Powerball jackpot increases to $1.4 billion as ticket sales surge

In the event a the jackpot-winning ticket is purchased in Idaho, the retail location that sells that winning ticket would receive a $50,000 bonus from the Idaho Lottery.

It’s “human nature to think the other guy is winning”, said Sally Lunsford, public affairs director for the Kansas Lottery. Gary Grief with the Texas Lottery, which is part of the Multi-State Lottery Association, says the $1.4 billion figure is definitely the world’s largest. Of course, even $350 million is a lot of money, so I doubt that the winners would mind too much. You’ll win the second prize of $1 million if you match the first five numbers in any order.

None of the winners come from states where they can remain anonymous, and none of them have claimed their prizes. To play online, you must be an IL or Georgia resident and be physically present in the state when you buy the ticket.

“I didn’t expect to win, but I had big dreams”, said Wheeler, 53.

One of the most persistent misconceptions, officials said, is that winners risk tax trouble if they opt for an annuity but die before all 29 payments are made. Only one person needs to be lucky enough to pick the sequence.

The approximate jackpot odds stand at 1 in 292.1 million, according to the N.C. Education Lottery website.

Dutchess County had $2 million in sales, and Ulster had $1 million.

Located about a mile from the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel, the Broadway Stop and Shop in downtown Detroit is a convenient location for Canadians seeking lottery tickets.

In the end, a Powerball victor in Virginia who hits the $1.4 billion jackpot, in the end, takes home about a billion less after taxes with the lump sum payout…

And talk about luck: Imari Shelton, 19, had never played the Powerball game and had to ask her mother how it worked. As the jackpots ballooned, more people have played, resulting in more number combinations being covered, lottery officials say.

The man, who spent $30 Saturday for the previous Powerball drawing, did not want to give his name. In the event that the winning number is between 1 and 31 and you happen to guess it, there’s a much higher chance that you’ll have to share your winnings with someone than there would be if you’d picked the less obvious numbers from 32 through 100. By comparison, California Gov. Jerry Brown last week proposed a $122.6 billion general fund budget for the nation’s most populous state.