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Hey I wear all my gray hair, wrinkles, beer belly and fat ass with pride.I was gonna answer the qeustion but Jim beat me to it.
Pssssssst. We is showing us ages!
It's got to be a twilight zoneEvery time I think of lottery madness, I think of this:
Instant rep reward for the first person to identify what it is.
And it only took two years for someone to answer the question!Shatner in his Twilight Zone episode.Every time I think of lottery madness, I think of this:
Instant rep reward for the first person to identify what it is.
Do you really think they have used the same balls for the past 13 years?To enhance your chance of winning, play a few of the most comonly pulled numbers.
That No. 20 red ball has made its way out of the kettle 49 times, the most of any of the numbered balls. No. 20 also is the second most common number on the five white balls that are selected in each Powerball drawing as well, behind 26 and ahead of 32, 16 and 42, a Daily Herald analysis of the numbers shows. Wanna win Powerball? Try these numbers
Mathematicians that think these number trends are meaningless are idiots. There are slight variations in all manufactured items, and it is no different for ping pong balls.
The balls used for the Powerball drawing are changed if they show enough wear to warrant the change. In other words, there is no set time. There are actually four sets of balls of each color (4 red, 4 white) and the sets used for a particular drawing are randomly chosen before the drawing occurs. The balls are only used for Powerball and they are weighed and X-rayed on a periodic schedule.
Some more trivia:
When I started this topic three years ago, the odds of winning were equal to 75 percent of the US adult population.
Today, the odds are equal to 120 percent of the adult population.
Do you really think they have used the same balls for the past 13 years?To enhance your chance of winning, play a few of the most comonly pulled numbers.
That No. 20 red ball has made its way out of the kettle 49 times, the most of any of the numbered balls. No. 20 also is the second most common number on the five white balls that are selected in each Powerball drawing as well, behind 26 and ahead of 32, 16 and 42, a Daily Herald analysis of the numbers shows. Wanna win Powerball? Try these numbers
Mathematicians that think these number trends are meaningless are idiots. There are slight variations in all manufactured items, and it is no different for ping pong balls.
The mathematicians are not the idiots in this picture. There's a reason why they say the lottery is for the mathematically challenged.
The balls used for the Powerball drawing are changed if they show enough wear to warrant the change. In other words, there is no set time. There are actually four sets of balls of each color (4 red, 4 white) and the sets used for a particular drawing are randomly chosen before the drawing occurs. The balls are only used for Powerball and they are weighed and X-rayed on a periodic schedule.
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How bizarre is it that you can't play Powerball in Nevada?Saw pictures in my local newspaper of people lined up several times around the building just across the state line south of Vegas. Hundreds of them.
Financial experts say that if you can get more than a 3 or 4 percent return on an investment, the lump sum is actually the best way to go in the long-term.
The federal tax on lottery winnings is 25 percent.
In honor of the Powerball jackpot hitting half a billion dollars again, I am bumping this topic.
There are still 69 balls and 26 red Powerballs in the mix, so the odds of winning the full jackpot remain at a stratospheric 292,201,338 to 1.
292,201,338 is 120 percent of the adult population.
If you win, you can take 30 installments over 29 years, or you can take a lump sum which is about half the full jackpot.
Powerball Jackpot Jumps To $510 Million, Where To Buy Tickets In Tennessee
Financial experts say that if you can get more than a 3 or 4 percent return on an investment, the lump sum is actually the best way to go in the long-term.
As if people hold onto the lump sum and don't spend any of it, and live off the interest.
I would take the installment plan for the full amount. 510 million / 30 = $17 million a year. I think I can manage to survive on that.
4 percent interest off the lump sum comes to about $10 million a year. But that's assuming you get the total lump sum, which you don't.
Because...
The federal tax on lottery winnings is 25 percent.
And then you have to add your state's income tax, if there is one in your state.
I would become Santa Claus, flying from children's hospital to children's hospital, paying for surgeries for kids whose families can't afford it.In honor of the Powerball jackpot hitting half a billion dollars again, I am bumping this topic.
There are still 69 balls and 26 red Powerballs in the mix, so the odds of winning the full jackpot remain at a stratospheric 292,201,338 to 1.
292,201,338 is 120 percent of the adult population.
If you win, you can take 30 installments over 29 years, or you can take a lump sum which is about half the full jackpot.
Powerball Jackpot Jumps To $510 Million, Where To Buy Tickets In Tennessee
Financial experts say that if you can get more than a 3 or 4 percent return on an investment, the lump sum is actually the best way to go in the long-term.
As if people hold onto the lump sum and don't spend any of it, and live off the interest.
I would take the installment plan for the full amount. 510 million / 30 = $17 million a year. I think I can manage to survive on that.
4 percent interest off the lump sum comes to about $10 million a year. But that's assuming you get the total lump sum, which you don't.
Because...
The federal tax on lottery winnings is 25 percent.
And then you have to add your state's income tax, if there is one in your state.
The Lottery is a tax on people bad at Math. That being said I've been playing the same numbers in various 6 ball/5ball+1 formats since I was 18.
Like everyone else with wishful thinking I have my plans for the $$.
1st: Call my sister in law lawyer and have her read up on lottery law.
2nd: Only take 60% for myself and my wife
3rd: Split the other 40% in equal shares to the following families: Mother,Father/stepmom, brother/SIL, Sister/BIL, mother in law, and Brother in law. That takes care of them, and spreads the grubby family targets around.