Powerball website  crashed last night,live drawing delayed hope no funny business went on.Got one number . By  Saturday could reach 2 Billion. Will be getting I hope the winning ticket.

nothing is certain, but thar is always hope for better and worse

USA Mega was just fine, reporting the results 2 minutes after the drawing.  The draw video was published 15 minutes after the drawing.

This Jackpot has heavy momentum, and could land well beyond the $2 Billion and change Castro won!!! This is multi generational, crazy, stupid wealth!!!!

If no one wins Saturday

I'm buying 7 tickets possibly more if the cash jackpot goes up.

I need a winning strategy where I don't have to buy more tickets to win. Give me the secret sauce pls.

i went to 3 websites besides usamega.   at first it said $1.4 then went to the next one.  crazy.

i think next week the winning jackpot happens.

Goodbye 1995 Honda Accord.  Hello 2026 Maserati

I do wonder though why one ticket always win at top but it's hundreds of million losing tickets. It just doesn't sit right with me. Its either one ticket win or no one wins. If it's truly random their should be tens or even hundreds of top prize winners on billion dollar jackpot or even second level unless it's a bunch of duplicates all around the country which makes all the 292 million combinations not met. If that's the case and it's truly random something smells fishy 🤔 I mean just all alone you have all 44 states feeding this huge jackpot including FL,CA,NY population and no wins. Those states alone had hundreds of millions tickets going into the pot and that case it got to be duplicates all around the nation 🤔 Hey makes you wonder why so many duplicates but not thousands of winners if it's truly random that only way I can think why all combinations not being met. Very fishy. Hey I'll still going to purchase my $5 or $3 ticket even if it truly random or controlled because somebody got to win why not me even though I have my conspiracy thoughts about this crazy system but hey I'll let y'all decide 🤣🤷🏻‍♂️

The duplicates are numbers 31 and lower. If the numbers drawn are all 31 and under you would have your duplicate winners come to roost for sure.

There were 162 million tickets sold. That's not even 2/3rds of 292 million. There could not possibly be thousands of people all sharing the jackpot.

I appreciate that information but that's what everyone at my job around me is stating and it does make me wonder but thanks for that wealth of information. People really pushing this conspiracy talks when they don't win. So hey I get it but knowing what you said I have an open mind

I appreciate it. I'll just tell my lottery group to calm down and l research more before blowing a gasket. 80 of us to be exact who contributed $10 a piece so go figure and think about all of them complaining 😂

     80 people in your lottery group at work. I am sure a lot of work is not being done there. No business owner or boss should even allow lottery pools at work. Are you the organizer of it. I bet you spend at least 4 hours a day on this pool nonsense. If you win 80 people are going to get 7,900,000.00 each before taxes. What will 1 show up to work there the next day. The business will go under. Never mind the non production that goes in there when everyone is all hyped up over Power Ball. It would destroy the business if you won.

I got my tickets but the clerk ran one of my slips twice. I guess I'm ready if the lump sum hits $900million!

Ooh, well, this are my lines from yesterday, matched zero 🤣🤣🤣 onward we go.

I just hope someone/s win soon to stop the frenzy.

will someone win this they have too bout time good luck to all not california they always win"s

forgot hope its lot of people too

I'm going out soon to pick up more tickets 

be certain to enjoy the frenzy while it lasts & best of luck to us all 

That is a relief to read. I thought you were a conspiracy nut. We have them on this board. I can't imagine what it must be like to deal with them in real life.

  As far as the jackpot goes then for you that 2nd ticket with the same numbers is worthless unless there are more winners beside yourself.

The secret is sticking to a budget and spending what you are comfortable with 🙏

It's fine if the pool organizer spends the time on it after work. It's also no big deal if it's a government agency, since they don't do much work anyway LOL.

If I ran a small business with a lottery pool, I would make the business a participant. That way, should the pool win the jackpot, the business will get a check that should more than make up for departing employees.

$8 million (minus taxes) is a lot of money, but not everyone would quit their job immediately. Some people like their jobs. Some people want the prize money only for the extras in life and a comfortable retirement, rather than trying to make it last a lifetime starting right now. It's easy to blow through that much money and then you have to go back to work.

I love frenzy time

Ooh my that's $800 bucks, do you spread it across different days or did you go all in for yesterday's draw.

I spent $10 bucks on 5 tickets yesterday's draw and felt that I should have won something 🤣🤣🤣🤣

+ That's kinda tacky Dickeyboy. After all California contributes mightily to all jackpots & you don't hear them complaining when they don't win the big one. Yet lots of folk don't want to see them in the winners circle, why is that?  Quit hating on the 5th biggest economy on the planet., CA is extremely generous, be grateful in at least one respect.😊

It was different numbers. I picked the red ball on both and quickpicked the 5 white balls. I can only hope this will work out.

