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Waiting for the drawReply
i always get the buzz prior the the"big one" the last euromillion "big one" was no exception.....but having a ticket in your wallet is all what it takes to make it happen...... but it seems that in america, people have to have "a plan" if they win........ssshhhhhhhh^$%$%^$&^$^ttttttttt my only plan is to make sure that my ticket is the winning one..... and be very quiet until i get to the lottery offices to get the cheque, put the money in the bank. take a vacation and start looking for what/ho
Feb 19, 2006, 11:14 am - albertidowu - Lottery Discussion Forum

Probability of a Rollover in Powerball.Reply
The powerball jackpot has rolled. The cash value is now $120.1M; the annuity value is $250M. The $240M annuity jackpot last time out sold about 63.2M in tickets. If the value were the same now, this would represent the probability of various numbers of winners: 064.88% 128.07% 26.07% 30.88% 40.09% 50.01% Roughly there is a 34% of two rolls and a 11% chance of 3 rolls.
Feb 9, 2006, 7:28 am - Prob988 - Jackpot Games Forum

Probability of a Rollover in Powerball.Reply
The powerball jackpot has rolled. The cash value is now $101.1; the annuity value is $210M. The $205M annuity jackpot last time out sold about 50.0M in tickets. If the value were the same now, this would represent the probability of various numbers of winners: 071.02% 124.30% 24.16% 30.47% 40.04% The jackpot has a roughly 50% chance of reaching $300M, a 25% chance of triggering the cap and an 8% chance of rolling once beyond that, based on previous sales figures.
Feb 5, 2006, 1:16 am - Prob988 - Jackpot Games Forum

Probability of a Rollover in Powerball.Reply
The powerball jackpot has rolled. The cash value is now $87.9M; the annuity value is $180M. The previous cash value of the jackpot reached some 68.9M. Using the sales figures for those drawings, I estimate that this drawing should produce about 36.7M in sales. If this is correct, the probabilities for various numbers of winners are given in the following table: 077.79% 119.54% 22.45% 30.21% 40.01% Based on sales of the last large run we can estimate that there is
Feb 2, 2006, 10:10 pm - Prob988 - Jackpot Games Forum

Powerball lottery madness spreads to big mediaNews Story
Exclusive Lottery Post StoryNow that the multi-state Powerball jackpot is sitting at its highest level ever, everyone is taking notice, creating a barrage of big-media news stories.Unfortunately for the public, the big media is making some mistakes.Although the mistakes at first may seem innocuous, they add up to create player confusion. When a lottery game's jackpot reaches the upper-limits, people who don't normally buy tickets get interested. And those are the people who will be most affect
Oct 18, 2005, 8:40 am - Todd - Lottery News

Mass. lottery winner, 94, sues to get lump-sum paymentNews Story
Louise Outing is 94 years old, and she knows it would be foolish to expect to live another 20. So the lottery winner wants all of her cash now, not in payments spread out over the next two decades.''In March, I will be 95 years old. Do you realize that? Ninety-five in March, the Everett woman said in a telephone interview yesterday. ''Now, you know I'm not going to live 20 years. Outing won the Sept. 4 Megabucks drawing, and she wants the Massachusetts State Lottery Commission to cut her a chec
Dec 29, 2004, 8:10 am - Todd - Lottery News

Powerball lottery win energizes Pennsylvania neighborhoodNews Story
Not often is a middle-aged woman seen hopping in public, yet there was Mary Ann Seems, bouncing on her toes yesterday in a , her fists quivering in post-lottery fever. This is so exciting! exclaimed Seems, 47, of Titusville, N.J. I don't care who it is; it's in our neighborhood! Seems lives just across the Delaware River from Washington Crossing, where a Cumberland Farms store last week sold the richest winning lottery ticket so fare in Pennsylvania history.Annuity value: $213.2 million.Cash o
May 11, 2004, 7:24 am - Todd - Lottery News

Muskegon resident wins Michigan Lottery's '$2,000,000 Fortune'News Story
William Schad of Muskegon now knows what it's like to feel like a million bucks actually, in his case, two million bucks! He became the Michigan Lottery's newest millionaire on Friday, January 16, 2004 while participating in a mid-court drawing at halftime during the Detroit Pistons vs. Washington Wizards NBA basketball game. No kidding! said Schad, upon learning he had been chosen as one of the five finalists for the Michigan Lottery's $2,000,000 Fortune grand-prize drawing. Holy moley! I
Jan 26, 2004, 7:24 am - Todd - Lottery News

$321 MILLION: Mega Millions jackpot is red hotReply
I've also wondered if the JP counts as income for the yr. when you claim it or when you won it? I think everybody realizes that you can't just hang on to a paycheck for a month in order to claim income form that check in the following year. The IRS figured that one out a long time ago, so to prevent people from postponing income to which they're entitled they came up with the concept of economic benefit or constructive receipt . That means that the year in which any kind of income is taxabl
Nov 2, 2014, 11:41 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News

$173 MILLION: Mega Millions is the hot ticketNews Story
By Todd Northrop Lottery players across the United States are buying their Mega Millions tickets in preparation for Friday's massive $173 million drawing, after nobody won Tuesday's $160 million jackpot. The cash value stands at a staggering $119.3 million. Lottery players typically think of the cash value as roughly half of the annuity estimate, but this Mega Millions cash value represents nearly 70% of the annuity estimate. Friday's Mega Millions jackpot is the accumulation of 17 cons
Sep 25, 2013, 8:44 am - Todd - Lottery News