Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!

Just the first 5 numbers will do for me babeh...That’s what I am targeting..Already bought my 1 ticket using a strategy which yielded August 8,2018 Powerball draw

Thanks Todd for the top 20. It's changing rapidly.

I thought that Powerball wasn't going to give up without a fight. I was right!

Will I be the single ticket winner. Nah. I'm sitting this one out! I didn't win anything for this draw, so moving forward with nothing... Same as yesterday.

Good Luck to all players!

I think this Jackpot easily blows past Mavis Wanczyk's in August 2017 and goes to at least $775M. 

There is no MM competition.  It's for a Saturday drawing.  3rd largest Jackpot in history.

Not sure how burned out people are from playing both of these big jackpots in the last 7-10 days though?

Good chance it hits $1 BILLION on HALLOWEEN of all days if it rolls!  Scary!

I had 1+PB for $4 so I will have at least 2 tickets for Saturday's PB draw.

Good luck to all players.

My sentiments exactly HT....5 tickets and only 1 correct number

It just said on a local radio show, that one of the $1 million tickets for MM in NC, she picked the lump sum, $423,000 after everything taken out...

so, if you had mega plier would that not be $423,000x3? Take home... it’s only one freaking dollar... :-( geez

There's no picking on lower tier prizes.

They are all....only cash. The only prize you get to choose is with the jackpot.

No, it said she could choose 50,000 a year...on the radio show...

That was not my question though...

it landed on x3 

would that not be $423,000 x 3?

if you had mega plier

If you do the math, there are 11,238,513 possible combinations of five white balls. Multiply that by the 26 possible red balls, and you get 292,201,338 possible Powerball number combinations. At $2 per ticket, you'd need $584,402,676 to buy every single combination and guarantee a Win!

This is from the MM site:

Most states offer a Megaplier feature to increase non-jackpot prizes by 2, 3, 4 or 5 times; it costs an additional $1 per play.  Before each Mega Millions drawing on Tuesday and Friday nights, the Megaplier is drawn. From a pool of 15 balls, five are marked with 2X, six with 3X, three with 4X and one with 5X. This mix results in the following odds for each of the Megaplier numbers and their associated prize values:

I don't know where the $423,000 amount comes from, but whatever the prize for a lower tier win would be multiplied by whatever the Megaplier number drawn.

$423,000 is after taxes on 2nd prize for NC...that’s what they said on the radio show...

NY might be different tax amount after taxes...

All lower tier prizes are lump sum only for PB and MM. She received about 550-600 thousand after taxes depending on what the tax rate is. If she paid the extra dollar (Which she didn't) then she would have received three times that amount.

Ok, the radio guys got it wrong, what they meant to say is $423,000 in taxes haha

So, $1,000,000 - $423,000?

Never listen to radio shows about odds and taxes and all that. My radio show was using the Powerball odds for Tuesdays mega million. I just casually laughed at them. But yes annuity is only for the jackpot.

That sounds about what it would be.

They lottery withholds 24% Federal taxes for the IRS and 5.499% for NC State taxes.

That totals 29.499% or $294,990 in taxes. She should have received approximately $705,010.

Don't forget, she has to claim this on her tax return come April 15th and pay the difference between what she owes and what they withheld.

Yeah right Stack. It's like being invited to a local party, and there are only two pretty girls there. Your advances are met with strong resistance from the one girl* MM,  so you going after the other* PB- her bf beda****!

* Noticed that the 2nd prize PB payout in CA was $4 million- which no one won. Oh the horror!

Hope that Weshar75 is the one that bagged a cool million in Oregon. 

1 million second price is just 1 million minus tax with no annuity option. So after both state and federal taxes NC winner is looking at $582k and change. So with megapliers x3 it’s $1,680,000 after all state and fed taxes paid. I won’t complain with that in my bank account.

Maybe it’s a scratch off ticket, if not the radio doesn’t know what they talking about.

 They were talking about the NC 2nd prize mega winners ...

I concur!

Powerball: $750 million, Oct. 27, 2007

At this point, I might as well buy NJ Pick 6.

Yesterday, I played 12 lines that I won on MM and now I am thinking about put another $6 that I was going to put on PB. Having 18 lines for $23M with odds that have slightly more from 2nd prize of MM/PB isn't that bad.

