thats what i was wondering too.  Makes me feel better when they only bought 1 or 2 tickets.  Gives me hope in my lottery buying times.  I can only afford a few.

But since they said she maybe collected money from everyone...could of been at least $9 dollars.  More depending on how much each added to the pot.

How much is that each family after taxes? About 15M?

I'm glad it was a group..CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!!

No, he's the one who's wearing a suit, and standing in the middle of the giant promo check that's made out for twice as much as they're really getting.

LOL!    Nah, the guy in the middle helping hold the check is the head lottery official in N.M.    The man hardly smiling is the son of one of the couples.

This newsstory said they haven't decided yet how to split the money among the 9 but they know it won't be evenly.    I smell a lawsuit coming on.    :-)

http://kob.com/article/stories/S604904.shtml?cat=500

Congratulations to the winners ! 

See, what happened to it being a 200 million dollar jackpot?  They change it and don't let anyone know the differences.  For instance, what does that make the cash amount for that game now?  I don't know.  Does anyone know?  I feel slighted when they do things like that. 

USA mega has the game info. Link on left.

Jackpot analysis

http://www.usamega.com/powerball-jackpot.htm

I'm sick and tired to play the lottery and not winning the jackpot,if someone deserve to win th most it will be me,if i don't win tonight i will probably  stop playing.I hope God will answer my prayer and bless me tonight,because i want to win the jackpot.

you misunderstood me.  Don't worry about it, you're not the first one. 

The original "estimated" jackpot amount for the last drawing was 200 million dollars.  After the winners were announced, the amount they actually won was 207 million dollars.  The original "estimated" cash amount was 101.1 million dollars.   If the annuity amount changed, then the cash amount changed.  But I can never find that information out anywhere.   Except the last time I got it from FJA!

I think I may know what your talking about.

The difference is the amount of tickets sold after one drawing till the next drawing cutoff for purchase.  The winners are entitled to those too.

For instance.......

If on a Wednesday draw, and the amount was for 100M.....and no one won... next jackpot is say 115M...

The next jackpot is 115M, but the tickets sold after Wednesday draw up to the next draw are added to the jackpot.

I hope that makes sense, because I totally confused myself.  I hope someone else can explain it better.

 only the me is not you, it's me and I'm going to keep trying even if I lose.

I know how you feel....I'm horribly unlucky.  And I used to think positive like most should, but it never has gotten me anywhere for years of playing.

Now I get to where I feel all winners will always be back east.  Though I know deep, deep, deep, deep , deep down that its not true.  We have had a whole 2 jp winners in Washington in 6 years LMAO..but I guess you just need to look at it as you really won't ever win if you don't play.

I feel bad everytime I buy a stupid scratcher, and walk away to see in under 5 minutes that I'm a loser again. I guess maybe someday I'll have some luck.....feeling horrible and unlucky...I'll continue to buy for that what if.

As hard as it seems, just think of a purchase as a loss, and not a win.  A win is just luck...your taking a chance on having some luck.  So think of it as that.....you spend 5$..your out $5 unless your pull off some great luck, then you know its worth it.

Knowing me though?..I'll play for years and years and years......grey hair and false teeth....and the only thing I'll have to show for  is $1 wins.   

I would love to be a fly on the wall in the house of a soon to be jp winner.  Love to see just what a "Oh my god I won the JP!" face looks like.

keep trying!!!!!!!!!!!!