How to increase your Mega Millions jackpot odds | LiveNOW from FOX

[@streetlegalsprintcar]

Don't tell me the odds, someone always wins it and that's why I'm buying tickets. It's nice to dream.

[@JayGaskins]

Facts

[@allisons6910]

Then get your tickets from me, don't worry, I'll keep the odds confidential 😏

[@Nico-ki2gc]

right but i want to be this someone :D

[@RunSloww]

Someone is winning tonight. The odd one.

[@TADDs101]

@@streetlegalsprintcar someone always wins? Nobody has won the Mega Millions since September 10th ... it's VERY hard to believe it's not electronically rigged somehow

[@deanwilliam459]

this is easy. Just be a CA resident to win.

[@nilukaperera7739]

How did you know? It was won in CA!!

[@taurusthebull76]

​@@nilukaperera7739 Several past jackpot winners have been in CA.

[@michaeljameson920]

Population density = more winners. Why are you surprised? You can buy a lottery ticket in every corner of California. If 40% of California residents are buying lottery tickets we still more players than the entire population in like 44 states? 100% lottery participation in Illinois is less than 40% of California residents playing the lottery.. You can buy 30 million tickets and someone in California will still win because 10 million players are dropping $10 on lottery tickets every week.

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@@michaeljameson920chill

[@gallatin1993]

Live in California or New York with the highest tax rate for winners!! That increases your odds 150%

[@caiuspostumiusturrinus1024]

Just pointing out that with each drawing, there's a greater than 50% chance (about 64.2%) that someone should win if hundreds of millions of tickets are sold. In fact, after multiple drawings without a winner, the cumulative probability of a winner emerging increases significantly because that "64%" chance compounds over time. This makes it feel even more suspicious when jackpots roll over many times, especially into the billion-dollar range. For example, after two consecutive drawings, the probability that no winner has been found twice in a row is: P(\text{no winner after 2 drawings}) = (0.358)^2 = 0.128 \ (\text{or about 12.8%}) After 3 drawings: P(\text{no winner after 3 drawings}) = (0.358)^3 = 0.046 \ (\text{or about 4.6%}) Thus, after 3 or more drawings, the likelihood that there still hasn’t been a winner becomes quite small (about 4.6%), which makes it feel even more unlikely that no one wins as the jackpot grows. The argument highlights a legitimate point of suspicion-because each drawing’s likelihood of producing a winner grows larger. So, when there's a long streak without a winner, people often wonder if the system is rigged, especially at billion-dollar levels. But, to emphasize, public lotteries operate under strict scrutiny, with random number generators, independent audits, and oversight by multiple entities to ensure fairness. Still, the sense of improbability doesn’t vanish, and suspicions persist precisely for the reasons laid out. It can seem too big to rig, but not impossible.

[@dpallyn]

False. Statistics do not have a memory. While is is fair to say the odds of going x amount of draws without a winner can be calculated, and get smaller the farther out you go, the odds of the NEXT one are the same. If you flip a coin 100 times, and get heads 100 times in a row, the probability of the next one being heads is still about 50%

[@mattmatt7998]

I Feel Like The More Data, the More Reasonable and Educated GUESS. or Probable Outcome. But May the Best Lucky Person Win. ME lol

[@josebaez6773]

More than 300 million combinations is no small feat, and for each draw all the combinations have the same probabilities again, even those that have already been drawn. All the numbers are returned to the raffle.

[@RC-no3dr]

Just buy your tickets in California if you want to have a chance at winning

[@nextuser1]

Why ?

[@willshire_23]

I see this in my feed and think "wow, that's a lot". Also in my feed, "Newsom's MISSING $24 Billion in Homeless Funds". We losing these jackpots on the daily.

[@Cocedren]

Somebody is going to win. It’s just not going to be you.

[@daniconi7333]

You don't know that for sure.

[@Cocedren]

@ If I’m wrong, then I’ll take a 50% payout from your winnings.

[@daniconi7333]

@Cocedren 10% Max lmao.

[@ShalanaRAnthony]

Devil is a lie

[@qeesse7133]

Watch me win it 😹Im playing right now

[@rocketchico.2149]

You can only win if you play 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@BoratM.Sagdiev]

If you play AND are a freemason

[@joelyates2404]

You always win if you don't. You're odds of losing are zero.

