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South Carolina Lottery begins accepting debit card payments for ticket purchasesReply
Technology and the way we use it has changed over the decades, ... We're simply catching our statute up to the modern way people use money. Haven't stores been accepting debit cards for all sorts of things for decades now? if you loss your lottery ticket like the Guy in California that lost half of $390,000,000 you should be able to claim your prize with your Debit card purchase. I used a card one time at a lottery vending machine Is the story missing something? Is SC different
Jul 9, 2025, 3:32 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News

US Powerball multi-state lottery game expanding to the UKReply
Someone Above said if someone in Uk wins the lottery they can take the money and run away and not pay complete Federal tax later. And am thinking Now how can you run away in the first place when they gave you no Lump sum option only annuity. If you run away they freezes the rest of your Annuity Payments Ok when people win Powerball the top tax is like 37 percent. There are two ways to pay federal government. One way is the player pays 37 percent and the other way is l guess each sold t
Apr 18, 2026, 1:07 am - Powerball765 - Lottery News

Ten years later, Florida Lottery Millionaire Raffle is backNews Story
A whopping 2,000,000 tickets for sale and over $22.8 million in cash prizes By Kate Northrop After a ten-year hiatus, the Florida Lottery has brought back its Millionaire Raffle, giving players in the state the best odds at winning $1 million. The Florida Lottery's Millionaire Raffle has made a return after taking a ten-year break, and it's brought with it several cash prizes and multiple drawings. At $20 per ticket, players can enter for a chance to win $1 million, and there's a
Mar 11, 2026, 9:23 am - Todd - Lottery News

Arizona lottery retailer employee sued after buying $12.8 million ticket knowing it was a winnerReply
it was the first time a big winner was amongst the rejected pile. I think I remember a similar story in the past, but it's not a good enough memory to be very confident. Memory aside, probability suggest that it would he been for a smaller amount prize. I'm obviously not a lawyer but it's pretty obvious that the ticket belongs to the store. It was unsold at the time of the draw therefore the store had to buy it. I agree, but primarily for a different reason.According to the firs
Feb 28, 2026, 2:56 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Lottery is not random it's predeterminedReply
I've always believed that state lotteries truly want winners, especially big jackpot winners. What does rigging a draw do for the state? I think there are two obvious reasons for the lotteries themselves to rig the game(s). One would be so that a few insiders could divert prize money to themselves. The other, and better, IMHO, reason would be to allow a jackpot to continue growing in order to boost sales. The problem is that no matter how much the people running the lottery might apprec
Feb 11, 2026, 2:24 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

I'm done playing the lotteryReply
I lied. THIS will be my last post about working for IBM! I decided to write it because of what I think will be some GREAT laughs. Hang in there while reading it because it will be lengthy. I worked for IBM for more than 30 years, most of which I spent working in and around IBM's massive data centers in New York. One raised floor I worked on was 100,000 square feet. (That's more than 2 acres) In that data center IBM had every kind of hardware and software you could possibly think of. There we
Jan 7, 2026, 11:49 pm - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

$1.1 BILLION: Powerball jackpot increased in longest-ever winless streakReply
Yeah but the ticket isn't really yours until 1. You sign it 2. You present it to a lottery official right ? The ticket is yours the moment you buy it. What it isn't is an financial instrument worth millions. Even after the drawings it's not worth anymore than you paid for it. The ticket only becomes valuable when the lottery validates it and says it's worth the prize it won. As a practical matter it becomes valuable as soon as you submit the claim, but the money isn't yours until the ticket
Dec 16, 2025, 2:11 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Virginia Lottery Director Khalid R. Jones appointed as Mega Millions Lead DirectorReply
A bit of context for people who might not be aware. California's multiplier numbers do not work like the other states' do. California divides the prize money derived from sales into 8 different buckets representing the 8 non-jackpot prize levels. Each bucket is its own prize pool that all the winners of that prize level share. The multiplier number on each winner's ticket represents its share of that prize pool. So someone with a 2x on their ticket has 2 shares . A 5x multiplier has 5 sh
Dec 6, 2025, 8:55 am - Todd - Lottery News

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
the price hike could have been a response to slowing sales There's absolutely no question about it. Lottery revenue has been generally going downhill for years and the lotteries have been trying to stop the decrease or at least slow it down. One of the first huge jackpots was when MM reached $656 million in March 2012 on the 18th drawing. It reached 290 on the 16th drawing and then increased 73 363 and 293 656. A year and a half later in December 2013 it reached $257 million on drawing
Nov 27, 2025, 3:04 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mississippi Lottery halts Cash 3 triple payout promotion one week inNews Story
Overwhelming player response leads Lottery to halt promotion early By Kate Northrop One week after it launched, the Mississippi Lottery prematurely halted the Cash 3 promotion that tripled all prize payouts for what was supposed to be the entire month of November. The Mississippi Lottery abruptly announced the conclusion of the Cash 3 Times 3 prize enhancement today, Nov. 7, after receiving an overwhelming player response to the limited-time promotion. It was originally slated to
Nov 7, 2025, 4:21 pm - Todd - Lottery News