$400 MILLION: Powerball jackpot surges on rollover

Comment #85

MaximumMillions — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 10:14:46 GMT

If I won and couldn't stay anonymous I'd not aid in painting a bullseye on myself. Claim, vanish, change your name and hope for the best.

Comment #84

Murgatroyd — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 01:57:59 GMT

Be careful about this sort of thing. If you do it wrong, you and your friends and family could get a nasty surprise from the IRS. To avoid having them interpret it as a bunch of very large taxable gifts, you'll probably need to form the trust and transfer the ticket to it before the drawing.

Comment #83

MaximumMillions — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 19:16:39 GMT

Hey durianrider, tell freelee I said hello

Comment #82

RJOh — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 16:58:49 GMT

California has also posted a $450M PB jackpot and other websites are doing the same. Even USAMega has posted $450M now.

Comment #81

BBLL — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 16:54:16 GMT

Yeaaaaaaaa

Comment #80

HoLeeKau — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 16:44:36 GMT

LOL I dashed off to see for myself, and thought you were rickrolling us when the powerball.com was still at 400M.

Comment #79

HoLeeKau — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 16:43:04 GMT

I don't know about Gloria, but I do know the Idaho Lottery often announces on their Facebook page that there's a 100K winner in the lobby right now. I wonder if the Florida Lottery tweets or facebooks it too?

Florida and Idaho are not anonymous states. I don't think they consider it mishandling anything to announce it to the world that the winner is there.

When Brad Duke won here, they said he ducked out the back door and dashed to the car to try to avoid the media. That was before social... [ More ]

Comment #78

veganlife125 — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 16:40:38 GMT

So you want to preserve your health after winning the lottery by remaining anonymous. Ok. Your health and safety really means that much to you right?

Then why do you keep eating meat, fish, eggs, butter, and cows milk which will surely cause heart attacks, strokes, blood clots, cancer, and diabetes?

Think about it. I win the lottery and give a press conference and stay vegan. You don't win the lottery and keeping eating those animal products. Who is morely likely to suffer pain?

Glad yo... [ More ]

Comment #77

gocart1 — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 16:35:43 GMT

Wait a minute ..New York State Lottery has it at 450 Million but the powerball.com is still at 400..What the Hell

Comment #76

gocart1 — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 16:32:10 GMT

It just jumped up to 450 Million Jackpot

Comment #75

IPlayWeekly — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 16:16:01 GMT

I prob won't play... I have given up on PB after playing for 3 years due to the recent matrix change. I'm focused on my state game. Good luck everyone.

Comment #74

mrbg — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 08:29:26 GMT

Im in. Good luck folks.

Comment #73

MaximumMillions — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 08:16:40 GMT

This has me wondering who called the news on Gloria Mackenzie?

They didn't participate in the press conference, didn't answer any questions, but were followed in the parking lot.

Is there a write up somewhere were the Florida Lottery Comission apologizes for mishandling her claim

Comment #72

Teddi — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 07:38:31 GMT

A South Carolina winner claimed $399+ million anonymously. Very little was made of it and it's rarely mentioned in any lottery discussion. Whoever it is is doing an amazing job of keeping radio silence on it. Sometimes you see exes or jealous friends/family members try to grab their 15 minutes. Haven't found a thing on this person. Whatever he's doing he's doing it right

Comment #71

lejardin — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 04:07:09 GMT

Reading the posts I just thought of something. After winning I would think you would take some time to get legal advise, set up a trust etc. If there is a lot of interest in the winner and the fact the person didnt come forward soon enough would the Seller of the ticket pull the video? That would expose the winner....

I have seen this before trying to find a winner do you recognize..... .

Just wondering.

Comment #70

Suzy-Dittlenose — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 03:20:32 GMT

If a Billion is reached, how about a Trust claiming the win with multiple members in that trust that YOU invite in (trusted friends and family that are worthy). Their names will probably be publicized but it'll dilute the idea that one person has all that money (unless you live in a state that allows Blind Trusts where nobody's name gets released to the public). Members of the Trust sign a nondisclosure/confidentiality form and you decide how much to allocate to each member. For example, give th... [ More ]

Comment #69

noise-gate — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 03:08:22 GMT

You must be one of the 2nd place winners of the recent PB drawing that walked off with a cool $1million huh BDog

Comment #68

Murgatroyd — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 02:06:42 GMT

And many millions of $2 investments turned into $0.00.

Comment #67

LottoLucy — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 01:34:49 GMT

I live in a state where winners are anonymous and you have to give written consent to waive that anonymity. I see your point but I don't know that I would make any decision within the first couple of months, at least, to do that. You can never put the genie back in the bottle and your whole life you would be trotted out any time there was a big lottery jackpot (and hopefully not as a cautionary tale). I think I might see how it goes. I would at least want a head start.

Comment #66

Albeone — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 01:28:34 GMT

I have found at least two instances where New Hampshire lottery winners claimed the winnings anonymously through a trust. One was last year in the Tri-State Megabucks and the other was in the PB back in 2004. And they also don't tax lottery winnings. I should of drove the extra half hour and played there, lol.

Comment #65

Coin Toss — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 01:27:05 GMT

There has been enough grief among winners of amounts way under $1B. I don't think anyone who wins $1B could hide it unless in an anonymous state, and then maybe.

But letting all the world know - so to speak- you won $1B (of you could avoid it) would be a very bad move.

On TLC's TLCML there have been plenty of horror stories from winners - long lost relatives, former employees, etc....putting the bite on them. One guy in New Mexico was getting sacks of mail every day and one mooch asked him... [ More ]

Comment #64

LottoLucy — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 01:18:51 GMT

That is a good point about their credibility. I am sure seeing some average looking person with a big smile peeking out over that ceremonial check with all those zeros will make a lot of people less apprehensive.

Comment #63

Stack47 — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 01:03:07 GMT

I can't recall when a multi-state $400 million plus jackpot winner claimed anonymously, but now we have all the problems when a Hot Lotto jackpot winner tried to claim anonymously. Because PB uses live ball drawings, it will very difficult claiming the drawing was rigged, but if for nothing more than credibility, MUSL is probably secretly hoping the jackpot is won by somebody in a state with no anonymity.

Comment #62

BBLL — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 00:56:48 GMT

If I win a billion dollars, I'm leaving America for a few months to a year. Safety first.

Comment #61

travelintrucker — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 00:40:11 GMT

I think it'd be best to, if you're the sole winner of a billion dollar jackpot. If you try to stay anonymous, it may screw things up for you and everyone else. My speculation based on how the public and politicians would react.

Comment #60

LottoLucy — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 00:33:35 GMT

Are you saying out yourself if you win

Comment #59

LottoLucy — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 00:31:09 GMT

In Delaware and Maryland you can claim anonymously. The New Hampshire lottery says in their FAQ that New Hampshire state law requires the winner's name, town and amount won be available for public information.

Comment #58

travelintrucker — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 00:30:33 GMT

In my thread, Are you ready for the attention , I talk about your last statement. I think it would not matter. There would be a HUGE public outcry to know who the winner is. That is, if it gets up that high and there's a sole winner. If that's the case, it'd be best to just take one for the team, so to speak. You know, just to protect other anonymous lottery winners. That's what I'd do.

Comment #57

travelintrucker — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 00:25:21 GMT

If it does hit a billion, I hope people don't cash in their 401Ks and IRAs to try to get the huge pay out.

Comment #56

nist7seven — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 00:19:39 GMT

Indeed. And that's because they're the ones printing and selling the lotto tickets

Comment #55

MaximumMillions — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 00:10:06 GMT

Aren't New Hampshire, Delaware and Maryland anonymous too? Might be closer. and Delaware would be state tax free.

Comment #54

Prolific-Atom — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 23:39:44 GMT

They say that money doesn't solve all your problems or even buy you happiness. If the lottery gods are listening I'm willing be the guinea pig to put that theory to the ultimate test and I'm pretty sure it will make me happy. I promise to donate 10% to reputable charities as a start.

Comment #53

Albeone — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 23:29:22 GMT

I unfortunately live in New York State, about the worse state to win lottery, high taxes, can't collect the winnings anonymously. But Vermont is close by, where you can collect the winnings anonymously through a trust. I played there a couple weeks ago and checked the multi-draw column for 10 draws so I'm good for the next 3 weeks.

Comment #52

Prolific-Atom — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 22:57:46 GMT

UNCLE SAM (The I.R.S.) wins in every lottery, and they don't even buy a ticket.

Comment #51

MaximumMillions — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 22:34:11 GMT

Seeing how it now has a head start of 3 rollovers and is now picking up steam, is 1$ more than MM and now has worse odds maybe we will indeed get to see it post a new record, maybe even 850M-950M$, would be quite entertaining.

A single winner had better be from on of the anonymous states.

Comment #50

Albeone — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 21:39:49 GMT

Well based on that data I posted of last year's big jackpot, if it were to roll over three more times, by the time of the drawing it would be at least $750-$800 million. I remember watching the mega millions drawing a few years ago when it hit a record $656 million and they said if there were no winners the pot would jump to $950 million.

Comment #49

Enigmas — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 20:26:27 GMT

I'd guess in three more draws it will be around 610-640

Comment #48

MaximumMillions — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 20:19:43 GMT

What's your guess for a total if it rolled three more times?

750M

Comment #47

Albeone — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 19:20:51 GMT

Actually, the current PB run is ahead of last Feb's Jackpot. Only took 17 vs 20 draws to reach $400+ million .

DRAW DATE JACKPOT CASH DRAW DATE JACKPOT CASH

1. 11/07/15 40 24.9 12/03/14 40 25.3

2. 11/11/15 50 30.5 12/06/14 50 31.6

3. 11/14/15 60 36.7 12/10/14 60 37.8

4. 11/18/15 70 42.8 12/13/14 70 44.1

5. 11/21/15 80 48.9 12/17/14 80 51.7

6. 11/25/15 90 55.1 12/20/14 90 58.2

7. 11/28/15 100 61.3 12/24/14 100 64.6

8. 12/02/15 110 67.4 12/27/14 110 71.0... [ More ]

Comment #46

noise-gate — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 18:27:49 GMT

$400 mil?- Oh l like that

Comment #45

Spiritualist — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 17:57:12 GMT

Rolling, rolling, rolling. Higher, higher, and higher.

Love large jackpots. Hoping for a $billion jackpot.

Best of luck to all participants

Comment #44

RedStang — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 17:53:32 GMT

I know a lot of people that still wouldn't play.

Comment #43

Prolific-Atom — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 17:48:57 GMT

Will take whatever lady luck gives me. That is 5/6 with powerplay :).

Since the new change come to powerball there has been lot of draw but the 10x powerplay option has not been added

I will just buy 1 or 2 ticks with powerplay options and stick with Megamillions at least odds are okay there. But good luck to everyone buying tickets.

Multiple winners will be great.

Comment #42

MaximumMillions — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 16:42:25 GMT

Which is why unless you have the option of anonymity you should change your name.

Jack Hoffman anyone

Comment #41

haymaker — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 16:28:14 GMT

That's when I buy my next ticket.

Comment #40

haymaker — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 16:26:10 GMT

Another problem w/ winning a big JP.

Every time the JP gets in record territory your name gets mentioned again.

The scammers couldn't forget you if they wanted, they're just reminded to give you another try.

Comment #39

jjtheprince — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 15:41:54 GMT

Hopin it rolls to $1,000,000,000!

I think it will because I believe it will not be won until EVERY possible number combination is sold.

Comment #38

music* — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 15:31:03 GMT

I just saw on CNN Morning Show a short piece about this $400 Million jackpot. The word is spreading like wildfire. They showed a clip of Gloria C. Mackenzie the Florida winner of Power Ball jackpot worth $590,500,000.00. She was walking toward her car after validating her ticket.

Good Luck everybody

Comment #37

mightwin — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 04:49:18 GMT

Happy new year everyone!, hopefully it will be a great start for one of us on Wednesday

Comment #36

Stack47 — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 02:29:54 GMT

With 54 million tickets sold, the chances of having a jackpot winner was around 20%, but sales were slightly higher than the last two $300 million plus jackpots. As you said historically jackpot frenzy usually starts at $400 million, but sales need to double to get a 50% chance of a jackpot winner.

Comment #35

MaximumMillions — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 01:20:29 GMT

Yikes, are all these directly from draw-to-draw

Comment #34

sirbrad — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 01:03:08 GMT

Yeah bring it

Comment #33

Perfecttiming2 — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 00:54:32 GMT

Hi and Happy New Year everyone!

With all the excitiment, I love reading the comments too! Everyone's excited!

(Comments that are uplifting and encouraging towards each other...you can never have too much of that!)

The possibility that my ticket, which currently has a $2 value, is worth $400m....Yep!!! Praise the Lord and Let the fun begin!!!

Hope you all have a safe and blessed 2016

Comment #32

KY Floyd — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 00:35:37 GMT

How the mighty have fallen.

Just under a year ago PB jumped from 395 to 564. Just over 2 years ago MM went from 400 to 636, and just under 4 years ago MM went from 393 to 656. I'd hope that 400+ is where sales will start to increase significantly, but who knows

Comment #31

LottoMetro — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 22:46:16 GMT

Before this weekend the sales estimate for Wednesday was $130 million, I think it will be $180 million which would bring the annuity to $450M. We'll see

Comment #30

infiniti30 — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 22:41:25 GMT

Anyone think by draw time the jackpot will be more like 425 mill? Last draw went up 54 mill and I think it is now on more people's radar and frequent players will buy more tickets.

Comment #29

golfer1960 — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 22:22:32 GMT

$400M? That's Beautiful!!

Jarmila Gajdosova professional tennis player.

Comment #28

BBLL — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 22:18:45 GMT

Win and disappear

Comment #27

whiteballz — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 22:01:32 GMT

Okay. I'm in. $400 mil come to daddy.

Comment #26

Bleudog101 — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 21:43:53 GMT

That's a good one. Welcome to Lottery Post.

Comment #25

quicksloth35 — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 21:30:09 GMT

What a great time to slip out the back door, unnoticed, with that $88 Million cash MM jackpot

Comment #24

delS — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 21:08:47 GMT

I not only dream of winning this like others. I also have a plan in place waiting to activate it!

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you will fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? NOTHING! Jim Rohn

Comment #23

charmed7 — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 19:50:25 GMT

Me too

Comment #22

travelintrucker — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 19:50:19 GMT

It's going to a billion

Comment #21

infiniti30 — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 19:45:30 GMT

Thanks

Comment #20

LottoMetro — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 19:33:41 GMT

1 - e^-(tickets/combinations)

100000000/292201338 = 0.342229781

e = 2.718281828459...

see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_(mathematical_constant)

1- e^(-0.342229781) = 0.2898150013

28.98% chance of winner(s)

This is how MUSL calculates. Simply multiplying odds by tickets gives an approximation but does not factor in duplicate tickets

Comment #19

infiniti30 — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 19:21:56 GMT

Is this how I calculate the odds that a winning ticket will be sold?

(1/292,201,338)x(# of tickets sold)

Example

(0.00000000342466)x(100,000,000)=.34 or 34

Comment #18

LottoMetro — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 18:36:33 GMT

They need to sell about 615 million more tickets ($1.23 billion sales) to reach a billion from the current pool

I am thinking the progression will go $450M, $600M, $800M, $1B if it can continue. The $1B mark will be at least the 96th percentile, which means on average we can expect a winner prior to or in this drawing 96% of the time. The 99th percentile would bring a jackpot of $1.5B

Comment #17

weshar75 — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 18:35:39 GMT

I would settle for a cool million dollars myself that would put me sweet in the money.-weshar75

Comment #16

fwlawrence — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 18:34:30 GMT

Yes, I'm doing that right now.

Comment #15

Coin Toss — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 18:34:17 GMT

The odds of 1 in 292,201,338 are bad enough, please don't make them even worse.

Comment #14

LottoMetro — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 18:30:08 GMT

The 11-month wait is over. LOL

Comment #13

Itsonly$ — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 18:29:25 GMT

I would like to see it punch through $500 million and if it goes on to 1 billion that would be perfect.

A blind man can feel an elephant but, he still doesn't know what it is.

Comment #12

bigbuckswede — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 17:33:51 GMT

Yes, this time the winner will be from Sweden

Comment #11

gocart1 — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 17:25:40 GMT

OK.. Here comes the lottery fever... With the new odds { 1 in 294million} lets see how many more times it's going to roll..

Comment #10

Raven62 — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 17:05:56 GMT

You Have to Be In It to Win It

Comment #9

Romancandle — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 16:36:24 GMT

Wow... it rolled

Comment #8

maximumfun — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 16:11:36 GMT

400M$ fabulous

Comment #7

Bilionario — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 15:27:47 GMT

I am expecting a foreign player to win this current Powerball jackpot run and make history...Watch this space.

Comment #6

hsg2000 — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 15:08:22 GMT

Many people like you and me will jump into this Wager hoping to be the winner !!!

GOOD LUCK FELLOW POWERBALLIONS!!!!

I A GOING TO BUY FOR 3 CONSECUTIVE DRAWS AND SLEEP SOUNDLY!!!

NEXT EVEN MEGA MILLION IS CREEPING TOO AT SLOW PACE IT IS ALSO 147 MILLION TOO

Comment #5

music* — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 15:03:17 GMT

Can you imagine yourself with over $100,000,000.00 spending money?

May God Bless the winner or winners.

Comment #4

dpoly1 — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 15:00:30 GMT

$400,000,000

I think that I will make a small wager

Comment #3

Bleudog101 — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 14:54:15 GMT

Love reading the comments when the jackpots get sky high!

'Poor' California PB 5 out of 6 and just over $424K, para-mutuel benefits that state only in most cases

Comment #2

dallascowboyfan — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 14:48:31 GMT

$400 million Woo Hoo good luck everyone.......

Comment #1

THRIFTY — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 14:14:53 GMT

$2 Investment Turned Into $400 Million.

$400 MILLION: Powerball jackpot surges on rollover

Lottery Post — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 14:05:46 GMT

7th-largest cash value in US history

By Todd Northrop

This week Powerball will be the hot ticket, featuring a jackpot larger than any other United States lottery drawing in almost a year.

The new high-water mark of $400 million for the current Powerball jackpot was achieved after no winning tickets were sold for Saturday night's $355.8 million grand prize.

The lump-sum cash payout value of Wednesday's Powerball jackpot is $244.8 million the 7th-largest ever recorded in United States... [ More ]