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$1.5 BILLION: Massive Powerball jackpot fuels rush for ticketsReply
I hope it actually gets to $3 Billion so when I or someone hit it we can literally see someone walk away as a billionaire after cash option and taxes. It's not impossible, but it's going to take a lot more than $3 billion for that to happen unless interest rates go way down. Even if interest rates go way down it will still take the same amount of cash, and the same number of tickets without producing a winner sooner. With the current interest rate you'd net about 29% of the annuity value af
Dec 18, 2025, 12:04 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery News

$1.25 BILLION: Epic Powerball winless streak marches onReply
I think there will be multiple winners. As long as they've sold two or more tickets there's a chance of multiple winners, but the chance is pretty low until sales get pretty big. Actual sales will be higher, but the initial estimate is for about 77.25 million tickets. For that many tickets, if they were all chosen randomly, the chance of any number of winners is 23.23%. The chance of a single winner is 22.21% so if the jackpot is hit there's a 95.6% chance of a single winner. There's a 2.68
Dec 17, 2025, 12:11 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News

$1.3 BILLION: Powerball jackpot soars to 5th-largest in game historyReply
Good discipline ..... I'm somewhat similar but I don't start buying tickets until the annuity is 250.
Sep 2, 2025, 8:08 pm - ShagE3 - Lottery News

Powerball reaches $643 million: highest lottery jackpot of 2025Reply
A billion is an eye opener, that is for sure !! But $815M Annuity/367.9M CASH is in a pretty nice neighborhood for a $2 investment. Good luck to all of us on Wednesday
Aug 26, 2025, 11:24 am - CDanaT - Lottery News

Powerball reaches $643 million: highest lottery jackpot of 2025Reply
I don't know if my post was that clear but I meant those as advertised annuity values. Anyway good luck to all who are throwing their money away at these fake jackpot levels.
Aug 21, 2025, 3:20 pm - Think - Lottery News

Virginia Mega Millions $348 million lottery winner plans to buy lawnmower with record prizeReply
Yes, they prefer for you to take the annuity. They probably make some extra off of that. What they don't do is use your winnings to pay smaller pots. But the age of winners is on the elderly side so they just take the lump sum it seems. The more common 1 million dollar winners end up with around 460k. If you don't know that going in it must be a jolt to your cardiovascular system after you held a million dollar check for the picture and 20 minutes later they come out with a check for 463,219.00
Aug 16, 2025, 4:06 pm - billybucks - Lottery News

Pizza purchase leads to $1 million lottery win for California veteranReply
Congratulations on the win I hope the game offers a cash option and not only a 20 to 30 year annuity
Jun 19, 2025, 11:21 am - JustMaybe - Lottery News

US Powerball multi-state lottery game expanding to the UKReply
Someone Above said if someone in Uk wins the lottery they can take the money and run away and not pay complete Federal tax later. And am thinking Now how can you run away in the first place when they gave you no Lump sum option only annuity. If you run away they freezes the rest of your Annuity Payments Ok when people win Powerball the top tax is like 37 percent. There are two ways to pay federal government. One way is the player pays 37 percent and the other way is l guess each sold t
Apr 18, 2026, 1:07 am - Powerball765 - Lottery News

$1.8 BILLION: Powerball jackpot now second-largest ever as ticket sales surge across the USAReply
I hope no one wins tomorrow so the record gets broken! I've been waiting along time for that, but the real record is something north of $997.6 million in cash. To get there we need an annuity of $2.173 billion or so (assuming the interest rate doesn't change). I think we should be at the point where sales for Monday should at least be almost as big as Saturday's, and that's what we saw last Monday. If we see 1.844 tonight that's an even $400 million more than Wednesday, so we'd need an incr
Sep 6, 2025, 4:34 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery News

US Powerball multi-state lottery game expanding to the UKReply
That definitely applies to the lesser prizes which are all funded by UK sales. But there is an issue with the jackpot where funds are mingled... It is likely that it will be paid out tax free.... because UK isn't USA.. But not sure how the US will get its tax.. Even nonresident aliens have to pay 30%. Maybe the tax free' is why it is only being paid as an annuity.
Apr 15, 2026, 3:51 am - kao1632 - Lottery News