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11/19 CA Fantasy 5 top prize shared by stores next to each other!!Reply
Ridge, I was thinking that they would likely be cashed by the same person, because to me it seems like a case of somebody going to two lotto retailers near each other to buy tickets. It may have been on purpose, though I think it's more likely that the person got mixed up as to which sets of numbers he had already bought and really, really went for the wheeling of numbers by mistake. If it had been a larger jackpot game like MM or PB, he could have opted for the cash value on one and the a
Nov 20, 2013, 1:11 pm - Epistrophy - Lottery Discussion Forum

Florida man wins multimillion lottery jackpot for 2nd timeReply
Yeah, it depends on the amount. If he won $10M previously, he probably got a few million cash after taxes. That's not life changing but mainly privides security for himself and his loved ones. Sounds like he didn't change his lifestyle much, which is smart with that amount. He continued to play the lottery as usual. After all, what's a few hundred a year for lotto fun when you're set for life? And as for the annuity on this $3M win, just because of his age, it's most likely not just for
Nov 2, 2013, 12:12 pm - Jon D - Lottery News

Florida man wins multimillion lottery jackpot for 2nd timeReply
Congratulations, Mr. Bozeman. At this point, he can probably afford to buy his namesake town in Montana. I didn't see in the article whether he had also taken the annuity on the previous win. I hope he took the cash value on the first one, unless he's planning to buy a whole lotta Geritol when he's 99. Led Zep: Wanna whole lotta Geritol... Isn't that how it goes?
Oct 31, 2013, 1:52 pm - Epistrophy - Lottery News

Florida man wins multimillion lottery jackpot for 2nd timeReply
Legitimate question. When was the last time you saw a 20 something claiming a jackpot? It would seem that the people winning are much older- consider another Floridian named Gloria * 84 years old who won a boatload with a single ticket. Whatever the reason l congratulate this individual. As OnlyMoney puts it 99.9 percent of folk will never win in their lifetime- this person has done it twice, what does that tell you? Anything is possible. * l think he took the annuity so he could
Oct 31, 2013, 1:00 pm - noise-gate - Lottery News

Tickets for updated Mega Millions game on sale SaturdayReply
What I expect is that one will see months and months go by without a winner, and small jackpot jumps because of low sales. However, if the jackpot run out on the order of a year, it might reach half a billion annuity. However, as the high priced Powerball tickets will be regularly producing jackpots on that scale, no one will be impressed. When Powerball went to two billion - again with a lie that the odds were better, even though the expectation value was considerably lower - the Megamillion
Oct 19, 2013, 2:37 am - Prob988 - Lottery News

I'm changing my playing style for a monthReply
I've been doing both for the whole year. Back in February I matched 5of6 for $1500 in OCL which I predicted on the prediction board and just Saturday I matched 4of6 for $70 which I didn't get a chance to post on the prediction board. I usually buy 10 tickets for all the games when I play. I've played OCL most of the times since its jackpot was $16M+ and play MM any time its jackpot is $100M+ and PB when ever its jackpot is $250+ since its price went up. My conclusions are all three games w
Sep 29, 2013, 6:11 pm - RJOh - Lottery Discussion Forum

Rollover probabilities for Powerball at $400M annuity.Reply
The expectation value as calculated includes values for all of the lower prizes, which amounts to about .18, as well as the weighted values calculated from the probabilities of numbers of winners based on projected sales, as calculated from a Poisson distribution assuming randomized tickets, as well as the advertised cash value and the odds of any particular ticket winning, which are of course constant. In this case, the chief contribution is a single winner, which adds 0.51 to my calculated exp
Sep 16, 2013, 12:30 am - Prob988 - Jackpot Games Forum

MM numbers looks odd again??Reply
Yup, there was an article in the Amarillo paper about it and they quoted some math prof. from a local college about the odds of it happening. I also remember another man from Texas playing one of the nationwide lotteries in New Mexico who got 6 or 7 QP and they were all the same number. I saw a photo of all the tickets, but still wondered if it *might* be some sort of hoax. If not, then there had to be something wrong w/ that lotto terminal, wouldn't you say? Both lines looked funny to me,
Sep 7, 2013, 2:35 pm - mikeintexas - Lottery Discussion Forum

Do you see yourself broke in 10 years should you win a jackpot worth $40 million?Reply
I'm not sure if your $40 millions is the advertised annuity amount or take home, but I expect to have at least some of my winnings until I'm about to die of old age. I think I could have $5 million right now and make it last until then. In 10 years, I couldn't imagine getting close to spending everything unless I won well under $1 million. And even then I think I would just budget better. Past the bills for the typical items/services, I really don't spend much money as it is now. Main
Sep 7, 2013, 9:40 am - ttech10 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Twelve things not to do if you win the lotteryReply
One group not mentioned in the article is the Multi-State Lottery Association MUSL . We have some vague idea what they do but does a winner if they choose the Annuity Option see the specific securities purchased on their behalf. Is there a certified audit of the MUSL? I have no reason to doubt they do what is promised but Enron......World Telecom....TYCO.... Lehman Brothers all were the pillars of the business community then fraud or mismanagement. If their securities go bad do you real
Aug 29, 2013, 8:25 pm - Gopher701 - Lottery News