I could use 1.3 billion about now ...
yikes, lol!!!
that’s ANOTHER 10 bucks my spouse wasted tonight!!
oould have gone to scratch offs and beer!!!
There was no jackpot winner in the Saturday, January 9, 2016 Powerball drawing, but 28 lucky players matched the first 5 numbers for a $1,000,000 prize: 2 from Arizona, 6 from California, 2 from Connecticut (1 with Power Play), 1 from Florida, 1 from Georgia, 1 from Iowa, 1 from Maryland, 1 from Massachusetts, 3 from Michigan, 3 from New York, 2 from Ohio, 1 from Pennsylvania, 3 from Texas (2 with Power Play), and 1 from Virginia.
A lot of cash spent on losing tickets.
I won, I won, I WON!!!
Ok, it was only $7, but I am calling it a trend. I’ll add $1 to it and have 4 chances for the billion!! It’s only a matter of time.....I will be a great billionaire.
there goes my freepathon payout...
Well there goes another three bucks ($2 ticket + $1 multiplier). I don’t know who is going to win all the loot. But unless they have the good fortune to live in a state that allows them to stay anonymous, I would suggest the first expenditure be on a couple of well trained bodyguards for them and their family.
If I win I’m running for President ;)
Your chances of winning the Powerball lottery are zero whether you purchase any tickets or not.
For the six-ball jackpot, the possible permutations of drawing five white balls out of 69, and one red ball from 26, while not restricting the white balls to one unique series = (69 * 68 * 67 * 66 * 65 * 26) / (5 * 4 * 3 * 2) = 292,201,338.
Each $2 ticket gives you one chance out of 292.2 million. That's equivalent to selecting exactly one pixel from a square image of 17,094 pixels on a side. Try it on your screen sometime.
The odds of getting involved in a fatal car crash were estimated to be about one in 1,200. That was a decade ago. Might be higher or lower today, based on safer cars, or crazier drivers, or too many distractions. Using the 1,200 number, your chances of being in a fatal car crash are 292,201,338 / 1,200 = 243,501 times greater than winning the Powerball jackpot.
One chance in 292,201,338 possible outcomes = 0.0000000034. That's 0.00000034%. That means each ticket you purchase has a 99.99999966% chance of losing.
If you're content with settling for just getting the five white-ball sequence right, your odds improve by a factor of 26. That's one chance in 11,238,513; like picking one pixel from square image of 3,352 pixels on a side. Fatal car crash is only 9,365 times more likely. P(winning five white-ball sequence) = 0.000000089. Each ticket you purchase has a 99.9999911% chance of losing.
Someone occasionally wins, but we're seeing credible reports of lottery fraud, where the same individual wins two or three different drawings; a statistical impossibility. We see a lot of that here at the Lab lately.
Take whatever chances you want in life, but at least understand the probability of success.
I may have to play this round.
I usually buy a ticket for the Powerball and megamillions. Only when I have stopped for gas or something. The first ticket means that I am in the game and have as much chance to win as anyone else.... If I bought a second ticket, that is the one that is a waste...
How long has it been since the last powerball win? Wonder how long it takes to get to $1.3B... Also, I wonder for those that have won, what % had more than one ticket for the drawing they won. It would be interesting to see how many winners are novice players, how many are occasional players and how many are fanatical...
Pssst, Nancy. Yeah, Paul. Check it out. See those reporters over there? CNN, Fox, yup. They're heading out to cover the Powerball thing, 1.3 billion. "A" billion? Yeah, ONE point 3 billion! They have no freaking idea what we do here, do they? None at all.
To say the least.
2015 FedGov AMERICAN EXPRESS Centurion Card Statement
$3.249 trillion ... REVENUE: Taxes taken from Americans - $3.688 trillion ... OUTLAYS: Money spent buying your votes ------------------------------- = $438.9 billion .... DEFICIT: Red Ink charged to future taxpayers
Perhaps it is time for a new numerical base unit and billing statement ...
TAXES ... 2,500 Powerball jackpots SPENDING ... 2,837 Powerball jackpots ------------------------------------- = YOU OWE ... 337 Powerball jackpots ( this year. plus interest. )
... So easy a caveman, I mean, a taxpayer could understand. Geico.
Fellow FRiends, please remind your kids and grandkid this week that FedGov alone charged approximately one of those Powerball jackpots each and every day billed against their future income.
More amazingly, FedGov actually spent over 7 of those Powerball jackpots each and every day last fiscal year.
This is probably a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to add dimension to those dimensionless numbers that FedGov is drowning America with. Don't let the opportunity pass.
The numbers no one had
16,19,32,34,57 powerball 13
Cash payout only $800 mil or so; after taxes probably less than half a billion. How many countries have GNPs smaller than that? Not that you’d want to live in any of them, of course!
Methinks they lottery guys will refuse a lump sum payment option when this is finally done
There were lots of winners, unfortunately most of those winners were not those of us the spent money on tickets. Retailers get commissions for selling tickets and the rest goes to the state or federal government for them to waste.