Mega / Powerball

[Avenger]

I have a Lotto subscription.

It automatically plays two numbers every drawing for a year for $104. If I win anything trivial, it can be applied to next year, or I can cash out at the end of the subscription. If it's bigger, I get a check. If it's really big, I get a call from a lottery official to arrange a press conference.

I've never gotten a check or a phone call. The most I think I've won was about $45.

But, for most if us in the not-so-rare air of working people, even the lower end of Lotto wins, maybe $200K, is life changing money. It could pay off your mortgage, or at least a significant chunk.

Or, if you're lucky enough to have a lower rate mortgage you could put the same $$$ into a money market and actually profit instead.

Everything is relative. Do some math

 

[Avenger]

And they raised the price of the tickets to

Well, obviously. Even though they print the money, there's math.

 

[JackPrintMD]

I had the megaball Tuesday and four of the additional numbers were each off by one digit.
WTF

 

[jpd]

I had the megaball Tuesday and four of the additional numbers were each off by one digit.
WTF

was that close to $150K or something?

 

[JackPrintMD]

was that close to $150K or something?

10k

some of the second and third prizes were much higher years ago but have decreased.

 

[JackPrintMD]

I’ve missed jackpots by one number three times

Lotto drawings twice and Cash for Life once,

 

[jpd]

CA. wins again.

 

[jpd]

I'm guessing a NY'er was playing the same 5 numbers with different MegaBalls - at $5 a pop he/she is lucky they hit early in this new game

 

[JackPrintMD]

I'm guessing a NY'er was playing the same 5 numbers with different MegaBalls - at $5 a pop he/she is lucky they hit early in this new game

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I’m thinking NY’rs are more inclined to spend $5 on a single ticket.

 

[jpd]

Has to be the same lucky SOB

 

[Chevy1]

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[jpd]

Dropped a Jackson in the lottery vending machine at Stop'n'Shop, it was quickly rejected.
Imagine my surprise when it spit out a bonus Jackson!

 

[cany]

Dropped a Jackson in the lottery vending machine at Stop'n'Shop, it was quickly rejected.
Imagine my surprise when it spit out a bonus Jackson!

You won lol

 

[Roccus7]

You won lol

Like he said^^^^^^

 

[Bassmaster]

I won 12 dollars had the powerball number and another number. Nobody hit last night 1.30 billion.

 

[Bassmaster]

Mega 302 million

 

[jpd]

No winners for Powerball.
How is that even possible, how many combinations of numbers were not played?

 

[OVERBORED]

No winners for Powerball.
How is that even possible, how many combinations of numbers were not played?

It's at that point where anyone with a few million dollars can play every combination of numbers. Just have to hope the pot isn't split!

 

[longcast]

I won four dollars the other day on my tickets lol. I reinvested it.

 

[jpd]

It's at that point where anyone with a few million dollars can play every combination of numbers. Just have to hope the pot isn't split!

Not exactly, there are 292 million combinations. At $2 a pop - you'd have to lay out almost $600 million and hope you don't split it with someone. Plus Powerball doesn't give you a lot of time between drawings to print all those tickets.

It can be done with lotteries with lower odds though.

Inside the scheme to buy 25 million tickets and win the Texas lottery – and how it’s affected another winner’s $83M payout

A bunch of associates and some of their kids worked around the clock to churn out 100 tickets or more per second, according to reports.

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