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Powerball jackpot jumps to $1.09 billion, fourth largest in history There have been 39 drawings in a row without a jackpot winner
foxbusiness.com ^ | Sarah Rumpf-Whitten FOXBusiness

Posted on 04/04/2024 5:02:03 AM PDT by V_TWIN

The billion dollar Powerball is still up for grabs after no ticket matched all six numbers, launching the lottery to a grand prize of $1.09 billion for Wednesday's drawing.

If a player wins the jackpot in Wednesday’s drawing, they will have the choice between an annuitized prize worth an estimated $1.09 billion or a lump sum payment estimated at $527.3 million.

Both prize options are before taxes.

If the winner selects the annuity option, they will receive one immediate payment followed by 29 annual payments that increase by five percent each year.

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KEYWORDS: lottery; powerball
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To: Jane Long

Last year the Florida Mega Millions winner who claimed $1.6 billion jackpot bought the ticket at Publix.

https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/mega-millions-florida-winner-saltines-holdings-llc


21 posted on 04/04/2024 6:23:54 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: V_TWIN

I am NOT among the scammed. lol


22 posted on 04/04/2024 6:24:28 AM PDT by alstewartfan (Child slavery, rape and drug OD's mean nothing to Roberts and Barrett. )
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To: Carriage Hill

Same with inheritances. My girlfriend works in banking and she knows of a 28 year old unmarried woman who blew through 3 million dollars in four years and is now down to about $10,000 left.

At least she stopped before she went to a negative balance.


23 posted on 04/04/2024 6:44:04 AM PDT by NorthWoody (Half of all people are below average, and half of those are in the bottom 25%.)
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To: Salgak

There ya go, I stand corrected! :-)


24 posted on 04/04/2024 6:56:11 AM PDT by ducttape45 (Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
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To: V_TWIN

We talkin’ real money yet?


25 posted on 04/04/2024 7:06:35 AM PDT by mykroar ("It's Not the Nature of the Evidence; It's the Seriousness of the Charge." - El Rushbo)
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To: mykroar

Its starting to get more attractive.


26 posted on 04/04/2024 7:07:47 AM PDT by anton
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To: V_TWIN

I need to win so that I can take a couple of days off next week. Recalling, of course, what Steve Forbes once said about the lottery: “Actually buying a ticket only increases your odds of winning the lottery by a miniscule amount.”


27 posted on 04/04/2024 7:16:22 AM PDT by glennaro (2024: The Year of The Reckoning, lest our Republic succumb to the "progressive" disease of the Left)
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To: glennaro

Only reason I play when I do is to see the look on my wife’s face when we don’t win anything.....well worth the investment. 😁


28 posted on 04/04/2024 7:23:39 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Sirius Lee
If an irresponsible doofus wins it, then hundreds will also win as the doofus blows through cash buying their real estate, goods, and services.

That's good news for me. I've been called an irresponsible doofus, so maybe that's an omen I will win. I can't wait to blow through this windfall.

29 posted on 04/04/2024 7:29:25 AM PDT by BipolarBob (I'm looking for a blessing that is NOT in disguise.)
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To: V_TWIN

Looks like AI isn’t good at selecting numbers.


30 posted on 04/04/2024 7:40:42 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Jane Long

We won $8, see you at the country club after I order my custom Lamborghini.


31 posted on 04/04/2024 9:10:47 AM PDT by Made In The USA (Ellen Ate Dynamite Good Bye Ellen)
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To: Made In The USA

😂👍🏻👍🏻


32 posted on 04/04/2024 9:41:35 AM PDT by Jane Long (The role of the GOP: to write sharply-worded letters as America becomes a communist hell-hole.)
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To: gundog

Hmm… I’ve never, ever, in all the decades of hearing about the lotteries heard or read this.

But I don’t gamble anyway, so….


33 posted on 04/04/2024 10:15:47 AM PDT by normbal (normbal. somewhere in socialist occupied America ‘tween MD and TN)
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To: normbal

Looks like 9 people hit it on the last drawing.


34 posted on 04/04/2024 11:06:10 AM PDT by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: AppyPappy

If I win, Free Republic will never have another fund raiser.


35 posted on 04/04/2024 11:21:19 AM PDT by Mama Shawna
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To: Mama Shawna

Ditto that.🍀


36 posted on 04/04/2024 1:47:54 PM PDT by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable. Even more so)
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