Like I said in the other post we have all been wanting this for years..... It's a perfect storm

Now you are really going to see ticket sales explode. Going to be at least $1.5 billion by drawing.

I think the only words to describe this would be HOLY CRAP!

It only took odds of 1 in 292M to make it.

I had 2 tickets in this draw, any more than that and would have felt foolish.

Well, I will raise the limit to 10 for the next draw. And I am very confident that there will be one or more winners.

What were the odds of being no winner tonight? does anyone know?

I wonder what they're going to do on the billboards because they only have three digits, for the millions.... Lol

Wow...just Wow...Can't believe it.

about 20%

Wow so all those sales and not all combinations were covered. Shows you how absurd the odds to win are.

yup about $900M in sales as well the next few days will be absolutely insane

Have mercy, that's a lotta money!

LOL, Lottery Post was not built to handle jackpots greater than $1 billion.  It's showing up as $1300 million.  Guess I have some work to do! 

 Thats a LOT a dough, OMG!!!!

SENSATIONAL

Thanks Todd

UNBELIEVABLE! How can that be? Wow! I'm speechless

Your doing a great job. I so enjoyed while all the other sites were down I was able to check my numbers on your site.

I saw that and I thought that was such a fun new way to think about it.. 1300 million.. I kinda like it

Just curious but how do you figure that about 20% of the combinations were not played. I remember someone on here awhile back explaining something about how to figure it but cant recall the details.

This will be an amazing week of media hype. I look forward to all the crazy stories going up this week. Todd needs to get invited on CNN.

I can't even imagine a billion dollars!

If i wasn't hammered I'd run up to the mobil to see what the sign says.

Neither are all the California electronic jackpot advertisement boards, only has three digits...  :)

I figure it would roll, I matched 2 numbers lol. I am just glad it rolled since I lost as everyone would have been very disappointed if it got that close and did not reach a billion or over and now it has! Bring it baby!    

so according to the texas lottery spreadsheet about 75% of combos were sold at a jackpot of 914M - extrapolated it a bit for one of 950M

http://www.txlottery.org/export/sites/lottery/Documents/jackpotestimates/pb20160109.pdf

You just did. Now try your best to win some of it. Good luck to you.

Whoppie  the states R going to make Mo money

Holy moly that is a lot of money!

I cannot believe it, this must be a dream.

texas's website shows 1.30 billion now

I wanna be a billionaire so frickin' bad

Here come the billion jackpot that everyone waiting for :)

Have fun everyone !!! 

Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. They finally made history. Now I can sleep soundly Good night and good luck to all.

There are 4 full days before the next drawing.  Expect this to jump up by at least 500 million before then.  This previous drawing went from 675 to 956 million in a 3 day period.  This is gonna be the biggest news story for the next 4 days!!!!

think there will probably be about $1.3B in sales which should bring the jackpot to $1.6B for the draw

Yes, something like that.

Likewise.

Yeah Todd, that $1300 million looks a little strange.

There's a passage in the Bible about 'two hundred thousand thousand' (200,000,000), it made me think of that.

I simply can't comprehend the prize.

Will I be expected to wear all white robes and the turban?

So this will make the a sole winner (technically) on the FORBES BILLIONAIRES LIST?

OH MY GOODNESS!!wow!! It's about to get craazy!!

HAHA

Not even close. Even a billion liquid or in assets or a combination won't get you on the list I believe. 

HOLY COW

HAHAHA

7-11s will look like Walmarts on Black Friday

I hope there are many winners...and we hear about how it turned things around for many people!

Wow this is truly unbelievable, that is a lot of money. I surely thought that somebody was going to win tonight's drawing. I guess new players are going to come out to play.

this is really stupid because no matter who wins the next jackpot, we now know that same thing can happen again. another long run to a big jackpot that takes peoples money just to make a few millionaires (or one single billionaire)..what is really the purpose of this isht... to make money for the lottery and the states that allow it...median individual income in us is $24,000..median household is $52,000..just dangle a billion dollar carrot jackpot and suckers will buy it at $2 a ticket. there is a sucker born every minute.

New players will see that 1.3 billion jackpot and be like:

Dunno about you others but I like being a sucker......Ideally a very, very wealthy sucker.

Lol, yup, this will be the talk of the country for the next week and when people see $1.3 billion dollar jackpot on billboards while driving, talking about it on social media, at work, or wherever, they will want to play for that chance to win.

