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New Jersey Pick 6 jackpot-winning ticket worth $5.9 million expiring in three weeksReply
Ticket expires May 22 at the Eisenhower Exxon in Roseland, Essex County - winning numbers 20-21-30-31-42-44 from that May 22, 2025, drawing. There's also a $50k Powerball from the same day unclaimed at D'Latinos in West New York, so double the urgency for NJ players to dig out old tickets. Hate seeing these roll back into the prize pool, especially with the app making checks so easy now.
May 4, 2026, 10:01 pm - RichW - Lottery News

Probability of winning with multiple ticketsReply
Tucker, thank you for the very concise explanation. I agree with you 100%. Unfortunately, the people that already did not believe what you wrote will probably not be convinced. They do not want to admit they were once mistaken. Improving the odds is exactly why I only buy tickets as a member of a pool. I never buy a ticket on my own. Yes, I could win a pick 3 game but winning $500 is not very exciting for me. Winning the Mega Millions or Powerball games is nearly impossible when buying y
Mar 29, 2026, 3:57 pm - winoneday - Lottery Discussion Forum

It looks as if the $5.00 MM ticket is doing poorly.Reply
Another thing that's not rocket science. They're not in the red, but when the winner chooses the cash value of $27.1 million there's only going to be about $12 million in the prize pool. The non-jackpot prizes require about 22% of sales revenue, so that's about $9.5 million of the $42.7 million they took in for the two drawings. Add the $27.1 million and they get to pay out about $36.6 million. That's roughly 85% of revenue, and about $15 million more than they planned.
Mar 27, 2026, 7:25 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

ideal lottery pool sizeReply
Just me. One time I tried to join a very small lottery pool (total two people) but the other person forgot to purchase the ticket before the cut-off time.
Mar 13, 2026, 3:28 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

ideal lottery pool sizeReply
I ran a pool at the furniture store I worked at several years ago. Had 8-10 people. I would buys tics and text a pic of the tics to the members. Any winnings went back into buying extra tics. Alas, never had any large wins.
Mar 13, 2026, 9:59 am - rcbbuckeye - Lottery Discussion Forum

ideal lottery pool sizeReply
If you run a pool make copies of the tickets and hand them out to each member before the drawing. It avoids all the drama if someone wins with their own ticket.
Mar 13, 2026, 9:16 am - grwurston - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
The pool is going to wait until one of the jackpots gets much larger. We start playing when the jackpot is at least $150 million cash. It makes a difference since the plan is to split the jackpot many ways.
Mar 12, 2026, 9:10 am - winoneday - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
That sucks! I hope you're pool scores a winner next go around. Good luck! And have a fantastic day/night!
Mar 4, 2026, 5:21 pm - Justing618 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Arizona lottery retailer employee sued after buying $12.8 million ticket knowing it was a winnerReply
$85 worth of tickets is a lot. it's weird for someone to try to buy that much, then look in their wallet and see they only have $60, then spend every last dollar on tickets. i wonder if it was someone buying for their lottery pool and miscalculated how much they had collected from the other members. if not, sounds like a gambling problem.
Feb 27, 2026, 12:33 pm - Brock Lee - Lottery News

Kentucky office pool of eight employees scoops $200,000 Powerball lottery prizeReply
Always nice to see when pools win. Spreads the money around. Hoping our pool wins one day.
Feb 9, 2026, 4:10 pm - winoneday - Lottery News