With no weekend victor, Powerball jackpot swells to $1.3B

To counter the decline in ticket sales, they made the game more exciting by making it harder to hit the jackpot – meaning more rollovers and much bigger jackpots. He stopped by Convenience on the Go, 1441 Holland Road in Suffolk, and bought three Powerball tickets.

The multi-state drawing has not had a jackpot victor since November 7, so projections for this Wednesday’s drawing are in the $1.4 billion neighborhood, and as we all know, that’s a really nice neighborhood. So even if you don’t play Powerball, you could still benefit.

A New York University statistics professor says there’s only a 1 in 300-million chance of winning it all.

When people choose their own lottery numbers, they typically pick digits that have some kind of personal meaning for them.

Couldn’t I just buy every ticket combination? Those numbers are typically between 1 and 31, since they represent dates like birthdays and anniversaries. With the jackpot at a $1.4 billion, the lottery victor would have more money than the entire GDP of several countries, including Samoa at $827 million, Tuvalu at $38 million and Anguilla at $175.4 million.

If you were happy yesterday, you are going to be a lot happier tomorrow. USA Today, the largest newspaper in the United States, tweeted that “if you are feeling lucky this week, then this is a particularly good time for you”.

Powerball fever has some Georgians dreaming about being the richest person in the state. That describes the mistaken belief that the success of one random event increases the chances of it repeating.

Lottery officials ran into that problem when the Powerball reached uncharted territory over the weekend when no one won the $900 million jackpot Saturday night.

On Monday, the Lottery also offered tips on players who want to set up an office pool for the Powerball drawing.

Georgia Lottery signs across metro Atlanta are now displaying the accurate Powerball jackpot: $1.4 billion.

“So one great thing about the Georgia Lottery is whenever a jackpot gets this big, $1.4 billion, it helps generate revenue for the state of Georgia and our education”, said Georgia Lottery spokesman John Crow. In the entire 2014-15 fiscal year, California sold $372 million in Powerball tickets. Six months later, it sold a winning $250,000 Mega Millions ticket. But the odds of winning $4, for example, improved from 1 in 111 to 1 in 92.

The previous U.S. jackpot record of US$656 million, on March 30, 2012, was scooped by three winners from North Carolina, Puerto Rico and Texas.