[21twelve]

I wouldn’t want to win that much. Just think of how much in taxes one would need to pay. /s

Does anyone know if it is possible to buy a ticket from out of state!? A friend of a friend said to send him $500 and he would buy 500 tickets for me. That’s a lot of tickets, one of them would surely be a winner. Does it matter if he is just visiting from Nigeria?

[TheLawyerFormerlyKnownAsAl]

Does anyone know if it is possible to buy a ticket from out of state!? A friend of a friend said to send him $500 and he would buy 500 tickets for me. That’s a lot of tickets, one of them would surely be a winner. Does it matter if he is just visiting from Nigeria?

I say go for it. Personally, I should be learning any day now that I will be sharing in $20-million of frozen funds in Nigeria. It's a lock, I'm dealing with a Barrister.

[TomGuy]

Does anyone know if it is possible to buy a ticket from out of state!?

IIRC, state residency isn't a requirement. But, the winner does have to redeem the ticket in the state. [That info pertained to the TX lottery; it may be different for the multi-state PowerBall.]

In the mid-90s, the TX lottery grew to over $40 million. There was a story of some guy in West Texas who bought $37,000 worth of tickets. After the drawing, he won ZERO.

[THX 1138]

A friend of a friend said to send him $500 and he would buy 500 tickets for me.

The fallacy here is that, if you buy 500 tickets and I buy 1 ticket, you have a 500 times better chance of winning than I do. But that's not the way it works. Your chance of winning is 1 in 175,000,000. 500 chances in 175,000,000 is statistically an insignificant difference from 1 in 175,000,000.

Put five bucks down and save the other $495.