Posted on 10/31/2022 11:35:54 PM PDT by DallasBiff
One ticket in New York matched all five white balls, winning $1 million dollars, according to the Powerball website. There was also another ticket sold in the state that matched the white balls and included the Power Play option, which ups the winnings to $2 million overall for that ticketholder.
Nationwide, there were 10 million-dollar tickets that matched all five white ball numbers, and three that did the same with the Power Play. There were also 134 tickets sold across the country that won a $50,000 prize in Monday night's drawing, and another 23 tickets that won a $150,000 prize.
Certainly not bad consolation prizes
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
I'll buy a ticket, but there is a sucker born every moment, since it seems the really big winners, are always from blue states.
Oh my to Stalin/Obama people the above is racist, "white balls", that's racist.
And here I mortgaged my house to buy 10000 tickets, because it was such a sure thing.
How many times can one get struck by lightning before hitting this jackpot?
Dunno.
But will get a couple tickets.
Do you have to buy a ticket to win. My wife told me I did. They give welfare out with no ticket bought. What is this 💩
I must apologize. My Cynicism and sarcasm got involved with my post. 🙂
Headline Jackpot - $1.2 billion
Cash Option - $596.7 million
Cash Option After 37% Federal Income Tax - $376 million
From memory - 41 states have additional income tax
Cash in the hand. Buy gold.
I will forgo $1.2 billion over 20 years to have $376 million now.
Some folks will be eating the name brand raisin bran.
I came close to winning. Out of the 10 tickets I bought I had 2 numbers. One on 1 ticket and 1 on another ticket.....
Hands off, pal — the next winning jackpot ticket is mine!
Re: Buy gold
Incredibly - during the last two years of political and economic chaos - the price of gold has gone down 21%.
https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/@GC.1
It would be a double edged sword winning. Family and long lost friends showing up for handouts. Financial advisors with “can’t miss!” schemes. It would be fun to give it away, though.
I'm always amazed by people who suddenly fall into some enormous jackpot and then go chasing after some crazy "get rich quick" scheme. Dude, you are rich. Don't chase. Buy gold. Buy T-bills. Something solid and safe. But no, they want to invest in some new casino in North Dakota or something. Can't miss. Double your money in three years. I promise!
True...but you can’t win if you don’t play.
I will occasionally buy a PowerBall ticket. It’s paying $2 to dream.
I will tithe the winnings. But to which church? All to one? Spread It around?
It sometimes becomes daunting to answer that question.
EC
I tell my wife, if we win big, my new job will be spending the day finding people who really need it and thinking of creative ways to give it away.
And there would also be swarms of attractive young women . . . I’ll take my chances with the burdens of having several hundred million dollars in cash.
Only paper gold and silver have decreased - hard currency in hand is still up. For example paper silver is running around $18/oz today, but a silver eagle in hand is running around $30-32.
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