The cash option number is AFTER taxes...
"The cash option number is AFTER taxes..."
No it is not.
The jackpot is always overstated by roughly double it's true value. It's $177 million less taxes if you take it now.
If you allow them to keep it and invest it and pay you an annual amount like a mortgage, then the total payments over 30 years add up to $365 million.
I think it's false advertising.
I wonder how many people would play if they knew there odds were less than 1:150 million of winning a jackpot that was probably worth $90 million after taxes instead of $365 million.