$228.5M Powerball lottery ticket sold in California

Comment #46

BellasBMWLucki — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 02:10:11 GMT

i love reading who wins,each time.

CALI IS DEFINITELY WINNING MORE WITHIN 1 YR.

Encompassing N.J. too!

lov it!

congrats

Comment #45

LottoPerro — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 19:34:45 GMT

No conspiracy at all. The lottery is not rigged for CA to win. The odds are the same for every state that plays. I just hate the conspiracy theories that go around saying the lottery is rigged. I wouldn't play something that is knowingly rigged. Trust me - if I could play the lottery (stupid Alabama), I would. The chances are too darn low to win. Maybe it's just because CA and NY (and to an extent, FL and NJ) have it better off financially than most other states like CO, MI, ME, etc.

Comment #44

cbr$ — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 16:19:31 GMT

Congratulation to the winner as well as the Dehoff.

Comment #43

THRIFTY — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 15:44:27 GMT

Millions of people lose money playing MM and PB in New York.

Comment #42

larry3100 — Sun, 28 Sep 2014 22:29:30 GMT

I live here in Redwood City, just south a few miles of San Mateo where Vinh Nguyen won his $228.4 million in the Power Ball lottery. I've been playing the lottery since it started some years ago and never won much of anything. Some of you are posting this thing about California lottery players are always winning. It's not true. California is just a big state with a population of over 30 million. If you were to take all of the lottery players from all over the United States and they came to, let... [ More ]

Comment #41

luckyladie — Sat, 27 Sep 2014 22:45:01 GMT

lol! I didn't know those were lyrics.. Cool

Comment #40

QueenBee521 — Sat, 27 Sep 2014 00:59:28 GMT

Hello i just found out that i can summit my tickets to win prizes, how do i post my tickets

Comment #39

giovanni619 — Sat, 27 Sep 2014 00:52:38 GMT

Valid point. The winner just picked his own numbers as he was filling in the slip. Talk about instant luck. You never know, it might hit anybody as long as you buy your tickets. At the end of the day, you gotta play to win.

Comment #38

maringoman — Sat, 27 Sep 2014 00:26:00 GMT

A nail salon worker, Vinh Nguyen was the winner. He's had played the lottery for 5 years. He bought 15 lines and played numbers that jumped into his head presumably as he was filling the betslips. Congratulations Mr Nguyen.

Comment #37

Scratch$ — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 15:38:12 GMT

You would think most of the jackpot winners would be from the Los Angeles area, being easily the second largest city in the country and having an enormous metropolitan area. The majority of lottery tickets sold in the state are bought there. Yet the considerably smaller Bay area, home of the rich and powerful who control the highly influential Silicon Valley technology mecca, appears to produce most of the jackpot winners.

Comment #36

pickone4me — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 14:11:19 GMT

I have done the same as you, and have also gotten mocked. Most pass it off as a conspiracy theory, due to being scared that maybe it has merit, or maybe it doesn't....I guess we will see which state wins the MM or PB jackpot.

Comment #35

whiteballz — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 08:54:02 GMT

Y'all gon' make me lose my mind

Up in here, up in here

Y'all gon' make me go all out

Up in here, up in here

Y'all gon' make me act a FOOL

Up in HERE, up in here

Y'all gon' make me lose my cool

Up in here, up in here

Comment #34

Scratch$ — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 04:45:10 GMT

OH YEAH

Comment #33

pickone4me — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 01:37:08 GMT

So you're saying it is a conspiracy theory california won the jackpot the other night? I mean come on...how many more times do they need to win in a row to convince you something isn't right? You can claim conspiracy theory all you want to avoid, and deflect all those thoughts that something is off with these california wins.

Comment #32

HaveABall — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 01:29:37 GMT

Well, En ReVal, it is because California has more adults than any other state. Plus, more of California state's population and visitors buy the online lottery tickets.

Today's realization that California ticket vendors have already sold 3 MegaMillions jackpot winning tickets and 4 Powerball jackpot winning tickets (each game only has approximately 13 jackpots won per year), has caused a lot of 'single-row, every drawing players' to switch to playing less or ceasing ... since odds of winning... [ More ]

Comment #31

rock_nc — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 01:17:07 GMT

10-23-2013 was the first winner from California...2-19-2014 winner in California....3-1-2014 winner in California....7-19-2014 winner in California... and last but not least 9-24-2014 winner...California joined on APRIL 8, 2013..in just 6 months time had their first winner... 4 big wins already this year! Pop: 38 million people lives in California.. I buy 2.00 dollars worth every draw....must keep playing!!! Hope to win!!! Congrats to the lucky winner

Comment #30

luckyladie — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 00:58:04 GMT

It's about to get serious up in here.

Comment #29

One-Day — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 23:02:51 GMT

That's it, it's rigged. It's a conspiracy man, I'm telling you. The gov. did it.

Comment #28

giovanni619 — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 22:57:32 GMT

Not Cali. Northern Cali. The powerball is always won up there. The powerball never lands in San Diego. If anything Los Angeles and up always get rained with the big pot.

Comment #27

noise-gate — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 22:47:17 GMT

You going about this the wrong way- what about all the other Californians that did not win? It was ONE Californian winner. By the way Californians do more than their fair share of making these jackpots rise.

BTW- l did predict that the winner would be from N California.

..now if only l can get my numbers to align themselves in the correct sequence.On a side note,you can mail your money to me, l will collect it at no charge.

