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$1.7 BILLION: Will Powerball create a Christmas billionaire?News Story
Now the 4th-largest jackpot in world history By Todd Northrop Will someone give a Christmas gift worth billions this week? It's actually a possibility, as the next Powerball drawing on Christmas Eve is set to deliver a faint-inducing prize worth $1.7 billion. The Powerball jackpot has been building for a record 46 consecutive drawings since the last winner on Sept. 6, 2025 , when two tickets sold in Missouri and Texas split a $1.7874 billion jackpot after 41 draws without a winne
Dec 23, 2025, 12:31 am - Todd - Lottery News

$1.8 billion Powerball jackpot won by a single lottery ticket sold in ArkansasNews Story
Christmas miracle: Arkansas ticket holder wakes up to $1.8 billion present By Kate Northrop One lucky lottery player in Arkansas woke up on Christmas morning with bragging rights to winning the second-largest lottery jackpot in world history worth a tearjerking $1.8168 billion. On Christmas Eve, the 47th consecutive drawing in the latest Powerball jackpot run finally delivered the Christmas miracle that millions of players around the country have been crossing their fingers for.
Dec 26, 2025, 2:43 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
You've really got me wondering how a shrink would describe somebody with way less than $10M (all of us here) that refers to a )$10M jackpot increase or a lottery with a progressive jackpot (starting at $50M currently $90M) as 'measly millions'. I'm Just saying...... Happy Easter to you too.
Apr 3, 2026, 6:42 pm - Coin Toss - Lottery Discussion Forum

Lottery PhobiasReply
Used to play Pick 3 almost every day for years. Once in a great while I added Pick 4, scratchers, MM, PB. If I played one draw my limit was $20 for the day. If I played both draws $35 for the day. Usually I just played one draw. Everyone knows how much they win, but do you know how much you actually spend? I didn't keep track until I decided to save all my losing tickets for a year starting Jan 1, then add them up the following Jan 1. I was like wow!! Do I really do that every year? So the next
Apr 19, 2026, 7:59 pm - grwurston - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
On Page 3 of this thread I said, I will probably play when the CASH VALUE is at $500,000,000 + , referring to the new $5 MM ticket price. Now, the PB is playing their gormless games...SO....If this UK thing happens ?? I will most likely develop the same starting point--$500 Million CASH VALUE. PB leadership has shot themselves in the foot(IMHO) with their failing to restart the jackpot at $40 Million due to Covid mess in 2020-2022. That medical problem has been subsided now for 3+ years but the
Jun 2, 2026, 12:15 pm - CDanaT - Lottery Discussion Forum

Following up on the (now locked) Neural Net Lottery Picker thread — the backtest problem
Was reading back through the old Neural Net Lottery Picker thread and it got locked before the most interesting part really got going. The MCMC/Markov discussion in there was the best thread I've found on here, so starting a fresh one to keep it alive. The point that stuck with me: someone noted they found no real advantage running Markov on draw history because the independence of each draw keeps failing to reject it's just a discrete uniform distribution. That matches what I keep hitting -
Today, 1:00 pm - NumberCruncher2 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Is there any method or system that can an predict the first digit that will fall in Pick 3Reply
The following from page 9 of the document spells out how they select which ball sets are used for which live drawing: The back-up public witness will then be asked to make the random ball set selections. Seventeen (17) sets of ten (10) balls, each numbered 0-9, will be contained in cases labeled A1 through A17 (or the current ball set security codes in service). The back-up witness, by means of a random drawing utilizing the envelope containing seventeen cards designated A1 through A17 (or t
Mar 2, 2026, 12:08 pm - OhSoClose - Lottery Discussion Forum

is it luckier to buy tickets on the rich side of town?Reply
This is a classic question in sociology and applied economics, and the answer is well-documented by demographic studies and market research in the United States (such as data from the Brookings Institution, the Tax Foundation, and various state lotteries). The direct answer is: people from all social classes play, but the financial impact, frequency, and motivation are profoundly different between the poorest and the wealthiest. Here is the breakdown of how lottery consumption
Jun 4, 2026, 2:56 pm - tokecap - Lottery Discussion Forum

The Science of Random Number Generators in Lotteries
https://lotteryboost.com/the-science-of-random-number-generators-in-lotteries/ Most digital lottery systems utilize PRNGs. These are software algorithms that start with a seed number and apply a complex mathematical formula to produce a sequence of numbers that appear random [1] . While highly efficient, PRNGs are technically deterministic; if you knew the exact seed and the algorithm, you could theoretically predict the outcome. To prevent this, modern lotteries use high-entropy seeds
Mar 13, 2026, 3:53 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery Discussion Forum

Ohio: 5/1 - 5/31/2026Reply
Hey Blessing and Lottery Junky, I saw your posts on sum codes and I too use them to filter my picks when there is a glaringly overdue Sum Code. But I don't use them with their vtracs cause I never understood how to combine them both, plus there are just too many vtracks to consider alongside the 40 some combos each sum code can make. Anyway, I saw Blesssings or Lottery Junky posted about there being alot of numbers covering each Sum Code and getting a pressure reading for some 3 differen
May 7, 2026, 1:16 pm - TheseStars - Pick 3 Forum