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Mega Vs Power, Something is off..
Figures are for Ca, cash out, after taxes... PowerBall $82M Jackpot = Take home: $24.990M Mega $96M Jackpot = Take home: $26.628M Cash option before (Federal) taxes: PB: $39.6M MM: $42.2M Difference: $2.6M So a difference in jackpots of $14M only gives a difference of $2.6M Cash option $1.638M cash out after taxes?? WTF?
Apr 12, 2025, 2:25 am - Rexer90 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Numerous State Lottery holdoutsReply
From the movie, Casino: Ace Rothstein: Three f****n' jackpots in 20 minutes? Why didn't you pull the machines? Why didn't you call me? Don Ward: Well, it happened so quick, 3 guys won; I didn't have a chance... Ace Rothstein: You didn't see the scam? You didn't see what was going on? Don Ward: Well, there's no way to determine that. Ace Rothstein: Yes there is! An infallible way...they won!
Mar 14, 2025, 3:22 pm - Lotterologist - Lottery Discussion Forum

Texas Senator threatens to defund the Texas LotteryReply
No worries. While Pick 3 is not involved in the buyout or potential buyouts it's victim to being part of the blanket policy Texas put in place. It's unfortunate but making exceptions to law, policy, and procedures is what caused this calamity. It is what it is. There should be exceptions to laws, policies, and procedures if the pick 3 has nothing to do with buying jackpots. This affects all of us who want to predict full-time and yes become professional pick 3 players because we
Mar 2, 2025, 9:32 pm - LottoIntuitive - Lottery News

Texas Lottery says NJ group tried to buy another Lotto Texas jackpotReply
I appreciate that you are earnest about this, but it is not correct to say that banning courier services has any impact on buying groups whatsoever. That was made very clear in an earlier story we published, in which we outlined how a buying group purchased a Virginia Lottery jackpot without any courier services operating in the state at all. The worst mistake is to bluntly apply bans and such. This entire thing required an exact scalpel to fix the issue of purchasing groups, not the sledgeh
Feb 28, 2025, 4:53 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Texas Lottery bans lottery courier servicesNews Story
Pressure coming from all sides leads to immediate policy change By Kate Northrop The Texas Lottery announced Monday that, effective immediately, lottery courier services are no longer allowed to operate in the state of Texas. After facing immense pressure from state legislation to rethink its relationship with courier services, the Texas Lottery has enacted new policies that effectively ban lottery courier services in the state. ...in order to more fully promote and ensure integr
Feb 25, 2025, 10:00 am - Todd - Lottery News

One Oregon lottery ticket wins first Powerball jackpot of the year worth $328.5 millionReply
I totally feel you Bleudog101 and ShagE3. When both jackpots got won back to back, I was like oh boy, here we go. I have my jackpot entry point set at USD 1,000,000 and all I need to do is match 5 numbers. I also add the extra $1 and make my minimum win $2M at least. I totally get the feeling when the jackpot gets won and it's not my ticket, but such is life. I wish us well and I hope I get to match at least 5 numbers tonight on the PB draw
Jan 20, 2025, 7:40 pm - JustMaybe - Lottery News

DO NOT PLAY THE LOOTTERYReply
I've always said The lottery is a suckers bet ....but I play it anyway knowing full well that hitting a jackpot is a incredibly hard thing to do. Why do I do it? Because. Because you just don't know... you could be very glad you bought your ticket even if the jackpot you won isn't a life changing amount of money. Florida Fantasy5 offers jackpots of about $120,000 (evening drawing and 120K is before taxes) but I could use about 90 grand or so. Because to me it's fun. I enjoy the chall
Nov 12, 2024, 7:52 am - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

New Mega Millions Game $5 per ticket in 2025
I just saw that a new Mega Millions Game is coming in 2025 in which the ticket will cost $5 and the starting jackpot will be $50M... What happened to them putting the current Mega Millions and Powerball BACK to the starting amount of $40M? Isn't that the reason why they increased the ticket prices to $2 dollars on each game? They said they reduced the starting jackpots from $40M to $20M due to Covid yet they have not increased either game back to what it was. Does anyone
Oct 2, 2024, 10:26 am - Perfecttiming2 - Jackpot Games Forum

Florida Fantasy-5 PlayersReply
JPT's hottest number all time (574 drawings) is #2 with 93 hits. Tonite's draw will be the 575th JPT drawing since 2/1/2019. Hottest number in the most recent 104 draws is #41 with 22 hits. Hottest number since January 1, 2024 (61 drawings) is #44 with 14 hits. (two numbers are ranked second with 13 hits. They are - #'s 3 16. There are two numbers ranked third with 12 hits - #'s 29 41. There are four numbers ranked fourth with 11 hits each - 1, 13, 23 24. Hottest JPT numbers in July
Aug 2, 2024, 7:53 am - GiveFive - Pick 5 Forum

Florida Fantasy-5 PlayersReply
I know I've posted the following info in this thread before, but for whatever it's worth I'll post it again. Jackpot amounts are simply a function of how many lines on tickets are sold. The more lines sold, the higher the jackpot amount that could be won. But sometimes there is no winner and a rolldown happens. That's because no one bought the five number combination (the line ) that had all five winning numbers on it. There are 376,992 possible combination of five number in a 5/36 matri
Jun 26, 2024, 9:07 am - GiveFive - Pick 5 Forum