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Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
The ratio depends on the return interest rate of government bonds. Jade is usually good at doing math calculations, but I've got no idea what insights those recent graphs are supposed to be offering. That run in the first graph that looks normal shows a range of a maximum of 7% more than the low annuity value of 211% of the cash. In the second one with the sudden drop has a range with a maximum of only 3.96% over the lowest annuity value of 219.8%. What both of them show are the perfect
Jun 13, 2025, 2:13 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
I may be the only one on this site that likes the Mega Millions game . I'm pretty sure I like it too. I just haven't started playing it yet. Since the first time they broke the $1 billion mark, PB has offered 3 jackpots advertised at more than $1.7 billion, all in the last 3 years. With slower growth I don't expect MM to manage similar results in only 3 years, but the same basic probability as BP at $5 per ticket should theoretically give us 3 jackpots about twice that size. I mostly prefer
Nov 12, 2025, 2:30 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Lucky For Life to Millionaire For Life - $5 TicketReply
I re-did the calculations and it's the typical draw game, in terms of payback %. But it is still far better than MM, in my opinion. Here's why: Probability of winning the top prize is just over 12 times better. $18 million (or the annuity of $1 million/year) is still life-changing money. M4L (Millionaire for Life) has no silly multipliers. You win exactly what it says on the prize chart for matching x number of balls. MM (and PB) is a progressive jackpot game, which is why it can
Jan 25, 2026, 12:00 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

Lucky For Life to Millionaire For Life - $5 TicketReply
The difference between Lucky for Life $2 and Millionaire for Life $5 is nothing like the difference between old MM $2 and new MM $5. New MM $5 is a horrible game. It's not just the price of $5, it's what you get for that five bucks. Lucky for Life $2 has a 1 in 30 million chance of winning the top prize. Millionaire for Life improves that to 1 in 23 million. The ticket costs 2.5 times as much but the top prize is more than 2.5 times as much... 2.74 times as much as an annuity, or 3.13 ti
Jan 18, 2026, 5:47 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
Since the race began when Mega Millions ticket prices were raised to $5, the Powerball jackpot reached about $1.8 billion twice. Whereas, Mega Millions reached just shy of $1 billion only once. What exactly is the race ? If we're talking about bang for the buck(s) PB's cheaper price usually makes it the better bet, but at any given moment the jackpot divided by the ticket cost is as close as there is to a sensible metric for deciding which game to play. Right now MM's chance at $138 million
Dec 30, 2025, 2:07 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
Mega Millions lost this race. MM had sales of just under $564 million from 4/22 through 6/27. PB had sales of just over $498 million. I'm pretty sure the folks running MM think they won. The average MM jackpot for that period was $176.25 million, and somebody won $348 million (actually a fairly modest cash value of $155.5 million). The average for PB was $102.6 million, but two players won jackpots of $178 and $216 million ($77 and $91 million, assuming they take the cash). PB gave away
Jun 29, 2025, 12:55 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
I think what winoneday meant was that it was bad luck for the house. In the long run, the average jackpot won will equal the expected value. In a game like this, a drawing every few days with odds of 1 in 300 million, the long run could be many years. In a short period of time, the players can be lucky which means the house (MUSL) is unlucky. Unlike other games like pick 3 or any table game or slot machine in a casino, where more jackpots are good for business because the long run for th
Mar 12, 2026, 2:56 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

Virginia Lottery Director Khalid R. Jones appointed as Mega Millions Lead DirectorReply
1-MM should bring the price back down to $1. You want wide public participation in this type of game to pump the jackpot up. 2-most of lottery players are low-income people. 3-play the game three times / week like PB has done (T-R-Sun). 4-$1 price wouldn't make people to think twice about spending money to play the 1:292M odds (I'll try my luck with chump changes). 5-take 45% cut of the jackpot instead of 60% (return some of the money back to those initial jackpots).
Dec 8, 2025, 1:12 am - TwoMillion - Lottery News

One Georgia ticket wins $983 million Mega Millions jackpotReply
Why do you have to make those stupid comments about disgusting sandwiches all the time? TBI? do you get a check for a specific amount like $453,609,211.74 or do they round it off Even if the prize is only one million it doesn't matter if you don't get the last 89 cents, but the official rules specify the percentage of revenue to goes toward the jackpot prize pool. Unless there's a specific rule stating that actual payment will be to the nearest dollar or rounded down to a whole dol
Nov 21, 2025, 7:47 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery News

MM $5, PB $2, Powerplay $1IReply
I think it would be really stupid for Powerball to do the same thing and make their game terrible as well. How stupid it is depends on how stupid their target demographic is. So far, for any advertised jackpot at $5 per ticket MM is collecting more revenue than they did at $2 per ticket. If sales remain relatively modest even when it goes up another 200, 500 or 800 million they might lose out in the long run due to a higher percentage of drawings with sales of $20 to $50 million, but in the
Oct 4, 2025, 1:04 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum