29 co-workers split $1 million Powerball lottery prize in New York

Comment #20

KY Floyd — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 07:46:04 GMT

They are all from Long Island, except the one from Pa.

Fun fact: Queens and Brooklyn are both on Long Island, but are also two of the five boroughs of NYC. One of t hem will get to pay a NYC income tax along with the state and federal taxes.

I would fire the lot of them en masse

Just because a company is big enough to have at least 29 employees doesn't mean the managers are geniuses, but lucky for the employees they probably aren't morons that would fire somebody because of their o... [ More ]

Comment #19

billybucks — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:51:00 GMT

Not true. When I actually had a job I ran the lottery pools at work which is one reason why I no longer have a job. Or maybe it was the football pools I also ran or the harness race program I bought on the way to work and made copies on the offices copy machine to hand out to everyone so they could study that nights races back when harness racing was a viable and popular venue. (1968-1975). I wasn't even sure what my company actually did to make money.

Comment #18

grwurston — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 11:02:23 GMT

They might talk about it for a couple of days, then they will move on to other office gossip or whatever else they normally talk about the same as people do at every other job.

One things for certain, with your views on work place lottery pools if your workers did hit a huge jackpot you probably won't be getting a share of it.

Comment #17

billybucks — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 22:53:45 GMT

I'm obviously against office or workplace lottery pools. The owner of businesses are probably not all that enthralled with the idea of one either. This one was relatively harmless amount wise per winner so no one will quit over it at least. But the interest in this activity will still dominate the workplace discussions over anything related to what the company is doing.

Comment #16

GiveFive — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 13:17:47 GMT

Yes, but the replace them with illegal immigrants that are willing to work for HALF of the groups former salaries.

You sound to me like you'd be a good fit for a job in Private Equity. G5

Comment #15

grwurston — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 23:49:03 GMT

They are not rich. Half of their winnings will be used to pay their property taxes.

Comment #14

billybucks — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 15:35:08 GMT

Yes, they will refuse to work overtime, take long lunches not caring if they are docked 15 minutes, start to criticize their supervisors or continue to. All they will be thinking about is playing more lotteries, checking jackpots and results and generally becoming disinterested in their reason for being at work.

Comment #13

Bleudog101 — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 15:17:48 GMT

Don't know if you're insinuating the NY has Double Play on Powerball!

They don't

Comment #12

Tucker Black — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 14:06:22 GMT

Because they're $23,000 richer? Wow.... Lol

Comment #11

Tucker Black — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 14:05:46 GMT

If you win, sure. What about the other 11 million dollars that didn't

Comment #10

billybucks — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 13:42:51 GMT

The owner of the business will find that the workers will tend to become less cooperative and absenteeism is going to increase also. I would fire the lot of them en masse and replace them with workers who will be more fearful of their jobs.

Comment #9

DELotteryPlyr — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 10:36:11 GMT

Interesting that it doesn't say where they all work?

Also the communities which they all live in will benefit as they will spend some of not alot of that money there.

Comment #8

grwurston — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 02:48:47 GMT

They are all from Long Island, except the one from Pa.

Congrats

Comment #7

wander73 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 22:48:24 GMT

pay off things they don't need.

Comment #6

billybucks — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 22:29:31 GMT

Not enough for a new car. Not even close. Maybe a 2020 with 119k miles on it.

Comment #5

Coin Toss — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 22:03:50 GMT

A really good example of how the third dollar is worth playing.

Comment #4

wander73 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 21:35:43 GMT

they better not be from Mahattan. thats only enough for 10 months. if I were to get that amt, pay off what I could

Comment #3

wander73 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 21:34:45 GMT

Before taxes $35k.. it depends how they use the money.

Comment #2

Bleudog101 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 17:13:26 GMT

Good thing none of the players were from Manhattan...they'd get socked with another tax on top of NY tax---so wrong

Comment #1

JustMaybe — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:51:43 GMT

Congratulations on the win.

Yes, I know after both federal and NY taxes the take home will be at a minimum $17,965 for each of the winners, but, 17K is a nice boost.

The saying goes Half a loaf is better than none

29 co-workers split $1 million Powerball lottery prize in New York

Lottery Post — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 12:41:11 GMT

28 New Yorkers and one Pennsylvanian split second-tier prize

By Kate Northrop

28 New Yorkers and one Pennsylvania resident claimed and split a $1 million Powerball lottery prize last week, the New York Lottery announced.

29 co-workers all went in on a lottery ticket together as part of an office pool and won $1 million in Powerball, a press release from the Lottery revealed.

The group consists of 28 New York residents spanning Nassau, Suffolk, and Queens counties, plus one member... [ More ]