One Ticket

One Winner

Awesome stuff. Powerball's at $1.3 Billion! You'll be up there with Bill Gates's net worth if you win this.

Bill Gates is worth anywhere from $80 billion to $100 billion, you won't be anywhere remotely near him even if you win this. 

Enough Already! This is getting ridiculous!

Funny also how back when the MM got up to $656 million after they changed it they said Powerball sales slumped, and then they changed PB to make it harder and look at it now lol. Also funny how people disregard "smaller amounts" that are still huge amounts and life changing. But most of society is financially illiterate and have no clue just how much money millions or billions is. Then you get some new players who buys a ticket on a whim and wins it all who is not even prepared at all. The lottery plays no favorites.

I got the 13,16 57.

And 19 in a separate ticket.

Worth a few bucks for the next draw.

The seemingly impossible has finally occurred, the $1 Billion annuity jackpot. It's exciting for players and a huge windfall for the participating lotteries...

Hopefully, jurisdictions that heavily rely on lottery proceeds make the best of it, since the bar has been dramatically raised for what will bring players out in droves in the future. Was a time when $10 million was a big deal, then $50 million, then $100 million (PA Super 7 build-up was a huge deal back in the day; 1989), etc. Now it will be to the point that many people won't even bother playing unless the jackpot is at least 1/2 billion ($500 million) plus.

And to think there's a possibility of another rollover. While it's easy to assume this will be a sure sell out, there's only so much money people are willing to wager. Limits on lottery infrastructure; try to buy a million tickets at your local retailer - likely not happening. To cover all combinations will take nearly $600 million in gross sales minimum, though due to dupes, will still leave a decent chunk of combinations open...

Bottom line, a rollover is plausible with $2 billion being advertised for next Saturday. Incredible!

Good luck to all who play. I may sit this one out, or at most play 5 tickets. Not playing seems crazy, but to win the jackpot could be worse. Not a widely shared sentiment, but have to assume there are others who have similar thoughts. On the other hand, the lure of being part of history and dreams of being a billionaire (even if for a brief time before taxes are taken out) is overly compelling.

Had 1 right :-(

Here is a chart of the Powerball jackpots since September 2015.

Jackpot be like "n*gga when we rollin', rollin', rollin" Lol.

Greetings ....

Given this latest development, I'd rather see the annuitized jackpot frozen at $ 900 million and let the excess be spread over the lower prizes. Of course, there are those who would not even dare think of touching that idea.

Even so, how would you feel if the 2nd prize was worth at least say $ 5,000,000. We'll imagine that at draw time its worth is $ 6,840,000. Assume your ticket is not shared with anybody, so you have the choice of a $ 4,240,800 cash option payout -OR- a fixed 30-year annuity that pays $ 228,000 annually. Tax considerations would naturally make choosing the 30-year annuity option the right call.

If you're really smart, not only would you take the 30-year annuity option, but you would be careful not to spend more than half of your approximate after-tax income of $ 139,000 each year. Do that, and by the end of the 30-year period you'll have saved enough to get you by for another 20-30 years.

Yes, it is a nice idea. Pity that few will see it as such.

Oh, BTW -- Now that Powerball has cracked the "Billions and Billions" of Dollars Barrier, where's Dr. Carl Sagan when we really need him?

Thanx-A-Lot, Please Play Responsibly and Best of Luck to all - Frank0Sport16

That's a great song for this jackpot.

Keep rollin, rollin, rollin, rollin (What?)
Keep rollin, rollin, rollin, rollin (Come on)
Keep rollin, rollin, rollin, rollin (Yeah)
Keep rollin, rollin, rollin, rollin

Now I know yall be lovin' this [Jackpot] right here

1.3 Billion is right here

If an LP member finds him/herself among the winners on Wednesday, please remember how Todd busted his chops to keep us engaged, entertained and informed and make a healthy donation to LP Nation!

999 or 1BN if programmers can reprogram the boards.

After seeing $1.3 Billion show up on LP and USA Mega as $1300 Million, I have gone through and hopefully fixed everything to show "$1.3 Billion".

Please do me a favor and if you see any more "$1300 Million" please send me a PM to let me know.  (I may not see it if you post it in this thread.)

Thanks!

The Powerball billion dollar roll-over broke Lotterypost lol.

$1.3 Billion that's Michael Jordan money, and more than Tiger Woods which has always been my goal to have more than both.