[@THE_RED_DEVIL_666-b6z]

​@@joelyates2404 you have to be in it to win it....that's what they always say

[@KevinKirk-u4n]

It's time to put all the truth out there, and unmask the corruption

[@Docrocks437]

What i want to know is after you receive your approximately 350m after taxes (cash option) where does the rest go??

[@JayGaskins]

To the irs

[@tiffanykahn2535]

Uncle Sam and to education like Lottery website says....

[@Docrocks437]

@@tiffanykahn2535 funny because my property taxes go up every other year for school levees.

[@thzzzt]

A billion dollars for one winner is sickening. They should cap the prize at 5 million. I would much rather see 200 5-million winners than one one-billion winner. People would still gladly play.

[@Sin2Live4Tv]

Shut up! Who complains about hard working Americans having a chance to win a Billion Dollars when our president is giving MORE than a Billion dollars to other countries 😑😤

[@TADDs101]

@@thzzzt unless it was you

[@thzzzt]

@@TADDs101 Negatory. Then I would feel obliged to spend the rest of my life trying to responsibly give it away. No one can humanly use that much. Some people have numerical illiteracy. A billion is a thousand million. You realize that don't you?

[@TADDs101]

@thzzzt yes I know what 1 billion is, i would help out a lot of people. If you choose the cash option, it's $549-million

[@mandyxxxlove]

It’s not like the winner wins the full 1 billion anyway. After taxes it’s somewhere around 300-400 million depending on the state… 5 million after taxes wouldn’t really be worth it.

[@countdankula420_]

You wanna know what we all would do with $1.15 billion… Pay 40% in taxes, if not more😊

[@tripsix263]

try 60%

[@TADDs101]

I'd still be happy with the $460-million

[@countdankula420_]

@ me too! Lol

[@chrissurber190]

It's 37% federal and whatever your state taxes are most states are 6% so on this amount if you take lump sum you walk with about 292 million dollar after taxes. Don't know anyone playing the lottery that can complain about that.

[@ChillFactor727]

@@TADDs101 I could be happy with literally 4 mil. I could even make 1 mil work I'm not greedy

[@asergiole1]

I know how to win the lottery, just dream.

[@darylshull9265]

Going take a guess and ,,say there will be 1 Winning Ticket sold

[@hamplus163]

So you’re saying I should go all in?

[@moneymaker20246]

no u don't need to be stupid to gamble. play a few tickets its all u need

[@bigbadjohn8207]

I’d give most of it away

[@Docrocks437]

Yes, to the government

[@pearlslade6915]

It’s rigged, point blank.

[@BoratM.Sagdiev]

Yes. It is rigged by freemasons so ONLY freemason's win. It's was always and will always be that way. It's a scam just like St. Jude and EVERY other thing with Masonic ties, it is also based on deception.

[@GoodCitizen1300]

You're 100% right.

[@bluewave7120]

So what were the winning numbers? Just curious..

[@timbrown8038]

You can't lose two dollars if you don't play.

[@vonrock6862]

Gambling has no winners. Want to double your money, fold it in half and put it in your pocket

[@Br0wnCh3]

You can still win division 2 and 3 which are lots of money also

[@ChristopherFalletta-rh9jf]

I made 69 black cards and 25 power ball cards and draw everything card until I have every number combinations no reappearing numbers and I play about 15 different hand picked numbers all random

[@Goyanks28]

I’m winning the Mega Millions jackpot before 2024 ends! Never tell me the odds someone needs to win it, so why not me? Let’s go!

[@slimebeast5499]

No I will win it

[@leroysinclair8499]

I will win

[@Nyshellm]

Keep me updated!

[@sinner-saint361]

Tell this to the last winners who are now living on a 50 million dollar yacht going to their next vacation they have planned for the rest of their natural lives. Then they have enough money to be froze and woke back up when we can live forever.

[@lisabanks7742]

When luck is on your side nothing can’t stop it.

[@dejesusmorrobel1201]

Great points anyway.

[@KevinKirk-u4n]

I said it would be won in California, because it will claimed by a trust owned by an alphabet agency.

[@BC-iz8gt]

Jack pots get bigger because they are holding the numbers back

[@lauracook2810]

Play your on numbers and let the computer pick your numbers so play both ways

[@GoodCitizen1300]

The lottery is nothing more than a tax.

