Playing it safe, a Powerball player has a 1 in 38 chance of simply doubling her money on a $2 ticket. The roll has created one $1 million victor, 49 $50,000 winners and four $100,000 winners.
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Any player who matches the Powerball number wins $4.
Your full name and hometown will be published on the state’s website if you win the entire jackpot of a multi-state game like Powerball and the Pennsylvania Lottery validates your ticket.
Kentuckiana is experiencing Powerball frenzy as the largest lottery jackpot in the world is up for grabs on Wednesday, Jan. 13.
No one has matched all six Powerball numbers since then, so the prize continues to grow. The lottery game runs in 44 states as well as the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.
The $1.5 billion jackpot will have a cash value of approximately $930 million, according to the California Lottery. The final jackpot was set at $1.586 billion.
Still, even if you refuse to be daunted by how slim the chance of a win is, you’re not going to have the same Powerball experience in every state or even all states-six states do not participate in the national lottery. Players are reminded to add Power Play onto their ticket purchase for an additional dollar to multiply the prize amounts by up to ten times. Those figures are before federal and state taxes, which generally eat up close to half of the money. That jackpot was the sixth largest in Lottery history.
The council suddenly has so much attention that its website crashed earlier in the week from all the extra traffic. Who’s to say that ticket in your hand won’t be the lucky one to kick of 2016?
“It does glamorize it”, he said.
The odds of winning the lottery are one in more than 292 million, which leaves some wondering, if you bought all of the Powerball numbers, are you guaranteed to win?
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Those statistics did not deter people from buying. “People are looking at the jackpot, though, and they don’t really think about the odds”.