Near record???

Oh wow, the Jackpot Junkies are having a double climax orgy right bout now.

It would be nice if they could start a new lottery titled "Billionaires Club" and decrease the white ball number to 60 and increase the white ball numbers to 40.  That would be interesting.

@JADElottery,

Excellent description!

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This is an obvious 'pins and needles' psyops project by the MUSL.......

people couldn't wait for last Tuesdays MM drawing....now they can't wait for tomorrow night's PB drawing..

From where will Lottery get initial $1B? Maybe they can do it once JP reach that amount but you are putting too much trust on stores, employees and players are smart enough to follow one balls being drop. There is no way each weeks stores put in different slips each week or calming people that will ask for 52 if there is no 52 for that week.

This is USA we are talking about here.

Also great time to play Mega if you are happy with a putrid 15 mill or so after taxes lol

$13,860,000.00 to be exact.  Pfft. Hardly worth it lol.

In last night's PB draw I won $4 and my Brother won $4 in Tuesday's MM draw, so today I bought 4 tickets for Saturday's PB draw and kicked in an extra $2 for one MM ticket too.

I'll take the $750 PB a starting MM $40mil jackpot. I'm not particular!

It would be x3 but none of the million dollar winners from that drawing bought the megaplier

 both of your respective minds are psyops projects jejejeje

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OK, LET'S TRY THIS ONE, ONE MORE TIME, FOR THIS SATURDAY.
THE OTHER ONE WAS A RIP OFF.
ONE DOGGONE WINNING TICKET IN A 1 BILLY POT.    WHAT'S THE REST OF US SUPPOSED TO DO?

FEW THINGS DISGUST ME TERRIBLY.   THIS WAS ONE OF THEM.

I would be happy with $50,000 or the cool million myself.-weshar75

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Weshar75,

I would be too. In my previous post, I was expressing my disgust that only 1 ticket, of the whole 1.6 billy pot, won.

Mr. Groppo

So, if this isn't won and it rolls, we are back to another 1B$ jackpot?

It sure would be under normal circumstances, but things got so weird with that MM jackpot estimate I'm sure that the "powers that be" will be extra conservative on their estimates going forward. Also, players so recently stunned by the staggering odds might be more reluctant to contribute to the next "frenzy."

I am predicting a $950M estimate for next Wed, Oct 31, but it will roll past $1B.  Frenzy has turned into exhaustion for a little while.  NEED BIG NUMBERS to excite the MASSES!

....yet Mr G, there are those out there  well in this forum who advocate ONE winner, one winner who takes all the marbles. Thing is, these fine folk would like to think that the solo winner is going to be them, no "If's or but's". l on the otherhand, would rather roll the dice on having more than one winner,especially for this past MM, why? Cause one or two of the others,could have been us.There is just something wonderful about knowing that you a millionaire,you've arrived, finally came into your own,much like the other one or two..winners! 

noise-gate,

Perhaps it's time to start Jackpot Claimers Anonymous

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noise-gate,  I said "1 ticket", not "1 winner".

At my last job, I ran a structured and notarized Lotto pool for 2 departments. 2, 3 or 50 persons could have been in on any of the tickets amassed for a particular draw. We never had 1 billy come up  in my 5 years with the co.

I gather, when you say,  "one winner who takes all the marbles", is supposed to mean, what?  1 [ ticket | winner ]?

I'd rather see multiple pools that have won, sharing it across, at least 150 or so people, for the record 1.6 billy we just witnessed (which is probably what happened, who knows? ).

Ideally, I'd like to think there were hundreds or so, in on Tuesday's winning draw.
I'd thought about maybe a sizeable gov't agency had run a pool, but anyway . . . .

I play hoping for only 1 mil. anyway. 

Mr. Groppo

l know what you said, l was merely giving an opinion from my POV. For instance having one ticket "lately" does not translate into multiple winners. The last pool to win was from San Jose, in California and that came as a shock.l am going out on a limb here,by saying that l doubt a pool has claimed a jackpot since Gloria Mackenzie won. I am using her as the starting point. The Smith family from NJ does not qualify as a pool to me, since the Mother came up with the numbers & then split the winnings with her kids. Every jackpot won in the past few years have been with a single ticket & single winner.My post was based on that G.

