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Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
The Mega Millions jackpot is growing slower than last time because it is being over shadowed by the much larger Powerball jackpot. And/or more of the people who aren't addicted are sitting it out for more general reasons about MM itself. The sales forecast for Friday are up about 5% over the previous Friday, so maybe we'll see another modest increase for Friday 8/1, too. Based on the last couple of increases we'll almost certainly see it advertised as 130 next Tuesday (funded at about 1
Jul 24, 2025, 12:23 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
It's almost as if probability only suggests what's likely and not what will actually happen, isn't it? I think when they sold us Faster growing jackpots they forgot to factor in what could actually happen i.e the jackpot being won sooner. But again, everything is still in its infancy, so we can afford to give them the benefit of doubt. Looking forward to a $3.5 billion jackpot. I would take the annuity if I win that
Jun 29, 2025, 11:08 pm - JustMaybe - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
It appears the $5.00 price hike has had an effect on the Cash growth. We got some data on the Annuity and Cash values. In our analysis, we strip out the inflationary starting jackpot and base line the cash growth by starting at $1,000,000.00 for all jackpot runs to give a relative cash jackpot run. Below shows the current $5.00 price hike as compared to the previous $2.00 price beginning back in 2018. Some data was not included due to crossing over two different price and matrix
Jun 5, 2025, 11:23 am - JADELottery - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
What we find interesting is the Jackpot is only increasing at $10 Million each draw. In past, it would be more than that and getting bigger increases as the Jackpot grew. We're not seeing that. In My Opinion, this might not reflect the actual increases that are needed to support the Jackpot annuity, meaning, the actual cash value to support such a Jackpot might not be entirely all there... just saying that is. https://www.lotterypost.com/results/mn/megamillions/jackpot
May 5, 2025, 11:11 am - JADELottery - Lottery Discussion Forum

First drawing of new Mega Millions game produces 5X more winnings compared to older versionReply
3) A new world record jackpot amount will be well over $2 billion and maybe $3 billion. The prior record was in 2023 @ $1.602 billion. That's what the lottery claims, but the actual record is the $877.8 million cash jackpot that could have funded an imaginary annuity of $1.537 billion in 2018. I think #3 is the main reason for the change. I'm sure they'd like to have bragging rights, but the states get the money regardless of which game holds whatever record(s) they might claim. Wh
Apr 13, 2025, 3:29 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News

I need the experts to help me here.Reply
Thank you for your perspective. As the current jackpots stand, I would not even spend the 500K a year from the annuity. Spending 20K a month is so much for me to fathom. I know there are people that can spend 100K a month on consumer goods and I respect that. After all it's about choices and personal preferences.
Apr 8, 2025, 5:52 pm - JustMaybe - Lottery Discussion Forum

Annuity calculationsReply
That all was just too much for me to type with one hand. Well, Texez 2 Stepper, whyy didint cha git ya Partna in Crime, cottoneyedjoe to hep ya?...wit dat broken calculator of hiz..ya might git a couple la xstra annuity paymentz.. Wheaa iz he at anywayz?... Hope he didn't git burntup in thoze KHaLiPhOrNyA Wildfirez.. All thoze folkz are in my prayerz.. -Stat$talker
Jan 31, 2025, 4:16 pm - Stat$talker - Lottery Discussion Forum

$139 million goes up in smoke as Ohio Powerball ticket expiresReply
The $139 million Powerball jackpot According to USA Mega's Jackpot Analysis , after all federal and state taxes are deducted, the winner would have received $84.1 million in 30 payments over 29 years if they had chosen the annuity or $39.6 million all at once had they chosen the $66.5 million cash option. Since the prize went unclaimed, the winnings will not be distributed back to all participating jurisdictions but to Republican lawmakers and their pockets and their respective funds b
Jan 6, 2025, 1:04 am - ckrakowski - Lottery News

163 M Powerball Drawing
Get over your Mega million loss emotions Now who thinks 163M is not life changing? 40 something million after taxes with lump sum or 104 M the annuity route for tax free states. I am in it people, 163M is a huge win. Good luck.
Dec 30, 2024, 8:21 pm - JustMaybe - Lottery Discussion Forum

$1.15 BILLION: Mega Millions keeps rolling after no winner TuesdayReply
What r your opinions abt manifestations and creating affirmations? The universe doesn't give a crap about your hopes and dreams. It also doesn't give a crap about probability itself, but it has a very strong attachment to the laws of physics. is it gonna roll over? Figuring it finishes a bit higher than the advertised 1.22 there will be about 120 million tickets in play. Ignoring the ones for heavily repeated patterns, calendar numbers, etc. that would leave just over a 67% chance
Dec 27, 2024, 10:09 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery News