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Powerball......what would you do if you won?

• YankeeJim 25,827 Posts

  Sat, Jan 9 2016 5:22 PM

  mantis0014:

  Has anybody worked out how much it would cost to buy every single combination

  Local news says at the rate the tickets are selling, 75% of the possible number combos would be taken. 25% chance this tops a billhouse.  :-D

• fatdan 3,379 Posts

  Sat, Jan 9 2016 5:40 PM

  The odds of winning are less(a little) than 300 million to 1, so at $2 a ticket it is less than $600 million to buy every possible combo of numbers not $900 million...then you pray nobody else wins are your screwed LOL

  Anybody want to pitch in and do it, I'll go $25?

• opyeuclid 6,709 Posts

  Sat, Jan 9 2016 5:41 PM

  If any of you Win ,,

  I am your long lost uncle OPY . All I ask for is the Gold Max putter 

  Thank you and good luck .

   

• ct690911 7,205 Posts

  Sat, Jan 9 2016 6:03 PM

  fatdan:

  The odds of winning are less(a little) than 300 million to 1, so at $2 a ticket it is less than $600 million to buy every possible combo of numbers not $900 million...then you pray nobody else wins are your screwed LOL

  Anybody want to pitch in and do it, I'll go $25?

  I was using the Canadian exchange rate...:)

• MichaelStroke 2,066 Posts

  Sat, Jan 9 2016 6:28 PM

   

  ct690911:

  MichaelStroke:

  How much does Megan Fox cost?

  nah...you want someone pure and virginal...like Kim Kardashian...or octo-mom...or miley cyrus...what the hell, make it a 4 way...:)

  bottle of viagra and can of whipped cream...maybe a dance pole...you be all set.

  PS...be sure to film it and give the tape to their PR firms, so it can be "accidentally" leaked..:)

  Nah.  Megan Fox is young, hot, and bisexual - if only all women were like that.

• ct690911 7,205 Posts

  Sat, Jan 9 2016 6:59 PM

  MichaelStroke:

   

  ct690911:

  MichaelStroke:

  How much does Megan Fox cost?

  nah...you want someone pure and virginal...like Kim Kardashian...or octo-mom...or miley cyrus...what the hell, make it a 4 way...:)

  bottle of viagra and can of whipped cream...maybe a dance pole...you be all set.

  PS...be sure to film it and give the tape to their PR firms, so it can be "accidentally" leaked..:)

  Nah.  Megan Fox is young, hot, and bisexual - if only all women were like that.

  You just described about 90 % of the women on this site...at least according to their pics...scary thought what she (or, more likely he) really looks like...lol

• YankeeJim 25,827 Posts

  Sat, Jan 9 2016 7:19 PM

  fatdan:

  so at $2 a ticket it is less than $600 million to buy every possible combo of number

  There are 175.2 million combinations so, at $2 a play, you'll need to get to an ATM or your mattress and withdraw a little over $350 million to cover all possible draws.

• MichaelStroke 2,066 Posts

  Sat, Jan 9 2016 9:39 PM

  Nobody won the big jackpot.  Estimates put the next drawing at 1.3 billion.  Not gonna lie - actually tempted to play it now.

• fatdan 3,379 Posts

  Sat, Jan 9 2016 10:20 PM

  YankeeJim:

  There are 175.2 million combinations so, at $2 a play, you'll need to get to an ATM or your mattress and withdraw a little over $350 million to cover all possible draws.

  That was with 59 white balls...

  There are 292.2 million possible combinations of the five white balls and red Powerball. That's where the one in 292.2 million odds comes from...

   

• mathia14 1,271 Posts

  Sun, Jan 10 2016 6:34 AM

  1.3 BILLION is some major scratch.  I'd be happy with less.  I don't want to be greedy.