MegaMillions: $970M

[sdifox]

We doing this?!

I am game if you are

 

[ViviTheMage]

That'd be awesome

 

[Red Squirrel]

If you guys do a pool I'm in! I'm in Canada though so don't know if that has any complications, I guess we'd cross that bridge if we actually won.

 

[ViviTheMage]

If you guys do a pool I'm in! I'm in Canada though so don't know if that has any complications, I guess we'd cross that bridge if we actually won.

IF we ever won, I don't see why I couldn't just gift it to you separately, if they block non US citizens from "winning". IF we won, some of the funds would go to a lawyer to make sure everyone got their share of the winnings. Good news is in VA, I can claim the prize anonymously now.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Yeah that's kinda what I figure could happen.

 

[ViviTheMage]

Looks like I can even do it online now!

 

[JEDI]

Looks like I can even do it online now!

noone won last nite.
megamillions now at $850M. it's bound to go near $1B as we approach the tues 1/19 drawing.

revive your atot lotto website?

 

[Svnla]

I am heading out to buy 1 of each (PB and MM).

 

[Svnla]

I am heading out to buy 1 of each (PB and MM).

I did it. One of each for a total of $4.

And the jackpots are: PB - $640 million and MM - $850 million (subject to change).

 

[JEDI]

I did it. One of each for a total of $4.

And the jackpots are: PB - $640 million and MM - $850 million (subject to change).

i would have waited till after tonites pb to buy.
$640m is so peasant nowadays.

 

[JEDI]

Looks like I can even do it online now!

does the mm in your state have the 'just the jackpot' option where you buy 2 tix for $3 but can only win 1st place?

 

[ViviTheMage]

does the mm in your state have the 'just the jackpot' option where you buy 2 tix for $3 but can only win 1st place?

Not even sure, where would I look?

 

[zinfamous]

I'm in if something goes down. Send me the deets!

 

[shortylickens]

I'm so glad there are scholarships so rich kids can go to college and their parents don't have to work anymore.

LOL.

In high school I had dreams of being a six-figure engineer before I was 30.
Thought I could help my parents buy a small house in the country and retire early.
That dream didn't come to fruition.
I should have studied finance and investing.

 

[SunnyD]

I'll pay the stupid tax if you're all doing a pool.

 

[JEDI]

Not even sure, where would I look?

Mega Millions

Mega Millions is one of America's two big jackpot games, and the only one with Match 5 prizes up to $5 million (with the optional Megaplier).

www.megamillions.com

Just the Jackpot
In some states, a special offer called Just the Jackpot is available. Jackpot players will love this exciting new wager type that allows them to play specifically for the jackpot only. At a price of $3, the player will receive two plays for the jackpot only. Just the Jackpot tickets are not eligible for any other prize levels. To see if the lottery in your jurisdiction offers this option, visit that lottery’s website

only some states have it

 

[zinfamous]

Mega Millions

Mega Millions is one of America's two big jackpot games, and the only one with Match 5 prizes up to $5 million (with the optional Megaplier).

www.megamillions.com

Just the Jackpot
In some states, a special offer called Just the Jackpot is available. Jackpot players will love this exciting new wager type that allows them to play specifically for the jackpot only. At a price of $3, the player will receive two plays for the jackpot only. Just the Jackpot tickets are not eligible for any other prize levels. To see if the lottery in your jurisdiction offers this option, visit that lottery’s website

only some states have it

no screw that. it's a terrible gamble. a lot of lottery games save themselves the "not exactly trash" moniker by having decent options for at least breaking even on the non-jackpot plays.

what is this crap: "two plays for the Jackpot only"? huh? a rather statistically impossible outcome...and you make 2x statistically impossible, for literally no real benefit (if you end up splitting the pot, your now 2x play vs the other person's play; so 3 winners--2/3 you--really isn't going to change your life in any meaningful way, beyond the already-impossible single win. It just doesn't. But hey, you think $1 is worth it. Don't do this. It is designed for horribly stupid people and shouldn't be allowed.


without the non-jackpot wins, recall that ATOT lotteries once figured that the $1mill pot would essentially mean $3-5k per player, after all taxes and distributions. Yeah, that sounds "garbage," but it isn't. Sure, you have people like Alky that would use it to buy a cupholder for their M3 or ponyo, buying an scarf for his wife, but it's also a decent chunk of change for a lot of people, to pay off sizeable debts. Just *poof!* interest gone like that for folks that need that wiped out, right now. paying an extra dollar, which is essentially valueless, to effectively erase all statistically relevant likelihood of winning anything, for anyone, for any individual anywhere, is just patently stupid.

 

[Svnla]

No one won the PB so the jackpot is $730 million and growing.

 

[JEDI]

noone won last nite.
megamillions now at $850M. it's bound to go near $1B as we approach the tues 1/19 drawing.

revive your atot lotto website?

so i guess we're not doing it for tomorrows drawing.
Fri drawing WILL be $1B+ if noone wins tomorrow.

 

[Brainonska511]

I ended up buying a ticket or two for PB and for MM just for shits and giggles.

 

[JEDI]

Now it's almost $1B!
Drawing this Fri (1/22)

 

[Svnla]

Didn't check my number but I reckon I didn't win so I will head out for one of each (PB and MM) again.

 

[WharffRat]

got my tickets for Friday already!!!

 

[thestrangebrew1]

I got all of 2 numbers on separate lines (5 lines total). This Friday I'll win it for sure. I can feel it!

 

[13Gigatons]

Win the Lottery then die from Covid-19.....life is cruel.