What a trillion dollars looks like with double stacked pallets. Wow, I can find room for it don't worry lol. 7 packets wide by 16 packets deep, with each packet being $10,000. 7 x 16 = 112 packets per layer 112 x $10,000 = $1,120,000 per layer. Also shows several other examples of a million, billion, etc. 1 billion is 10 pallets lol. The little guy on the bottom left is an average sized person lol. A trillion dollars is a FARM of money lol. http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/calculations.html

WOW!!!!! 

One billion dollars lol. Ten pallets of $100 million dollars, one layer is 7 packets wide by 16 packets deep, with each packet being $10,000. Would need a bank vault sized safe in your house if you wanted to cash it out lol.

Attaboy to MUSL for this accomplishment. They made a believer out of me. I didn't know they had it in them. There must be fireworks and champagne bursting at HQ all week long. What a milestone. Congratulations to MUSL. 

Sirbrad, sense you like looking at piles of money. Here you go:

I got the following as "lottery advice" emailed me today from a friend:

If Wednesday night you find you are holding the winning ticket - (before anyone finds out) - immediately call everyone you know.  Tell them you have an emergency and need to borrow $500.  They will likely all ignore you.  This will come in handy in a few weeks when they find out you won and will do 2 things for you.

1.  it will make it much harder for them to ask to borrow money from you &
2.  it will tell you who your real friends are so you can share with those in the 2nd column.

I'm hoping for one winning ticket and one winner.

Yeah it is but I was referring to this one lol. 

Want to take home One Billion dollars cash? The Cash Option sans taxes. (no, not the Annuity)

Well first you need to make the following assumptions:

You must pay 39.6% to the IRS as Federal Tax

You must pay taxes in your individual state if applicable. Lets go with the highest in the country according to LP which is 8.82% so we will calculate by that (thanks New York)

And lastly we will assume the most recent Cash Option percentage which is $806 million divided by the jackpot $1.3 Billion which is 62%.

You would need the jackpot to rollover to $3,126,993,459 and of course be the sole winner.

Your Cash Option would be $1,938,735,945 (the 62%)

and you will pay $767,739,434 in Federal Taxes and (the 39.6%)

assuming you're in New York you will pay the State of New York, $170,996,510 (the 8.82%)

leaving you the nice chunk of change of $1,000,000,000 also known as One Billion Dollars...... mind boggling.

I kind of feel that when the jackpot gets really high, like over $500 million, the second prize should go up also, at least three to five million dollars. 

I would probably drive around blasting this song after I won, which I already do anyway lol. 

The 3 states I follow/watch all have 3 different listings for the rollover jackpot!

Maryland has it correct as 1.3 billion.

New York is listing it as 999 million so it can't handle the billion - LOL!!!

Delaware is still showing 900 million, which is about right they are like the red headed stepchild of lottery's 

And if u lived in nyc, the jackpot would have to be even higher as we get taxed locally 3.876%

I love that idea. Will definitely try it should I ever come into money.

DELotteryPlyr, the jackpot is incalculable.

I screenshotted the NY website before they fix it later today so you all can see the magnificence of this jackpot. I enjoyed the "CHECK BACK SOON" sign the most.

I had 3 numbers and won only $21

Those who matched all 5 and missed the PB be like. Lol.

Do you think if their were one winner that they would be safe? Only everyone in America is after that jackpot. A lot of people are feeling pretty lucky and have ideas of how the jackpot should be spent. I'm sure with all the people spending so much money on the lottery, and walking away with nothing at the end, (but in debt) someone is bound to get angry and set out to take revenge. What do you think?
I pray anyone who is playing especially if they win will keep a level head and except how the luck had come to them or anyone else. I hope it is pleasant for everyone who is involved.
Be sure to get protection not only for you but all the people you love too. Get professional help to be able to handle all the new demands you have not known or thought of until you won. Get all your ducks in a row before you claim your prize.
I'm sure this moment will never end. Your name will instantly become a household name as soon as you are found out. People will always remember you no matter where you go, until you die. The news will keep tabs on you, and give regular updates, at least, whenever they are talking about billionaires. I'm not sure how you prepare for a moment like this but try your best. Get professional help and not from anyone you know. Don't promise anything to anyone yet. Good luck to all and have fun. I do hope it is a pleasant experience for everyone. Keep it safe and enjoyable.

HIGHER LOTTERY JACKPOTS=HIGHER LOTTERY SALES.

1-2-3-4-5 + 6 

Y2K revisited?

