Powerball selling 100,000 tickets per minute

Comment #67

PrisonerSix — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 03:37:23 GMT

When I was driving home yesterday and saw on a billboard the jackpot had jumped to 1/2 Billion, I stopped and bought 5 more! Today I saw the jackpot had jumped to $550 million and on the way home, every gas station convenience store parking lot was full, the same when I did some errand running after getting home. I believe they are selling that many.

I don't want to think about what will happen if it rolls again or hits a full billion.

Comment #66

RedStang — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 18:36:28 GMT

NY lotto is estimating 2mill in ticket sales per hour. Nuttsss

Comment #65

mcginnin56 — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 18:21:00 GMT

The lottery balls aren't predigest about who the winner is, why you.

Comment #64

Brcebrce — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 18:16:22 GMT

Those are the tickets. How many lines per ticket

Comment #63

LottoBoner — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:04:34 GMT

What if somebody using the lotter won? Are sales at the lotter included in these figures?

Would it be fair if some bloke from the UK won the PB pot? who didn't even have to visit the US in order to obtain a ticket?

Is not the lottery a voluntary tax? Is it constitutional for a citizen of another country to take a voluntary tax out of the country

Comment #62

mcginnin56 — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 16:44:47 GMT

Nice plan Venom

Comment #61

VenomV12 — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 16:40:02 GMT

While everyone is fighting to win the $500 million jackpot, I will quietly collect my one million dollar second prize and disappear quietly into the night, never to be seen again.

Comment #60

helpmewin — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 15:24:39 GMT

i Love Orlando,FL

Comment #59

Cletu$2 — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 15:13:58 GMT

Powerball is drawn in Florida.Orlando,I think.

I'm not sure about MegaMillions,but I think I read somewhere that it was drawn in Georgia,but I could be wrong.

Comment #58

helpmewin — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 15:00:40 GMT

where does the draw come from? what state?

i mean who draws these numbers for power ball mega ball

Comment #57

Ronnie316 — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 14:59:11 GMT

Ridge is throwin up smoke signals as fast as he can, with the little woman in town hollerin out the numbers for the the clerk to put in the playin contraption for gettin them PB tickets.......

Comment #56

golfer1960 — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 14:53:26 GMT

Where you at Ridge

Comment #55

Ronnie316 — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 14:23:58 GMT

Right..... 24 hours would be reasonable expectations for enlisting a replacement......

Comment #54

mcginnin56 — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 14:20:48 GMT

Or the lottery ball activator guy called in sick that day.

Comment #53

Ronnie316 — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 14:15:33 GMT

They could just say that the drawing machine is in the shop for repairs............

Comment #52

Ronnie316 — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 14:05:50 GMT

They should have a rule where they postpone the drawing for a day if they want to......

Comment #51

mcginnin56 — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 14:01:49 GMT

The $1 billion jackpot is assured with generous players like these

Comment #50

Ronnie316 — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 14:01:18 GMT

I can just see a lot of people are thinking..... I have a really good chance at winning this .......

Comment #49

Ronnie316 — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 14:00:01 GMT

I'm sure lots of people will be buying a 100 or more thinking they will be the winner........

Comment #48

sully16 — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 13:56:39 GMT

Lottery retailers are having a great day, my husband told me last night at the gas station, some guy spent 700 dollars on easy picks, yikes.....

Comment #47

dallascowboyfan — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 13:17:22 GMT

100,000 tickets per minute......WOW

Comment #46

beaudad — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 12:57:52 GMT

I guess old friends and distant family members will be contacting me for some of it....oh well....I wonder if they would do that for me.........well they say they will.....but they don't.....but I do have some good friends...............somebody's gonna win it....it might as well be me.............lol......

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Comment #45

jamella724 — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:42:56 GMT

PB is selling105,000 tickets per minute , just wondering how they do that? Lottery hopefuls all over the world might have been praying so hard to win the jackpot prize. I couldn't imagine how big the money is.

Comment #44

Sosaman66 — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 09:25:33 GMT

Even if nobody won MM, it'd only be around 60-70M for Friday's drawing. Does anybody honestly think that a 60-70M jackpot would be serious competition to Powerball's sales? Pretty sure it would have had very minimal, if any, impact on Powerball's sales. Sadly, I flew from Minneapolis to Los Angeles Monday morning for a week long vacation, and they don't sell Powerball tickets here in CA :(

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Comment #43

lowerAL251 — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 08:27:35 GMT

500 mill....... snip !!!!!!!!!!

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Comment #42

balyanango — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 07:33:27 GMT

Yes, someone from Georgia did win the $49 million Mega Jackpot

Comment #41

pillsbury — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 06:53:57 GMT

It was posted on the GA lottery website under the MM section with the number of winners for the drawing.

Comment #40

ashabug725 — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 06:36:31 GMT

It wasn't at the time.. took about 30-40 mins later to be posted

Comment #39

Factorem — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 06:20:15 GMT

It is on usamega.com posted at 1:12 AM

1:12 am Mega Millions Jackpot Winner! There was one $49 million jackpot winner from Georgia in the Tuesday, November 27, 2012 Mega Millions drawing.

Comment #38

Original Bey — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 05:43:50 GMT

GA won MM tonight

Comment #37

ashabug725 — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 05:41:34 GMT

Where'd u get that info? Isn't showing on mm website or usamega.... Not doubting u... Just curious

Comment #36

Original Bey — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 05:35:53 GMT

Madre de Dios!

Someone won the MM Jackpot tonight.

With MM back at 12m there is no real competitor out there.

PB stands alone in Amercia as the Big Wig.

Sales will hit Pluto

Comment #35

Nikkicute — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 05:12:22 GMT

I was about to post the samething, I've never waited in line to buy tickets.

