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MORT CRIM: Lottery winners can become losersReply
Quote: Originally posted by MetroPlex on July 21, 2004 To be honest, they are just plain stupid.MPI agree with MetroPlex.To quote a very wise man, Stupid is as Stupid does. Large amounts of money are far easier to manage than small amounts. After all, it's difficult to find extra money to pay unexpected bills, but it's very simple to leave extra money in the bank; you just don't spend it. If you can't live within your means, even after those means have increased a thousand-fold or more, well,
Jul 26, 2004, 5:51 am - jim695 - Lottery News

Would you tell or not?Reply
I would post here just to explain WHY I AM TAKING THE ANNUITY instead of the cash. (I don't feel like explaining right now, so you'll just have to wait.)But, besides posting here -- where no one really knows me -- I would not tell co-workers and friends. Sure, I might buy a decent house and trade up to a better car -- but I wouldn't go wild. Nothing that maybe well-paid professionals in my area couldn't afford. (if I was a well-paid professional.) And my explanation to people would be that
Mar 24, 2004, 12:44 am - ChazzMatt - Lottery Discussion Forum

Avoid Quick PicksReply
LMAO= laughing my annuity off. we will start with that. also you show your ignorance about me. i don't think i have ever apologized to anyone at lottery post for what i have said to them because whatever i said, i meant it. not that i can recall anyway. what i said to greg, i meant. if you were smart enough (which it seems that you are lacking), you would have read between the lines on the thing about my wife and the comments you made about her and me. say all you want big boy, right now my li
Jan 19, 2003, 11:30 pm - visiondude - Lottery Discussion Forum

US Powerball multi-state lottery game expanding to the UKReply
I love this - was looking forward to it. Change is good - keeps things interesting. I think it should spread to Australia, Canada and Europe as well. I like that they will keep the ticket cost at $2 in the US. Hope for an increase in the jackpot reset amount. I would have liked if they scrapped the taxes on the US side of things if the game won't be taxed on the UK side. I hope that on the UK side the annuity does not get affected by the death of a jackpot winner since th
Apr 14, 2026, 8:44 pm - JustMaybe - Lottery News

New Hampshire Lottery launches $30 scratch-off ticket offering record $3 million top prizeNews Story
Granite State upping the ante on most expensive lottery ticket By Kate Northrop The New Hampshire Lottery launched its most expensive game in over a decade: a $30 scratch-off ticket that offers the biggest-ever prize in the state at $3 million. New Hampshire lottery players have a shot at winning the largest scratch-off prize in state history with the New Hampshire Lottery's latest $30 instant ticket. The new $30 game is called $3,000,000 Cash Spectacular, and it offers players a
Apr 8, 2026, 5:21 am - Todd - Lottery News

29 co-workers split $1 million Powerball lottery prize in New YorkNews Story
28 New Yorkers and one Pennsylvanian split second-tier prize By Kate Northrop 28 New Yorkers and one Pennsylvania resident claimed and split a $1 million Powerball lottery prize last week, the New York Lottery announced. 29 co-workers all went in on a lottery ticket together as part of an office pool and won $1 million in Powerball, a press release from the Lottery revealed. The group consists of 28 New York residents spanning Nassau, Suffolk, and Queens counties, plus one member
Feb 16, 2026, 7:41 am - Todd - Lottery News

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
the price hike could have been a response to slowing sales There's absolutely no question about it. Lottery revenue has been generally going downhill for years and the lotteries have been trying to stop the decrease or at least slow it down. One of the first huge jackpots was when MM reached $656 million in March 2012 on the 18th drawing. It reached 290 on the 16th drawing and then increased 73 363 and 293 656. A year and a half later in December 2013 it reached $257 million on drawing
Nov 27, 2025, 3:04 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
In Colorado, we have a $50 scratcher with a top prize of $3 million. Unlike MM, you really do get $3 million, not half that as a cash value. The probability of winning $3 million is 1 in 600,000. This is 48,412% better than MM. It's 4,841% better after adjusting for the price difference (probability of winning the MM jackpot with 10 tickets). The payback percentage for this $50 scratcher is 80%. Even with the current jackpot of $391.7 million, the value of a $5 MM ticket is $2.47, just u
Nov 7, 2025, 4:00 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

Connecticut man awarded $1 million Powerball lottery prize for birthday present of a lifetimeNews Story
What could be better than winning a million dollars for your birthday? By Kate Northrop There was no better birthday surprise a Connecticut man could have ever given himself than the $1 million Powerball prize he won in the lottery. A Powerball lottery drawing gifted one Connecticut man the birthday present of a lifetime when he was awarded a $1 million prize. The day of the August 30 Powerball drawing, the anonymous lottery player noticed the looming Powerball had ballooned past
Oct 30, 2025, 9:40 am - Todd - Lottery News

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
At least the new Measly Millions jackpot has broken into the top 25 Annuity jackpots of all time. PB - 14 winners MM - 10 Winners(1 new Pending) https://www.lotterypost.com/news/355949 The following is a list of the Mega Millions jackpots and where they are on the top 25 List: #4) Mega Millions: $1.602 billion, Aug. 8, 2023 ( 31 rollovers, starting at $20 million ) - Florida winner #6) Mega Millions: $1.537 billion, Oct. 23, 2018 ( 25 rollovers, starting at $40 million
Oct 29, 2025, 11:52 am - CDanaT - Lottery Discussion Forum