Powerball lottery spreads the wealth in Wednesday's drawing

Comment #18

LckyLary — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 23:47:14 GMT

Because those are low numbers they are dates, kids' ages, etc. so someone was lucky enough to have a 2-year old in their family. I am guessing it's not a fortune-cookie set like the other time 100 people won.

Comment #17

time*treat — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 05:00:24 GMT

Can someone explain what playing the spread means

Comment #16

Fraserm — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 15:33:14 GMT

Have you even looked at how Lotto Max pays out

Comment #15

RJOh — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 00:12:22 GMT

PowerBall continues to spread the wealth with its Saturday drawing. With odds of 1:5,138,133 of matching 5+0 for $200K and sales of 20,891,222 tickets one would expect there to be only 4 such winners but there were eleven of them. Some players are definitely beating the odds.

If you are interested in which states had those winners, you can read more at USAMega which has a link on the left side of this page.

Comment #14

dpoly1 — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 19:10:05 GMT

Please ..........

if you want anything Canadian .......... move to Canada .......... just a request ............

I prefer how we do things in the U.S.A. ......... thank you

Comment #13

savagegoose — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 15:27:50 GMT

only prob i had with the article is it didnt list the numbers that where drawn to produce all the historic masive player wins

would have been nice.

anyhow gratz to all that win, and if i get a series of 3 numbers ill keep em, cuz u never know

Comment #12

Fraserm — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 15:13:58 GMT

If a lottery wants a better way to spread the wealth they should follow how Lotto Max is played in Canada.

Comment #11

Abdi — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 19:20:37 GMT

what a night for the lottery players in the USA!

congratulations to the player who won $ 1 M.

Comment #10

dpoly1 — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 17:29:15 GMT

It wasn't the Jackpot !?

The Jackpot was ONE ticket. Yikes! Wouldn't want that

Comment #9

dpoly1 — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 14:13:37 GMT

Nice,

But they forgot to pick my numbers

Comment #8

RJOh — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 13:25:20 GMT

said Chuck Strutt, Executive Director of Powerball. We assume that the wins came from players who chose their numbers by using birthdays, children's ages, or other important dates......

Sounds like he thinks players picking their own numbers caused a higher amount of match5 payouts than usual.

Comment #7

Starr920 — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 12:51:16 GMT

Now that's how a jackpot should be won - spread the wealth especially during the holiday season.

Congratulations to all the winners

Comment #6

ttech10 — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 12:26:30 GMT

When I saw the numbers I had a feeling someone would win. They just looked like numbers that at least one person was bound to play.

Comment #5

TnTicketlosers — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 07:33:55 GMT

Now something like this is worth playing.

Comment #4

cope — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 03:51:51 GMT

5-10-11-12-20?

Three consecutive numbers?

I would never pick numbers like that......which probably explains why I don't win payouts like that.

Comment #3

tnhope — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 02:40:07 GMT

CONGRATS TO THE WINNERS

Comment #2

maringoman — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 02:09:00 GMT

I'm curious about the time when more than 100 people bought their tickets following fortune cookie predictions and each hit the first 5 numbers.

I remember there was an urgent investigation followed by lots of laughs when the truth came out.

Anyways, I missed out on yesterdays easy numbers because I buy them quick ppicks. I'm glad that lots of people won something.

Comment #1

sully16 — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 01:33:22 GMT

Congrats to all the winners, what a great evening for lottery players.

Powerball lottery spreads the wealth in Wednesday's drawing

Lottery Post — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 01:30:22 GMT

Birthdays and playing the spread likely behind higher-than-anticipated winners

By Todd Northrop

What a night for Powerball players around the United States!

In Wednesday evening's Powerball multi-state lottery drawing, 34 players hit the match-5 $200,000 prize level, including nine winners who also purchased Power Play and will walk away with $1 million, and one player won the entire jackpot of $95.3 million.

The cash value of the jackpot is $49.8 million.

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