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Article also said only 75 cents go to the jackpot. the rest goes to the government

• bryanlarsen 4y ago
  The jackpot accumulates. It grew so high because there are many weeks worth of 75 cents. It's an average. Most weeks 0 cents goes to the jackpot because nobody wins, so on the weeks somebody wins, it's often significantly more than 75 cents. This is obvious because they're selling $400 million worth of tickets to a $1B jackpot.
  • hdjrudni 4y ago
    > The jackpot accumulates. It grew so high because there are many weeks worth of 75 cents. It's an average. Most weeks 0 cents goes to the jackpot because nobody wins, so on the weeks somebody wins, it's often significantly more than 75 cents. This sentence does not compute. If nobody wins for a week then however many tickets that were sold times 75 cents get added to the jackpot. If somebody wins, the jackpot is reset to $0. > This is obvious because they're selling $400 million worth of tickets to a $1B jackpot. $400M this week? Because they should have sold about 1.33 billion $2 tickets without a winner to reach a $1B jackpot, however many weeks that takes.
    • bryanlarsen 4y ago
      But I'm not buying tickets on the weeks with low jackpots, just the weeks with billion dollar ones.