Posted on 08/09/2007 12:37:51 PM PDT by the_devils_advocate_666
DES MOINES, Iowa -- The Powerball prize goes to an estimated $161 million Saturday.
None of the tickets sold for Wednesday night's night drawing matched all six numbers drawn, which were: 9-16-21-30-52 and Powerball 9. The Power Play number was 2.
Players matching all five numbers and the Powerball would have won or shared the $140.6 million jackpot. Click here to find out more!
One ticket that matched the first five numbers but missed the Powerball was sold in Pennsylvania. That ticket holder will win $200,000. Eight other similar tickets were also sold, two each were sold in North Carolina and Wisconsin and one each in Indiana, Louisiana, Missouri and South Carolina.
There was one Power Play Match Five winner in Louisiana.
Powerball is played in Pennsylvania, 28 other states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Now, I just need to plan on how I'll spend the $74.7 million cash value, or at least the portion of that I'll have after taxes.
No, I’m going to win. I’ve already bought the winning numbers. :)
No fair! Didn’t you mother ever teach you about sharing.
You've been misinformed-I have the winning ticket! :)
I might have an extra $10 dollars to gamble this week.
Good Luck! .....to me.
I might have an extra $10 dollars to gamble this week.
Good Luck! .....to me. :)
The main winners will always be those that sell the tickets and rake off the taxes.
I’m not much of a lottery player but when the jackpot gets into the 9 digits I will buy one ticket for the drawing. I’ve probably bought less than 50 tickets in my life, but just once I’d like to at least match the power ball and win a buck or two. I don’t think I’ve ever done better than matching one number. But I find the dollar spent always makes for some good times day dreaming about what I would do with the money.
Yeah, lotteries are a tax for those that are poor in math. Buy hey, just trying to have a little fun here today.
The multi-state Mega Million jackpot is also over $100 million tomorrow. Wish Powerball and Mega Million would merge. Seems like $100 million doesn’t excite me much anymore. Need that half billion dollar jackpot!
Or, as I told my boss, infinitely better than getting rich working for you.
Well I’m curious, how would you spend half a billion dollars?
Don't believe it! Math professors buy tickets.
I wouldn’t. After taxes, it’d only be about $150 million! :-(
Hubby doesn’t get them very often either but this jackpot was just tooooooooo big for him not to waste 5 dollars on. Besides, if he hits, I got plans! lol
Like, say, a divorce ;-)
just kidding
LOL, nope, he's my soul mate. We're gonna blow it together. Maybe buy an old government missile silo and convert it. ;)
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