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Subscribe to RSSPeople lined up for Powerball tickets Saturday, the fourth largest Powerball in history. NBC's Thanh Troung reports.
DES MOINES, Iowa -- No one won a $325 million Powerball lottery prize on Saturday night, so the jackpot will jump to a record $425 million for the next drawing -- and possibly higher.
The winning numbers were 22-32-37-44-50 with Powerball 34, according to the Powerball lottery's website. There were 10 winners of $1 million and one winner of $2 million.
Iowa Lottery spokeswoman Mary Neubauer said the jackpot for Wednesday's drawing could go even higher than the estimated $425 million because sales pick up in the days before record drawings.
"We'll watch sales to see if an adjustment upwards needs to be made," she said. The cash payout would be be a record $278.3 million.
Saturday's estimated $325 million jackpot was the fourth-largest in the game's history.
The previous highest Powerball prize was $365 million, won in 2006 by eight ConAgra Foods workers on a single ticket in Lincoln, Neb.
Powerball has not had a jackpot winner for two months.
The Powerball lottery is held in 42 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
In March, three winning tickets shared the largest U.S. lottery jackpot, the $656 million Mega Millions drawing.
The prospect of a big payoff had pulled in Black Friday shoppers in many cities.
Chicago resident Clyde Gadlin, 65, emerged from the bustle of holiday shoppers on Chicago's Michigan Avenue, to stop in at a 7-Eleven to buy his daily batch of Lottery tickets, including Powerball.
For him, the game is a chance to dream — a single winner's cash payout would be nearly $213 million before taxes — and he tries not to let the long odds burst his bubble.
The current jackpot is the fourth largest in the game's history, with chances of winning at about one in 175 million. Many dream of winning it big and hope they will be that lucky someone with the golden ticket. NBC's Mark Potter reports.
Lottery officials say they're unsure what effect Thanksgiving and beginning of Christmas shopping season will have on sales, which normally pick up in the days before high-dollar drawings.
Gadlin said that if he won, he would return to his grandfather's farm in Heidelberg, Miss., where he spent part of his childhood.
"I would go down there again and probably do a little bit of farming," he said, recalling the roaming deer and 380 acres of potatoes, corn, watermelons and sugar cane. Gadlin hasn't been there for more than 20 years.
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my win my money. wouldnt share a dime because its my 2 dollars i put in not anyone else's. youre entitled to your opinion, and im entitled to mine. if you dont like it, thats your problem.
Throw your money into a wood chipper or down a rat hole. Your chances of anything positive or beneficial coming out of the deal are about the same. Its a lot like our taxes.
here's your half empty beer
spend it on hookers and booze
You can't buy much for $2 these days. Might as well buy one ticket and take a chance - you never know who's going to win. I know the odds of winning are 1 in 175,000,000 - but if you don't play, your odds of winning are 0 in 175,000,00.
DB <<<~~~>>> Actually, the odds of you being YOU from your daddy's sperm bank and your mommy's egg bank is considerably greater than you winning the lottery so why not be a winner a second time; it would be a LOT easier.
I only have one thingto say (ala the sea gulls from "Finding Nemo"):
MINE!, MINE!, MINE!, MINE!,...MINE!
I just thought, what if the Mayans are correct and the world as we know it ends in a few weeks? Would there be enough time to collect it and enjoy it even for a couple of days?
End of the world on Dec 21 will only happen if I win, so not to worry.
Sounds like two luckless souls to me. Not to worry, if I win and can collect in time, I will get back to you:)
When my numbers come up, I'm callin Charlie Sheen for advice on how to live. :)
Fill three thousand nfl football stadiums to the brim....those are your chances....someones gonna win, sure is fun to think about.....
just found my dollar in the car and scraped up 3 quarters and two dimes and a nickel, would that b funny if it all payed off?!
just scraped up 3 quarters and a two dimes and a nickel and found a dollar in my car! maybe it would be worth it it would be heck of a story
It's a lot easier to make $2,000 in one night playing Blackjack.
