Des Moines, IA – No one hit the Powerball jackpot on Saturday, so the money will roll over: A cool $400 million for the next drawing.
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While hefty, the prize for Wednesday’s drawing is still well below the record $590.5 million jackpot won in May by an 84-year-old Florida woman.
The winning numbers Saturday were 21, 24, 36, 42 and 45; the Powerball was 15.
The odds of matching all six numbers are 1 in 175.2 million.
Powerball is played in 43 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
If you say Tehilim corresponding to your Powerball numbers for forty days, it’s a Segula to win.
How many knishes can someone buy with $400 million.
Reply to #2 . Only 200 million delicious ones at Glatt mart
is it legal to buy all numbers?? I know that there’s a chance to loose money cause someone else might have the correct numbers too, but still i would consider it as a decent investment
Why would the house wish to limit the number of number one may buy? The state does not lose money on the payout. They have already taken their half of the vig. If one person, several people or nobody wins, it is all the same to the state. The exception would be if the prize is left unclaimed, in which case the state has a windfall.
To carry the thought further, it is as foolish to buy one number as to buy them all.
I recall the story of some minimal-wage person at a gas station who in the middle of the night scratched off all the instant win tickets, a couple of hundred of them. He thought that eventually the winnings would pay for the tickets he was stealing.
Of course it rarely works out that way. In the long run, you get fifty cents for every dollar you pay in. If you buy a lot of tickets you just more closely approach this point.