$253 MILLION: Powerball lottery jackpot rolls again

I wish they were drawing it really at night, like 4-5 am.  So, you wake up, refreshed and millionare. Somehow it feel that chances to win get higher, when you can't care less about it (sleeping)

But then, chances are I won't be sleeping until 4-5 am on Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.

so if I flipped a coin 5 times and it came out heads 5 times in a row, I'd still have a 50 percent chance of getting heads again on the 6th coin toss? After all, the coin doesn't pay attention to what people think. I would say the chances of getting heads again would decrease and the chances of getting tails would increase after every flip where I got heads consecutively.

From the probability stand point, every event is not dependant on outcome of the previous events. 

From psychology stand point, it certainly does.

People on LP are trying to predict next numbers based on the previous drawings. Well, it has nothing to do with statistics, just human psychology.

Here's our work pool hoping we hit 2night. GL every1.

I hope your pool wins so you can all quit. That job looks dangerous.

Brought 55 tickets

don't ask me how many tickets I bought when the Mega Millions jackpot was 656 million last April. All I will admit is, a lot.

It is like that for me, can't stay up late enough for the drawing @ 2258 hours

 and in the A.M. I don't think about it til. later in the day.

would be fun, wake up, go to work, even though you don't want to,

then around lunchtime you find out you're worth millions,

see ya'

This is why some lottery winners don't look excited at the press conference. They find out they have the winning ticket at around 11 PM eastern time and now they can't get any sleep until the money has been collected. By the time the press conference comes around, they're almost comatose.

That's what players who buy quick picks and don't track draw history like to think.

would that be a lot of difference for you, if you win 25 or 656 millions?  Non-different for me, either ammount is more then I foresee earning just by going to work. So, I play even when MM is just 12 mil. 

Though, I have to admit, I have to be spending less on lotteries, otherwise I will go broke soon.

There would be little difference to me, I'd be ecstatic either way but at the same time I'd be lying if I said the prospect of winning 656 million is not more exciting to me than the prospect of winning 25 million.

I posted the ten lines I played on the prediction board but they only matched a 3+0 and a 1+1 for $11.

whiteballz,

"so if I flipped a coin 5 times and it came out heads 5 times in a row, I'd still have a 50 percent chance of getting heads again on the 6th coin toss? After all, the coin doesn't pay attention to what people think."

Exactly!

Couldn't resist, coin toss and all!

the powerball jackpot rolled to 305 million. Is it hammer time yet?