Powerball

[jessd 0]

Does anyone know what the numbers were for last night's drawing? I know that someone hit the numbers in VA (I think). Just curious to see if I even had a single number on one of my 10 tickets.

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[RevJim 0]

5-14-16-29-53/PB7

I didn't get a single freakin number

It's your life, live it!
Karma
RB#684 "Corcho", ASK#60, Muff#3520, NCB#398, NHDZ#4, C-33989, DG#1

[jessd 0]

I got the PB number on one ticket. Do I get a free ticket or something?

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[RevJim 0]

Read the prize structure on the back of the ticket.

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Karma
RB#684 "Corcho", ASK#60, Muff#3520, NCB#398, NHDZ#4, C-33989, DG#1

[jessd 0]

It doesn't say anything like that. I'll just ask the guy at the gass station. Thank you though!

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[dex 0]

Powerball Power Play
5 14 16 29 53 7 4

[skyboyblue 0]

i think you won 3 bucks, if I am not mistaken

[freeflir29 0]

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i think you won 3 bucks

WOOHOO!! That'll get you a frosty cold 40OZ.

[skyboyblue 0]

mmm... shlitz malt liquor

[freeflir29 0]

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mmm... shlitz malt liquor

I'm an OE man myself.... Actually, I do ocassionally show up to the DZ drinkin an Icehouse 40. Everyone laughs at me..... I would rather have Rolling Rock but I don't think that comes in 40's.

[jfields 0]

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I would rather have Rolling Rock but I don't think that comes in 40's

You could always just drink 3 1/3 regular bottles of Rolling Rock. Or had that math eluded you?

[skyboyblue 0]

but you can't do that all in one hand. and in a brown paper sack

[freeflir29 0]

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You could always just drink 3 1/3 regular bottles of Rolling Rock

Yeah...but that requires either multiple trips to the fridge or trying to hold 3 bottles all at once. Maybe a beer hat is the answer.... and a Nacho hat for dinner.

[jfields 0]

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but you can't do that all in one hand. and in a brown paper sack

Man, can't I just pick on Clay in peace?

[jfields 0]

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requires either multiple trips to the fridge or trying to hold 3 bottles all at once

Isn't that what Good Girls are for?

[freeflir29 0]

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Isn't that what Good Girls are for?

Good point but sometimes they are hard to find.

[jessd 0]

One person one all of this money. Good for him - would have been better if it was me!

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[jessd 0]

http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/12/26/powerball.jackpot/index.html]PowerBall

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[quatorze 1]

This is the story of the winnings and the dude was already a millionaire, like he needs the loot

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CHARLESTON, W.Va., Dec. 26 — A 55-year-old millionaire president of a construction company stepped into the limelight Thursday wearing his trademark black cowboy hat and claimed the largest single-ticket lottery jackpot ever. Andrew “Jack” Whittaker Jr. opted for a $170.5 million cash payout in the multistate Powerball game instead of $314.9 million paid out over 29 years and said he would tithe to three churches as his first outlay from the huge prize.
“I JUST WANT to thank God for letting me pick the right numbers — or letting the machine pick the right numbers,” said Whittaker, a resident of Scott Depot.
Whittaker said that after giving 10 percent of his gross winnings to three Church of God pastors, he would share the rest with his family, perhaps expand his businesses — and maybe buy a helicopter.
Whittaker also said he wanted to use the money to find more work for his companies so he could put 25 employees who were laid off back to work. He said that his companies employed 117 people but that bad weather and a slow economy had forced layoffs.
“This is not the first money I’ve had,” he said. “I’m a very generous person. ... I always tithed ... and I have always been blessed. When I give it away, it just keeps coming back.”
Jewell Whittaker, his wife of 36 years, said she planned to go to Israel because “it’s where Jesus walked.” But first, the couple planned to travel Thursday night to New York.

