New Hampshire has had a total of nine Powerball jackpot winners over the years.
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The most recent Powerball jackpot won in Louisiana was in May 2013 when the Williams Trust of New Orleans split a $50 million jackpot from the May 25 drawing with two other winning tickets sold in DE and Florida.
The jackpot will continue to increase, with the next draw to be held on Saturday, it said. The victor will receive 30 annual payments of approximately $23.3 million each, with the first payment made shortly after the ticket is validated.
The estimated prize for this weekend’s Powerball drawing is an estimated $675 million after no one matched the numbers drawn in Wednesday night’s estimated $500 million jackpot.
The cash option is estimated to be about $428.4 million.
The previous biggest jackpot ever was a $656 million Mega Millions prize won in 2012.
Know that the Powerball is offered by 44 states plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Chopin says when they have a huge playership and coverage of the numbers at this level, more than likely when the jackpot does get hit there will be multiple winners.
The current jackpot has been growing since November 7.
Now, she only plays when it’s big – and this grand prize meets that criteria. About 1,900 lottery winners are bankrupt five years after they won the lottery, a study in the Review of Economics and Statistics said. Players also win prizes for matching two, three or four winning numbers. Neither player added the PowerPlay feature for an additional dollar.
Here is a Powerball lottery states map, you can find by visiting this link.
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Yes, but the reality is that lines across the country for tickets are long and jackpot fever is spreading, which have lessened the odds to over a one in 292.2 million chance of winning. At $2, a ticket, the strategy would cost about $584 million, and when taxes are subtracted, you’d end up losing money.
