Powerball at 1.5 billion.

[tiasman]

What days do they draw? I thought it was Wednesday and Saturday

 

[DavidMcmillan]

Just a roll of the dice. but if you can afford on occasion who cares.

I have to confess.....I dropped $10 on tickets a half hour ago.

 

[KOPBET]

What days do they draw? I thought it was Wednesday and Saturday

Powerball is drawn on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.

 

[cmc tom]

I was one number away from having one number.

 

[dennishoddy]

The power play can be from 2-10 depending on the jackpot size.

How Does PowerPlay Work? ​

If you purchase the PowerPlay option, the value of any prize you win for matching fewer than five balls will be multiplied by a randomly-drawn value between two and five. If the jackpot is worth less than $150 million, a 10x multiplier will be added to the mix.

For this drawing, and for the several before it, it would have been between 2 and 5.

My little syndicate has won several small prizes since this got above 500 million, but we always reinvest it, and keep putting the same in. That’s just how we play. YMMV

That's exactly what our group does. We had over $4000 to invest on this lotto with the small change rewards won on top of the base donations. Roll it all back in there until it hits.

 

[dennishoddy]

Hey, one of my daughters was a winner! $36…..but she confessed this morning that she had bought $60 worth of tickets. So the rest of the family were the actual winners, and likely will not let her forget for some time…

In the early 2000's we won in the Missouri lottery with 5 of the six numbers saying we had won a tad over $100, 000.
What we didn't know that there was a lot of folks that did the same thing. Our net income from that winning was $7 and some change.

 

[ratski]

Anyone know exactly how many numeric combinations there are?

 

[dennishoddy]

Anyone know exactly how many numeric combinations there are?

You will be hit by lightning first if that is any consolation.

 

[Mr.Glock]

Never played, but wife told me we are playing on this one. $50 worth, we win we would have no idea what to do. Big time gamblers we are!

 

[dennishoddy]

Never played, but wife told me we are playing on this one. $50 worth, we win we would have no idea what to do. Big time gamblers we are!

We are the same way. Inherited a small chunk of change years ago and it sits in the bank.
We are comfortable with what we have and worked for.
I guess the kids will get it.