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re: Powerball now officially up to 1.4 Billion, up from 1.3
Posted on 1/11/16 at 1:04 pm to Nado Jenkins83
Posted on 1/11/16 at 1:04 pm to Nado Jenkins83
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Or you could just yell "security" like in that Chris rock movie and they get pulled away.
Head of State
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Posted on 1/11/16 at 1:04 pm to Spilled Milk
If i win
Hookers and cocaine here i come!
Hookers and cocaine here i come!
Posted on 1/11/16 at 1:06 pm to GRTiger
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I'd have some sort of formal announcement to the effect of planning takes time and asking for money would eliminate someone from the list immediately.
Right. If you're getting money, I will contact YOU.
Posted on 1/11/16 at 1:08 pm to LordSaintly
I bought 5 lucky picks.
Im currently traveling thru the UAE tho. A bit weird knowing i have that much money in my backpack
Im currently traveling thru the UAE tho. A bit weird knowing i have that much money in my backpack
Posted on 1/11/16 at 1:09 pm to Spilled Milk
Does this increase your odds of winning?!
Posted on 1/11/16 at 1:10 pm to Revelator
Of course it does. Every billion increases your chances greatly.
Posted on 1/11/16 at 1:12 pm to Oates Mustache
I did just read an article that stated you could technically purchase every combination of numbers and profit on your invest, if you're the only winning ticket.
Take that, Powerball.
Take that, Powerball.
Posted on 1/11/16 at 1:13 pm to ThatMakesSense
Seriously? How many billions would you need to do that?
Posted on 1/11/16 at 1:19 pm to Oates Mustache
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Seriously? How many billions would you need to do that?
Odds to win are 1 in 292,000,000. So you'd multiply the 292,000,000 by $2, cost of each ticket.
584,000,000 would be needed to buy every combination.
Plus you add a super big amount to the pool from purchasing said tickets. And you'd also win all of the lower prizes.
Posted on 1/11/16 at 1:20 pm to ThatMakesSense
5 billion is more than the winning amount though.
Posted on 1/11/16 at 1:21 pm to ThatMakesSense
whoops
This post was edited on 1/11/16 at 1:24 pm
Posted on 1/11/16 at 1:22 pm to ThatMakesSense
That's a lot of money...... I would use about $10 million of it and let the rest just sit there and live off the interest.
Posted on 1/11/16 at 1:22 pm to ThatMakesSense
And have to split the pot with a couple other people that happened to buy winning tickets as well....
Some people are retarded
Some people are retarded
Posted on 1/11/16 at 1:23 pm to SuperSaint
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And have to split the pot with a couple other people that happened to buy winning tickets as well....
I stated that with my original post.
Posted on 1/11/16 at 1:24 pm to ULSU
No, it does. But I'm not going down this avenue with you.
Posted on 1/11/16 at 1:27 pm to ThatMakesSense
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But I'm not going down this avenue with you.
I was being genuine this time but was wrong
Posted on 1/11/16 at 1:30 pm to ULSU
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I was being genuine this time but was wrong
All is well. If your ticket was the ONLY winning ticket, you'd make $576,000,000.
Edit : After you factor in having spent $584,000,000 on tickets.
This post was edited on 1/11/16 at 1:31 pm
Posted on 1/11/16 at 1:31 pm to ThatMakesSense
Simply submitting/printing that many tickets is an impossibility. You'd have to employ a thousand people across multiple stores provide them with hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy the tickets, hope they don't just take your money and run, and convince them to do all this for a payout that doesn't destroy your margin.
This post was edited on 1/11/16 at 1:33 pm
Posted on 1/11/16 at 1:34 pm to GRTiger
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Simply submitting/printing that many tickets is an impossibility. You'd have to employ a thousand people across multiple stores provide them with hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy the tickets, hope they don't just take your money and run, and convince them to do all this for a payout that doesn't destroy your margin.
Correct. Your odds of completing this task are about the same as is winning the lotto.
Kind of a double-edged sword, eh?
Posted on 1/11/16 at 2:08 pm to ThatMakesSense
I'd imagine you could make a deal with lotto office to where if you cut them a check for 298,000,000 they would work with you on logistics
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