The upcoming $1.4 billion Powerball jackpot is the world’s fifth-largest lottery prize due to higher interest rates, long odds, fewer ticket sales per drawing, and luck.
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Iowa Powerball winner donates $500K to Maine’s Travis Mills Foundation
AUGUSTA — A Maine-based organization that runs a retreat for wounded veterans is receiving half a million dollars from the winner of a recent Powerball jackpot. The $500,000 donation is a big boost for the nonprofit Travis Mills Foundation, which reported $1.55 million in annual revenue in 2016, according to documents filed by the tax-exempt […]
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Huge lottery prizes due to simple math, with some surprises
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — For all the anticipation about whether someone will finally snag the gigantic Mega Millions and Powerball jackpots, the games come down to two things: simple math — and very long odds. But there are some quirks and surprises about the math equations that likely will soon vault someone into stratospheric […]
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Winning $570 million Powerball ticket sold in New Hampshire
MERRIMACK, N.H. (AP) — It’s been a billion-dollar lottery weekend after a lone Powerball ticket sold in New Hampshire matched all six numbers and will claim a $570 million jackpot, one day after another single ticket sold in Florida nabbed a $450 million Mega Millions grand prize. Since Reeds Ferry Market opened at 5:30 a.m. […]
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Massachusetts sells only winning ticket in $758.7M Powerball jackpot
BOSTON (AP) — A single winning ticket has been sold for the massive Powerball $758.7 million jackpot in Wednesday night’s drawing. The winning ticket was sold in Chicopee, Massachusetts. Some details about the game and the giant prize: WINNING NUMBERS The lucky numbers from Wednesday night’s drawing are 6, 7, 16, 23 and 26, and […]
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Indiana store sells winning $435 million Powerball ticket
A customer waits in line to buy a Powerball ticket, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017, in North Andover, Massachusetts. The Powerball jackpot rose above $400 million for the first time in nearly three months. INDIANAPOLIS — The sole winning ticket for an estimated $435.3 million Powerball jackpot — the 10th largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history […]
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Powerball fever spreads but no one wins top prize in Maine
UPDATE: $1.6 billion Powerball jackpot goes to 3 winners in 3 states (Winning numbers drawn: 4-8-19-27-34 and Powerball 10.) LEWISTON — The lines were long at the Gulf Mart on Lisbon Street on Wednesday — but these shoppers weren’t just buying beer, gas and cigarettes — they were buying dreams. A billion and a half dollars worth of […]
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A Powerball win may be rare, but a lucky store doesn’t exist
Average Lottery Ticket Spending per Person | Graphiq To the Powerball crowd, Lady’s Liquors is a lucky store. Two years ago, the Southern Maryland booze purveyor sold a winning $414 million Mega Millions ticket. Lady’s Liquors has been cashing in on that ever since, advertising the accomplishment on its marquee sign to players looking for […]
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8 things you need to know about the $1.4 billion Powerball jackpot
Data curated by FindTheData DES MOINES, Iowa — People who bought Powerball tickets have more time to think of elaborate ways to spend the largest lottery jackpot in the world — and they’ll likely be joined by thousands more seeking a quick $1.4 billion fortune. Sales for Saturday night’s drawing, in which $949.8 million was […]
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Hey Powerball winner, here’s how to NOT squander $800 million
Evidence shows that most people who make it to the top 1 percent of income earners usually don’t stay at the top for very long. But the person who wins the $800 million Powerball Jackpot during Saturday night’s drawing, assuming one person wins the entire pot, will have such a large pile of cash that […]