Powerball climbs to second largest jackpot in history

The drawing takes place at 10:59 p.m. The largest Powerball prize Pennsylvania has ever awarded was an $110.2 million cash-value jackpot claimed by a New Jersey couple in May 2004. When asked what he would do with the money, he responded, “I’m not sure”.

You may want to hold off on promising them loans, however. “To give me good energy and to think about what I could do for other people”. I kind of have a “cush” job now.

“I would quit my job”, Delaine said.

The chance of picking all six winning Powerball numbers became more hard since an October 2015 rule change. “When players are thinking about buying tickets from one of the unofficial online sites, it truly is a case of buyer beware”, says Jeff Holyfield, a spokesman for the Michigan Lottery. So, an individual’s chances of winning don’t increase, but the odds that someone will win do rise.

But all the players in Columbia face long odds. To put that into perspective, the odds of being struck by lightning in the USA are one in 700,000. 2 million. That’s about the same luck of flipping a quarter and getting heads 28 times in a row.

“There’s no magic method to picking your numbers, I get emails every day asking”.

There are also prizes that can be won besides the Powerball jackpot.

There has not been a winning Powerball ticket since June 14, when the jackpot was $40 million.

The biggest Powerball jackpot in history was $1.6 billion in January 2016. Only two Powerball winners in the past 10 years have chosen the annuity option – the full jackpot paid over 29 years. They would greatly appreciate it.

“I would pay off my father’s house and pay off my grandmother’s house”, said Veronica Garcia, 30, of Plaistow. If the victor took the cash option, the payout would be $272.7 million after state and federal taxes. And Power Play allows a victor to potentially double, triple, quadruple, or even quintuple the lower-tier prize amounts for just an additional dollar. Washington’s Lottery defines a “lucky store” as one that sells the most prizes worth more than $1,000 within in a year’s time.

That’s assuming, of course, that you don’t win and still have to show up in the office on Thursday. The odds for winning partial prizes are better, and the payoffs range from millions of dollars to $4.