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It looks as if the $5.00 MM ticket is doing poorly.Reply
Sales are lower. But they are making more money. Do to the price increase. Just one data point, but the first 3 drawings for 400+ had sales of $105 million compared to $117 million for the first 3 drawings for 400 the last time it got there before the price increase. That's just hair under 90%. Looking at PB sales for 3 drawings at 400+ at roughly the same times the more recent run had sales of 88% of the previous sales. Again, that's a limited set of data but it looks like lower MM sal
Feb 28, 2026, 4:01 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
I don't think it's because of the third drawing in a week. People tend to buy lottery tickets on a per-week basis, not a per-drawing basis. I suspect that many people who were buying multiple tickets for the Wednesday and Saturday drawings stuck with the same weekly expenditure or maybe added one more ticket. A lot of other players were probably the ones that have to have their chance, even if it's only one ticket, so that's a lot of people that started spending 50% more. Whatever the
Jan 22, 2026, 2:31 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

The Florida Millionaire Raffle is back!Reply
Wanted to update/correct my previous figures, as for some reason I thought there were only three interim prize periods, and there are actually four. Bottom line, 640,900 tickets need to be sold to fund all prizes to be awarded in the Raffle (interim prizes and Grand Prizes.) The duration of the raffle is 122 days, so sales need to average 5,245 tix a day. Based on the Lottery's figure of 169,906 tix sold as of 4/17 , sales are averaging 3,540 tix/day so far. Hard to say if sales will pick up or
Apr 18, 2026, 3:56 pm - Sum Buddy - Lottery Discussion Forum

$1.7 BILLION: Will Powerball create a Christmas billionaire?Reply
Wow, no bumps in the jackpot anymore these days. Looks like no one cares about Powerball anymore Sales are slower than they used to be, but enough people care to buy about 125 million tickets for tonight's drawing, based on the latest sales estimate. What do you think the final jackpot will reach tonight? Will it not make the estimation, will it exceed the estimation or will it pretty much hit the mark? The worksheet posted on Monday estimated the funded annuity at just a hair shy
Dec 24, 2025, 9:59 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
https://lite.cnn.com/2025/12/13/business/powerball-billion-dollar-jackpot-mega-millions Sounds to me like the author doesn't know much about how lotteries work or appreciate that the results of just 3 or 4 jackpot runs may not be representative. The headline screams that he's missing the clue that even if PB sales were up (they're not) due to MM's price increase it's still probability that results in billion jackpots. The average PB jackpot should have a cash value of about $195 million
Dec 15, 2025, 2:07 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
The Mega Millions jackpot is growing faster because sales for the game are higher than Powerball sales.
Jun 6, 2026, 5:09 pm - winoneday - Lottery Discussion Forum

The Florida Millionaire Raffle is back!Reply
248156 sold as of 05/14, so only six days instead of seven between sales updates. That averages to 2625 sold per day for the past six days. Seventy-five days into Raffle sales, the average sold per day is 3308. If the average stays in this neighborhood for the entire 122 days of sales, we're looking at somewhere around 415,000 tickets sold.
May 16, 2026, 11:03 am - Sum Buddy - Lottery Discussion Forum

Powerball drawing produces huge number of big winners, including two who split the jackpotReply
Once again New York a high volume in sales was not included in the winnings
Apr 30, 2026, 5:27 pm - Tony Numbers - Lottery News

The Florida Millionaire Raffle is back!Reply
Per Florida Lottery, the Raffle sales weekly update is 190300 as of 4-24. We're 55 days in, so average daily sales are at 3460 per day, slightly under last week's 3540 average. So 3460 times 122 (total days of sales in the raffle) would equal 422,120 tickets sold. 640900 Tickets need to be sold just to fund all of the prizes.
Apr 25, 2026, 8:46 am - Sum Buddy - Lottery Discussion Forum

The Florida Millionaire Raffle is back!Reply
Bought a ticket today around noon in the 117,000 range. Looking at Winterbird's sales data chart (thanks WB!) it seems reasonable to estimate 4,000 more sales today, to put the total sales for interim draw 1 at around 121,000. So if this estimate is close to actual sales, then it looks like odds of winning one of the 2,498 prizes in interim draw #1 would be 1:48. Odds on both the $100,000 and $10,000 prize tiers would be 1:40,333. $5,000 is 1:24,200 $1,000 is 1: 10,083 $500 is 1:537 $100 is
Mar 31, 2026, 3:54 pm - Sum Buddy - Lottery Discussion Forum