Kelly Cripe, a spokeswoman for the Texas Lottery, says no one matched the numbers drawn Wednesday night. If you purchase any tickets outside of the pool, make sure your pool players know before the drawing in case you win.
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The current jackpot, an estimated $800 million, is the largest such prize in U.S. history.
With more than a half a billion dollars on the line, those waiting in long lines to buy tickets, say the possibilities of how to use the money are endless.
Powerball ticket sales topped $2,400 Thursday at the Citgo Wheels No. 61 gas station/convenience store on Danbury Road in New Milford.
A last-minute surge in ticket sales had been expected for Wednesday night’s draw, with Camelot saying it expected to sell 200 tickets every second during the hour before the draw closed, at 7.30pm.
Brian Coronis, owner of Coronis Market in Newport, usually doesn’t play, but often ends up being forced to buy tickets.
But winners in California and several other states will pay no state tax at all on the record Powerball jackpot or any lottery prize. The drawing will be held on Saturday.
If there are no winners, the pot will keep growing and the next drawing will be Saturday.
“We could be on the verge of creating the first lottery billionaire”, said Gordon Medenica, director of the Maryland Lottery agency to the Washington Post.
The Wednesday Powerball drawing had an estimated jackpot of $525 million.
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“All it takes is one”, he said.
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In fact, Powerball is now more hard to win than its sister game, Mega Millions, which offers odds of one in 258,890,000.
