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Playslip, accidently gets run more than 1XReply
Coin Toss, you need a drink! LOL Anyway, that's not a bad idea...taking both the annuity and the lump sum option. I agree with lottolaughs about the waste of a dollar. The only reason I usually keep a ticket that isn't what I asked for is that I don't want to make a big deal out of it. However, I first posted something I deleted from my above comment, because it sounded a little cheap. What I wrote is that sometimes I only plan to spend 4 dollars and that's what I put into my pock
Mar 4, 2007, 8:08 pm - justxploring - Lottery Discussion Forum

Playslip, accidently gets run more than 1XReply
A guy in Kansas played PB - same numbers 11 minutes apart in two different places, and he got the 5 WB's - twice because he had it on two tickets. What are the odds ? Not of just winning, but playing the same numbers twice by design ? How many folks would even think to do that ? I know some say they do because if they won the JP then they could take a lump sum with one ticket and the annuity with the other....
Mar 4, 2007, 1:59 am - guesser - Lottery Discussion Forum

would you play if.....Reply
It depends on the amout of the lowest jackpot amount. Me personally, I don't play anything but the Mega Millions (and powerball once in a while) because the lowest jackpot is just enough for me to retire on. The NJ Pick 6 Lottery game is too small and to me, not worth the aggravation. That jackpot is only $2 million (Annuity value) and that would be quickly reduced to less than a million after taxes and cash value. If they lowered the Mega Millions Jackpot to anything less than what it i
Mar 3, 2007, 11:39 pm - MegaWinner - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega now at 340Reply
The roll just shows that probability works about the way we should expect it to. There was better than a 50% chance it rolled, and it did what was most likely. The last jump was about 70% bigger than sales for the previous draw, and the current estimate looks to be for a modest 10 to 15% jump to about $125 million in sales. I'd guess that twisted is right and we can expect a revised estimate that's at least $10 to 15 million higher, and even a fair chance that the annuity value will beat t
Mar 3, 2007, 2:38 am - KY Floyd - Jackpot Games Forum

lotteryReply
How can $100,000 last a lifetime ? Suppose you've only got no family and a year to live, like the guy in NY who won the million bucks as an annuity? Every cloud has a silver lining, and the upside to a terminal illness is that some plans get a lot easier to make. 100 grand isn't enough to do all the things most people might want to do in the last year of their life, but it would certainly pay for a fairy nice year or two. Of course for anyone with a family and/or more than a year or two
Mar 2, 2007, 2:47 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Powerball or MegaMillions which will grow to 300+millionReply
The advertised jackpot suggests estimated sales of about $108 million. I think sales will be a bit higher, but the chances for another roll will still be better than 50%, so probability says MM will break 300 on this run. What is 100% certain is that another roll will mean a US record for the jackpot. PB's fictional $365 million jackpot of a year ago paid about $178 million in cash. If it does roll again, the next MM jackpot will be at least $325 million. The cash payout would set a record
Feb 28, 2007, 2:47 am - KY Floyd - Jackpot Games Forum

My brother won 35 millionReply
The only detail that I read was that the brother offered to give her $12,000 a year but apparently she wants more because SHE needs it. It doesn't say how many other brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, parents, grandparents or friends that need money too the brother has. Does the state pay a lump sum or a 30 year annuity? Maybe tomorrow another new LP member will start a tread saying he won $35 Million and complain about how all his friends and relatives expect him to sh
Feb 26, 2007, 8:15 pm - Stack47 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Lotteries long for 'jackpot fever'Reply
Then you should ask the OR Lottery to join MUSL Hot Lotto. (Since New Hampshire has Tri-State Megabucks and Hot Lotto, and it has a smaller population than OR, it certainly should be considered where you live. HL also needs a larger double matrix since there are now nine states plus DC; it started in six states. While I am not a big fan of OR Megabucks (lump-sum winners do not get the true cash value of the annuity more so than that it's computerized,) the game that needs to be replaced is OR
Feb 20, 2007, 6:26 pm - CASH Only - Lottery News

Cancer victim struggles to get $1 million lottery prize in lump sumReply
US online jackpot games all have a cash option, except of course for MA Megabucks (there are also two lifetime online games in the US.) But for some reason a number of scratch games, especially in MA and NY, are still annuity-only, and few people give a dam (except me.) MA and NY are able to get away with this as they are the two most successful US lotteries (not counting video lottery, which NY has.) Companies which sell annuities to lotteries still have pull, and continue to be able to sw
Feb 19, 2007, 10:57 am - CASH Only - Lottery News

Poll Number #3Reply
I wonder why France's 6/49 game is 1.20 (rather than 1.00) for two plays (do you pick one or two sets of numbers for each 1.20?) You should try to do more research on this game. Still, I'm voting for the French game, as it's tax free, and AFAIK the Washington State cash option is fixed at 50% of the annuity, instead of a (higher) floating percentage (the latter is true of Mega Millions). BTW the cost of a Euro Millions ticket in the UK is either 1.40 or 1.50, which does make sense to
Feb 17, 2007, 9:41 am - CASH Only - Jackpot Games Forum