The 18 million Powerball winners you didn’t hear about

Officials with the Multi-State Lottery Association, which runs the Powerball game, hoped for such a large jackpot when they changed the odds of matching all the Powerball numbers from about one in 175 million to one in 292.2 million last fall.

Tickets worth $2 million were sold in Connecticut and Texas, while tickets worth $1 million were sold in Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Virginia, according to USA Today. The next drawing will be Wednesday night at 10:59 pm ET.

More of your pressing questions about Powerball are answered below. Billboards throughout the country aren’t made to show a billion jackpot, so many just read $999 million.

There are two reasons why your expected loss wouldn’t decrease with every additional Powerball ticket that you purchase: Your odds of winning don’t meaningfully improve, and the size of the pot doesn’t increase enough by buying 10, 100 or even 1,000 tickets. That’s doubling your $2 bet, for a one in 38 chance. “You do not have to be a citizen of the USA, people are coming from Mexico and Canada to purchase tickets”, he added.

What is a “Power Play”? Players can add an extra dollar to get the Power Play option, which multiplies any non-jackpot prize won on their ticket. The power play doesn’t affect the top prize, so $3 billion is not on the table, sorry. Anndrea Smith, 30, said Saturday that she already had spent more than she usually does on Powerball tickets. The more numbers chosen increase the chances of winning.

Past Powerball winning numbers can be found on the Powerball website.

Fresh off scoring his 500th National Hockey League goal, a photo appeared on social media of Ovechkin buying Powerball tickets in Virginia with his father.

In other Lottery news, here are a few stories on MLive.

No one has won the Powerball since November 4. Don’t make investments. You can put it in the bank and live comfortably. “If I want to gamble that day, I’ll use the number”.