Frenzy time makes me wonder, as the jackpot increases people want it to grow and grow but when it is won a lot of theM resent where it was won and complain, "It's always (location)", because it wasn't them that won it.

Be honest folks .....would you rather have 10 no win PB/MM tickets in hand or an liverwurst/OLIVELOAF sandwich( with all the accompaniments )for lunch everyday for the rest of your life?

ShagE3

* Can't say for sure about the liverwurst- but a swig of  Olive oil before bedtime does wonders on the digestive system.

*What l have noticed over the years is that one  never reads of 2nd prize winners going on to win the jackpot. I could be wrong, but even folks who have won the jackpot with all those millions & still playing are never reported as hitting it twice. So, if you not winning the big one as yet, just remember hope remains.😊

I would rather have 10 no win PB/MM tickets.

I asked Google what she thinks of your daily meal plan.

Her response is below 👇 

"A liverwurst and olive loaf sandwich is not generally considered healthy due to its high levels of sodium, saturated fat, and cholesterol. While both meats offer beneficial nutrients, the processing methods make them items to be eaten in moderation, not as a daily health food"

So based on that, I will skip your offer 🤣🤣

• Nick Perry: The television announcer for the daily live drawings. He was identified by a grand jury as the mastermind of the plot.
• Edward Plevel: A former lottery district manager. He was involved in the rigging by allowing Perry and his team access to the drawing equipment.
• Joseph Bach: The art director at WTAE-TV, where the lottery drawing was filmed. He worked with Perry to inject a liquid white paint into all of the ping-pong balls except for those numbered 4 and 6.
• Fred Luman: A stagehand at the TV station who swapped the weighted balls for the legitimate ones before the drawing.
• Pete and Jack Maragos: Brothers and business partners of Perry who purchased the lottery tickets that they believed would be the winning combination. 

1. Manipulating the balls: Perry and Bach figured out that by injecting latex paint into the ping-pong balls, they could make them too heavy to be blown into the display tubes by the lottery machine's air flow.
2. Choosing the winning numbers: They decided to leave the number 4 and 6 balls unweighted. This guaranteed that the winning number would be some combination of 4s and 6s (444, 446, 464, 466, 644, 646, 664, or 666).
3. Executing the fix: On April 24, 1980, Plevel allowed the equipment to be left unsupervised. Luman then swapped the legitimate balls with the doctored set just before the drawing.
4. The payout: The drawing produced the number 666, resulting in a record payout of $3.5 million. Perry and his co-conspirators were able to collect approximately $1.2 million in prize money from tickets they had purchased. 

• Detection: Suspicion arose after officials noticed unusually heavy betting on the 4 and 6 combinations. The Maragos brothers had also tipped off a bookie, who eventually alerted a reporter.
• Indictment and conviction: A grand jury indicted those involved in 1981. Many of the accomplices cooperated with the state in exchange for immunity or reduced sentences. Perry and Plevel insisted on a trial but were both found guilty.
• Sentences: Perry received a sentence of three to seven years in prison, while Plevel was sentenced to two to seven years.
• Legacy: The scandal is considered one of the most famous lottery fraud cases in U.S. history. It was the basis for the 2000 film Lucky Numbers, starring John Travolta

I will have to get a little preachy here folks!

Can I have a loud (Amen) if you agree with me that Salisbury steak is to Powerball as meatloaf is to Megamillions.

And give me an Halleluhia if you agree with me if you would rather come up a little short of the all-time us jackpot than breaking the record and becoming the new Edwin Castro with all its notoriety - good bad and ugly.

And give me a Glory Glory if you would tithe ie 10 % off the gross amount of your winnings and not the net amount.

And give me a Mercy Mercy if you would rather believe and find out learn that Santa Claus .... The Easter Bunny are real than win a million dollars on a scratcher.

I'm getting a vision ..... a vision of numbers ....... 1 - 3 - 5 -7 -9 .......and 25.  What does it mean?  If you play these numbers and win tomorrow you feel welcome to thank me with a generous gift.

ShagE3

   Not really. You only have so many drawings to hit a lottery. You absolutely have to at least cover every one with at least one ticket. This worrying about what the jackpot is secondary in importance. Budget smudget. You are attempting to take something down here. You feel good when those tickets are in your pocket. You have a chance now in a world where there aren't that many anymore.