* l stand to be corrected, nonetheless.

"WHAT'S THE REST OF US SUPPOSED TO DO?"

Nobody told you you couldn't play the numbers that were drawn, did they?

"at least 150 or so people"

That would be a whopping $10.25 million each if they took the annuity. Cash after federal taxes would be just under $3.7 million. If that's what you want to win you should play a game that offers that sort of prize or make sure you've got enough people in the pool you play in.

"if this isn't won and it rolls, we are back to another 1B$ jackpot?"

If it rolls there's certainly a very good chance. That we didn't see any kind of a bump on Thursday probably means sales haven't been good enough to suggest the 750 estimate is off by much, so I'm thinking anything over 800 on Saturday is unlikely. Getting from 750 or 800 to a billion would be a slam dunk if players hadn't just spent $1.6 billion on MM tickets in the last 2 weeks. Right now "likely" is the most I'll commit to.

Lotto "Fever" has turned into Lotto "Fatigue".

Sounds crazy doesn't it.  But it's real and it does exist.   Players in Pennsylvania proved Lotto Fatigue exists when The PA Lottery implemented four Millionaire Raffles per year.  (It was originally two, then the PA Lottery added two more raffles per year.) Ticket sales were not as robust for all four drawings as they were when just two drawings per year were held, so The PA Lottery went back to having just two drawings. (Now they have ZERO raffles per year and players are asking "Why no Millionaire Raffles this year?") 

The good news is Lotto Fatigue doesn't last very long.  If this PB jackpot gets to 1 billion, the public will come back in droves. 

On another note, does anyone know what percentage of unique combinations has been sold for the upcoming PB drawing?  For the 1.6 Billion MM jackpot 75% of all combos were sold, which was why there was a winner. If 50% of the 295.5 million combo's has ben sold, then the chances of a JP winner being drawn is only 50/50.  G5

Let's cheer on New Jersey for someone from LP to win New Jersey 6....like Todd, he deserves it.

Give Five, about 37% of all combinations will be covered for Saturday, October 27th.  63% chance it rolls to next Wed, and a jackpot of probably around $1B (for Halloween)!  The Wed. jackpot will have about a 45% chance of rolling to Nov. 3rd and a new record jackpot of (hopefully)- $1.6B+  !!

Thanks.  Did you get that number off The Web?   Curious as to where you got it.  G5

The Texas Lottery website has "projected calculations" for Powerball.  It's also based on the Megamillions big run up and the odds it would get hit on the last few drawings.  Good luck!  We may have another $1.6B jackpot in 8 days!

Doesn't matter to me, this draw=My Birthday, next=My Sister's, one after that=My Son's! WOOHOO

WOULD = HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ALL OF US ;-)) 

ANY of the above draws would be GREAT. I'd be Happy with Mid Six FIGURES Don't need all of IT.

My Lottery Dream home airs on HGTV tonight from 6pm EDT to 10pm EDT

...We always say 'second tier prize is more than enough'.

It's kind of a let down as he is working with mostly lower $$$$ winners, like 1-7 million and they look at very conservative homes.  I want some bling! 

We need a plan B in the event of that 2nd tier prize.

Does it factor in a -$63 million fudge factor?

Major Lottery fatigue setting in!  The PB jackpot for tomorrow is only going to be around $700M (over estimated by $40-50M)!  The projected jackpot for Wed, Oct 31 is only $830M!  People blew their wads and are now playing conservatively!  lol

Yep, yours truly wagered a whole $2 for tonight's Mega drawing.  I have 1 powerball ticket but will pick up a few more tomorrow.

wow - I had forgotten that tonight was the drawing.  'bout to go back out to get a little rhodie ticket to represent in this mega millions drawing!

If this jackpot can get into November the third people will be spending money on powerball again because of paydays on the first and the fifteenth.  So if it slow rolls until then then maybe people will have a little jingle in their pocket to spend on powerball.-weshar75

One can be selfish and greedy and say, "If I am not the sole winner and someone else wins then I hope there will be multiple winners".

 Don't you want to win like John and Lisa Robinson from Munford, TN when they said, "We only wanted a little piece of the pie"? They won a third of the record Power Ball jackpot on Jan. 13, 2016 a Wednesday night draw.

