Record Jackpot - $448 Million

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ryanm — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 23:24:03 GMT

Powerball's current limit is $365 million before the match 5 bonus pool takes effect. I could see it getting that high in 18 rolls, so the 19th roll would make it $390 million.

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petergrfn — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:30:26 GMT

I don't think we will see a jackpot of more than 400 million on either game. The reasons are; Powerball limits its jackpots after it reaches a certain level and put a 25million dollar cap on each rollover. As we saw with the last powerball jackpot run, the jackpot would have taken three more rollovers to hit 400 million. With the media attention and people buying hundreds of tickets it would be impossible for it to get past 400 million. Mega Millions has a better chance of hitting 400 mi... [ More ]

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fxsterling — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 16:55:56 GMT

ask prob 998 it has odds think 19 rolls pb 17 rolls mm about a billion the odds today 1 in 999999999999999

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ryanm — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 04:47:19 GMT

The only way they could get a combined total of $1 billion is if MM gets to at least $600 million, because Powerball slows the growth of its record jackpots.

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fxsterling — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 20:25:41 GMT

I was thinking along that line if we get lots of draws with no winners we could get huge jack pots both pb and mega millions would be over 300 million mid jan. 16 draws away i like the odds it could be a billion$$$%$$$$ draw

Record Jackpot - $448 Million

Jake649 — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 19:01:59 GMT

It is commonly understood that the record jackpot is $363 million set in May of 2000 in the Big Game lottery. Well guess what, the record was recently broken in the US with a $448 million jackpot.There were a couple of catches though.First, the cost of a ticket was $2.Second, and more importantly, the odds of winning the $448 million jackpot were astronomical. In fact the odds were something like 1 in 25,669,770,000,000,000.With those crazy odds, I calculated how much one would have to spend to