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No Powerball Jackpot Winner, Pot to Grow to $1.3 Billion [01/09/16]
NBC4 LA ^ | 01/09/2016 | NBC4 LA

Posted on 01/09/2016 10:59:20 PM PST by DoughtyOne

There was no jackpot winner of Saturday's biggest-ever $900 million Powerball drawing, and the jackpot for Wednesday's drawing will grow to an estimated $1.3 billion, officials said, NBC News reported.

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To: a fool in paradise

Ha ha ha...

LOL

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Just on general principles. (See how supportive I am Jim?)

Good luck.


21 posted on 01/09/2016 11:50:11 PM PST by DoughtyOne ((It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.))
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To: DoughtyOne

that is a great night!

taking mother to atlantic cty at end of month. she’s 83 and she loves to go lol.

me, the spouse and mom. but TWO rooms :)

she can bring crazy uncle nunzio to keep her company!!


22 posted on 01/09/2016 11:55:20 PM PST by dp0622 (i .)
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To: DoughtyOne

The welfare and food-stamp takers must be losing their minds.


23 posted on 01/09/2016 11:57:03 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

That is a lot of money, LOL.

What’s your take on it, “...losing their minds?”


24 posted on 01/10/2016 12:01:43 AM PST by DoughtyOne ((It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.))
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To: DoughtyOne

A math teacher in Minnesota worked up some numbers about Megamillions (the ot her multi-state game). Based on the feds’ numbers for highway safety, if one has to drive just three miles to get the lotto ticket, the odds of being involved in (not necessarily killed) a fatal auto crash are more favorable than the odds of winning the jackpot, by almost twice.

So, I suggest buying two tickets, and driving really carefully.


25 posted on 01/10/2016 12:06:02 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: DoughtyOne

How much of that billion plus is from welfare checks?

Probably most.


26 posted on 01/10/2016 12:08:11 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: DoughtyOne

Well there goes another three bucks ($2 ticket + $1 multiplier). I don’t know who is going to win all the loot. But unless they have the good fortune to live in a state that allows them to stay anonymous, I would suggest the first expenditure be on a couple of well trained bodyguards for them and their family.


27 posted on 01/10/2016 12:25:56 AM PST by NRx (Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.)
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To: DoughtyOne

If I win I’m running for President ;)


28 posted on 01/10/2016 12:28:58 AM PST by brothers4thID ("We've had way too many Republicans whose #1 virtue is "I get along great with Democrats".")
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Re: “How much of that billion plus is from welfare checks?”

Here in Washington state, Food Stamps pay out on the 10th of the month, which is today.

Everyone with an EBT Card will feel “rich” for one day and kick the jackpot up to $2 billion by Sunday night!

29 posted on 01/10/2016 12:30:49 AM PST by zeestephen
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To: SunkenCiv

Okay, I like the driving really carefully part.

Now, pick good numbers!


30 posted on 01/10/2016 12:41:12 AM PST by DoughtyOne ((It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.))
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To: Berlin_Freeper

OIC

That’s a good one. Probably quite a bit.


31 posted on 01/10/2016 12:41:43 AM PST by DoughtyOne ((It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.))
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To: NRx

Yes, I know what you mean.


32 posted on 01/10/2016 12:42:42 AM PST by DoughtyOne ((It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.))
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To: brothers4thID

That occurred to me as well.

For about 0.5 seconds I was really into it.


33 posted on 01/10/2016 12:43:23 AM PST by DoughtyOne ((It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.))
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To: DoughtyOne
I wrote this on a different thread four days ago, but offer the arithmetic here.

Your chances of winning the Powerball lottery are zero whether you purchase any tickets or not.

For the six-ball jackpot, the possible permutations of drawing five white balls out of 69, and one red ball from 26, while not restricting the white balls to one unique series = (69 * 68 * 67 * 66 * 65 * 26) / (5 * 4 * 3 * 2) = 292,201,338.

Each $2 ticket gives you one chance out of 292.2 million. That's equivalent to selecting exactly one pixel from a square image of 17,094 pixels on a side. Try it on your screen sometime.

The odds of getting involved in a fatal car crash were estimated to be about one in 1,200. That was a decade ago. Might be higher or lower today, based on safer cars, or crazier drivers, or too many distractions. Using the 1,200 number, your chances of being in a fatal car crash are 292,201,338 / 1,200 = 243,501 times greater than winning the Powerball jackpot.

One chance in 292,201,338 possible outcomes = 0.0000000034. That's 0.00000034%. That means each ticket you purchase has a 99.99999966% chance of losing.

If you're content with settling for just getting the five white-ball sequence right, your odds improve by a factor of 26. That's one chance in 11,238,513; like picking one pixel from square image of 3,352 pixels on a side. Fatal car crash is only 9,365 times more likely. P(winning five white-ball sequence) = 0.000000089. Each ticket you purchase has a 99.9999911% chance of losing.

Someone occasionally wins, but we're seeing credible reports of lottery fraud, where the same individual wins two or three different drawings; a statistical impossibility. We see a lot of that here at the Lab lately.

Take whatever chances you want in life, but at least understand the probability of success.

34 posted on 01/10/2016 1:01:02 AM PST by goldbux (CDO / I may have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, but at least I put the letters in correct sequence.)
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To: goldbux
Your chances of winning the Powerball lottery are zero whether you purchase any tickets or not.

Unless you win.

35 posted on 01/10/2016 1:11:28 AM PST by Libloather (Embrace the suck)
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To: Gator113

When hyperinflation finally hit, we will all be mega-billionaires.


36 posted on 01/10/2016 1:26:38 AM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: DoughtyOne

I don’t play often, but our two big Lotos out here, one for the state and one for the big one Powerball (I think) I’ve spent $5.00 for before.

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Power Ball used to be $1 per ticket, it is now $2, so spend either $4 or $6. if playing for the $1 billion plus. If you win, remember your good friend Graybeard who told you about it.


37 posted on 01/10/2016 1:44:34 AM PST by Graybeard58 (Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.)
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To: goldbux

I agree with your thoughts on this.

Someone will win.

The person that wins will have purchased a ticket.

Is it worth $10 bucks to contemplate what you would do if you won, when you actually do have a one in 292 million chance of winning? Well, yes and no.

There is the enjoyment of fantasizing. At least you know you are fantasizing. I’ve made a lot more important decisions in life than this, and later found out I was fantasizing.


38 posted on 01/10/2016 1:50:02 AM PST by DoughtyOne ((It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.))
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To: NRx

Well there goes another three bucks ($2 ticket + $1 multiplier).

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I don’t understand the “Multiplier”. Will you explain it to me?


39 posted on 01/10/2016 1:50:16 AM PST by Graybeard58 (Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.)
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To: DoughtyOne

I may have to play this round.


40 posted on 01/10/2016 2:20:11 AM PST by SoFloFreeper (Obama hates the three Cs: Christianity, Constitution, and capitalism.)
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