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Originally Posted by kyuusei
I'm not sure what you mean by $5 prizes. Free plays? If so, all the prizes that were won last night are not considered part of next Friday's pool. Because next Friday's pool will only be for next Friday's free plays and other winnings. And so on.
If the prize pool increases beyond what they advertise, it's because of higher sales than they predicted. Not because of unclaimed prizes from last week.
You can claim lottery prizes up until a year after the draw date. After that, unclaimed $ goes into future bonus jackpots for that game.
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What I mean is that people who won a free play this week will likely redeem those prizes this week. When those tickets are redeemed they contribute 48% of their value goes into the prize pool. Since way more tickets then normal were purchased last week it is likely that more free tickets would be redeemed the following week therefore the pool the following week would be estimated to be higher.
The other part of the pool would be all of the left over Max Millions would go in the main pot this week.