$325 MILLION: Powerball lottery jackpot increased before draw date

Thanks for the kind words gocart1. I was in NYC a few years ago. I don't know if I went through da Bronx or not. I was mostly around the Times Square area.

Nice little town ya got there, I like them hot dogs from those wagons with the umbrellas on the street corners.

Good luck tonight brother!

and the winner is, bill gates, and warren buffett,

they decided to go halves after it went to $2, as they are kind of cheapskates.

Lol I dont know exactly how many number combinations there are but lets say for example 5,000,000 total divded by 5 picks per play slip thats 1,000,000 play slips to keep track of and not to mention the number of tickets not to lose either, 200,000.

nother country folk sayin,

i guess they have stayin power cause,

  they are true, no matter what else happens,

thanks dude.

Power Ball 5 white ball payout for buyout

Cost = 5006386 * $2.00 = $10,012,772

guaranteed prizes w/o PB

5 of 5 = 1          * 1           = $1,000,000 
4 of 5 = 270      * $100.00 =     $27,000
3 of 5 = 14,310 * $7.00     =   $100,170
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Total payout  w/o PB       = $1,127,170
Total cost                      = $10,012,772
Total loss                       =  $8,885,602

total bet slips needed =   $1,001,277.2

RL

Actually, I heard that ages ago from a very old Irishman at the bar in an Irish joint in Chicago.

He was sittin' at the bar with an empty beer glass and the barkeep asked him if he wanted another and he said no. I had seen him looking in his wallet just prior to this so I knew he didn't have any more money.

I told the barkeep to get him one on me and when he gave it to him and told him I bought it for him he smiled at me and raised his glass and said "May your givin' hand never fail ya, lad." 

I never forgot that.

There are 175,223,510 possible combinations. Assuming you could get 1 number set printed per second it would take 2,028 days, 1 hour, 11 minutes, and 50 seconds  to get every combination, assuming the store never closed and you never slept. Doing so would cost you $350,447,020 and return $64,166,120 in lower tier prizes plus the jackpot of $202,900,000 for a loss of $83,380,900 before considering the tax on the winnings.

now i like it even more since i'm F.B.I.

last time i was in chi. town-back in 83,

we hung out w/ the locals and drank a beer called old style.

don't know if they still have old style,

but i know you have good karma.

hope that will get ya a winner bro,

now i'll make a new sayin, "may that return to ya" ridger.

That really puts it into perspective. And hope for all of us!!!

Just a few more minutes... Definitely Good luck everyone..

And to those who think the Powerball is rigged; it is definitely not... if it is, the winning numbers will be 13 18 23 33 43 and the red ball 3

Not saying these are bad numbers, but if the Powerball is rigged those numbers will be the only 6 numbers I can see coming out tonite.

Figuring out what should happen according to probability is easy. Figuring out what will happen is a bit harder.

For the last drawing the advertised jackpot increased $50 million, which was about $33 million in cash. Putting $33 million into the jackpot pool at  $0.64 per ticket requires selling a little over 51 million tickets. Since the odds of winning the 2nd place prize are about 1 in 5.1 million we would expect to have had 10 winners.

Expected sales for tonight's drawing suggest sales of about  73 million tickets. That can be expected to result in 14 2nd place winners. About 40% of the possible combinations should be played, leaving about 60% unplayed. That means a rollover is about 50% more likely than a winner. Of course it all depends on the numbers that are drawn.

I bought $10 worth of tickets tonight.

Welcome to Lottery Post itduzz and best of luck to ya!   

Thanks

i bought $8 in tickets too..4 lines..

how many numbers did auto pick give me : NONE..nada..not one number on any line..

oh well..back to pick3!