The stars are aligned right for a couple of people on earth anyway! Amazing - two days in a row - the whole thing!
Another way to think about it is if everyone outside of Merrimack, New Hampshire who bought a lottery ticket agreed to give the winnings to you (but only for the big jackpot, not any of the smaller ones), out of those hundreds of millions of tickets sold you still would have lost. You have a better chance of dying in an accident on the way to or back from the store to buy your ticket than you do of winning. But as they say, you can’t win if you don’t play so congratulations to the winner.
Taking the amount annually (over 30 years) is risky as states are beginning to renege on these payments, claiming they are out of money. Contemptible!
I'm no fan of state lotteries and other government subsidized gambling. Let gamblers go to the casinos. But if the government wants to be a bookie, they ought to pay off their bets.
I’d get high speed internet!
Someone in Texas had all but one number plus the multiplier number. The ticket is worth over $3,000,000. I got 5 out of 6 once. It was worth $1,700.
Interesting point.....BOTH the Mega Millions ticket AND the Powerball ticket were sold in states with no state income tax....Florida and New Hampshire.
There should be some major tax advantage for this “new philanthropist” to give away a million-dollars each to 510 other NH residents. :)
Last night there was a NYS Lotto winner in Suffolk also. $9,200,000.00.
If I won, since I am a generous guy, I would give everyone in my family a brand new crisp twenty dollar bill.
And they would not even have to ever pay me back!
Probably a white person. Now that Trump is President, they’re winning all rhe lotteries.
Good for the one who won it but I would change name and move before people come out of the wood work to ask you remember me.
Thats impossible. I didnt buy my ticket in new hampshire. /s
This means I didn’t win. I forgot to look at my ticket. Bummer. I was counting on that half billion.
“The winning numbers were 12, 29, 30, 33, 61 and Powerball 26.”
Thats impossible. Those numbers dont match the winning numbers on my ticket. ;-)
I knew a guy who won $4.5 million. He made a string of very bad decisions that just made you want to cross your eyes.
Ended up broke.
He got $17,500 per month (25 years ago!) What a waste.
I’ve read that most big lottery winners are in bankruptcy court within a few years of winning.If I won I’d give 5 million to family,keep 5 million for myself and give the rest to charities working in Africa.