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Ohio woman tops husband's $1 million lottery win with $5 million winReply
Agreed. For an amount like that I would also take the annuity payments.
Mar 18, 2026, 7:30 am - Infraredsight - Lottery News

"I can't believe it!" North Carolina man hugs store clerk after winning $2 million prizeReply
That is true but why take a 20 year annuity when we don't know if we will around that long. Also no one knows where the money is being kept to pay out the annuity each year. If that place goes bankrupt, your money is gone. It reminds me of the Publishers Clearing House sweepstakes that went bankrupt in 2025. A guy had won the 5K a Week For Life prize, 10 years ago then quit his job. He had received a check for 260K a year for the last 10 years. Now the checks have stopped coming. At the age of 6
Jan 15, 2026, 6:38 am - winterhug - Lottery News

Michigan man claims record $32.9 million Lotto 47 jackpot with numbers he's used for 20 yearsReply
For 73 years old person to take an annuity??? lottery is a scam Lump sum should not take so much out compared to annuity they knew that older people play more because they have more money than young people he won't have enough time to spend this money because he got maximum to decades to live! and annuity is 30 years!!!
Jan 13, 2026, 11:48 pm - Alfawinner - Lottery News

$1.7 BILLION: Will Powerball create a Christmas billionaire?Reply
Ok let's make a quick Vote here Lump Sum or Annuity . For me Annuity so l can use my Regular bank no need for Stress and headache On the other hand if l Dethrown Edwin Castro l will go with Lump Sum and buy my house next to his house Just a little bit Bigger ,
Dec 23, 2025, 3:57 pm - JoeBigLotto - Lottery News

$1.5 BILLION: Massive Powerball jackpot fuels rush for ticketsReply
I see the cash option was updated, it is now $689.3 million. The annuity is still $1.5 billion.
Dec 19, 2025, 12:13 pm - Dave Bowman - Lottery News

$1.25 BILLION: Epic Powerball winless streak marches onReply
Thanx to all who responded to my question yesterday... Thanx 4 the cash over annuity recommendation when your past your 30s 40s . I concur if I were younger I'd go for the annuity .... Does anyone have inside info on the new millionaire for life game starting next year? What id like to know is will there still be a minimum 20 years on the annuity and will there still be a cash option? Just curious - but at $5 a ticket I'll only play once a week if even that ..... and that will be when pb
Dec 16, 2025, 6:04 pm - ShagE3 - Lottery News

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
The Powerball jackpot increased by $30.3 million to $775 million after 37 rolls. Last time around PB's advertised increase in this range was $65 million, from 750 to 815 (later boosted to 850, for an increase of $100 million). There's a chance this one will also get a boost tomorrow, but no way the boost gets it to 840ish. Some of that difference is due to the interest rate. Based on the cash value that just gave us an annuity of 740 the cash value of last run's 750 annuity would have been
Dec 2, 2025, 11:39 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
Here are some possibilities about what's coming. It takes 201 million tickets to reach a 50% chance of getting a winner. We obviously can't get a winner in any of the previous drawings, so from this point there's a 50% chance that the cash value will reach about $668 million. At the current interest rate that would be an advertised annuity of $1.44 billion. On average it takes 292.47 million tickets to produce each winner, so once the cash value has reached $391.7 million (tonight's valu
Nov 8, 2025, 1:56 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
Please explain what you are referring to. Are you talking about a reduction in sales, annuity value or cash value?
Oct 19, 2025, 3:01 pm - winoneday - Lottery Discussion Forum

$1.8 billion Powerball jackpot to be split by two tickets sold in Missouri and TexasReply
Right now the $164.5 million cash value of MM is 45.95% of the $358 million annuity. With the annuity at 35.8% of 1 billion the cash value at the same interest rate has to be $164.5 / .358 for a $1 billion annuity. That's $459.5 million. Flipping it around, it will take a hair under 2.8 times as much money for 1 billion as for 358 million. Total sales through Saturday are forecast to be $609,162,600 and 121,832,520 tickets. 2.8 time that is 340,314,302 tickets (and total revenue of just over
Sep 7, 2025, 5:43 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery News