Powerball Jackpot Reaches $1.5 Billion, Largest Lottery in U.S. History
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[QUOTE=Zonesylvania;49477293]If anybody won that jackpot they'd be pretty much set for life on the interest alone.[/QUOTE]
I would literally only spend my interest lol
[QUOTE=Llamalord;49486011]What would be the cost of buying every combination possible? Lol[/QUOTE]
Well, you have 292,201,338 possible combinations at $2 a ticket, so it would cost $584,402,676 to get each ticket.
You would run most places that sell lottery tickets dry if you tried to do that.
[QUOTE=Llamalord;49486011]What would be the cost of buying every combination possible? Lol[/QUOTE]
Obviously more than what you would win, lotteries aren't stupid.
I'm going to get $20 worth of tickets today.
So I've never played this before, only the scratch-offs...do I just pick sets of 5 numbers or have them auto-generate the numbers with Powerball?
[QUOTE=ballads;49485015]If you don't mind me asking what city? pm me if you dont wanna say it here.[/QUOTE]
Good ol Boscawen New Hampshire, just north of our fair capital. I'm not sure if we're the biggest retailing state, but an absolutely massive chunk of our state income comes from our lottery and liquor sales
[editline]8th January 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=agentfazexx;49486182]I'm going to get $20 worth of tickets today.
So I've never played this before, only the scratch-offs...do I just pick sets of 5 numbers or have them auto-generate the numbers with Powerball?[/QUOTE]
Either you can tell the cashier your numbers (don't do this it takes fucking ages), fill out a powerball slip which every store has which we can scan (basically just does option 1 automatically) or you can get an Easy Pick, where you throw the dice into the wind and take totally random numbers. If you get power play on your ticket for a buck more, another number gets drawn. If it happens to be yours, you'll at least get the cash back for the ticket. Tickets are 2 bux a play (obviously 3 w/ power play)
State lotteries should be banned, they're a disguised regressive tax targeted predominately at poor and middle class people. It preys upon desperation and delusion and provides little tangible social benefit.
[QUOTE=The freeman;49486169]Well, you have 292,201,338 possible combinations at $2 a ticket, so it would cost $584,402,676 to get each ticket.
You would run most places that sell lottery tickets dry if you tried to do that.[/QUOTE]
Seems almost worth it if the jackpot is higher than that. Make a team with a bunch of friends and each buys a quarter of the possibilities, then share the gross profits.
[QUOTE=proch;49477517]If you wanted to live off interest about 2 million would be enough
You'd get around 90 grand monthly.[/QUOTE]
That is almost new Tesla car every month.
[QUOTE=Fourier;49487606]That is almost new Tesla car every month.[/QUOTE]
No thanks. lol. I like cars that go vroom
[QUOTE=Srillo;49487526]State lotteries should be banned, they're a disguised regressive tax targeted predominately at poor and middle class people. It preys upon desperation and delusion and provides little tangible social benefit.[/QUOTE]
They supply money for a large amount of services through taxes, including education and state projects. I believe Florida uses 25% of ticket sales for education.
[QUOTE=Srillo;49487526]State lotteries should be banned, they're a disguised regressive tax targeted predominately at poor and middle class people. It preys upon desperation and delusion and provides little tangible social benefit.[/QUOTE]
Yay more bans to fix nothing!
Seems like the best thing to do when you win the lottery is to drop off the face of the earth.
[QUOTE=RichyZ;49487625]Taxes and various other fees would make it not worth it by a large margin.[/QUOTE]
Untrue, your best odds at a high jackpot is in a large pool. Even split into 50, 700 mil is a fat piggy.
[QUOTE=proch;49477517]If you wanted to live off interest about 2 million would be enough
You'd get around 90 grand monthly.[/QUOTE]
do you mean yearly because getting 4.5% return per month is unheard of
Too bad Connecticut requires winners to identify themselves publicly. Even loopholes like setting up an LLC or having a lawyer accept the funds doesnt work here.
If I won I would buy 50 cents old mansion in Farmington (he cant sell it, been on the market for years) and have all my friends and family live there.
[QUOTE=cody8295;49489745]Too bad Connecticut requires winners to identify themselves publicly. Even loopholes like setting up an LLC or having a lawyer accept the funds doesnt work here.
If I won I would buy 50 cents old mansion in Farmington (he cant sell it, been on the market for years) and have all my friends and family live there.[/QUOTE]
CT is a retarded state, that's why.
if i won i'd probably give most of it to help further space exploration and use the rest to pay my way through uni
shit the first thing i'd do with the money is buy a new macbook pro. fuck my current laptop
I'd buy a big house, start a trust fund for my daughter, buy a Ferarri 488, Nissan GT-R, Porsche Cayenne and give money to close friends/family.
Id take all my close friends on a round the world trip during which id pick my favorite place in the world to build my own house
and wouldn't just be a normal boring house..i love giving people something to discover.
although it would look normal id want secret passages ..treasure rooms..riddles and clues ..accidentally falling in the lake only to discover an underwater cave with clues carved in the wall..
Basically to my grandkids i'd be the slightly mad (in the fun way) old man with the mysterious house their parents always tell them "oh he's just making up stories"
Then one day someone cracks a mirror and finds a wierd looking key and a leather map behind it
I'm weird shuttup at least i like making shit interesting
Why is it always older people that seem to win powerball jackpots? Also jesus christ 900 million? Insane.
sorry for sounding stupid but i just saw a massive line at the shops..didn't think much about it until a woman said "is this the line for the lottery"
Is this applicable to uk too? whats going on?
[QUOTE=mini me;49492396]sorry for sounding stupid but i just saw a massive line at the shops..didn't think much about it until a woman said "is this the line for the lottery"
Is this applicable to uk too? whats going on?[/QUOTE]
Powerball is US-only I thought.
[QUOTE=agentfazexx;49492409]Powerball is US-only I thought.[/QUOTE]
yeah that's why i'm confused as to why there's a fuckhuge line at every lottery place
Was going to get a couple tickets yesterday, put it off till today. On way to work today wife said lines are massive, compared it to Black Friday.
[QUOTE=mini me;49492476]yeah that's why i'm confused as to why there's a fuckhuge line at every lottery place[/QUOTE]
Local lottery has a huge pot too maybe, who knows.
[editline]9th January 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=cani;49492477]Was going to get a couple tickets yesterday, put it off till today. On way to work today wife said lines are massive, compared it to Black Friday.[/QUOTE]
Liquor store was empty when I went yesterday evening.
[QUOTE=SpaceGhost;49492386]Why is it always older people that seem to win powerball jackpots? Also jesus christ 900 million? Insane.[/QUOTE]
I'd rather an older couple who need it win the jackpot, rather than some rich asshole who'd consider it basically nothing.
[QUOTE=ChrisR;49492484]I'd rather an older couple who need it win the jackpot, rather than some rich asshole who'd consider it basically nothing.[/QUOTE]
What about normal people with money issues? Why older couples?
[QUOTE=RenegadeCop;49492530]Imagine if this money was spread between like 500 people instead of given to just a few[/QUOTE]
Those 500 would still be set for life.
[QUOTE=agentfazexx;49492538]Those 500 would still be set for life.[/QUOTE]
Even if the prize pool got to $1 billion, splitting it between 500 will leave each person with $2 million, which really isn't that much over the course of a lifetime, especially if you want to start a family.
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