I want it all!

That way I can do more good with it.

yes sirrr... I tend to agree with that philosophy 100%... Not that I can do better than anyone else

The fact that a $750M jackpot seems anti-climatic is a reflection - despite all the people here who are sure they'll win - of how difficult and improbable winning actually is.

Stay sane.

There's roughly a 50% chance of another rollover at the anticipated sales level.

When you an instant multi millionaire & the cameras are on you, you can say a lot of things. John did say " We intend to return to our job, and continue working."..enough said. 

Here's a joke for ya' to stay sane.

"Know why psychics never win the lottery?
Same reason 'faith healers' don't visit hospital wards."

Back in the early days of Facebook (when FB was still a novelty, before it became such an enclave for the negative, the drama queens, and the neurotic. IOW, back when it was fun to look at and waste time in) there was a question floating around of which super-power would you choose, had you the choice: Fly, breathe underwater, see through walls, dodge bullets, etc... I decided I'd choose the ability to heal. Imagine being able to walk into a childrens' hospital and empty the place out, for example. I'm not trying to "virtue signal" here, it's just that your joke reminded me of that FB question that went viral way back when.

So here's a question: If you had the psychic abilities to foresee the right set of numbers for any lottery, which would you choose; A huge jackpot like this one, or a more humble jackpot, like a state lottery prize, but still enough to make you comfortably rich for the rest of your life? Let's limit the question so that the psychic ability can only be used one time in your life, lol.

A huge jackpot. After all, it’s pretty hard seeing myself doing “ a whole lot of good with a small or humble jackpot.” I can try, but..

s to closing 2018 with a 2nd Instant billionaire with that person being me 

The larger jackpot for sure.  Could spread the wealth more and even help those dealing with a sick child :) 

Your desire to choose healing is a cool one!  So much suffering could be wiped away.

Yeah, same here... If I had this "one time" psychic ability I'd wait for a big one, and in the meantime I'd move to a state that allows for anonymity and has no state income taxes!

Wouldn't that be great! But this world would tear you apart, for sure. It would be overwhelming.

A small one.....right after a large jackpot was won. I play the lottery so I can quit my job which I could do with a $40 million jackpot just as well as a $750 Million one.

That would be the best way to lay low & fly under the radar!

Even with PB's 1:292 mil odds, it's still better than 1:302 mil odds with MM

I don't know if you remember or ever watched a TV program called "Early Edition". It was about a man, who lived in Chicago, that received the next days newspaper every morning. It showed him everything that happened (or was going to happen) that day, including the winning numbers from that evening.

This episode deals with the lottery. Make sure you watch till the end.

No disrespect, but “ small jackpots” only work when the big ones are out of reach, or won. Small jackpots are for small minds, thinking small,unable to handle wealth, living in fear of the “ What ifs.” When those “ small jackpots” gobble up your plans, you up a creek. Avoid the creek altogether by grabbing the huge jackpot by the horns & think big. True, you can’t solve all the problems in the world or your particular neck of the woods, but take a chance, a bold chance. A ant can carry weight many times it’s size, yeah, it has an exoskeleton but that doesn’t stop it from going for it. Think big, and all the smaller things will fall into place.

Well i have 20 tickets in tonites hunt for the jackpot. Best of Luck to all. (c8

Having won neither a 'small' (Is $40 million 'small' to any working stiff?) or large jackpot I can't reaslly say much but I am starting to thinking illusions of grandeur with money not yet won or perhaps never to be won are indeed a sign of insanity. 

Somehow this kind of relates:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTcBgs2huRo

@:40

Almost every player would be happy winning $40 million, but jackpot amount doesn't change the odds against winning. It shouldn't be necessary to say it a terrible bet regardless of the jackpot size and there is no need for anyone to justify why they play.

Haha! Yeah that's what I would've done with the winning ticket, too! ;) That was a pretty good show, I'll have to check out more episodes of it.

Why do hunters hunt? Is it for the thrill of killing or the size of the kill?

Most of us (lottery players) are in for the thrill of the kill (jackpot win) no mater how big ( or small) the jackpot is.

We will play for years and years without a win and then hopefully one day....BAM! we're instant millionaires!

