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Mega Millions in Trouble?Reply
Just as it is with PB, sales for MM never generate enough cash to fully fund the jackpot until at least the 2nd drawing. The time around the early sales were apparently a bit lower, but that's while competing against a PB jackpot of $139 million. At the current $21 million for the annuity jackpot MM is in the same territory it's usually at after 2 rolls. Over the past few months the 3rd jackpot has been advertised at $21 to $25 million (not counting the anomalous roll after the record jackpot).
Aug 5, 2012, 2:01 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Just for fun: Create tabloid headlines re: record jackpot
Just for fun let's make up some tabloid headlines regarding this record jackpot. Here's a couple: All combinations played, still no winner. Someone from Nevada wins jackpot, says they are from Area 51 and vanishes in the middle of press conference!
Mar 30, 2012, 3:50 pm - Coin Toss - Lottery Discussion Forum

Todd Will Break The Record Tonight!
Last Record: 25,867 on March 27, 2012, 8:36 pm What's your best guess tonight?
Mar 30, 2012, 2:59 pm - lottolaughs - Lottery Discussion Forum

Against the odds, KY Lottery returns record amount to stateNews Story
Mega Millions helps power sales; Powerball keeps improving too By Todd Northrop The Kentucky Lottery Corporation (KLC) today announced a record-breaking $214.3 million was returned to the Commonwealth in Fiscal Year 2010, despite lottery sales dropping $38 million or 4.7% during the same period. The $214.3 million surpasses the previous record set last year by $9.9 million or 4.8%. The figure is comprised of $200.7 million from profits for scholarship, grant and higher education program
Aug 2, 2010, 1:09 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Record mirror skip Ga Mid... 238 or 832
Of all of the mirrors that are skipping their little butts off ....... 16 27 38 49 50 Of this record ........ I like 238 today. If it doesn't hit today...... I'm adding 130 Friday.
Nov 19, 2009, 12:24 pm - WIN D - Pick 3 Forum

$325 MILLION: Mega Millions lottery jackpot rolls againReply
Unless sales fall well short of their estimates, another roll will absolutely shatter the previous record. The cash value of the previous record was a bit over $233 million. Based on the cash to annuity ratio for this jackpot it would take an advertised annuity value of just under $371 million to have a bigger cash value. If sales aren't any better than their first estimate, another roll can't possibly miss the 400 mark, and would almost certainly be 425. That would be a hair over $267.5 million
Aug 26, 2009, 11:39 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Winning ticket Recotd in Italy's record euro146.9 million lottery.
DATELINE: ROME: Winning ticket chosen in Italy's record euro146.9 million lottery; should make a lot of macaroni. EddessaKnight
Aug 22, 2009, 5:32 pm - eddessaknight - Jackpot Games Forum

1 Billion Dollar Powerball Jackpot!Reply
Unforunately the powerball rules make this an almost impossibility. Once a new record high is reached the jackpot will only increase by a set amount per each drawing. I am not sure of the exact numbers, butthe new record(for Powerball) is around $390 million and then a set increase of about $20 million each drawing with the breakage being divvied up among the second tier winners. This was done to appease the people that whinge and moan about there only being one big winner of a large jackpot, or
Jan 21, 2009, 7:13 pm - mangeydog - Jackpot Games Forum

Amazing implementation of record highs.
I was just reading the FAQ's of various lotto websites thats speaks of powerball. When the jackpot reaches reaches record intervals, the officials implement something called the Match 5 Bonus prize pool. It's crazy; each rollover is an additional twenty five mil which is the max limit they will raise on the jackpot so the rest of the ticket sales go into this pool until someone wins the jp, then the pool is divided equally among all the 5+0 winners. Thats amazing. Now what I was thinking is t
Jul 30, 2008, 1:19 pm - rubberbandman - Lottery Discussion Forum

Connecticut Lottery sets sales recordNews Story
The Connecticut Lottery Corp. says it set a record during the last fiscal year with $998.5 million in sales. The state received $283 million of that for its General fund, about $4.5 million more than expected. The Lottery says sales were up by 4.3 percent or $41.5 million over the 2007 fiscal year, and contributions to the state rose by 1.4 percent, or $4 million. Scratch ticket sales showed the largest gain, up $24 million from fiscal 2007.
Jul 15, 2008, 10:11 pm - Todd - Lottery News