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“In addition to the positive economic impact, we appreciate the buzz factor that comes with a Lottery jackpot of this size”, she said.

It’s also wrong, though there are anomalies.

It will take you about an hour and a half to get to Kingman from Las Vegas. Both seasoned and new Powerball players are taking advantage of the big jackpot. In 2012, two winners split $587.5 million.

The total prize amount of $1.5 billion only really applies to people who choose to receive the cash in equal payouts over a period of 30 years. “I’d try to buy enough land to set up a wildlife preserve, because we’re just losing too many species”, he said. “You can’t win”, said Van Russ. “I know I’d have relatives coming out of the woodwork”. “That’s an offer that has never been made before no one has ever had a chance at before”, said Jeff Holyfield from the Michigan Lottery. To prove the money actually goes to someone.

The odds of winning: one in 292,000,000. But far from hiding the change, the organization trumpeted it as part of an effort to build larger jackpots while also giving away more prizes of $2 million or less.

After a Texas native claimed his $2 million Powerball prize in Albuquerque on Tuesday, the jackpot continues to grow to record numbers.

“The person who goes to the store to buy the lottery tickets, that the person only buys the lottery tickets for the office pool”, Garcia said.

Claiborne County resident Shanta Evans says she does not normally play the lottery but since the jackpot has reached an all-time high she decided it was time to start. While there, they chose to buy a few Powerball tickets.

So what would you do with that kind of money?

The Powerball prize has grown so large that Gerald Prante, an economics professor at Lynchburg College in Lynchburg, Virginia, has determined that a single victor would likely be among the top 100 income earners in the nation for 2016.

As for concerns about getting the ticket second-hand, King says getting the ticket from the bakery is different from buying from an online broker because the bakery gives out the physical ticket.