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Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
I don't think it has ever been unusual for the first draw or two to be underfunded, but they need to offer some minimum amount or even the addicts might stop playing. MM is gambling that $50 million is the minimum advertised jackpot that will get enough people playing, while posing a minimum risk of paying a jackpot before it's fully funded. The most recent example I see is when MM was hit on the first drawing a couple of years ago. Total sales of $19,255,000 only funded $13,759,894 of the start
Jul 3, 2025, 10:13 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Annuity or Cash ValueReply
Am always torn between Cash and Annuity. But I think should I win, I would opt for the Cash Option. At a moderate 7% annual return, and a modest draw down, the money would grow past the annuity by year 10 to 15. It's true that a lot can change in 30 years, from tax laws to stability.
May 10, 2026, 9:21 pm - JustMaybe - Lottery Discussion Forum

Michigan man claims record $32.9 million Lotto 47 jackpot with numbers he's used for 20 yearsReply
What are you saying? He took the lump sum not the annuity. Having recently claimed his prize at Lottery headquarters in Lansing, he chose to receive his winnings as a one-time lump sum payment of about $22.8 million rather than take annuity payments for the full amount. Congrats to the big winner!!
Jan 14, 2026, 9:27 am - LottoBux - Lottery News

$1.7 BILLION: Will Powerball create a Christmas billionaire?Reply
PB will claim they set a new record if the annuity is more than the current $2.04 billion record, but to beat the $997.6 million cash value of that jackpot the annuity needs to be 2.17B, assuming the interest rate doesn't change. The PB worksheet posted on Monday afternoon suggests that a rollover on Wednesday will give us a Saturday jackpot of about $2.11 billion, but I'm not sure the people behind that estimate really have a better idea than anyone else. They came up over $60 million short on
Dec 23, 2025, 2:19 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Powerball jackpot hits $1 billion after building for monthsReply
On a down note ..... I see where the cash value has gone down .. the annuity is still a billion. If I choose the cash option I'll net under 25% of the annuity after taxes. Still a lot of $$$$ tho'. Hmmm maybe I'll just buy 2 tickets instead of the 5 or 6 I was thinking of purchasing. Have a shaggy day!!!! ShagE3
Dec 12, 2025, 3:56 pm - ShagE3 - Lottery News

my idea for a multi-state lottery
1) Choose 6 numbers from 1 to 68. 2) Tickets cost $1. 3) Match all 6 to win the jackpot, which starts at $25 million. 4) 10 cents of each ticket gets added to the jackpot. 5) Match 5 of 6 to win the 2nd prize of $100,000. 6) Buy 5, get one free. For $5, you get 6 lines, which is either 6 QP or your playslip of 5 sets of 6 numbers plus one QP. 7) Both prizes are all cash (subject to taxes, of course, we can't get around that). No annuity BS. If you win $25 million and want
Dec 12, 2025, 9:28 am - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

Did Hell freeze over?Reply
Them putting up the lump sum winnings estimate is honestly what they should have been doing from the get go. Next step/stop if they haven't already is to include the take home winnings after taxes for the lump sum winnings. Edit. I read your thread incredibly fast at first and thought they put up the lump sum winnings estimate. I reread your thread and saw that they were talking about the cash value of annuity, not the lump sum winnings. It is still nice of them to put up the cash value
Oct 3, 2025, 10:06 pm - Lotto Motto - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
I bought a bunch of Powerball tickets for the last drawing when the annuity jackpot was $2 billion. I normally don't play that game because the odds of winning are approximately zero. For the same price, I can get far better odds of winning less money but still life changing money. I was willing to try it because it would be fun to spend $600 million in today's money after tax. For Megamillions, the equivalent annuity jackpot would have to be $5 billion for me to play (even then, maybe not,
Sep 26, 2025, 4:59 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

$1.3 BILLION: Powerball jackpot soars to 5th-largest in game historyReply
How are sales, will it roll over? I'm wondering if there's any chance that sales today have been lower than expected, because I was sure we'd see an updated jackpot this afternoon. Their own, and presumably conservative, sales estimate is for 112 million tickets which would add about $75 million cash and increase the annuity by $165 million. Saturday's drawing ended at about $544 million cash and $1.201 billion for the annuity. That means their sales estimate puts tomorrow's jackpot at $619
Sep 2, 2025, 7:42 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Millionaire for Life multi-state lottery game to replace Cash4Life and Lucky for Life in FebruaryReply
Well there is quite a range of opinions on mil 4 life here in this forum. First off thanks Kate for the info! I'm a lucky 4 life player but, I only play on mon and or thur when the pb and or mm is less than 250 mil (tho' I m thinking of raising the threshold to 300 or 350 mil). I'm sorta a traditionalist on the Monday and Thursday thing as the original drawings were held on these two days Now that the price has increased I will change one criteria .... that is I'll definitely o
Jan 24, 2026, 9:45 pm - ShagE3 - Lottery News