[@felixisfunny13]

A tax for the poor

[@hughjass1835]

For people bad at math

Yes it is, whose procedes go into the general fund so it can be spent on Welfare and CALPERS. Saying it goes to schools is just the front, no different then having the highest gas taxes and the worst roads. The entire state is just one big smoke show.

[@TheGizmo2012]

so is tobacco & alcohol. what else is new?

[@GoodCitizen1300]

@TheGizmo2012 you get something when you buy them.

[@diamondbolton2944]

I actually deem goodness for all regardless of the circumstances and conflict despite the rhetoric to false projections.

[@sunshine48213]

I only play when it’s at a billion

[@eprofessio]

You know who wins the lottery every single time? The lottery commission, and legislative body members who spend the money like drunken sailors.

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[@melissaamanti4251]

Yeah! Just move to California! It's definitely rigged!

[@joelyates2404]

Don't play. You're odds of losing go to zero.

[@moneymaker20246]

its not impossible but regular people win millions of dollars off this

[@dejesusmorrobel1201]

Has he won? Should be the first question.

[@timothymcglynn1935]

🎉 awesome 🎉

[@Determination212]

How to increase your odds of winning? Go buy a bunch of tickets.

[@afaquehussain5864]

Can I play from India 😢

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[@NathanTheLegendaryDog]

Don’t ever. It’s because I believe that money is just a worthless piece of paper.

[@likethiscomment.4802]

Seems like it’s always someone in California winning… never anywhere like South Carolina Washington Arizona etc always California ….

[@dvsreed]

California has more people than all of those places combined.....more people, more tickets bought means higher probability that a winning ticket will come from there

[@ManOfChrist5]

California sells the most tickets, it doesn’t give you a better chance as an individual Arizona had a 5/6 ticket last night

[@Ghostbusters123hi]

I have it omg

[@Ghostbusters123hi]

I'm jk

[@tomneila8496]

For the past LUCKY winners, It was being at the right place at the right time, that's all. And to all who plays, it's a rigged game.

[@cheers2023]

How do you know it's rigged? And rigged for who? I've seen a lot of poor and average people win the lottery.

[@motleyassortment5512]

You can't win, unless you do the legwork!

[@Yahshuaismyeverything]

Isn't gambling a sin??

[@juanzambrano9738]

What happend Iff five people won or more what happends to all

[@Silent-Witness]

It gets split between everyone that won.

[@lisamasters1127]

It's nice to have something nice to look forward to do then being miserable 😊

[@Cadillaclife2023]

Lockpicking lawyer

[@Yahshuaismyeverything]

I won now what

[@JediObiDave]

You can increase your odds of winning by NOT playing. You just won something.

[@jaynecobb1]

You have the same odds of winning whether you buy a ticket or not.

[@maddydog1234]

False.

[@JulesS-jc5tt]

You can’t win if you don’t play

[@jaynecobb1]

@@JulesS-jc5tt The odds are so bad, you can’t win if you DO play.

[@maddydog1234]

@@jaynecobb1 You may not win if you do play, but you 100% won’t win if you don’t play. Most people who play will not win that’s true, but the odds are not the same. If you don’t play there is a 100% chance that you won’t win. If you do play then there is a small chance you could win

[@michaelcampbell8032]

Buy a ticket?

[@ibapreppie]

LOL Fox promoting gambling?

[@JOANJA263]

Learn my lesson DO NOT BY ANY LOTTERY TICKET'S IS JUST A WHOLE SCAM SCAM

[@cathymac6472]

I quit buying lottery tickets when I realized that every time the jackpot grew that big, the winner was always in a blue state. Usually California. The lottery is rigged just like everything else.

[@Hypno_BPM]

or it’s always some old person in their 70/80s

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Scams

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[@MichaelBabcock-h6u]

My odds if I don't play are ZERO. Just play to lose. You never know.

[@dantheman6903]

I say just don't play it. Its rig. Best way to win lottery is to invest ur Money in stocks. Trust me. You will lose every time playing lottery

[@jackeroo75]

Stocks is rigged too.

[@dantheman6903]

But u got a better chance of being a millionaire from ur investment and know that it will bring money in for you. That u can use to make ur profits grow over time. Now if u wanna give away ur Money to the lottery you can give it to me.

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