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Which game will have the higher Jackpot early this year?Reply
For any given jackpot PB can be counted on to increase more than MM for the same jackpot because PB tickets cost twice as much and put about twice as much cash into the jackpot pool. For the current runs MM sold about 22 million tickets for an advertised jackpot of $137 million and PB sold about 14 million tickets for an advertised jackpot of $135 million. That's a bit more than half as many tickets as MM, so the PB jackpot increased by a bit more than MM. Since the MM odds are lower and more ti
Jan 26, 2017, 2:03 am - KY Floyd - Jackpot Games Forum

The big jackpots have been won- What now?Reply
The $15 mil increase must mean that more people bought tickets over Powerball's projected minimum threshold. If you look back to the last time when the annuity jackpot began at $40 mil, it went from 40 to 50 to 60 to 70 to 80 to 90 to 100 to 110 and then when ticket sales picked up it went from 110 to 123 getting a $13 mil bump. and so on..... If it was the cash value that got the $10 mil bump, the annuity jackpot amount would have increased about $14 mil with each rollover. It's only when
Aug 7, 2016, 10:32 am - TheMeatman2005 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Share information on the 1 million a yr for life 596 scratch offReply
Yes that is why I don't like collecting the remaining tickets before it expires and foremost keep releasing new tickets so they have many reason to take them back. Atlas may seem good before increase in retail! Now they don't have to put that out to increase sales so it gives them many reason to take it out. That is what I truly believe. There is report that is update every Monday morning! I keep following it until this week that there is only 1 change in the games that still have top prize left
Aug 5, 2016, 3:37 pm - Linking - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Higher jackpots or better odds?Reply
I would rather state lotto's improved the odds and stopped trying to increase jackpots Illinois odds aren't that great to win on regular lotto 1:20,358,520 and they changed price a few years back to increase jackpot (Tickets used to be $1 for 2 lines now its 1 line for $1) I would rather have lower odds and return to two lines for $1 No one wins the Illinois lotto anymore. It goes months without winner
Jul 10, 2016, 6:50 pm - Illinoisdreamer - Lottery Discussion Forum

NH Lottery may increase storeowners' lottery bonusReply
You are taking the high road and being generous. I don't know how anyone could read the article and come to that conclusion. They're currently paying retailers about $17 million per year, and expect this increase to average out to about $9,000 per year. That's an increase of a whopping 0.052%. It's the equivalent of having a salary of $100,000 per year and having your boss tell you, Congratulations! You're getting a raise of $1 a week. The catch is that all but 2 of the retailers in the sta
Mar 25, 2016, 6:23 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery News

To strategize or not to strategize? That is the questionReply
If you are talking about strategies like buying unpopular numbers or buying tickets at locations where rules are slightly different so the payout is higher, then I agree. I for example always pick numbers that other players avoid. That way, whenever I win in the lowest prize tier, in the majority of cases, I get above average payout because less people picked those unwanted numbers and therefore the prize pool for that tier was divided amongst less players. I get about 2-3 more than average. And
Feb 28, 2016, 10:20 am - elios311 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Has anyone noticed the change?Reply
ArizonaDream wrote: The difference I think you are missing, is that Texas (and Illinois) bump up the the lotto annuity jackpot by a fixed 250,000 with every rollover, while the MM/PB jackpot goes up by an amount directly tied to sales . I did not think we are debating per se; just trying to get our facts straight. I am happy to have my mistakes pointed out. I don't know anything about Illinois. And I have not looked at MM rules recently. ----- It should be self-evident that the Lotto
Feb 21, 2016, 8:14 pm - mathhead - Lottery Discussion Forum

How soon till the next $ Billion $ Jackpot?Reply
What I did was to translate the figure wrong off my calculator. If you multiply a number by 1.1544 it's the same as multiplying that number by 15.44% and then adding it to the original number. So.....instead of stating This current drawing's annuity jackpot was increased $21 mil from $136 mil to $157 mil, a 1.1544 increase(or 15.44%). The cash value increased $13.9 mil from $87.8 mil to $101.7 mil, a 1.1583 (or 15.83%) increase. It was merely a mathematical (grammar) error.
Feb 10, 2016, 8:00 pm - TheMeatman2005 - Lottery Discussion Forum

How soon till the next $ Billion $ Jackpot?Reply
UPDATE: No winner in Saturday's 2/7/16 Powerball drawing. The jackpot was increased $21 mil from $136 mil. $157 mil. That represents an increase of only 15.4412%. The prior jackpot was increased $24 mil from $112 mil to $136 mil. which represents an increase of 21.42857%. If there continues to be no winner, the jackpot should reach the $1 billion mark within 14 more drawings (21 draws without a jackpot winner)(approx March 26th )
Feb 7, 2016, 7:26 pm - TheMeatman2005 - Lottery Discussion Forum

The next Powerball jackpot...How high does it go from here ?Reply
The last drawing reportedly topped out at $947.9 million, which is an increase of 79.4% over the previous jackpot of $528.5 million. If we get the same increase for this drawing the resulting jackpot would be just a hair over $1.700 billion. That would take sales of nearly 800 million tickets, generating about $1.6 billion in revenue. The chance of another rollover would be about 6.5%, or 1 in 15. Perhaps the most interesting thing about this will be to see just how irrational people get, and
Jan 10, 2016, 11:28 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum