Friday, June 15, 2012

Powerball

  • The odds of some events taking place are unfathomable: Driving on I-95 with all the fast cars in the left lanes and the slow ones in the right. The person next to you at the beach actually listening to good music.
  • (Sun Sentinel)
  • The odds of winning at least $1 million by matching the first five numbers in a Powerball drawing are 1 in 5.15 million. Four people beat those odds in Florida this week. In the same county. Buying from the same grocery chain.
  • (CNN (blog))
  • A Powerball ticket with Power Play for Saturday night's draw is worth $2 million. The Florida Lottery has confirmed that one ticket matched the first five numbers, but not the Powerball number itself.
  • (News-Press)
  • The Powerball ticket worth $241 million is still sitting unclaimed. The winning ticket was sold in Iowa at a Cedar Rapids grocery store this week.
  • (Twirlit)
  • A second Broward County winner has been identified from Wednesday's unusual Powerball results, in which four Broward players scored prizes of at least $1 million each on the same night — with all tickets purchased from the same retailer.
  • (Miami Herald)
  • The odds of becoming a lottery millionaire are long — everyone knows that.
  • (Miami Herald)
  • Four millionaires in one night, in one county, from one grocery chain. It happened Wednesday night in Broward County, when four Powerball players each won at least $1 million. Each matched five of five white balls, but missed on the red Powerball.
  • (Sun Sentinel)
  • A ticket sold at a grocery store in Cedar Rapids, Iowa matched all of the Powerball numbers drawn Wednesday night. Whoever has it can claim the $241 million jackpot.
  • (WOWT)
  • Eleven co-workers in the tech service department at the MillerCoors Brewery in Albany collectively won a $1 million prize from matching the first five winning numbers from the June 9 Powerball drawing.
  • (Savannah Morning News)
  • There was no jackpot winner in the Wednesday night drawing of the multi-state Powerball lottery game, causing the grand prize to increase to an estimated $205 million for Saturdays drawing.
  • (Lottery Post)

No comments:

Post a Comment