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Quick Picks vs Self Picks, neither has an advantageReply
One advantage with purchasing QPs is if you win a small prize, the clerk usually pays you and keeps the ticket. If the tickets are losers, they usually go into file 13 . Unless there is some unique about a QP like in your example, I won't remember the numbers and can't say I played that same combo for years when it hits right after I stopped playing it. And that 70% probably more applies to the first few jackpots after a win. If that figure was correct over 105 million MM tickets sold for the
Aug 6, 2022, 7:19 pm - Stack47 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Nebraska woman who cut back on playing the lottery wins $1 million Powerball prizeReply
Someone in PA hit Powerball last night. Both jackpots are low now (PB $20 mil - MM $36 mil). We can all cut back on playing for a while. Congrats to the Donahues.
Aug 4, 2022, 9:20 am - TheMeatman2005 - Lottery News

Kentucky Lottery Instant Play jackpot winner celebrates by handing out moneyReply
100% correct. Celtic coins Jackpot has, as this one does a Joint Jackpot wording above it. They have the same jackpots. It is just over $199K for the both of them. Another $12 on Powerball last night...in store purchase.
Aug 2, 2022, 6:29 am - Bleudog101 - Lottery News

I'm playing numbers under 50 for a couple of tickets megamillionsReply
How many jackpots have YOU won? Ooops....oh yeah.....NONE. You're even too chicken to post numbers after I said let's get it. Givit up ? You already did.
Aug 1, 2022, 11:24 pm - rcbbuckeye - Lottery Discussion Forum

$630 MILLION: Mega Millions jackpot soars after no winner TuesdayReply
Weirdly, the cash value was just upped to $388 million (11th-largest US cash value in history), but the annuity did not change ( $660 million ). So, more ticket sales are happening than expected, but I suppose interest rates (used to calculate the annuity) went down a bit. For more information about how jackpots are calculated, see this video: https://www.lotterypost.com/news/340649
Jul 22, 2022, 12:33 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Jackpot numbers cannot be predicted butReply
The best time to give it a shot is when the pot is small.Less manipulation involved. The last three times the MM advertised jackpot was $100 million, around 10 million tickets were sold. I'm interested in what you mean by less manipulation when less than 30 million tickets were purchased for each of the last four $400 million jackpots drawings. Why would they need to manipulate anything when only 10% of the possible 300 million outcomes are sold? BTW, the individual lotteries cover the s
Jul 12, 2022, 5:27 pm - Stack47 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Florida Fantasy-5 PlayersReply
I also get the fact that ticket sales for all lottery games is way down these days. You can see the effect of the high cost of groceries and gasoline on lottery ticket sales just by looking at the amount paid out for any FF5 jackpot. Saturday FF5 jackpots are $10 to 15 thousand dollars lower than they were last year. The reason FF5 has as many jackpot winners as it does is because the odds are low. They sell $500,000 to $600,000 worth of FF5 tickets every day. That produces sufficient covera
Jul 10, 2022, 9:25 am - GiveFive - Pick 5 Forum

Powerball Powerplay - Is it worth wagering it?
Powerball Powerplay - Is it worth paying the extra $1 (meaning, does it improve the expected value of the return per $ bet)? Short answer - not really. Long answer: It depends on (a) the Expected Value of the Jackpot, and (b) whether you consider improvement of a negative Expected Value of the return (less negative return per $ bet, or in other words, smaller loss) worth it. You can read about how Powerplay works at the Powerball website. Basically, you pay an extra dollar per bet
Jul 8, 2022, 5:35 pm - Orange71 - Mathematics Forum

Could all lottery drawings be fixed?Reply
Most of their claims reminds me of a child trying to get attention. It's like they are compelled to reply to anything someone posts pretending they are knowledgeable about not just lottery related stuff but everything. Most people don't understand lottery functions and Kate's video that explains how jackpots are calculated along with the 292,201,338 possible PB and 302,575,350 possible MM outcomes should be enough proof it's not necessary to rig or fix those drawings to benefit any participa
Jul 7, 2022, 5:19 pm - Stack47 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Why isn't there a choice to split the Lump sum and the Annuity?Reply
Just in case anyone missed it: VIDEO: How are lottery jackpots calculated? Describes how jackpot money is invested to create the annuity.
Jul 1, 2022, 9:43 am - Todd - Lottery Discussion Forum