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Gold Card Lotto
It's like Powerball, with cards!Pick 5 white cards from a full 52-card deck, and gold community card from a deck of 16 cards J-A, all suits.$1 to play. White + Community Prize Odds Match 5+1 Min. $5M Annuity 1 : 41,583,360 Match 5+0 $10,000 1 : 2,772,224 Match 4+1 $1,000 1 : 176,950 Match 4+0 $100 1 : 11,798 Match 3+1 $50 1 : 3,847 Match 3+0 $5 1 : 256 Match 2+1 $5 1 : 256 Match 1+1 $3 1 : 47 Match 0+1 $1 1 : 27 Approximately 32.9% of sales goes toward the jackpot.Jackpots paid either in lump su
Sep 11, 2005, 11:20 pm - JimmySand9 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Wow - wow - wow - Euro Millions $94.3 Million CASH
Looks like Euro Millions has rolled again - to 76 Million Euros, which translates to US$94.3 Million.For the USA-dwelling folks who don't know much about Euro Millions, it is a FANTASTIC game with the best jackpot IN THE WORLD at the moment.Winning Euro Millions is not anythign like winning Mega Millions or Powerball.It is ALL CASH and TAX FREE.So, if we all sharpen our pencils, winning the current $94.3 Million Euro Millions jackpot is like winning a Mega Millions jackpot advertised at about $2
Sep 9, 2005, 7:13 pm - Todd - Jackpot Games Forum

CA MM Cash Value Less Than Other States?Reply
I am interested to see what info 'twisted' gets from the CA lottery commission. As far as I can tell from the CA Lotto website, the annuity is paid out in equal payments, not like the graduated payment structure of CA SLP. So theoretically then, the cash value should be more since the amount invested must return enough to cover the equal value payments. I ran some calculations in Excel to verify the cash value necessary to return an equal payment over 26 years and there is no way for CA to get
Sep 8, 2005, 2:44 am - danisiri - Jackpot Games Forum

I Won The Lottery This Year For Over 25 MReply
Was this a hoax or not? Someone from Miami, Florida becomes a member, makes one post claiming to have won a $25M+ lottery jackpot and accepting a 26 years annuity. It was have been nice to have a link to a creditable news story about this person giving this post the feel of the inside scoop on a real lottery winner in his own words. Oh well, maybe one of the regular LP posters will win a lottery jackpot one of these days and share their story. It will be nice to read some of their old posts a
Aug 26, 2005, 1:36 pm - RJOh - Lottery Discussion Forum

Financial analyst looks at lottery jackpot cash/annuity optionsReply
A recent Powerball jackpot winner chose a one-time, pretax cash payment of $34,662,300.66 vs. $59.5 million in 30 annual payments with the first payment at the beginning of year one. This equates to an annual interest rate of about 4.26 percent. The only thing wrong with that analysis is I would BET the PowerBall winner would NOT have $34.6 million to invest by the end of the month. He might have 30 million or 25 million. THEN, he would invest the rest. You have 34.6 million and you are goin
Aug 24, 2005, 12:58 am - ChazzMatt - Lottery News

Unclaimed New Mexico Powerball jackpot fuels speculationReply
True, really. It might well be a tourist, a trucker, an itenerent who's now off in East Jesus, MO. Doesn't realize he's got a winning ticket under that package of brochures, waybills, trip-logs and maps in the passenger seat.I had a PM from a NM Lottery Authority a while back mentioning that the news media doesn't cover these mediocre wins much anymore. Maybe they've raised the lowest common denominator of what constitutes a jackpot worth covering based on lump sum payments instead of annuity
Aug 14, 2005, 7:08 am - Rip Snorter - Lottery News

How much do I get?Reply
ssupauqa,You were actually closer with your estimate. The cash option is normally 55% to 60% of the annuity amount, which in this case would be around $18 Million. ($30 million x60%)Then Federal tax would normally be around 38% of that. ($18 million x62%)So you are looking at roughly $11.16 Million.Not sure if Texas has a city and state tax. If so, you would need to deduct those as well.Also keep in mind that when you win they take taxes out up front but often times not enough, so you would
Jul 28, 2005, 12:28 pm - Lottery_Analyst - Lottery Discussion Forum

superball(one huge multistate game)Reply
Here's a format that might work for a game of this size.5/65 + 1/35 Prize Odds 5+1 Jackpot!1 : 289,096,080 5+0 Regional 1 : 8,502,825.9 4+1 $25,0001 : 963,653.6 4+0 $400 1 : 28,342.8 3+1 $250 1 : 16,333.1 3+0 $10 1 : 480.4 2+1 $10 1 : 844.8 1+1 $3 1 : 118.8 0+1 $2 1 : 52.9 2+0 $1 1 : 24.8 Overall Odds: Approx. 1 : 14 Now what about that 5+0 prize up there? What does Regional mean? Well the consortium will be split into regions of about 3 million people each. Each region will have it's own jac
Jul 27, 2005, 7:50 pm - JimmySand9 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Lucky South Carolina..
If you play scratch offs in SC listen up. Today the lottery started up $100 million Cash Bonanza. Top Prize $1 million. (not sure if it's annuity or cash). Odds are 1:3.19. There is over $100 million in cash prizes. This is on the heals of another $10 ticket called cool cash which was introduced in early July. Top Prize is only $20,000, however, there are 200 top prizes out there. $10 tickets are doing really well in SC. Good Luck. I hope we get something like that here in TN.
Jul 27, 2005, 12:26 am - Tnplayer805 - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Best City For Lottery FansReply
CO, do you hate PA because they have lucky for life? Just because you don't like one game you shouldn't hate the lottery totally. That's kinda like one bad apple spoils the bunch. If you don't like the game/apple, don't play it/eat it. From what I see all of PA's games are good. I know it stinks that lucky for life doesn't have a cash option but that's why they call it lucky for life. Some people like annuity. Not everyone is the same.
Jul 21, 2005, 10:20 pm - Tnplayer805 - Lottery Discussion Forum