It is funny how 28 winners and none matched the PB number.  There were 3 here in Texas, different cities, all quick picks.  So, the game can produce multiple winners but slim chance it will duplicate 28 exact PB numbers.  I had a feeling for the #13, multiplied it and played it again, so I won $20.

Very nice note and I thank you!

I think that this has gotten out of control. I believe that this is going to not only ruin someone but make them a target for the rest of their lives by people who are greedy and ignorant and willing to hurt them. The powerball was wrong for doing this and are going to be responsible for hurting people's lives rather than make them better. This is not the way to hold a lottery that is why Europe does it the way they do it. The chance for many people to win and become millionaires rather than one person. It cannot keep going on this way. Where is it going to end. 2, 3 4 billion. 

Sam

01/10/16

The excitement is  still growing!

With all those tickets being sold, find it hard to believe that no one had the winning numbers:

16-19-32-34-57- 13.

Next Drawing  on January 13.

Maybe there will be one, some, or many winners in lottery pools, for  this huge Jackpot.

There were many winners in locations throughout the state of NJ with those lesser but still great prizes, as reported by the Lottery Commission for

the January 6 drawing.

AMEN deborahl!!! I totally agree. I pray to God that this remains a safe and pleasurable experience for ALL and that God puts a hedge of protection over the winner and her loved ones.

Yeah with the new levels of greed I can already hear people saying in the future "No I don't play PB unless it is a billion dollars or more, it just a measly $600 million right now."

 There will be a lot of prayers this Sunday, today. In churches you may hear,"Please, Please, Please Lord help me get the winning numbers for Wednesday's Power Ball!!!"

 I am concerned about a sole winner. At least, you have to be 18 years old to win it here in the States. Just ask Callie Rogers who lives in the UK how she did when she won two million pounds at the age of 16. Thank God she is married now with children and has turned her life around. 

 Good Luck to all LP Members and God Bless the United States of America. Plus the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico and Washington D.C.!!!

When has America or anywhere else ever been 100% "safe"? I think for the most part people are just very self-centered and paranoid. Those who have issues are in the minority, you only hear about them because they are extreme cases and that is what makes news. All of those who won big that have had no issues are considered "boring" and not newsworthy. Nothing will stop me from living my dream. You can't let your "perceived fear" of what you "think" might happen stop you. Most who had problems were idiots to begin with, winning the lottery only made it all worse. If needed that kind of money can buy you a lot of security in many ways. After awhile though it will all die down and no one will care anymore. Just like it did with all the others. Most can't even name a past winner except one of the extreme bad cases such as Jack Whitaker. But even the general public does not even know him.

Anyone who is that worried and thinks that they cannot handle it, and that the world will then be after them 24/7 for the rest of their lives should not even bother playing. No one is going to force me to go into hiding. If you can't take the heat stay out of the lottery kitchen and let us who are prepared to live out our dreams play and win it. Or build yourself a "lottery bunker" and hide in it for the rest of your life. Doesn't sound like much fun though. Most of the "bad people" you need to worry about are family and friends, not strangers. Most have enough problems to worry about in their own life than tracking down a lottery winner. You might get a few here and there but again they are in the minority. But if you are like Jack and taking hundreds of thousands of dollars to a strip club then you are only asking for trouble. But the smart ones stay quiet and keep to themselves and have no issues. That is why all those big past winners are no longer in the news. They are "boring" and that is how they like it. Build a gun shop and live in it lol. But I am pretty sure you will get bored after awhile.

Out of control indeed. Personally, I'm leery of playing in this drawing. It's not the amount of money itself that's the issue, but rather the crush of publicity of winning a "world record" jackpot. Seemingly every "friend", family member, etc will come out of the woodwork seeking "help", so-called investment advisers offering their "advice", fending off outright scammers, and dealing with frivolous lawsuits. And then there's security and privacy to contend with.

Personally, Mega Millions is looking to be the better play right now in regards to maintaining normalcy and has slightly better odds too. Winning MM $15 million ($9 million cash) jackpot likely won't even get a mention on the scrolling ticker at the bottom of news channels. Sure, local news media might run a small blurb, but that's about it.

I was hoping to be that MM winner for total anonymity lol. No one cares about that measly $165 million winner lol.

I'm shocked. At the rate people were buying tickets I thought there would be multiple winners for last night.

So I guess I finally get a chance to be Oprah's friend after all!

Actually you are quite right. But its not just people in the USA you have to look out for , It's the total population of planet earth from other countries who will come after you!

