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Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
Since the race began when Mega Millions ticket prices were raised to $5, the Powerball jackpot reached about $1.8 billion twice. Whereas, Mega Millions reached just shy of $1 billion only once. What exactly is the race ? If we're talking about bang for the buck(s) PB's cheaper price usually makes it the better bet, but at any given moment the jackpot divided by the ticket cost is as close as there is to a sensible metric for deciding which game to play. Right now MM's chance at $138 million
Dec 30, 2025, 2:07 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Iowa Lottery has delivered $6.1B in prizes since 1985News Story
Iowa Lottery celebrates 40 years Sales of the first Iowa Lottery tickets began in 1985 with a kickoff celebration at the Iowa State Fair. Forty years later, state fairgoers broke the Guinness World Record for the most people 1,380 to scratch lottery cards simultaneously, demonstrating the lottery's journey from $1 scratch tickets to a multibillion-dollar enterprise. Since its launch was approved by the state Legislature and signed into law by then-Gov. Terry Branstad, the lottery has gen
Dec 5, 2025, 10:09 am - Todd - Lottery News

Encounters in the wild
David Attenborough Impression In late afternoon at this mid-latitude location in North America, and it's just beginning to get dark in mid-November . There are perhaps 100 individuals gathered here. No doubt some would like to find a mate, but all are here because of the varied and abundant supply of food. Near the periphery are two older males. While one is a very handsome example of his species the other looks quite average, but his behavior is about to reveal that there's something very
Nov 21, 2025, 6:21 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions jackpot closes in on $1 billionReply
The rush of ticket sales over the next few days may propel the jackpot to an even higher amount before the drawing tales place. Now that's funny. Ever since Mega Millions jacked up the price to $5.00, sales have crashed. There is no rush. The last time we were around $1,000,000,000 was when the ticket cost $2.00 and they sold 100,000,000 tickets. For Tuesday 11/11/2025 Mega Millions drawing only 19 million tickets were sold. There won't be any rush as many people can't afford $5
Nov 13, 2025, 10:33 am - JohnGalt3 - Lottery News

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
I suspected that although people are upset about the price increase for Mega Millions tickets, if the jackpot reaches $1 Billion, almost every lottery player will buy at least one MM ticket. One thing that's absolutely certain is that every one of the people who said they'll never play at $5 per ticket is a lottery player, and lottery players play lotteries. Sales are starting to grow and it's probably not because of the people who aren't really lottery players but buy the rare ticket when
Oct 29, 2025, 2:28 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
It's now on rollover #29 and the current jackpot is at $575M/$264.6M Cash https://www.texaslottery.com/export/sites/lottery/Documents/jackpotestimates/mm20251007.pdf Jackpot run 9/13/24 - 12/27/24 at rollover # 29 was at $1B/$448.8M Cash https://www.texaslottery.com/export/sites/lottery/Documents/jackpotestimates/mm20241227.pdf Jackpot run 12/12/23 - 3/26/24 at rollover #29 was at $977/$467M Cash https://www.texaslottery.com/export/sites/lottery/Documents/jackpotestimate
Oct 8, 2025, 11:18 am - CDanaT - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
I'm just done with Mega Millions altogether. I played it since it was available in California, so a sample size that runs around 20ish years. The most I ever won was matching 3 numbers for probably around $10. $5 a ticket just became a barrier I wasn't willing to pass through. Whatever I would have normally spent just went to other draw games like California Fantasy 5 tickets instead. The actual jackpot total plays no part in my decision to buy a ticket or not. I also just get 1 ticket per
Aug 23, 2025, 10:30 am - GoodLuckDude - Lottery Discussion Forum

Maryland's Multi Match odds are variable
When Mega Millions jumped to $5 per ticket, I decided to occasionally buy Multi Match tickets, along with occasional Power Ball with double play. Recently I bought two different tickets, and I started looking closer at what I could win. Any one line and win a prize on its own and the odds stay the same. But the second tier of prizes based on all three lines are troubling. The top prize for getting 10 out of the 18 numbers (three lines of 6 numbers each) is often impossible to win on your ti
Aug 15, 2025, 5:50 pm - Cruzincat - 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

will you play the new $5 mega millions?Reply
P-6, Do you really believe that the MM head honchos will keep their word on starting at $50 M ? Remember.... These are direct quotes from the MM website 10/18/2017 Mega Millions is being redesigned to bring more value to its players with larger starting jackpots and faster rolls. Starting jackpots will more than double from $15 million to $40 million, and jackpots will grow faster overall. There will be better odds to win $1 million prizes and higher secondary prizes. 4/3/2020 The M
Feb 6, 2025, 11:05 am - CDanaT - Lottery Discussion Forum