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OCCASIONAL LOTTERY PLAYER
Whittaker said he played the lottery only when the prize exceeded $100 million. He bought $100 in tickets because the jackpot was so high, said Nancy Bulla, a spokeswoman for the Multi-State Lottery Association.
Whittaker watched the telecast of the Powerball drawing Wednesday night, but the show had one of the numbers incorrect, he said, and he went to bed thinking he had matched only four numbers plus the Powerball, instead of five. That would have brought him a $4,000 prize.
Thursday morning, when he heard that the winning ticket was sold at the store where he buys gas and a biscuit in the morning, he checked his ticket again — and found that it was the winner.

Whittaker received a check for $10 million Thursday and will get the balance of the prize in January. After 27 percent is withheld for federal taxes and 6.5 percent for state taxes, the total payout will be $111.7 million, Bulla said.
The winning ticket in the Christmas night drawing — the third-largest overall lottery jackpot in U.S. history and the largest worldwide ever won by one person — was bought Monday at C&L Super Serve in Hurricane, 25 miles west of Charleston, lottery spokesman Joe Mahoney said. Scott Depot, where Whittaker lives, is near Hurricane in Putnam County.
“It’s so just that the poorest state in America wins the biggest Powerball in history,” said Bob O’Dell, 51, a resident of Hurricane, which is pronounced HURR-ah-cun. (West Virginia’s per-capita income actually was second-lowest to Mississippi’s in 2000.)
“People keep saying we win in West Virginia, but we never win the big one,” said John Musgrave, director of the West Virginia Lottery. “Well, we’ve got the granddaddy.”


‘MAD HOUSE’
The winning numbers were 5-14-16-29-53, and the Powerball was 7.
Aaron Gillispie, a clerk at the 24-hour store and gas station where the ticket was sold, said the shop was in a frenzy Thursday.
“It’s a mad house,” he said in an Associated Press Radio interview. “Every camera crew, every news crew, every person that has anything to do with anything wants to talk to us.”
He said workers were excited at the possibility that someone from the town of 5,200 residents had won.
The odds of winning the grand prize were 1 in 120 million.

“We have a lot of people come in regularly and say, ‘If we win, we’ll remember you,’ and that type of thing,” he said. “So, everybody’s wondering who sold it, and it’s been pretty wild.”
Store owner Larry Trogdon said on NBC’s “Today” show that police called his house at 3 a.m. with the news.
“It was scary,” he said. “Then they told me we sold the lottery ticket for $314 million. That made me relieved. Then I had to travel 90 miles to get here.”
For selling the ticket, Trogdon gets $100,000. “I have a daughter getting married this summer,” he told NBC, smiling.
His daughter, Amy, who manages the Hurricane store, is to marry Gillispie on July 19.“I guess we’re honeymooning in Hawaii,” she said.
“Heck, if you’re going to Hawaii, I’m coming with you,” Trogdon answered, laughing.

HIGH HOLIDAY SALES
Mahoney said the jackpot grew after holiday sales were much higher than expected.
“We were always planning on Wednesday, Christmas Day, to be a very light day for sales,” Mahoney said. “Monday and Tuesday were much higher than we expected them to be, and [Christmas] ... was much higher than we anticipated it to be.”
But because gas stations and convenience stores — typical lottery retailers — were open Christmas Day, throngs of people ventured out to get a piece of the action.
Powerball, the nation’s largest lottery game, is sold in 23 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The Christmas Day prize was the largest Powerball jackpot ever, and the odds of winning were 1 in 120 million.
The game’s second-largest jackpot was $295.7 million in July 1998. Last summer, it reached $295 million.
The biggest lottery jackpot in U.S. history was a Big Game prize of $363 million, won in May 2000 by ticket-holders in Michigan and Illinois. The second was a $331 million Big Game jackpot divided among three tickets in April.
Spain’s annual Christmas lottery, known as El Gordo — The Fat One — is billed as the world’s richest. This year’s $1.7 billion jackpot spreads the wealth among millions of people. About 10,000 numbers win some kind of prize, from $20 to $200,000.

NBC Newschannel’s Doug Korstanje and Kurt Gregory, The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.

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