The winning numbers will be 21,54,28,3,18and the powerball number will be 6.
i would disappear , off the grid living my days in luxury and giving out money to people i see here and there.
Just play those numbers above you and all will be good.
I wish to take this opportunity to thank you all for buying powerball tickets. Within a few hours I'll be making plans for a long Caribbean vacation where I'll start spending the winning ticket!
Taking the money as a lump sum
http://www.powerball.com/pb_home.asp
Before you receive the money, the lottery will take 35% for federal tax (25% at the time of turning in the ticket and 10% more when you file your 2012 taxes) and the appropriate state tax in the state the ticket was sold and give you the remaining
State sales tax rates
http://www.usamega.com/mega-millions-jackpot.asp
Pay off all debts, buy a snug little home and efficient little car. Set aside enough for my son to have the same and a college degree if he chooses. Then, set up a program to pay student loans off for up to 5 deserving needy former students whose lives since school have contributed to others. A women's shelter, homeless shelter and the rest to my family---those who didn't have heart attacks from shock of my winning.
I would donate the majority to the DNC.
If I win, I want to get lost where no one can find me on Gilligan's Island. Maybe I could start a new tourist attraction small business. Isn't that what millionaires do, employee people with the intention of turning a profit at the end of the year. The benefits would be sun, no cell phones to text, and no phone landlines too. Heaven at its finest with plenty of tequila, rum, and good beer. Now that would be the life.
Would not it be a shame if only one person won that much money? Yep the odds are as vast as the oceans.
You know what? Romney should have played the lottery. Why? Well, his chances of winning it would have been greater than his chances of becoming the next president. He lost the popular vote, the Electoral college and the best of two out of three in the debates. Basically, he got "skunked". And everyone of you who continued to support him started to stink. Really bad.
Anyway, it sure is good to not hear you delusion and misguilded conservatives playing that same old funny song of "one and done", "one term president" and "my dog could have done a better job". I guess you figured that if you said it enough times, it would "magically" come true. Like wishing on a star. If I had a dime for every time one of you played that song, I would have been a multimillionaire. I wouldn't have to play the lottery. I guess you all now see how delusional and wishful thinking you were. It's tough to find your way back home when you have traveled to far and deep in..."THE TWILIGHT ZONE".
If it were not for the Benghazi story to give you your daily dose of "Obama drama drugs", you would right now be suffering from DTs. Some of you already are trying to dredge up old issues to satisfy your withdrawal urges. Its so sad. Your team never had a chance though. We tried to tell you that before you all got up your hopes too high. Sometimes you just can't tell hard headed people something for their own good.
I just hope many of you have found the strength, courage and good sense to finally...let go. I know. It's scary to find out that you have been supporting a liar and loser, but you must try to be brave and get with a real leader in Obama. Do it for your own peace of mind. and remember...OBAMA IS THE MAN!!!
Sounds like you're a sore winner Peter. Let it go bro'. Hate is not a family value.
Become a Republican
I just want my family to be healthy. I'd make sure that my husband got his sleep apnea taken care of. As I lay here next to him and hear him stop breathing time and time again, all I can think of is me, and our 4 children losing him one day. Life is what is important and that's what I'd buy if I had that money. I'd buy my husband more time because apnea kills.
Is your husband very overweight? Sleep apnea seems to be worse if you are overweight and sleep on your back.
No, he's not. He's around 165#, I think. It doesn't matter if he sleeps on his side or back, he still does it. We got him a wedge pillow but he still does it. I am scared for him though. He already suffers high blood pressure.
http://www.dailystrength.org/c/Sleep_Apnea/forum/12012152-affording-cpap
Thank you Susan. I will visit that site now.
What's the Jackpot going to be? No winner.
Whatever the new jackpot is going to be I sure hope there is more than one winner. The jackpot amount now is obscene.
Not mine, oh well maybe another day!
Notice how every year the jackpot gets REALLY big in time for the holidays!!!
#RIGGED
whatever.