The Texas Lottery announced early Sunday morning that there was no winner for the record-breaking $949.8 million Powerball jackpot.
Officials had said that if there were no winners for Saturday's prize that the jackpot would rise to $1.3 billion for Wednesday's drawing--with a cash value of $806 million.
The numbers picked for Saturday's Powerball drawing were 32, 16, 19, 57, 34, and Powerball number 13, the Multi-State Lottery Association announced.
Hint:There were number combinations that were not played.Those combinations were calculated between the ticket sale cutoff time and the actual drawing.The next drawing will have covered every single number combination possibility and Powerball will have no option but to award the prize.If one believes in math,4 people should win on Wed.
The first 5 numbers are drawn from a total of 69. Since the order does not matter one must determine the number of combinations of 5 numbers out of 69 where order does not matter. Mathematically, the number of combinations of 69 items taken 5 at a time is 11,238,513. The Powerball number is selected from a total of 26 possibilities. Hence 11,238,513 X 26 = 292,201,338, the total number of Powerball outcomes. That is also why your odds of winning have been reported to be about 1 out of 292 million.
Tickets cost $2 each so one would need to spend $584,402,676 to guarantee a win. Last night's drawing would have resulted in you being a loser, however, since the amount won after taxes would be less than your investment.
This week, however, could be different. If the prize is headed towards $1,300,000,000, as news outlets report then, after taxes you would conceivably earn more than your investment....resulting in a net win of 65 million or more! So, just get together with your friends and scrounge up $584,402,676. Watch TV Wednesday night and you win!
People do not believe it but this proves it is fixed. There were only 75% of possible combinations played. They don't tell you how many duplicate combinations were played. With the number of tickets sold there is no way only 75% of the combinations played. The ones running these lotteries are more of a crook than Bernie the Ponzi Schemer.
10:12 - yes it is rigged. a few years ago they "expanded" the numbers and claimed it would bring more opportunity to win, then they doubled the price. I said BS and quit playing and since then there have been lots and lots of drawings with no big winners.
If you think it's rigged, then don't ask for random computer numbers, pick your own numbers Einstein. Everyone is a victim. Last time I played it was $400 million, I played 5 random numbers last night and will pick up a ticket so I can pick the numbers and be ready on Tuesday for Wednesday's drawing. I'll play again but this time I'm going to pick my own numbers and probably have less chance of winning but I can't say I was a victim because it's rigged.
1:11 that is the most convoluted illogical rant. Whether or not the numbers are random or chosen does not effect the fact that it is rigged. Geesh, your lack of ability to think is scary.
Lottery games are a tax on the poor and uneducated. Did I play the Powerball on Sat.? Yes. Bought 1 quick pick ticket. Paid $2 and won $4. Doubled my money. Might buy 1 quick pick for the next drawing and then I am breaking even. There was a person in front of me buying 100 tickets. Tried to explain to them that 1 or 100 tickets does not significantly change the odds in your favor, but they did not understand statistics and probably never got beyond basic math.
Please let this soak in , lotteries are all crooked and illegal , but , if they stopped the lotteries in America our economy would collapse immediately . Ain't it great !!
I wonder how much it would cost to buy 1 ticket for every number option?
ReplyDeleteLil over $350 million..
Delete293 million dollars
Delete$70,128,321,120
ReplyDelete175.2 million combinations, so a little over 350 million dollars to play them all.
ReplyDeleteGambling is a tax on people who are bad at math!
ReplyDeletea few millon dollars, the bigger problem is it would take 8 months for the computer to generate all the possible combinations.
ReplyDeleteHint:There were number combinations that were not played.Those combinations were calculated between the ticket sale cutoff time and the actual drawing.The next drawing will have covered every single number combination possibility and Powerball will have no option but to award the prize.If one believes in math,4 people should win on Wed.
ReplyDeleteBoy, if I could take and win that thing Id have more money than Joe!
ReplyDeleteWhat about the corruption in the lotto?
DeleteThe first 5 numbers are drawn from a total of 69. Since the order does not matter one must determine the number of combinations of 5 numbers out of 69 where order does not matter. Mathematically, the number of combinations of 69 items taken 5 at a time is 11,238,513. The Powerball number is selected from a total of 26 possibilities. Hence 11,238,513 X 26 = 292,201,338, the total number of Powerball outcomes. That is also why your odds of winning have been reported to be about 1 out of 292 million.
ReplyDeleteTickets cost $2 each so one would need to spend $584,402,676 to guarantee a win. Last night's drawing would have resulted in you being a loser, however, since the amount won after taxes would be less than your investment.
This week, however, could be different. If the prize is headed towards $1,300,000,000, as news outlets report then, after taxes you would conceivably earn more than your investment....resulting in a net win of 65 million or more! So, just get together with your friends and scrounge up $584,402,676. Watch TV Wednesday night and you win!
Thank God, I forgot to buy my tickets for both last Wednesday and Saturday.
ReplyDelete8:46, That's only if you're the sole winner. The jackpot is split evenly among multiple winners, so if I win as well, your bubble is burst!
ReplyDelete8:46 actually you forgot that if you played all the numbers you would have won a whole bunch of other smaller prizes as well
ReplyDeletePeople do not believe it but this proves it is fixed. There were only 75% of possible combinations played. They don't tell you how many duplicate combinations were played. With the number of tickets sold there is no way only 75% of the combinations played. The ones running these lotteries are more of a crook than Bernie the Ponzi Schemer.
ReplyDelete10:12 - yes it is rigged. a few years ago they "expanded" the numbers and claimed it would bring more opportunity to win, then they doubled the price. I said BS and quit playing and since then there have been lots and lots of drawings with no big winners.
ReplyDeleteIf you think it's rigged, then don't ask for computer random numbers, pick your own numbers Einstein. Everyone is a victim.
ReplyDeleteIf you think it's rigged, then don't ask for random computer numbers, pick your own numbers Einstein. Everyone is a victim. Last time I played it was $400 million, I played 5 random numbers last night and will pick up a ticket so I can pick the numbers and be ready on Tuesday for Wednesday's drawing. I'll play again but this time I'm going to pick my own numbers and probably have less chance of winning but I can't say I was a victim because it's rigged.
ReplyDelete$1M powerball ticket sold at the Food Lion in Berlin, MD.
ReplyDeleteI could damn near pay off my bar tab
ReplyDelete1:11 that is the most convoluted illogical rant. Whether or not the numbers are random or chosen does not effect the fact that it is rigged. Geesh, your lack of ability to think is scary.
ReplyDeleteLottery games are a tax on the poor and uneducated. Did I play the Powerball on Sat.? Yes. Bought 1 quick pick ticket. Paid $2 and won $4. Doubled my money. Might buy 1 quick pick for the next drawing and then I am breaking even. There was a person in front of me buying 100 tickets. Tried to explain to them that 1 or 100 tickets does not significantly change the odds in your favor, but they did not understand statistics and probably never got beyond basic math.
ReplyDeletePlease let this soak in , lotteries are all crooked and illegal , but , if they stopped the lotteries in America our economy would collapse immediately . Ain't it great !!
ReplyDeleteWith all that money, I would like to see many people win including me.
ReplyDelete437...Oh something is sinking in, alright.
ReplyDeleteIf I won, I would be buying loads of TV ads telling the country about Obama's and Hillery's Lies.
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