The jackpot amount increased because no one matched all six numbers in Saturday’s grand prize drawing. But as lottery officials often note, people have no chance of winning if they don’t buy a ticket.
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To play, consumers choose five numbers from 1 to 69 and one Powerball number from 1 to 26. That Mega Millions jackpot was won on March 30, 2012, and split between three winning tickets (Kansas, Illinois, and Maryland).
But one person in Stockton has hit it big in the in-state Super Lotto Plus jackpot game.
By now, everyone who played surely has checked, but in case you haven’t, the winning digits were 16, 19, 32, 34 and 57 and the Powerball was 13.
Lottery officials say it could grow to a whopping $1.3 billion. He wouldn’t say how many he’d bought last week – or how many he planned to get before Wednesday’s drawing – but did cop to “several”.
The record $1.3 billion jackpot has been building up since November 7.
The game seemed to defy its own odds Saturday night when it failed to produce a victor, even though 75 percent of the almost 300 million possible number combinations were sold.
In the final hours working up to the drawing Saturday, Lottery offices said sales endorsed every hour nearing the deadline – setting another record of 85 sales per second.
A Powerball billboard in Rhode Island is unable to display the record-breaking jackpot of more than $1 billion. They can pick those numbers or let the numbers be randomly selected.
If a victor is drawn, he or she could opt for an $806 million payout before federal or state taxes. States not participating are Nevada, Utah, Mississippi, Alabama, Alaska and Hawaii.
Some people feel that pooling their money with co-workers will improve their chance of winning – but with such tiny odds, adding 50 or 100 chances doesn’t give you a leg up.
It’s being called one of the largest lottery pots the world has ever seen and it’s up for grabs Wednesday.
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As part of the research to create the app, Jacobson requested lottery collection data from all of the state lottery commissions in the country.