Small-minded you say.......I didn't know there was a certain criteria for wanting to win the lottery. I mean I always thought the first goal in winning was to more or less "not have to go into work on Monday". I mean compared to the amount of money I make $40 million is pretty darn big. The cost of my plans are way south of that amount of money. I really don't see what's the difference in me wanting to win a lesser amount and someone else wanting there to be many winners for one large jackpot.

I don't care if there other winners, besides myself, in a larger jackpot....as long as I get enough to do what I want.

When I was buying two PB tickets on Wednesday, I got two MM tickets, but kept them. Last night one of the MM tickets matched the bonus number so I beat odds of 1 in 24 by "winning" something. But I didn't win a thing because by breaking even getting back the $2 I spent on the ticket is not a win. 

The odds against winning something on PB are slightly higher than MM, but actually much better because matching the bonus number pays $4 and though not exactly why people are playing, they are winning $2.

Dude what are you talking about the person I responded to asked:

So here's a question: If you had the psychic abilities to foresee the right set of numbers for any lottery, which would you choose; A huge jackpot like this one, or a more humble jackpot, like a state lottery prize, but still enough to make you comfortably rich for the rest of your life? Let's limit the question so that the psychic ability can only be used one time in your life, lol

Which was why I said I wanted to win $40 million right after a jackpot win .....you know since it resets to 40 million. This question had nothing to do with odds and all about a supernatural/fantasy event. So Im not entirely sure why you mentioned that tad bit. Im guessing you replied without reading what I was replying to or ...............

CT- Illusions of Grandeur are those folks who are " already" picking out a bank or financial institutions BEFORE they have even won any jackpot.

TMM- ...l went on a Safari in Kenya's Maasa Mari back in 08, bumped into a group of Americans who came " loaded for bear" so to speak. I got to talking to one of the guys named Jack, asked him so you here for an elephant, and he responded, Not Just ANY elephant. He did'nt have to say another word, cause l knew exactly what he meant. Same thing here, we are not just here for any..l think you get my drift.

I thought we have to get prepared for a win.

CT is marrying that idea with Insanity, so l'm walking on eggs here.

I like mine scrambled with a side of bacon and rye toast.

l did start my post with " no disrespect "  remember? I stand by my comment though.BTW,  You cannot PLAN to win 2nd prize, regardless of how you may think or feel about the jackpot.

I guess just from experience if I'm commenting about a portion of a post, I highlight it.

"If you had the psychic abilities to foresee the right set of numbers for any lottery, which would you choose"

So if I was commenting on that portion of lowelin's posts, I would probably say like "Eddie Tipton had that ability, but unfortunately now he is predicting what will be served for lunch at the prison mess hall. Had Tipton got away with it, it's possible to make one more big score to fixed several consecutive drawings and buying a ticket when the jackpot was really high. 

I never saw any proof of anybody having a documented "psychic ability" to foresee a future that never happened. Wouldn't it make more sense if you're going to create a hypothetical question, to at least make it something possible?"

"A small one.....right after a large jackpot was won. I play the lottery so I can quit my job which I could do with a $40 million jackpot just as well as a $750 Million one."

You were speculating about an imaginary psychic ability as if game odds don't exist. Don't you think if you could pick and choose when you can beat the odds and win a jackpot, others could do it too?

Sounds like something out of "Bruce Almighty".

Lots of people here are suffering from "illusion of grandeur" and I'm probably one of them.

And we have people here suffering from "delusions of grandeur", the people that believe they know what's best for jackpot winners without every winning a jackpot. 

"folks who are " already" picking out a bank or financial institutions BEFORE they have even won any jackpot."

Can a person have both?

PB Jackpot total was $687.8M!  $62M under the advertised amount!  WOW!  Lottery burn out is occurring!  I wonder if it will have a chance of making the next jackpot advertised total of $830M?  UP by $142M!

Even with the way under performance of sales, those numbers are virtually guaranteed to be won. Another 3 months of waiting until the next big one comes around.

Did it roll?

boy those were low numbers....gotta be a winner or 2 there.....

Delaware is reporting that it rolls which means there's no winners in it
California is reporting no winners in it
South Carolina is reporting no winners in it

6 birthday numbers.... probably gonna be bunch of winners

Yeah, exactly.