games (especially scratch offs) just putting out a press release for marketing. Until sales drop they will not go back to ball drawings. Thanks again for doing what you do in contacting them! How long would this have g
Apr 23, 2026, 5:16 am - DELotteryPlyr - Lottery News

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
The Mega Millions jackpot increased by the minimum $10 million to $140 million after 9 rolls. There is an estimated 1.6% chance the Mega Millions jackpot will be won in the next draw. The jackpot is underfunded from sales by about $6.9 million. Once the jackpot reaches $150 million, the jackpot will be fully funded on the next draw and start growing by more than $10 million. The Powerball jackpot is slowly catching up to the Mega Millions jackpot. The Mega Millions jackpot is $65 million lar
Apr 18, 2026, 8:05 am - winoneday - Lottery Discussion Forum