Not only three digits, but here it is numerical, not like they could put up 1.3B.

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→PB odds went from 1 in 175,223,510

to 1 in 292,201,338

or 66% higher which is why the jackpot has gone to Pluto.←

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Going to California's website with where the winning tickets were sold I see one was from that Primm lotto store.  WTG, probably someone from lottery free (stupid) Nevada.

how much did they win?

Says $779,264

584 milllion dollars and you could have bought every possible 1 in 292 million combinations and made a serious profit.

Surprised it didn't happen.

Just over $979K with that awful para-mutuel payout law they have; plus no Powerplay or Megaplier offered.

It doesn't happen because of a number of reasons. For one, that is a lot of money to spend and yeah you would get your money back but filling out the slips would be too much work and there would never be enough time to print out all those combinations. You only have a few days between each drawing to purchase tickets.

Assuming you have the money, how on earth do you buy every single combination and permutation?  I don't think you can order that from the 7-11 or any other place that sells Powerball tickets, right? 

I think it's funny to think that someone would fill out each of those papers where you color it in for your numbers for every combo and perm. That alone would take you forever. 

I'm thinking in theory yeah you're right but it's reality that counts.

Its happened before. With today's technology it could happen.

Group Invests $5 Million To Hedge Bets in Lottery

Published: February 25, 1992

Yes, but they didn't even have the time to print out the whole 7 million tickets. Powerball has 292.2 million possible combinations. That's a big difference.

"Only a lack of time prevented the group from buying tickets for the remaining 2 million combinations."

Anyone who has that kind of money would not spend that much on the lottery, they would be an idiot if they did. They would be rich already and not have to. Also hindsight is 20/20 how do they know there will not be multiple winners? If there was they would lose a lot of money. It is easy to say AFTER the drawing took place and there were no winners. I highly doubt anyone with that kind of money would blow it all on the PB hoping to be the sole winner as if you had that much money you would not need to. It would be very stupid to risk that kind of money. That is why you don't see billionaires doing it. Low income people are the people who play most. Also do you have any idea how long it would take to print out that many tickets for one person? A LOOOOONG time. Not to mention filling out all those tickets, you better have A LOT of elves working 24 hours a day between drawings and I doubt you would ever get them all played.

It would also look pretty silly at the store and you would need a bunch of boxes and a big truck to carry all those tickets, and angry people waiting in line being like WTF....I waited on an old lady playing a few hundred tickets and seemed like it took an eternity, imagine 292 million tickets. Not to mention how long it would take to look at 292 million tickets then. Are you REALLY that surprised it didn't happen??

That is a lot of money. But question, why do all the news outlets keep saying whoever wins will win a billion or so dollars when they're really not? I mean I could see if this was another country where lottery winnings aren't taxed, but here in the good ol US they take almost half. Does anyone know how much the approx take home really would be based on where the cash option is now?

The key phrase is "could happen" but it didn't as the odds worked against them although they definitely had a good chance.  I just wonder how the heck on earth do you fill out all those lottery entry forms.?  Then the clerk has to scan the lottery entry into the machine then issue you your ticket then repeat process over and over and over and over and over until time runs out. The first thing would be to play a game where they only do the drawing once a week so that gives you a solid week to fill out your lottery entries.  But then you would need a store that sells the particular lottery game's tickets 24 hours a day.  I recall buying Powerball tickets in Arizona and they only sold them only during certain hours of the day though things may have changed since then.  I guess you could fill out all those lottery entries using a machine but I thought that is not allowed under lottery rules?  I thought that was illegal but I could be wrong.  Assuming you could fill out the lottery entries using a machine then yeah I think you could fill out all of the millions of entries. By hand, I don't see that happening but then again if you have enough people and a week then maybe. Let's not forget having the millions of dollars to play in the first place.

It is almost a billion for the annuity after taxes. Every state has different taxes and some states don't tax the lottery such as mine which is PA and $975,000,002 AFTER taxes. They advertise the amount before taxes because that is the amount they pay before taxes come in and take their cut.

Yeah, and a lot of times the machine will not take the slip and spits it back out. Sometimes one slip can take 5 minutes. Can you imagine one clerk doing that all day with millions of bet slips? What about when the store closes, you would have to come back every day all day and you probably still would not make it. The thought of doing it is ludicrous on so many levels lol. Imagine your eyes after checking 292 million tickets lol. You would be seeing numbers in your head for months.