$310 MILLION: Powerball lottery jackpot in rare territory

don't do it, if the lottery thinks the tic. was stolen it could complicate  making your claim.

Great point. It is interesting to contrast the lost ticket claims from Connecticut and the mystery from Iowa. No need to stir the pot. I'm sticking with the plan mentioned in another thread about keeping a store receipt that shows  the location, date and time.

the lotteries are almost  as rigged as carnival games.

Come to think of it, I never win that water pistol game where you try and pop the balloon before everyone else, and I also never win the lottery jackpot, so maybe you're right. 

Hey kyokushini87, Your almost as rigged as Bernie Madoff, except he looked a lot prettier than you.   

So is his statement that the cash value of the current PB the sixth highest cash value correct?  And is there some place that does list that kind of information?  Sorry, but until the past week I hadn't been around much for a couple of years, and I've not been familiar with what's been going on either on Lottery Post or in the lotteries in general.

According to the list I maintain, it is correct. I only list jackpots that are won. For example, the previous Powerball jackpot was large enough to make the list but was not included because it was not won.

The current Powerball jackpot is only $0.6 million behind 5th place. It will most likely reach 5th place by draw time. To find the list, search for "Mario's largest jackpots".

Good luck.

Stop being such a cheapskate little guy.

The advertising rates are very reasonable here.

And before you try to trick anybody into sending you money out of the country, remind them of how much you hate Christians as you stated in a thread saying you wish they'd all be raptured so you wouldn't have to deal with them anymore.

So I'm sure you wouldn't want any Christians sending you money out of the country where they'll never be able to get it back.

Ah, now I better comprehend what is going on.  Sometimes one has to be around a bit before one understands the positions from which different individuals are speaking.

Personally, I tend to ignore anything that refers to online lottery sales since Washington State prohibits online lottery ticket sales and Internet gambling.  I have no idea how many other states do so as well.

Uff Da!, you are wise to avoid buying lottery tickets online. It is hard enough to win the lottery. But to find out later the lottery company will not pay out the prize because the ticket was bought online would be the greatest of disappointments.

Isn't that why Powerball made the big change this year, to ensure they were going to have bigger jackpots?

Yep, the little guy's here to drum up business but he's so friggin' cheap he doesn't wanna pay for advertising so he just uses his little innuendoes to direct unwary members to contact him and get them to send money out of the country to him. And once your money's out of the country, that's it, it's gone. And he knows nobody's gonna get a lawyer to get 50 or 100 bucks back through international legal channels. And he hates Christians.

Mario38 is correct that this is the 6th highest cash jackpot from MM & PB. I was curious what the answer was before he had made his post so I took Todd's list and tracked down the cash option on those drawings.  Here's the list, sorted by cash (the first number on each line). Towards the bottom it could be missing a few that had lower annuities but higher cash prizes but the top 15-20ish should be reliable.

240M - Mega Millions: $380 million, Jan. 4, 2011 - Idaho, Washington
233M - Mega Millions: $390 million, Mar. 6, 2007 - Georgia, New Jersey
210M - Mega Millions: $336 million, Aug. 28, 2009 - California, New York
208.3M - Mega Millions: $330 million, Aug. 31, 2007 - Maryland, New Jersey, Texas, Virginia
202.9M - Mega Millions: $319 million, Mar. 25, 2011 - New York
193.4M - Powerball: $310 million, Feb. 11, 2012 - (preliminary estimate, not won yet)
185M - Mega Millions: $315 million, Nov. 15, 2005 - California
180M - The Big Game: $363 million, May 9, 2000 - Illinois, Michigan
177.3M - Powerball: $365 million, Feb. 18, 2006 - Nebraska
176.7M - The Big Game: $331 million, Apr. 16, 2002 - Georgia, Illinois, New Jersey
170M - Powerball: $314.9 million, Dec. 26, 2002 - West Virgina
166M - Powerball: $295 million, Aug. 25, 2001 - Delaware, Kentucky, Minnesota, New Hampshire
166M - Mega Millions: $294 million, Jul. 2, 2004 - Massachusetts
166M - Mega Millions: $275 million, Feb. 22, 2008 - Georgia
165.2M - Mega Millions: $266 million, May 4, 2010 - California
164.4M - Powerball: $340 million, Oct. 19, 2005 - Oregon
161.5M - Powerball: $295.7 million, Jul. 29, 1998 - Indiana
160M - Mega Millions: $270 million, Feb. 28, 2006 - Ohio
149M - Mega Millions: $265 million, Apr. 18, 2006 - Ohio
147.2M - Powerball: $261.3 million, Jul. 9, 2003 - Missouri, Pennsylvania
144.3M - Powerball: $314.3 million, Aug. 25, 2007 - Indiana
135.7M - Powerball: $276.3 million, Mar. 15, 2008 - West Virgina
134.2M - Powerball: $261.6 million, Jun. 2, 2010 - Ohio
129.5M - Powerball: $259.9 million, Aug. 19, 2009 - South Carolina
124.9M - Powerball: $258.5 million, Apr. 21, 2010 - Missouri

think about this dood.

if someones willing to rig a game for $2 plastic cupie doll, imagine what efforts they would go to to rig a $100M game?

Babel, where did you look to find the cash values for those draws? Some of your numbers are different than mine. I got my numbers from the news stories that were published at the time of the draw.

Thanks.