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Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
is anyone going to bother with Mega Millions tonight? Even without PB being a bit more than 3 times as big MM is still well shy of my entry point, given the price and odds. I'm thinking some time in October is when I'll get in the game, assuming it's still rolling (and it probably will be). Under the prior ticket pricing structure I would have purchased my usual 1 ticket per drawing. Sorry to tell you but: They. Don't. Care. No tickets for me under any circumstances but am cu
Aug 26, 2025, 3:48 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

The Florida Millionaire Raffle is back!Reply
This just in to The Interesting to Note But Nobody Cares Department - This time around The Florida Lottery did in fact revamp this edition of The Millionaire Raffle. I think they probably copied some ideas that were instituted by The Pennsylvania Millionaire Raffle. I'm a transplant from the Northeast to Florida, and I used to live less than an hour's drive of Pennsylvania. PA has offered their version of a Millionaire Raffle every Fall for many years. I made the trip over to PA each Fall qu
Mar 29, 2026, 10:02 am - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

Answer Me This...Reply
One more 'one more thing'...... I firmly believe that The Florida Lottery knew well in advance of implementing the midday drawing that ticket sales would go down. By how much they'd go down was probably the only question they had on their minds. They also were very likely aware (probably advised by an advertising/marketing firm) that tampering with something that works very well could have very negative consequences in terms of ticket sales. (Like happened to Coca-Cola when they changed
Dec 18, 2025, 7:09 am - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

Answer Me This...Reply
Just like you, I'm sure many players would think they'd make more money from extra ticket sales, but to answer your question requires me to ask you a question. That question is - WHAT extra ticket sales? Today's Florida Fantasy5 jackpots are way down. The winners prize pool contains 62% of all ticket sales for the sales period of the upcoming drawing. Single winner jackpots are now approximately $110,000 when prior to going to two draws per day they were approximately $200,000. 62% of $
Dec 15, 2025, 10:38 am - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
I agree I think it's going to end up between 1.45 and 1.5 tonight. The worksheet is reporting a supported annuity of 1.411, and I'd imagine they're still being deliberately conservative, so 1.45 seems likely to be close to the least we should be expecting. Saturday is projected at 1.7 but I'll be surprised if it's not between 1.8 and 1.9 They're forecasting sales of $467 million, and a supported annuity of 1.762, so I'd think it should easily get to 1.8. Based on the current foreca
Sep 3, 2025, 3:00 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Massachusetts Lottery to add second daily Mass Cash drawingReply
This really sucks for loyal Mass Cash players. What's going to happen is exactly the same thing that happened with Florida Fantasy5 when the Florida Lottery added an additional Fantasy5 drawing each day in March of 2023. The mid-day Mass Cash drawing will have a low jackpot amount, and the evening drawing will have a somewhat larger but still reduced jackpot amount due to ticket sales for the mid-day drawing siphoning off money that formerly went to the evening drawing. Most players are
Jul 18, 2025, 9:15 am - GiveFive - Lottery News

The Florida Millionaire Raffle is back!Reply
The Florida Lottery finally updated their weekly sales data. Their potential total sales figure comes to 379128. One thing I saw that I hadn't noticed before was this note on the bottom of the sales update page: *Ticket sales will continue through June 30, 2026, or until 2,000,000 tickets are sold, whichever occurs first. Uh, Florida Lottery, reality is calling...
May 29, 2026, 2:19 pm - Sum Buddy - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
The Mega Millions jackpot has increased by $27 million to $547 million after 28 consecutive rolls and is the largest Mega Millions jackpot since December 2024. There is only a 2.7% chance the jackpot will be won in the October 7 draw with projected sales of $40.6 million. Interesting to note, Mega Millions sales were from $45 million to $51 million per draw last month for three consecutive draws when the jackpot was less than $360 million. It appears the reason for the high sales was the Po
Oct 4, 2025, 7:58 am - winoneday - Lottery Discussion Forum

$1.7 BILLION: Will Powerball create a Christmas billionaire?Reply
One thing I truly miss is bump up to the jackpot like in the good old days. Gone for good I'd say. Considering that they've done it 4 times in the last 4 months it hardly seems like it no longer happens. Changing to 3 drawings per week has a minor effect, but the real issue is that lottery sales per drawing are generally slower than they used to be. Even so, the current PB run is a rare exception (as of now) for not bumping some of the jackpots for runs that made it past the billion dollar
Dec 24, 2025, 12:32 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News

$1.3 BILLION: Powerball jackpot soars to 5th-largest in game historyReply
what Ai is saying is they can't stop it from Climbing but they can Slow it down so second chance win more makes sense. My intelligence isn't artificial, so I've got a somewhat different take, partly because I don't have as many hallucinations. Back when the annuity record was about $300 million PB introduced a cap that would limit jackpot increases to $25 million, with any excess augmenting the second place prize, until a new record was set. I don't remember how long it lasted, but it wasn'
Sep 4, 2025, 4:20 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery News