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US Powerball multi-state lottery game expanding to the UKReply
In the UK the game is different 1) The ticket will cost 4 pounds or $5.00 at today's exchange rate 2) If you get (2) of the white ball numbers you get 8 pounds or $10.00 3) if you win the jackpot you can't get the cash option only the annuity (You can sell that annuity to an insurance company for NPV (Net Present Value) in a heartbeat. ) 4) In the US - lottery sales are $100 billion a year but only $10 billion in the UK. 5) US Powerball ticket prices in the UK will be the mos
Apr 15, 2026, 10:55 am - JohnGalt3 - Lottery News

Lucky For Life to Millionaire For Life - $5 TicketReply
The difference between Lucky for Life $2 and Millionaire for Life $5 is nothing like the difference between old MM $2 and new MM $5. New MM $5 is a horrible game. It's not just the price of $5, it's what you get for that five bucks. Lucky for Life $2 has a 1 in 30 million chance of winning the top prize. Millionaire for Life improves that to 1 in 23 million. The ticket costs 2.5 times as much but the top prize is more than 2.5 times as much... 2.74 times as much as an annuity, or 3.13 ti
Jan 18, 2026, 5:47 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

$1.25 BILLION: Epic Powerball winless streak marches onReply
Interesting that cash and annuity are both #11 at the moment. The annuity will almost certainly move up to at least the #10 spot and has a reasonable chance to move up as high as #7. There's a good chance for the cash value to move up one spot, but pretty much zero chance of moving up to #9. What percentage of possible ticket combinations will be sold for Wednesday s draw? Their first forecast is for 23.2% but it's going to be higher than that. I don't know if they'd bump the jackpot to
Dec 16, 2025, 1:49 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
The Annuity for tonights Measly Millions draw is at $754,000,000 . (Rollover # 35 ) The following is where tonights draw falls on all time record Annuity jackpots : #17) Powerball : $758.7 Million , Aug. 23, 2017 (20 rollovers, starting at $40 million) - Massachusetts winner #18) Powerball : $754.6 Million , Feb. 6, 2023 (33 rollovers, starting at $20 million) - Washington winner ** Mega Mlns: $754 Million , Oct. 31,2025 (35 rollovers, starting at $50 million) - PENDING
Oct 31, 2025, 11:02 am - CDanaT - Lottery Discussion Forum

MM $5, PB $2, Powerplay $1IReply
None of the other games charge $5 to pretend to be something they are not! Would it make you happy if pick 3 was $5 and had a $1,000,000,000,000 annuity jackpot that had 50 quintillion to 1 odds of hitting and paid the annuity out at a dime a year for ten trillion years? and a second prize of $10,000,000 with 672 trillion to 1 odds of hitting? I'm sure the state lottery commissions would love to have you as a customer on that ticket too! It looks to me like you are not c
Oct 1, 2025, 3:28 pm - Think - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
Jackpot fever has not taken hold yet. The revised jackpot estimate (and the lowish estimates on the last few jackpots) suggests that it might be starting. Therefore, there is a very good possibility Powerball will break the record number of consecutive rolls. The current record stands at 40. The Powerball jackpot has to roll just 4 more times to break the record. The chance of 4 more rolls based on the current worksheet on the TX lottery website is 21%, but it's probably lower. I d
Aug 27, 2025, 4:16 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
The Mega Millions jackpot reached $166 million after 11 rolls. In the previous Mega Millions run, the jackpot reached $189 million after 11 rolls. This time around the cash value for drawing #12 is $75.2 million while PB is advertising a $482 million annuity. Last time around the cash value for drawing #12 was $82.7 million, which is only 10% more, and a much smaller difference than the annuity inflated by a higher interest rates suggests. Still a long ways off from the 11 roll record o
Aug 7, 2025, 2:27 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

One lottery ticket sold in California wins $526.5 million Powerball jackpotReply
Just for fun .... If MM PB were to merge into one game what would you keep from each game to bring into the new game. Or would you make your own changes ? I'd for one would have 3 draws per week at $3- a ticket multiplier included . I might shorten the annuity from 29 years to 25 or better yet 20 years. I'd have the 3rd prize be $25 grand a year for the the life of the annuity Your thoughts ..., your comments?
Apr 1, 2025, 12:00 am - ShagE3 - Lottery News

N.J. Lottery retailer says $221M Powerball winner is bus driver who spends $60 a day on ticketsReply
That's the way the US lotteries work.. Hype up the expected value of an annuity that you could buy with the cash on hand value to get public interest.. and then tax it as the annuity is paid out.. OR Take the actual cash on hand and tax that.. leaving, as in this case, US$55m (and maybe less if that is just counting the federal withholding tax) Meanwhile, current EuroMillions is at about US$186.3m. An American winning that would have to pay about US$69m.. leaving only US$117.3m (Fede
Jun 15, 2024, 6:50 pm - kao1632 - Lottery News

$1.55 BILLION: Biggest Mega Millions jackpot ever to be drawn TuesdayReply
Maybe after sales calculation it will be number two. The TX MM worksheet is reporting the supported jackpot as $1,588,588,007. If they manage that it wil be the #2 annuity by a modest margin, but even if it gets past 1.6 the cash will miss the 3rd place position by about $80 million and the 2nd place position by almost $200 million. A roll will give us an advertised jackpot starting at $1.8 billion, and $892.4 million cash. That will still be almost $100 million shy of 2nd place. It wou
Aug 8, 2023, 8:41 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery News