Well buying one from there would by no means guaranteed your ticket would have won as many people bought one from there.
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No winner yet, Powerball at $675 Million biggest in U.S History
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It might hit a billion before the draw, it was over $900 million and today's the last day to play.
blame space
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thanks I didn't realize this
Grinchy
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There's also no guarantee that you wouldn't get in a fatal car crash on the way home even if you DID have the winning ticket. Get your shit together.
PHOENIXZERO
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There are 292 million combinations, to buy them all you'd need to spend $584 million. The current cash value is $558 million. Even if it were possible that would be like, the worst non-government made investment of over a half billion dollars ever. Never mind if and in all likelihood of someone else winning tonight.
With how many tickets that are being sold there's probably going to be a hundred million dollar (or more) winners or at the very least, dozens.
If I won, the first thing I would do is give my mom 50 million and my two sisters 25 million each. Then give my aunts and uncles 5 million each, my close knit circle of online friends 2.5 million each, my close knit circle of friends I hang out with 2.5 million each. After that, trust funds, bonds, stocks and treasuries oh my!! After that I would buy a nice house, big but all on one level, but not too big. It would have a den for my consoles and a few arcade games, ms pacman, galaxia, marvel vs capcom 2, time crisis 2, Daytona USA, that fzero arcade game, metal slug 3 and the elusive white whale of arcade cabinets.....THE OCEAN HUNTER!!!! And when I finally get the THE OCEAN HUNTER in my hands, I'll be dressed as one of those old timey fisherman with the long coat and captain hat. It would just feel right for me.
I would hope you would have an agreement in place that makes them responsible for the taxes on all that. Not to mention how dangerous it can be to throw money at people who aren't prepared for it, you know like winning the lottery.
I see you're from North Carolina, this would be the net payout with state tax and the 25% Federal withholding, $386,415,000. Beyond the $14,000 exemption per person a year is the life time exemption which is a little over $5M, once that is used up without any agreement you'd be responsible for an additional 40% for every dollar you give away as a gift. I get why it's there and why it's so high but the gift tax sucks. It'd be better just to form the Trust and put their names on it with annual payouts.
Big Baybee
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This happened to me about 5 or 6 years ago.
Isn't live TV grand.
PHOENIXZERO
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It's a multiplier that applies to winning combinations below the jackpot, I think it increases the amount won by 2 to 5 times the base prize.
You pay an extra dollar so that you'll win extra money if you win one of the non-jackpot prizes.
I always think WWBSD
Pretty sure he said that just to get her to go away, he seemed a little annoyed by her.
If this goes over billion dollar. I can see this shoot up to $20 per person.
Rhomega Beta
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When's the drawing?
PHOENIXZERO
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10:59PM
Yeah, the people and groups putting the most money into this have the highest chance of winning, I expect at least one of the winners to be a pool if not some crazy person who bought a thousand tickets or whatever.
Yeah, the people and groups putting the most money into this have the highest chance of winning, I expect at least one of the winners to be a pool if not some crazy person who bought a thousand tickets or whatever.
GoldenEye 007
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It's going to be some 80 year old in bumfuck nowhere with no immediate family still around.
Gray Matter
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My job about 99 tickets, I think it was over $200 worth.
DrForester
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Drawing is at 11 EST. Usually takes an hour or two for them to announce if there has been a winner or not.
I predict multiple people winning this tonight.
I pray that I'm not one of them... genuinely.
PureYeti
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Yep I'm doing a different gas station just in case
adamsappel
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Imagine if he wins, and it could have been you if you hadn't convinced him to go buy a ticket.
If I won I'd definitely be anonymous if at all possible. Failing that, I'd stash away a few mil and then donate the vast majority of it, while acting like I've donated all of it.
The rest would go into index funds, and I would live off the dividends pretending to be self-employed or something.
The rest would go into index funds, and I would live off the dividends pretending to be self-employed or something.
Mushroomer25
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But that same station probably also sold countless losing tickets. The location is irrelevant, the winning six numbers could pop up anywhere.
I hope so too, just to see it cross the billion mark for more meaningful powerball draw.
DrForester
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It's slightly better to let the computer pick for you, because when people pick their own picks, they usually use Birthdays and other dates, which limits them to lower numbers.
half a moon
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I'd take winning today. I don't wanna spend more money on tix
half a moon
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It might have got there the past 7-12 hours?
LyleLanley
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Did someone force you to buy a ticket?
GoldenEye 007
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My first forum was G4. Now that they were bought out by Comcast and then shut down, any donations will therefore go to Comcast.
flaxknuckles
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I pray I'm the only one of them. Screw sharing.
Nope. Its just so scary to have that much money.
My prayers are with you.
PrivateWHudson
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Not a terrible strategy. If one other person wins you'll get 5/6ths of the jackpot. It's so unlikely that you would win, why not ensure that it's huge.
proshaw713
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do you have to be american?
In my state, it has to be paid for with a debit card or e-check.
Nope. Open for all!
Mushroomer25
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I've always thought buying multiple tickets was for suckers (you're not gonna win, and playing 1 number is as fun as 10) - but this is a smart* idea.
*In the logic of buying lottery tickets
I'm good. I choose 69 every time.
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