i can't imagine powerball reaching 500 million...

Reply #27

CDanaT — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 17:14:01 GMT

C'mon Lucky, ya can't be that negative...The last winner from the Megamillions was a gal from GA.....have faith my friend, be positive..after all, we have had 4 Powerball winners from FL in the last 3 years and that does tie NY for the most wins from any one state.

Reply #26

luckymcshane — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:53:05 GMT

Even if it did hit 500 million -- it wouldnt matter --- someone up NORTH would win it.

Reply #25

lottoguru$-!624 — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 08:13:49 GMT

and forget the time it takes fighting off the little old that is cursing you for shutting down the store!!

sonny, i need to play my 1111's

Reply #24

Nikkicute — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 03:38:15 GMT

$500 million jackpot? How many winners? One winner?

Nice if it did get that high and I think there would be a lot of jackpot winners, not saying that's a bad thing.

One ticket winner, whoohoo

Reply #23

zinniagirl — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:45:09 GMT

Looks like next Saturday will be 500+ MIll if no one wins the next two drawings. You may get to see it sooner.

Reply #22

markp1950 — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:51:24 GMT

PB pumped up to $325,000,000 or $202,900,000 cash.

Next prediction for future drawings. (If no winner)

$425,000,000

then $550,000,000

Reply #21

markp1950 — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:37:24 GMT

2 more draws to 500 million....

At the last rate if increase. 384 million then 476 million but that doesn't include increased participation from bigger jackpots.

So it would be 400+ million then 500 million....

But I believe that they will sell out before.

Reply #20

Gamblor — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:12:31 GMT

If you look at the drawing results under USA MEGA, the 5 number or 2nd place winners have not been above 5 since PB increased to $2. The prior big jackpots had 2nd place winners ranging from 10 to 20. The PB jackpot from 11/02/11 was hit at 254.2 million, with 20 2nd place winners.

I think we'll see two more rolls before lottery fever overrides frugalness and EVERYONE starts buying tickets like before.

Reply #19

haymaker — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:35:00 GMT

don't forget how long it will take for the clerk to run the bet slips through the machine.

Reply #18

mcginnin56 — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:28:50 GMT

Hey sharp penil,

That was just a little lotto humor .

Are you that serious that you cannot spot a farce when you see one? You need to surround yourself with some real people.

Take in a few late night comedy gig's from time to time. Try some nice deep breaths. In......out.......in........out.

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Reply #17

KY Floyd — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:30:06 GMT

It looks like sales are about half of what they used to be, but about twice as much money goes into the jackpot from each ticket.

That means that the jackpot is growing at about the same rate it did in the past, but each advertised jackpot along the way is the result of half as many tickets as it used to be. As a long term average the number of tickets sold before there's awinner is directly related to the odds. With the current odds of 1 in 175 million there will be about 1 winning ticket fo... [ More ]

Reply #16

RL-RANDOMLOGIC — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:23:25 GMT

Once the game reaches a certian point, greed will take over and I can see it reaching

$1,000,000,000.00.

Who knows, I might even spend $2.00 for a chance at a billion bucks. It will be like

the early days when people placed a second mortgage on the house just to buy

tickets. I would say that we will see JP increases of 200,000,000 from draw to draw

once it reaches some high level.

It would be almost impossible to buy out the game in the few days between draws but

Reply #15

RedStang — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:10:47 GMT

I like you're title except mine was i can't imagine the Giants winning the superbowl so yes i believe the PB will hit 500 mill someday.

Reply #14

Dizz — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:32:16 GMT

It is time for a Texas winner.

I live in Texas.

The Texas Lottery is giving away free PB numbers.... actually, its spend $10 on PB, receive 1 free game w/ PP.

Remember, I think its fixed.

I should win. lol

Reply #13

mcginnin56 — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:15:35 GMT

If I were to win $500,000,000.00, I would like to re-invest it ALL back into the Powerball. Every last dime would go for 500,000,000 quick pick's.

I might have to rent a tractor trailer to haul away that many tickets. All this lottery fever is making me so tired. nite nite

Reply #12

CDanaT — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:12:51 GMT

C.T. I am not sure if its less people playing or people playing less or people playing less

Reply #11

Coin Toss — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:33:38 GMT

LottoGuyBC,

If the reaction on this board to the price increase indicates anything wouldn't less people be playing

Reply #10

zinniagirl — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:02:11 GMT

Statistically speaking with runs that have gone on for 8+ rolls, it is a very great likelyhood that you will get to see 500+ million.

Reply #9

weshar75 — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:58:56 GMT

I am thinking that we are about 4 rolls away from $500 million so we are close. Just have to lose until then and half a billion will be a new record.-weshar75

Reply #8

savagegoose — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:36:53 GMT

if half the number of tickets are being bought to drive up jackpot the same amount. then say a $40 mill climb in jackpot needs sales of 80 M ticlets @0.50c per to jackpot currently. in old would have had to sell 160 mill tickets, @0.25c per ticket towards jackpot. so same jackpot increase but only 80 mill tickets bought as opposed to 160 mill, theres a good chance of another jackpot, as opposed to old syster where 160 mill tickets could have been bought.

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Reply #7

haymaker — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:41:00 GMT

yes, its not a matter of if, its a matter of when.

Reply #6

Uff Da! — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:03:47 GMT

That would be true if they still kept selling the same number of tickets. But that's not happening, as I understand it.

Reply #5

LottoGuyBC — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:57:50 GMT

yeah but PB is $2 per

so double the possibility to reach $500M

I would think

Reply #4

RJOh — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:21:40 GMT

With number of top MM winnners California has had lately, if they were paying out fixed amounts same as other MM states, they might have gone broke and quit the game by now.

Reply #3

Coin Toss — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:08:09 GMT

When California joined Mega Millions the newspapers ran headlines of 'Possible $500 Million Dollar Jackpots.'

I think that was 2005 or so. Hasn't even been close ever since.

Going by that, with PB starting at $40M instead of MM $12M, that's not really that big of a gap.

As the jackpots get bigger play increases, so we shall see.

Reply #2

RJOh — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:06:33 GMT

Now that the tickets are $2 per play and the lower tiers prizes didn't double, reaching a $500M jackpot should be as easy as reaching a $250M jackpot was before and as before the states selling the most tickets will probably win the most.

Reply #1

mcginnin56 — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:41:05 GMT

You are correct, that would be the Live Freeze Then Die state of NH that pulls it off.

i can't imagine powerball reaching 500 million...

pick4master — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:26:31 GMT

if it does it will be in a state like vermont, iowa, north dakota, south dakota, maine, new hampshire, idaho, washington state, minnesota.