Daily Talker: Do The Impossible Odds Of Winning Powerball Prevent You From Playing?
The Powerball jackpot has soared to $425 million. The odds of winning are 1 in 175,200,000. Do the impossible odds of winning the big prize keep you from playing?
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The Powerball jackpot has soared to $425 million. The odds of winning are 1 in 175,200,000. Do the impossible odds of winning the big prize keep you from playing?
No one hit the Powerball jackpot this weekend, so the money will roll over: A cool $400 million for the next drawing.
The New Hampshire Lottery says two $1 million Powerball tickets were sold this weekend the Granite state.
The single winner was sold at a supermarket in Zephyrhills, Florida.
The numbers drawn Saturday night for the biggest Powerball jackpot ever were 10-13-14-22-52-PB11.
With the majority of possible combinations of Powerball numbers in play, someone is almost sure to win the game's highest jackpot during Saturday night's drawing, a windfall of hundreds of millions of dollars — and that's after taxes.
The previous Powerball record was $587.5 million in 2012.
The jackpot has soared to $475 million after none of the tickets sold matched all the winning numbers in Wednesday night's drawing: 2, 11, 26, 34, 41 and a Powerball of 32.
The estimated $360 million jackpot is considered the third largest Powerball jackpot and the seventh largest jackpot in history.
The jackpot for Wednesday's Powerball drawing is now an estimated $350 million.
A single ticket sold in New Jersey matched all six numbers in Saturday night's drawing for the $338.3 million Powerball jackpot, lottery officials said. It was the 13th drawing held in the days since a Virginia man won a $217 million jackpot Feb. 6.
The jackpot for Saturday's Powerball drawing is now an estimated $320 million.
The ticket for the $50 million Powerball jackpot drawn on Wednesday night was purchased at Lexington Shell on Waltham Street.
One of the four Powerball winners has collected her prize.
So, did I win the jackpot by playing numbers that mark the five happiest days of my life?
There were two winning tickets in the record $587.5 million Powerball jackpot. Four tickets worth $1 million were sold in Massachusetts.
So which numbers are the most drawn and least picked in Powerball?
If you win the $550 million Powerball jackpot, the second highest in lottery history, what would happen next?
So what would you do with that kind of money? We want to know.
The Powerball jackpot for Wednesday night's drawing was increased to a record $500 million Tuesday because of soaring ticket sales.
Lottery officials say nobody has won the Powerball jackpot and the top prize will now increase to about $425 million for the next drawing, the largest jackpot ever for the game
Black Friday shoppers in many cities briefly detoured into lottery retailers, drawn off task by the prospects of winning a $325 million Powerball jackpot — the fourth-largest in the game's history.
A winning ticket in the $337 million Powerball drawing has been sold at a gas station in Michigan.
This jackpot is the fourth largest in the 20-year history of Powerball.
Someone bought two winning Powerball tickets worth $2 million at a convenience store in Portsmouth.
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