Unfortunately we playing each draw with our group and they all definitely made a commitment not to drop out or you can't get back in and we only increase it to $10 when it crosses a billion but playing $5 a ticket for years together every drawing regardless if it $20 million or 900 million. All 80 of us been at it for 15 years so I guess you can start to understand everyone conspiracy thoughts. I don't run the lottery pool I just contribute my $5 or $10 each draw. The most we ever won has been $50 but we definitely put in way more as a group $740 yearly for me to be exact and as for the group over $888,000 yikes 😬 so we definitely in it for the long haul and yes I still believe groups works better. Our time is coming. It's only a matter of time

"This Jackpot has heavy momentum, and could land well beyond the $2 Billion and change Castro won "

Castro, like almost all sensible people, took the $997.6 million cash. There's a tiny chance that with the help of higher interest rates the inflated annuity value could reach $2 billion, but unless people absolutely lose their minds there's zero chance that Saturday's total will be even close to Castro's haul. Even if it rolls on Saturday it may not be big enough.

"I need a winning strategy where I don't have to buy more tickets to win. Give me the secret sauce pls. "

Easy. They're only going to draw a total of 6 balls, with 5 from one group and one from another group. Just buy one ticket with the numbers on those balls.

"I do wonder though why one ticket always win at top but it's hundreds of million losing tickets. "

I wonder how so many people have trouble with the bare basics of  the lottery and probability. Here's a short primer on the basics.

"The duplicates are numbers 31 and lower. "

There's a lot of repetition using the small subset of combinations that can be made with calendar numbers, various patterns, and anything else  that causes a  bunch of people to make non-random choices, but any combination can be played more than once. If all tickets were chosen randomly with nobody playing  family birthdays, once 1% of possible combinations had been sold 1% of the next 1000 tickets sold could be expected to be duplicates, as well as 1% of the 1000 tickets after that. The more tickets they sell the more chances there is of the next ticket repeating a combination that was already sold.

The "hundreds of millions of tickets" has reached a maximum of just about 162 million tickets for this past Wednesday, and 162 million random tickets would use 42.56% of the combinations. That's 124,360,889 of them, and there would be 37,639,111 tickets that matched some of the 124.37 million combinations that had been sold. With 42.56% of combinations sold there's a 42.56% chance the jackpot would be hit, and a 31.85% chance it would be a single winner. That leaves a 10.7% chance of multiple winners, with more than 3 being very unlikely.

" got my tickets but the clerk ran one of my slips twice. "

I once had a clerk print two tickets somehow. I think she managed to add the megaplier to one of them. I usually buy my tickets at a chain convenience store, and I've got no idea if they have a policy or if she did it on her own, but she gave me the extra ticket for free. That should be a policy if you're using a play slip. because you've obviously chosen a set of numbers and their mistake has guaranteed that it's impossible for  one of the tickets to win the whole jackpot.

"All 80 of us been at it for 15 years so I guess you can start to understand everyone conspiracy thoughts. "

What I understand is that it's very unlikely that anybody even tried to do the math. A full 15 years is 780 weeks, and the 3rd drawing was added  a hair over 4 years ago. I'll figure you've played 1770 PB drawings, with 1% of them at $1 billion or more.  That means 1770 drawings x $5.05 each x 80 people = a total of $715,080.  That's about 369,540 tickets, figuring about 30 drawings before the increase to a  $2 ticket. Roughly 2/3 of those tickets would have been  under the current odds, so I'm going to just use a very rough fudge factor to account for the earlier matrix. The chance of winning a jackpot with that many tickets is about 1 in 758. Not bad, but you should have zero expectation of having won a jackpot. You'd have had an even better 1 in 28 chance of the second place prize, but again you're 27 times more likely to have not won than to have won. No surprise that you didn't win. Your chance at 3rd place is almost 1 in 2, but still more likely to not have hit it. Don't worry, though. Somewhere there's another group that did. With that many tickets the odds for 4th and 5th place are excellent, so you should have won roughly 30 of those. That's a whopping 3k at the current $100 each. Unless your luck is terrible, with 200 tickets per drawing you should have been winning the current $4 prizes about 6 times per drawing. That should have returned 50k over 15 years. All together you could have reasonable expected to get back about 60k, or about 8.4% of what you spent. That's right in line with how muck of the ticket price goes to the prizes you had a reasonable expectation of winning.

 Only one 50.00 win with all those tickets with 80 participants for 15 years is rather hard to believe. I guess you are not counting all the 2.00 wins you had or 4.00 ones.

theres a reason it crashes.

