Although nobody won Saturday’s big jackpot, 25 tickets won $1 million by matching five numbers, and three other tickets won $2 million because they paid extra to multiply smaller prizes. The other two tickets were sold at Pilot Travel Center, 750 Baker Road in Dexter, and Speedway, 800 Washington Ave., in Holland. If the victor is a Montana resident, state taxes will eat up about $55 million, leaving a grand total of $548 million. She bought five Easy Pick plays.
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“It’s more than usual because of the high lottery amount”. “I wasn’t even sure how to play, so I had to ask my mom for help”.
“It only takes 1 ticket to win”. I placed the tickets near my front door so I’d see them each time I come and go. And the more tickets that are purchased, the greater the chance that there will be multiple winners.
“I didn’t expect to win, but I had big dreams”, said Wheeler, 53.
“People don’t even realize there are secondary prizes”, he said. Feel free to help SOME, but talk to your accountant before you do anything and remember this, no one needs $1 million for anything.
Still, if you beat the odds – which are somewhere north of 292.2-million against you winning – you’ll be able to afford an accountant.
Ticket sales were brisk before Saturday’s $949.8 million drawing, and the interest has only grown since then in the 44 participating states, as well as the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.
A woman purchases Powerball lottery tickets in New York, Monday, Jan. 11, 2016.
The reason the Powerball Jackpot has reached a level of unfathomable absurdity centers on the simple fact that it is really impossible to win.
While the $US1.4 billion is by far the largest ever up for grabs in North America, Spain’s December 2015 El Gordo lottery, or “the Fat One”, had a prize pool of $US2.45 billion.
Powerball fever is griping the U.S. as ticket buyers take a punt on the record $US1.4 billion prize.
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Pennsylvania had one $1 million victor, seven winners of $150,000, and numerous $50,000 winners. Find a vendor in your town here. It was already the largest in US lottery history.