Congratulations to the Winner/Winners.

Comment #26

user71926 — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 18:34:28 GMT

Congratulation to the WINNER/S AND THE STORE OWNER/s! CA HERE I COME

Comment #25

RedStang — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 18:04:47 GMT

Had a feeling it was over when i saw those numbers. Just surprised it hasn't cracked 300mill since February.

Comment #24

LottoPerro — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 17:30:52 GMT

*facepalm* More BS conspiracy theories about California always winning? Okay, let me put it to you this way:

Person: Darnit, California wins again. I'm gonna stop playing.

Same Person when jackpot grows $100m+: I got my numbers already

Comment #23

Toronto — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 16:29:53 GMT

A state that buys 7-10% of the tickets, wins far more than 10% of the jackpots (when they are in the game - see Powerball starting in April 2013 and on or Mega Millions).

Comment #22

Romancandle — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 16:22:45 GMT

There's too much at stake for PB and MM to be rigged folks and if it was it would be far too complicated to regularly pull something like that off on games at this scale.

The odds are astronomical... throw some randomness into the mix and it will make your head spin even if you can grasp the math.

California is just reaping the benefits of a large player/population base- period.

But anyway, people will believe what they want to believe...

I believe California, New York, Pennsylvania... [ More ]

Comment #21

Toronto — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 15:58:35 GMT

California buys 10% of the tickets. Someone do the math on percent of jackpots they've won over x years.

Comment #20

New York — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 15:51:10 GMT

Cali is just getting lucky. Maybe there is a higher percentage of buyers over there, compared to other states.

Who knows? One thing I do know, I refuse to believe it's a conspiracy. That's just ridiculous and petty.

Comment #19

shadowlady — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 15:46:25 GMT

I am another person who is annoyed that California is winning so many (too many??) of the Powerball jackpots. My husband says it is because they are buying so many of the tickets compared to other states, but I don't agree with him.

Maybe I should try to find someone in California to buy and then mail tickets to me.

Comment #18

luckyladie — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 15:23:52 GMT

I was wondering if it's QP too. If it is, all the more reason to think it's shady.

Comment #17

New York — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 15:13:31 GMT

Congrats winners! No need to be salty :p

The numbers that what drawn tho, so similar to the multiples of 7!!

(7, 14, 21, then stops. Goes 24, then 41)

7 and permutations of 7 look really lucky. Wonder of it was a QP

Comment #16

luckyladie — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 15:11:20 GMT

I know right! I'm telling you, something is odd about this. Even if someone here in Ga. could win a jackpot that large it's shared with either California or NY. If a sole winner wins, it's a jackpot not over $70 million.

Comment #15

Romancandle — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 15:08:40 GMT

I'm going to quit playing too... from here on out I'm only buying PB tickets on Wed and Sat- screw California

Comment #14

motto76 — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 14:56:06 GMT

California again i know something is not right here all the big pb have been won in california and Mg too.. will only play the MG

Comment #13

music* — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 14:41:33 GMT

Congratulations to the winner or winners. If they are smart they will wait a month or more. Keep the secret to themselves or within a close nit family. Hire an attorney, maybe a tax attorney . Plus a media guru. And someone to handle all the requests for money from strangers.

Comment #12

pickone4me — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 14:28:24 GMT

Still believe in that so called logic

Comment #11

pickone4me — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 14:21:24 GMT

Well well well, don't say I didn't tell some of you so.

Comment #10

jjtheprince — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 14:00:37 GMT

No congrats here since it's California that won.

I hope they get the lottery curse and become another David Lee Edwards.

Comment #9

zinniagirl — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 13:59:54 GMT

Hearty congratulations to the winner (s)!! And my condolences to the sourpusses....

Comment #8

Goteki54 — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 13:59:21 GMT

Go Kidding!!I know there is no conspiracy, but the percentage of powerball wins for California vs other states just seem odd or out of whack. If I move to California (snowball chance in hell) then I'll start playing powerball again.

Comment #7

helpmewin — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 13:40:56 GMT

Yeah right

Comment #6

hearsetrax — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 13:26:44 GMT

well I officially plan to quit playing the pb, specially after last night's numbers

Comment #5

dallascowboyfan — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 13:11:21 GMT

Congratulation to the winner/s.

Comment #4

LouieTheCat — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 13:09:26 GMT

PB and MM are rigged for Cali and NY. I've posted this several times and people have mocked me, but lo and behold look what happens here.

It's a shame you guys still spend money on PB and MM when only two states are programmed to win jackpots. But I guess every industry needs its rubes.

Comment #3

IPlayWeekly — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 13:06:43 GMT

All the numbers I play are under 41, I got one number last night.

Comment #2

En ReVal — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 13:05:14 GMT

What is going on with Calif. winning so much

Comment #1

Kee12 — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 12:42:47 GMT

Congratulations to the winner (s

$228.5M Powerball lottery ticket sold in California

Lottery Post — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 12:20:46 GMT

Someone in the Bay Area could be $228.5 million richer after lottery officials announced Wednesday that the sole winning Powerball ticket was sold in San Mateo, California.

The winning ticket was sold at Key Markets, located at 500 S. Norfolk St., a spokesman for the agency said.

Lottery officials said it was the sole winning ticket sold in the 44 states that carry Powerball.

The winning numbers were 7, 14, 21, 24, and 41, with Powerball number 26. The lump-sum jackpot would be about $1... [ More ]