Those super long lines on t.v. never seen those around here.

Comment #34

ashabug725 — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 04:53:20 GMT

Maybe we have too many gas stations... Or places that sell tix here, but I've never waited in a line for ppl getting any lottery tickets... Not that I'm complaining, but could be interesting

Comment #33

sully16 — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 04:43:19 GMT

Thats a lot of tickets being sold, had a nice line at the gas station.

Comment #32

zinniagirl — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 04:03:49 GMT

First thing, welcome to Lottery Post!

That sounds like a fun thing to do. Although, over half of us have the last two numbers as non playable numbers. But I do like your number!!

Good luck to all.

Comment #31

weshar75 — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 03:27:39 GMT

I am thinking that someone is going to get lucky tomorrow night on powerball. I just hope it is me! Good luck!-wseshar75

Comment #30

Todd — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 02:52:34 GMT

Great explanation.

Comment #29

Jill34786 — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 02:21:45 GMT

There are a few nice districts in Paris, 8.4 million Euro works out to roughly 11 million U.S. I would personally rather spend that kind of money for an apartment in NY instead because you will be looking at 75% income taxes should you relocate to France.

Comment #28

KY Floyd — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 02:02:23 GMT

Here's a simplified version if how it works when all combinations are chosen randomly. After selling about 17.5 million tickets 10% of the combinations have been covered. That means that 10% of the next few million tickets can be expected to repeat combinations that have already been sold. After 20% of the combinations have been sold we should expect that 20% of the next few million will be duplicates. And so on. If sales are high enough that 90% of combinations have been sold we should expect t... [ More ]

Comment #27

GTR1946 — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 01:42:02 GMT

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Comment #26

Original Bey — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 01:35:25 GMT

Not a drinker myself. The closest I get to alcohol is communion wine but in France, who knows

Comment #25

Artist77 — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 01:31:56 GMT

lol lol Not a drinker....one has to be alert to manage that jackpot money.

Comment #24

Original Bey — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 01:29:55 GMT

Crepes?

Let me put it this way....I will hire a liver donor in advance - lol

Comment #23

Artist77 — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 01:23:52 GMT

Thanks! I guess we can share the jackpot. I plan to spend my days there reading Voltaire and Hugo and eating crepes every day.

Comment #22

Original Bey — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 01:16:55 GMT

Powerplay won't get you in a French dark alley - lol.

You have refined tastes so we have to make sure you get a share of the big pot.

Comment #21

Ronnie316 — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 01:15:09 GMT

Im going for the JP so powerplay would not help me....

Comment #20

Ronnie316 — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 01:14:06 GMT

Good idea, I got some extras for tonight too......

Comment #19

brucevang12 — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 01:11:50 GMT

I bought $5.00 worth of Megamillions ticket for tonight. That way if I win I can hurry and claim it without too much media attention.

Comment #18

Artist77 — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 01:11:39 GMT

$3. I always get powerplay. Check out this place. http://www.justfrancesales.com/property.aspx?id=468 I want to be in the best district of course....7th.

Comment #17

Ronnie316 — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 01:10:15 GMT

Pseudo random combinations are generated at the local terminals.

Comment #16

haymaker — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 01:09:25 GMT

Well, you're right, 25+ hrs. to go, could pull the average up.

Comment #15

Original Bey — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 01:05:11 GMT

Who knew $2 could buy you a ticket to 1st class? Lol!

I would get a nice classic french stlye hoome in Southern France as well. Lots of landscape and beautiful architecture at reasonable rates. Keep in mind reasonable is relative as France holds the most expensive real estate.

Comment #14

rock_nc — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 01:03:23 GMT

I got my 10 dollars worth for Wednesday night. 5 Jackpot winners total from NC in all from past drawings, time to add another one! ME

Comment #13

Artist77 — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 01:01:50 GMT

I am checking out apartments on Zillow to buy in Paris near the Eiffel Tower.

Comment #12

Original Bey — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 01:01:31 GMT

Agreed but it will probably double the current rate in the last few hours to draw time.

Comment #11

JonnyBgood07 — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 01:00:46 GMT

That's what I'm not getting....there has to be some software bias they are able to send to terminals nationally.

I just can't conceive all the combos not being covered...even by time the thing hits 100-200 million

Comment #10

haymaker — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 00:59:49 GMT

calculations are correct but sales will slow overnight and pull the average down.

Comment #9

rock_nc — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 00:57:55 GMT

I hope there will be Multiple winners. Just as long as I will be one of them

Comment #8

Ronnie316 — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 00:56:05 GMT

Sound good....... So the entire field of combinations can be covered in one day.......

Comment #7

C0w Pi3 — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 00:54:19 GMT

that's 144,000,000 tickets x $2 per = $288,000,000 in the pot added.

Comment #6

Ronnie316 — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 00:51:30 GMT

Someone do the math of 100k per minute for the next 24 hours

Comment #5

Ronnie316 — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 00:40:36 GMT

I bought a few today............

Comment #4

ONEDAY — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 00:37:35 GMT

i like to see go to 1 billion//and some on win with 1 ticket

Comment #3

haymaker — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 00:29:56 GMT

Maybe It'll be me, I doubled my chances w/ an Xtra ticket. LOL

Comment #2

Original Bey — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 00:17:23 GMT

It would be soooo sweet if someone can win the MM jackpot tonight. With no serious competitor, people will go out of their minds 2 dollars at a time

Comment #1

Original Bey — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 00:15:33 GMT

I wonder how the rate of sales now compare to the MM jackpot in March.

It will increase again at or around noon tomorrow by at lease 100m and by draw time it should be in the mid to late 600s!

If you're waiting on a rollover, don't hold your breath.

Powerball selling 100,000 tickets per minute

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