Stuntman suffers major injuries after being run over on set of TV series ‘Shooter’ The next Powerball drawing is on Saturday. “At this point it’s over $500 million, that’s almost like the new mark that gets people going out to buy tickets,” Traverso said. Perhaps numbed to headlines of jackpots in the $200-million or $300-million range that Powerball produces multiple times a year, lottery games typically only pull in new waves of players for the biggest prizes. Had it been missed just one more time, the jackpot would have been at least $2.4 billion, Traverso said. When the jackpot was missed 19 consecutive times over the winter, the jackpot ballooned to an unprecedented $1.6 billion. By comparison, the longer odds of Mega Millions have seen that jackpot now roll over 35 consecutive times, leading to Friday’s half-billion-dollar prize.īut neither of those games can grow as fast as Powerball. It took eight missed jackpots for the Super Lotto to climb to $15 million for Saturday’s drawing. The twice weekly drawings offer a minimum $7 million jackpot and increase by $1 million when it rolls over.Īccording to lottery spokesman Alex Traverso, Super Lotto Plus is won the most often and has a loyal following, but the (relatively) small jackpot has cut into its sales over the years, especially in the shadow of the nine-figure prizes the other two games can generate. Super Lotto Plus is the old-school lottery game among the three and is exclusive to California. It increases by at least $5 million when the prize rolls over. The minimum jackpot for the game, played twice a week, is $15 million. Mega Millions is played in 44 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. The minimum jackpot for the twice-weekly drawing is $40 million with at least $10 million added on each time no one matches all the numbers. Powerball is played in 44 states, the District of Columbia and two U.S. Mega Millions sales were $355 million and Super Lotto sales were $274 million. In the 2015-16 fiscal year, Powerball sales reached $707 million. Sales figures show that in California, players tend to prefer vying for the bigger jackpots. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times ) If you are doing it in that sense, you can decide what attracts you more – the bigger prize or the better odds?” “You’re buying the right to think that you could win. “If they’re going to play, the best way to look at it is for entertainment,” he said. That’s about the time of the last Ice Age, he added.Ī better choice for a person looking to spend their hard-earned money on a lottery ticket is to invest it, he said. In Alexander’s words, ““To have a better than even chance at winning Super Lotto, you’d have to buy 300 tickets a week since the time of Jesus.”įor a player to have a better than even chance at winning Powerball or Mega Millions, a player would have to buy 300 tickets a week for the last 13,500 years and 12,000 years, respectively, Alexander said. For the Super Lotto Plus, a ticket provides a 0.000000024% (seven zeroes) chance of winning. A $1 Mega Millions ticket gives a player an infinitesimally better 0.0000000039% (still eight zeroes) chance at a win. “If one single entry takes home the entire $100 million division one pool, it would be the largest individual Australian lottery prize ever won,” he explained.One $2 ticket for Powerball offers players a 0.0000000034% (eight zeroes) chance of winning. Mr Hart said another record could be smashed tomorrow night if one entry won the entire $100 million jackpot. Being killed by an asteroid strike is more likely than scooping the jackpot. The probability of winning the division one prize is one in 134,490,400. This week’s history-making Powerball draw comes after no entry has had all seven winning numbers plus the Powerball number in a single game for eight consecutive weeks. The only other time there was a $100 million division one prize offered in Australia was for an Oz Lotto draw in 2012. The $100m draw is the equal highest Australian lottery jackpot ever recorded. “And don’t forget to register your entry so that we can give you that $100 million phone call if you have all the numbers on Thursday night.” Record-equalling Lotto draw “If you’re planning on getting an entry, get in early,” he said.
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