Record $587.5 million Powerball jackpot won by 2 tickets

I wonder if Larry Fitzgerald is the winner.. he posted 2 hours ago he was checking his tickets and hasn't updated yet LOL.

I figured Delaware would get no piece of this pie anyway since we won the last jackpot before that but onto the next one!

If a person saved up $25. each draw, they would have $2600. at the end of a year for the shotgun approach.

You are correct that even $158,000 could have purchased only 1/2 of 158,000 or 79,000 of PB tickets.

This value is still a long way from 5,006,386 tickets of distinct white ball  combinations which would have required an investment of $10,012,772, time, and tasking logistics in order to ensure at most, a single $1,000,000 win.

I'd probably go take that and put it in stocks or gold, I rarely play over 2 lines per drawing.

Played 6 this time around but it only put me $16 in the hole, by comparison I've seen young Soldiers blow half a paycheck downrange on DG's and booze on a Friday night.

This should have been a new record, but i think the amount of second place winners took them by surprised. They sold 281mill tics. Wheres the rest of the money?

Why do I keep thinking someone from California drove to Arizona and

has the winning ticket, you think that could have happened

Quite possible..

I seem to remember seeing some numbers that around 1/5th of all the money taken in by the lottery goes into the actual jackpot take home pay after 35% Fed and variable State taxes. The rest goes to the government, operating costs and smaller prizes.

The two winners netted around $246.8M total after Federal tax on a CVO and approximately $105M went to the smaller prizes after taxes.

So if the 1/5th thing is true, that leaves over $800M and it definitely does not cost that much to run the lottery.

The big winners here were the States and Uncle Sam.


Edit: It get's even uglier next year when taxes go up from 35% to 43.4% on the largest income bracket... and this does not include State or Municipal taxes.

you keep thinking that because Californians manage to win jackpots some way, some how. I still remember Californian Daniel Bruckner winning a MM jackpot with a ticket he bought while on vacation in NY.

Congrats to you what you giong to do first and remember to give back ok

arizona?  was it ronnie?

sorry just woke up, haven't read the thread yet.

Some a$$hole(s) won my Powerball!

Well there's always next time.

That's the 2nd biggest jackpot in United States History this year and split in two ways! Ouch is my reaction!

one of the tickets is from MO. How often does MO win jackpots? It's probably going to be a while before we get another MO winner.

i was close too