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Powerball jackpot.....500 million and growing!
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http://abcnews.go.com/Business/power...ry?id=17812739 The jackpot for Wednesday's Powerball drawing now stands at $500 million -- the richest Powerball pot ever -- and it's likely to get even sweeter. "Back in January, we moved Powerball from being a $1 game to $2," says Mary Neubauer, a spokeswoman for the Iowa lottery. "We thought at the time that this would mean bigger and faster-growing jackpots." It's proved true. The total, she says, "has been taking huge jumps -- another $100 million since Saturday." (The most recent drawing, on Saturday night, produced no winning numbers.) Until now, the biggest Powerball pot on record -- $365 million -- was won in 2006 by eight Lincoln, Neb., co-workers. In Photos: Biggest Lotto Jackpot Winners Lottery officials in Iowa, where Powerball is headquartered, have started getting phone calls from all around the world. "When it gets this big," says Neubauer, "we start getting inquiries from Canada and Europe from people wanting to know if they can buy a ticket. They ask if they can FedEx us the money." The answer she has to give them, she says, is: "Sorry, no. You have to buy a ticket in a member state from a licensed retail location." About 80 percent of players don't choose their own Powerball number, opting instead for a computer-generated one. Asked if there's anything players can do to improve their odds of winning, Neubauer says no -- apart from buying a ticket, of course. Lottery officials put the odds of winning Wednesday's Powerball pot at one in 175 million, meaning you are 25 times more likely to win an Academy Award. Skip Garibaldi, a professor of mathematics at Emory University in Atlanta, provides additional perspective: You are three times more likely to die from a falling coconut, he says; seven times more likely to die from fireworks, "and way more likely to die from flesh-eating bacteria" (115 fatalities a year) than you are to win the Powerball lottery. Segueing, then, from death to life, Garibaldi notes that even the best physicians, equipped with the most up-to-date equipment, can't predict the timing of a child's birth with much accuracy. "But let's suppose, however, that your doctor managed to predict the day, the hour, the minute and the second your baby would be born," Garibaldi says. The doctor's uncanny prediction would be "at least 100 times" more likely than your winning Wednesday. Even though he knows the odds all too well, Garibaldi says he'll usually play the lottery. "When it gets this big, I'll buy a couple of tickets. It's kind of exciting. You get this feeling of anticipation. You get to think about the fantasy." So will he be purchasing two tickets for Wednesday's Powerball? "I can't," he tells ABC News. "I'm in California" -- one of eight states that doesn't offer Powerball. |
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11-27-2012, 04:48 PM | #46 |
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Honestly, the idea of winning such a large amount of money is terrifying to me. I know that it would most likely ruin all my relationships with family and friends in some way. I would obviously help them out however I could, but I imagine some would resent you forever regardless, and others would never be able to take enough from you to make themselves happy. It would be a nightmare of never knowing who is really your friend anymore.
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11-27-2012, 04:50 PM | #47 |
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But the thought of all that money is so infantalizing.
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11-27-2012, 04:56 PM | #49 | |
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11-27-2012, 04:59 PM | #50 |
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I wonder how much it would cost to build the most impregnable, luxurious underground shelter, self-sustaining for at least 50 years...
The thing is, I would also need a doctor and medical facility available, as well as a supply of all my meds including insulin. |
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11-27-2012, 05:01 PM | #51 | |
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I don't think I'm going to be able to hide away with all my millions. |
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11-27-2012, 05:04 PM | #52 | |
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11-27-2012, 05:09 PM | #53 | |
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The statistics are skewed when it comes to the lottery. The odds of picking the correct number of a random 6 number drawing are astronomical. The odds of winning the lottery are much, much better. Why? Because someone always wins the lottery. Someone is GOING to win this lottery, if not this drawing then the next. That means that of the, let's just say, 2 million tickets sold for this drawing, at least one will win. Even if one doesn't, and a million MORE people join the party, bringing the total cost of tickets up to 5 million for both drawings, you now have a 1 in 2.5 million chance of winning. This is a closed system, so your odds of winning are greatly increased by the fact that A) Someone will win, and B) that winner will come from a limited group of players. |
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11-27-2012, 05:11 PM | #54 |
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11-27-2012, 05:20 PM | #57 |
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11-27-2012, 05:27 PM | #58 |
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11-27-2012, 05:29 PM | #59 |
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My plan is to buy out Pioli's contract from Clark and have him mow my yard and shovel snow for the rest of it's duration.
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11-27-2012, 05:29 PM | #60 |
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I'm in a 70 person group that each spends $5 every time that lottery gets higher than $100 million. Thats 350 tickets. If you win its only a couple of million but its better odds than playing alone and its a fun little thing to do.
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