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Are you ready for the attention?Reply
Right now the cash/annuity ratio is very close to .61 for both PB and MM, which means a cash value of $1 billion would require an advertised jackpot of about 1.63 billion. That's unlikely, but it's certainly possible. I've already explained on page 1 how big the jackpot would be if the sales for the MM record were applied to PB's prize pool - the cash value of $474 million would have been about twice as much, at about $950 million, which would have meant an advertised value of about $1.3 billion
Nov 30, 2015, 12:43 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

quick pick or their own numbers?Reply
I was going to post a thread myself, asking this question. You beat me to it. Here is my question: RE: 5/5, 6/6 and PB/MM Jackpot Lotteries How would you go about figuring out whether 5/5, 6/6 and National Jackpot lottery winners, won with Quick Picks or their own selected numbers ??? Do the national State Lottery Commisions in each state, record this information somewhere - whether the win was a Quick Pick Win or personal number selection win ?? How did we ever come to kno
Feb 12, 2015, 11:47 am - destinycreation - Lottery Discussion Forum

Texas Lottery has its best week of scratch-off sales in 23-year historyNews Story
Scratch-off sales for last week totaled nearly $76 million Last week, the Texas Lottery had its highest scratch-off ticket sales in the Lottery's 23-year history. Sales for scratch-off games totaled $75,677,650 beating the previous record of $75,360,138 set in March 2013. We are thrilled with last week's scratch-off sales as revenue generated from these games benefits public education and veterans in Texas, said Gary Grief, executive director of the Texas Lottery. When Texans are playi
Feb 10, 2015, 10:23 am - Todd - Lottery News

$380 MILLION: Massive sales push Powerball jackpot higherReply
Good now it can be #5 world cash record if won. 161,026,400 after 39.6% full tax rate, insane if only 1 winner/married couple wins it tonight. I give it like coin toss chance of rolling, 50/50 with these sales. Hell it could even beat cash value of #4 record if it rolls. Mega Millions: $347.6 million cash, Dec. 17, 2013 ($648 million annuity) Yet it's annuity will be hell of lot less then 648m annuity MM offered in late 2013..... all thanks to 30 year us govt bond yields being in
Feb 7, 2015, 11:23 pm - joshuacloak - Lottery News

New York Dream Team 1/1/15 - 1/31/15Reply
Knicks Record 5 Wins - 36 Losses --- Currently Lost 16 in a row --- Lost 28 of their last 30 games.... Nets Record 16 Wins 23 Losses --- Currently Lost 7 in a row ---
Jan 16, 2015, 10:18 am - dbVisuals - Pick 3 Forum

$636 Million Mega Millions jackpot split by 2 ticketsReply
Once again, you're just doing a simplistic analysis of things like individual intervals or totals, not looking at the overall sales activity and trends. Just simply looking at the $1.5 Billion total of the record 2012 draw is ignoring the circumstances of that draw. You can deny the graph which is as plain as day, but you can't deny the facts: For 2012 record run, it took 18 draws for the sales to reach a level that significantly exceeded the odds on the game for a likely winner, $191M, fo
Dec 20, 2013, 11:04 am - Jon D - Lottery News

TAX... lower tier prizesReply
Yep, your personal experiences match up with the instructions for W-2G and the rules for reporting and withholding. But you bring up a valid point with #6: multi-line tickets. If you buy 2 lines of pick 3 str on one ticket and both numbers hit for $500, you have a $1000 winning ticket and have to go to a claims center and it gets reported. If you bought two single line tickets, each ticket would be $500 and you could cash at any retailer and it would not be reported. Either way, the win
Dec 9, 2013, 11:13 am - Jon D - Lottery Discussion Forum

Accurate & Profitable Texas Pick 3 PredictionsReply
912 just hit and I know I didnt win because I don't play the sum of 12. I now have 5 wins and 2 losses in two days. Since I'm shooting for an 80% accurate (8 out 10 drawing) I actually feel more confident now that I got the 2 losses out of the way. Does anyone have a track record that shows how accurate they are or any predictions strategies that are higly accurate 80% of the time or more or even 50% of the time. People post predictions all day but you don't really know how trustworthy their
Oct 25, 2013, 7:32 pm - LottoIntuitive - Pick 3 Forum

Have you ever sold your WINNING TICKET to a 7-11 clerk?Reply
I wouldn't automatically assume there is illegal activity on the part of the player. Maybe the guy didn't keep any tickets or record of what he plays, he just knows he blows a few grand a year on lottery. So one lucky year he wins $1K, and thinks, darn, now it's reported to the IRS as income, but I'm still a grand in the hole! (not to mention past years) Tough luck. The IRS don't care. So he goes to his friend at the liquor store and they make the deal. It's really the clerk that is avoidi
Oct 11, 2013, 10:52 am - Jon D - Lottery Discussion Forum

Would you remain Anonymous or have a Press Conference after winning the Jackpot?Reply
An LLC can be made private and I know this because when my boyfriend was setting up his business, I was there when his attorney was outlining his options. That was a couple of years ago so just to be sure I looked and found this: One of the benefits of forming a business LLC is that in most states, the owners of the business are not a matter of public record. This is not the case in all states. Some state do require that members of an LLC be disclosed and in some cases their addresses must
Apr 14, 2013, 10:52 pm - janem - Lottery Discussion Forum