interesting it went to $1.7 hhhmmm

Thank you for that wealth of information! We have had tons of $2, $4, or $10 ticket winners over the many years and only won $50 3 times but never $100 under the old matrix and when the tickets were $1 rather Powerball or mega. Through out the years we started winning bunch of $4'ticket prizes or sometimes several $7 ticket prizes but never ever crossed pass $50. As far the return rate I appreciate you breaking that down but never ever got close to any $50k return rate so that should tell you something right there and I believe last time I checked with the guy running the pool on our total return up to end 2020 he said it was like $1200 in something just from all the small winners from the old matrix. Also keep in mind our group just do auto pick nothing else through the years so I hope you understand your matrix and explanation more thoroughly now since I gave you my side of it. By the way no one stealing money in case you come back with that crap. Lol. I've been along side of the pool leader verifying tickets with him through many years because some people are away on vacation or sick so I want to make sure we won so we could be the group on the old famous show TLC How The Lottery Changed my life. The original are still at and some retired and stayed with the group! Oh yeah as far the bozo who I hope is reading this, we do get work done! We make record profits for our company and directors and CFO in the pool as well. All collect money for the pool after work or we use today technology call Zelle. So c'mon dude have common sense and quit judging people thinking they're not getting any work done 🤦🏻‍♂️ what a Bozo and clown. People who judge others never get far and will not win the lottery. By the way I'm not talking about you KY Floyd. This is for Billy Bucks!

I want to see a new record and I'd like to see it won anywhere but California or New York. 

Yes I know why it's often won in California and yes I know it's fair. While I personally love California it's just so boring seeing it won there.

At the risk of generating a post generating obsessive, unreadable, tiresome and useless nonsense about "memos" and such, I would like to suggest that the Poisson distribution for probability of numbers of winners, based on the estimated number of sales for this drawing as posted on the Texas Lottery website, $467,466,068 (corresponding to 233,733,034 tickets) suggests the following number of winners:

This is simply a estimated probability for the field coverage based on a figure that surely lacks precision and may be inaccurate, and as such may not be an reflection of the observed field coverage and the number of tickets having the same chosen numbers from the 5 of 69 + 1 field, nor the number of tickets actually sold.

It implies that the most probable outcome is another rollover, but there is a greater than 50% probability that there will be one or more winners of the jackpot.

  I don't approve of lottery pools at work for many reasons. Maybe you run yours efficiently although I doubt it. For one thing you have too many people in it. Don't tell me that running one of those does not interfere with the alleged work everyone does there. Especially when it reaches this level. You probably don't hear all the conversations going on all day about it. A lottery jackpot was never intended to be split 80 ways. I hope you win a million some week. Divide that by 80 after taxes. You will all get 8337.00 after taxes. Wow. No work will get done that day for sure there.

FYI.....It's been circulated that TN has been chosen for that particular endeavor on Saturday. Independent sources are not available to confirm that notice but are being worked on.

I got some birthday numbers lined up

Hope we don't share birthdays 🤣🤣

"I believe last time I checked with the guy running the pool on our total return up to end 2020 he said it was like $1200 "

To give you an idea of a reasonable minimum, the current odds (with some minor rounding) for the last two prizes are 1 in 92 and 1 in 38. If you've got 80 people spending $5 per drawing you're playing 600 tickets per week. Probability says you should expect to win 6 8th place  and 15 9th place prizes each week.  That's $84 per week, and $4368 for a year. For prizes with higher odds it's less improbable to have fewer wins than probability suggests, but actual results for the 8th and 9th place prizes should be fairly close to the probable results.

If you are playing 31,200 tickets per year you're playing 814 tickets for each probable 9th place prize. I'm not going to figure out the complete probability distribution, but the chance of having only 700 matches (114 less than the 814 tickets per prize) is 0.00034%. At the other extreme, 928 tickets (114 more) is 0.00063%. The chance of winning some number of times between 701 times and 927 times is roughly 99%, with about 1/3 of that being between 800 and 828 wins.

Even if my estimate of how many tickets you play are way off, based on what you're saying about how much you've won there's essentially zero chance that something isn't rotten in Denmark. I don't now exactly what it is, but it's not on the lottery's end.

 I believe Wild Bill is just imagining that he is in a pool of 80 and his work doesn't mind all the time it takes up with a possible end result of everyone quitting the job destroying the company if they win. They should have won many, many more smaller prizes than he claims they do with that amount of tickets weekly. We had a pool at work once and it was just drawing one name out of a hat. That took over an hour to organize and collect the money weekly. Never mind trying to extract 10.00 from 80 people three times  a week then going out to purchase the tickets (on their own time) making 80 copies of all tickets to distribute especially on a Friday since no one is at work for the Saturday draw. Then the Monday draw. How do you pull that off.  Then at work everyone is of course scanning over their sheet to see what numbers everyone has, talking about it, what they are going to do with their share and all that crap. I am sure his bosses and owners of the business don't mind this distraction from work. It is possibly but unlikely you have some super organizer running the pool who can do everything in under 30 minutes during lunch. With 80 people someone is going to be out sick or on vacation every day you need to collect the money. So do they get left out of that nights drawing. Others won't have the ten dollars 3 times a week. Does someone else put in for them. Doubt that. A pool of that size cannot run efficiently even for one drawing.