Official Powerball 10/19 $340 million thread

[OREOSpeedwagon]

5 here

 

[conehead433]

If you purchase $50 worth of tickets each week you will win once every 56,000 years. One ticket gives you a chance though with the odds at 1 in 140 million.

 

[theknight571]

I happen to be in Indiana today so I bought $5 worth... plus some with some co-workers.

Figure now at least I have at least a slight slim next to no chance of winning... but its better than 0%.

 

[MustISO]

I'm hoping someone I know wins and shares the money.

 

[Muadib]

I got mine yesterday after I saw a DB9 going to work. It's a sign!!!

 

[spidey07]

Another 60 bucks here.

Crossing fingers.

Lady at the counter said they had a guy buy 2200 tickets. They were for him only.

 

[cerebusPu]

Originally posted by: spidey07
Another 60 bucks here.

Crossing fingers.

Lady at the counter said they had a guy buy 2200 tickets. They were for him only.

$2200 is ridiculous.

 

[Muadib]

Originally posted by: cerebusPu

Originally posted by: spidey07
Another 60 bucks here.

Crossing fingers.

Lady at the counter said they had a guy buy 2200 tickets. They were for him only.

$2200 is ridiculous.

Only if you lose.

 

[TheNinja]

I'm playing 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42

 

[Muadib]

Originally posted by: TheNinja
I'm playing 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42

You go Hugo!!! And I told you the Vikes would suck!!!

 

[LuckyTaxi]

I just hope that if I dont win, the person that wins really deserves it.
I'm tired of the rich getting richer or some knucklehead who has never worked a day in his/her life wins it.

 

[DAGTA]

I've got my ticket. It's actually two because I bought one for my neighbor and forgot to tell the guy at the counter to make it separate tickets.

I'm not going to spend more than that. $1 is all you need to win, but you can't win without a ticket.

 

[LuckyTaxi]

They say it's like 1 in 143 million chance of winning. Does that mean if you buy 143 million tickets, would you win it?

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

my wife and I bought $10 worth.

 

[DAGTA]

Originally posted by: lilcam
They say it's like 1 in 143 million chance of winning. Does that mean if you buy 143 million tickets, would you win it?

If you bought one ticket of every possible combination, you would win it. I don't recall what the total number of possibilities are, but someone will probably calculate it and post it after this post.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: spidey07
Another 60 bucks here.

Crossing fingers.

Lady at the counter said they had a guy buy 2200 tickets. They were for him only.

:Q

Damn... lol

 

[Zoblefu]

If the chances of winning is 1 in 143 million, doesn't that mean there are 143 million combinations?

 

[LukeMan]

1 in 146107962

 

[Pabster]

I won $20!!

 

[konichiwa]

I won it all

 

i won 3 bucks

that sucks, i drove for an hour for 2 hours of pleasant dreams and 3 bucks (that i will also need to drive an hour to claim)

 

[DAGTA]

One grand prize winner in Oregon. That's a nice jackpot to not have to split.

 

[QueBert]

Originally posted by: lilcam
They say it's like 1 in 143 million chance of winning. Does that mean if you buy 143 million tickets, would you win it?

yup, good luck getting 143 million slips ran before the drawing, if you got together a small village of people and spent 24/7 filling out the play slips, and somehow figured out how to physically run them all before the drawing came up, you'd be a for sure winner.

only problem is, finding enough people, enough play slips, enough time to run them all. and well, 143 million dollars to use to buy the tickets. Aside from that, it would be simple.

 

[LukeMan]

Originally posted by: QueBert
only problem is, finding enough people, enough play slips, enough time to run them all. and well, 143 million dollars to use to buy the tickets. Aside from that, it would be simple.

you'd still be missing 3 million+ of the numbers.... 146,107,962 combinations.

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: QueBert

Originally posted by: lilcam
They say it's like 1 in 143 million chance of winning. Does that mean if you buy 143 million tickets, would you win it?

yup, good luck getting 143 million slips ran before the drawing, if you got together a small village of people and spent 24/7 filling out the play slips, and somehow figured out how to physically run them all before the drawing came up, you'd be a for sure winner.

only problem is, finding enough people, enough play slips, enough time to run them all. and well, 143 million dollars to use to buy the tickets. Aside from that, it would be simple.

One big flaw in your plan: you split the jackpot if someone else also gets the winning combo, so you could still end up winning less than the price of the tickets.