$202M Powerball ticket sold at suburban Des Moines convenience store

This is MM & PB but I'm not seeing a whole lot of Iowa here.

http://www.megamillions.com/winners/

http://www.powerball.com/powerball/pb_stories.asp

I guess where using a new form of lotto math where twice means 'always'.

By some of the posts in this thread you would think that just playing in Eye-oh-way is an automatic jackpot winner.

Oh the unwarranted envy.

The mega millions lottery might pick your combination to win the jackpot. You never know with random?

I agree with you, Lottery does control the winning numbers. I've seen it displayed with the pick 3, 4 & 5.

It is sad, the rich get richer and the poor gets poorer.

Someone won a $14M mega millions jackpot in New York with a $2 free play from a $10 ticket on 9/18/12.

Maybe they had 20 - 30 free plays????

The lottery biggest secret is the fact that they pick all the winning combinations. lol

I wonder if they will pick 1-2-3-4-5-6 someday. lol

Keep playing , they probably will.

Hi Thrifty, well i never had a QP Win anything yet

i think the Mega is 21. Million,, that would be a good win right??

so the winner would get about 9 Million after taxes, 

left with about 1 Million after the people come for handouts

I don't mind giving away Lottery money thats FREE

I agree with you, but spending $10 for a free $2 ticket makes more sense. The fact is that a the $14M jackpot was won with a $2 free play.

You are on a winning state of mind. Good luck.

 May I be first on the list to get a $1 million. please?

 can't wait to post my Winning ticket

Powerball jackpots build up so fast that there is no need to envy anyone. There is a need of money to play these lottery games. The powerball jackpot will be $100M within 6 drawings. Get your money ready.

I forgot that $40M is a life changing amount. Wow, do we have a break with powerball? Dream on America. Let me go and buy a $2 powerball ticket in order to have a chance at $40M.

Should I start playing at $50M, $60M, $70M, $80M, $90M or $100M? They are all life changing amounts for $2.

I think Tennessee is due for another Powerball winner soon. We have only had the 1 so far. What gets me is all the people that talk about winning the lottery and never buy a ticket. I have a lot of friends that say it all the time and I tell them you can't win if you don't buy a ticket. It's not likely they are going to show up at your house,work,etc and say you won. Get off your bottom and go buy a ticket. If you don't win then at least you helped put someone's child thru college.

Good luck to the winner and future winners!!!

I was just packing for Iowa..........?????????...........  Now what to do???????????????????