Powerball lottery jackpot increases to $92 million

Comment #12

ayenowitall — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 06:55:35 GMT

Some people are able to beat the long odds twice. Did anyone happen to read about the 92 year old guy out in Vegas who won IGT's Megabucks slot jackpot for the second time last Thursday? He hit for $21.1 million at the Cannery Casino. His previous win was for $4.6 million at the Mirage in 1989. It's a pretty good story. Just do a news search for megabucks + jackpot and you should find several stories about it.I'd consider myself extremely lucky just to beat the PowerBall game once!Better luck,ay... [ More ]

Comment #11

anonymous77 — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 11:32:15 GMT

Not a bad idea at all, if one plays a jackpot game, PB or MM, anyway.Prior odds of hitting both might be over 25 quadrillion as NoCompLotto indicated.But, once one of them is being hit, then the odds of hitting both goes down to the normal, 1 in 146M or 175M, which is exactly same as the odds of hitting just (in fact, the remaining) one.May sound completely absurd to nonplayers but, in my opinion, not two completely different worlds of odds to any MM or PB player.1 in 150M and 1 in 25 quadrillio... [ More ]

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Todd — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 13:19:43 GMT

You know, even with seemingly impossible odds, people really DO sometimes beat the odds, no matter how long they are.If you take some time searching the News forum for different combinations of words you can come up with stories posted here at LP about people who beat the odds, winning multiple games.Here's one: https://www.lotterypost.com/news/98416.htmI remember another story about a California couple who won two California jackpots on the same day. I just haven't spent the time to track it d... [ More ]

Comment #9

Chewie — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 12:18:47 GMT

One person in New Jersey has a chance - if they feel lucky.

Comment #8

Chewie — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 12:17:44 GMT

All of a sudden, PB is looking really good. Guess I'll have to spend the gas money to drive to PA this afternoon (PA has no state tax, CT does). The question is: How high will the roll go? Should I buy one weeks worth, two weeks worth, five weeks worth

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nomoneybabe — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 15:20:07 GMT

The odds is terrible but we can not say : It is totally impossible!! ...yea

Comment #6

JAG331 — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 15:00:31 GMT

And 10 good lawyers to bail you out of the fraud investigation

Comment #5

Chewie — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 14:05:20 GMT

If one is lucky enough to win one of the jackpots, nothing would prevent that luck from continuing - for a while. There have been several articles where some one who won a major prize, came back later and won another. Of course, it never hurts to help the luck along by studying and purchasing tickets that have the high propability of hitting. Always buy one based on pure luck though.

Comment #4

wizeguy — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 13:41:37 GMT

and I have tickets for both

Comment #3

NoCompLotto! — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 04:01:16 GMT

Let's do a little math, shall we? Odds of Hitting Mega Millions: 1 in 175,711,536Odds of Hitting Powerball: 1 in 146,107,962Odds of hitting both combined: 1 in 25,672,854,424,849,632(Over 25 quadrillion)Odds of passing out when you find out you actually hit both: 1 in 0.01 Wouldn't it be something to win $250M on MM, and then the next day win $92M on PB?? You'd have to hire about 30 doctors to revive me.

Comment #2

mrmst — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 20:29:33 GMT

Chewie - you are so right! $35 million would be plenty for me and my business partner (we have agreement that if one hits big we split). In my case, living in Maryland, it would be even more stealthy to cross into PA, make the claim, and slip back below the Mason-Dixon line.

Comment #1

Chewie — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 19:34:07 GMT

With every one concentrating on MM, now would be a good time to hit thejackpot on PB. If MM is hit tomorrow, no one would show up at the interview for the $35M cash walk-a-way for PB.

Powerball lottery jackpot increases to $92 million

Lottery Post — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 16:39:01 GMT

The jackpot in America's Game continues to move upward.Even though the Powerball lottery jackpot was not awarded Wednesday evening, 405,224 players across the nation won a total of more than $3.5 million in prizes.Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Wednesday's drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $92 million.The cash option for the Saturday, September 17th drawing will be an estimated $46.5 million.The numbers drawn Wednesday night were 21, 24, 42, 49, 50 and the Powe... [ More ]