2025 First Quarter Lottery Winnings!
First quarter calendar 2025 lottery winnings summary!
$62 expenditure, $8 winnings!
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2025-03-31 EDIT I won $8, not $2 on my match. Apparently, 3 drawings had passed since a winner, so it was a 4x win.
10 PowerBall quick picks with PowerPlay at $3 each - $30 outlay.
11 MegaMillions quick picks with MegaPlier at $3 each - $32 outlay
I did win 82 in the 02/25/2025 MegaMillions - I matched one number and the MegaBall.
This is a lot better than I have done in the past, except for the second half of 2024.
One change this quarter: I’m using the Android Colorado Lottery App to read the barcode on each ticket, rather than looking up the winning numbers manually. This seems more accurate, as I’m not good at matching two sequences of numbers, but it’s also less fun, in that I don’t have a count of matched numbers to report.
This quarter was pretty typical for my rate of buying quick picks:
- Q1 2024 - 23 total quick picks
- Q2 2024 - 33 total quick picks
- H2 2024 - 37 total quick picks, about 18.5 quick picks per quarter
- Q1 2025 - 21 total quick picks
I’ve bought more in a quarter, I’ve bought fewer. My strict policy is to only buy quick picks when the jackpot is over $150 million, so a quarter in which participants win many smaller jackpots will cause me to buy fewer quick picks. That’s also why I’m able to post first quarter lottery winnings on March 30th: the next jackpots (which occur in Q2 2025) are well under $150 million.