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Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
Jade, I am a bit uncertain of your recent graph your ratio's which are completely different from the current Annuity vs Cash ratio for the next draw. Recent ratios are hovering around 46.1 - 46.5 % fairly consistently. $503 Annuity vs 302 Cash = 60.03% $474 Annuity vs 219.4 Cash = 46.28% Using $503 Annuity figure at the current 46.28% = $232.78 Cash not $302 Can you explain this for my understanding ?? please and thanks
Sep 24, 2025, 12:24 pm - CDanaT - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Vs Power, Something is off..Reply
I know, it's how much cash they have on hand vs how much you'd get if they invested the jackpot over 30 years (minus the first payout). It appears MM are over-inflating the annuity option by quite a margin.
Apr 13, 2025, 12:49 am - Rexer90 - Lottery Discussion Forum

UPDATE: Proposed changes to Mega Millions game will raise ticket price to $5Reply
Cant say I wont play but will say I wont play until the jackpot is over $2 Billion. Nobody is going to win and the odds are still terrible. For $5 the odds should have been around 180,000,000 to 1. I have suggested in the past that they offer players choices on the payout. Take some in cash and some in an annuity or all in cash or all in an annuity. With the player deciding on flat vs increasing annuity and from 11,16,21,26 or 31 year payouts. The current annuity structure is discrimina
Jun 14, 2024, 7:44 am - Think - Lottery News

$944 MILLION: Mega Millions lottery jackpot set to make holiday wishes come trueReply
I think you've got a tenuous connection with reality. The most recent jackpot to make it past $1.5 billion (annuity value, of course) was the 10/11/23 PB jackpot that got to $1.765 billion. The cash:annuity ratio for that one was even worse than the current MM jackpot (43.86% vs 44.89%) so that annuity value of 1.765 billion required even fewer tickets to be sold than what we'd need to see the same advertise jackpot today. The progression for that jackpot was $1.2 billion (probably pretty close
Dec 26, 2024, 6:23 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Annuity or Cash ValueReply
Certainly cash value for me because that is the only *real* number. And, I am not a spring chicken any more... And, as always, I fervently hope that the guy in Washington D.C. would issue an executive order making a mandatory interest rate of 0.00% for all lottery annuities and removing taxation for all lottery winnings, forever. That would end all of the foolishness about many people not understanding how the interest rates affect the advertised annuity value vs cash value jackpot amou
May 11, 2026, 10:45 pm - IAmABadOne - Lottery Discussion Forum

Arkansas lottery winner of $1.8 billion Powerball jackpot comes forwardReply
For arguments sake let's say no one won pb last night .... and both jackpots rollover and over and over again ..... when would pb surpass mm on the road to a billion plus jackpot? Based on the recent runs that got big it would probably take about 7 weeks for PB to get bigger than MM, if they're about 210 and 270 at the same time. PB was at 207 on 10/06/25 and 5 weeks later it was at 490. MM was 277 on 8/29 and 5 weeks later it was 520. After 6 weeks they were at 570 and 575. After 7 weeks P
Jan 23, 2026, 11:46 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Mega Millions confirms ticket price increase to $5, other changes coming April 2025Reply
To be fair.. (re the $20m vs $40m starting jackpot) Currently the cash value is about 50% of the jackpot value. During peak COVID, the cash value exceeded 83%. remember, the jackpot is the value of annuity that the cash value could buy.. And it couldn't buy much (Treasury bonds were under 2% IIRC.) having a start jackpot twice what the cash value could buy is (sort of) asking for trouble (more money going out in prizes than is coming in as revenue) As for $50m start jackpot f
Oct 9, 2024, 5:30 am - kao1632 - Lottery News

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
The supported jackpot is $69.7 million whereas in the previous run, the supported jackpot was $66.9 million. And the cash value is now 41.9 vs 39.9. The annuity value is 4.19% higher than in the previous run, but cash value, which is a direct measurement of sales is 4.77% higher. That may be an indication that as players buy in when the jackpot gets bigger the $5 price becomes something they're okay with at lower jackpot levels, too. Or it might just be because very high jackpots tend t
Nov 30, 2025, 7:59 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions constant $10 million increasesReply
A $2 prize (times whatever multiplier, so $4 to $20) for matching two white balls would add 18% to the value of all non-jackpot prizes in total. That's a lot for such a small win. More accurately a $2 prize for matching 2 white balls would reduce the money that goes to the jackpot by about 14.6%. That would reduce the current cash value of $67.9 million to $58 million. For those who believe the advertising it would reduce the current $150 million annuity to $128 million if they abandoned or
Aug 4, 2025, 3:19 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Millionaire for Life multi-state lottery game to replace Cash4Life and Lucky for Life in FebruaryReply
It doesn't matter which option the winners choose. The top prize is split among all winners. Two winners means they can choose between $500,000/year or $9 million lump sum. The second prize is not pari-mutuel unless 21 or more win it. https://millionaire-for-life.com/cash-vs-annuity With daily drawings, this is pretty unlikely, unless the game gets very popular.
Jan 26, 2026, 12:27 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery News