Powerball at 1.5 billion.

[1911Sooner]

I guess I will stop by Caseys today and pay my idiot tax on one.

 

[swampratt]

So when you buy a ticket do you get some sort of extra something like a power play that doubles the prize?
Are there ways to win less than the jackpot like 4 numbers or something or do you just not win anything?

 

[Okvet03]

A lottery ticket is just an entrance fee to a daydream. It's a lot cheaper than a movie, better than most and can last all day if you get creative. When I look at it that way I don't mind buying some tickets here and there.

 

[Ready_fire_aim]

I’ve never bought a lotto in my life. But all the doofuses I work around in construction talk about it all day when it gets high like this. Ahhh the ole’ redneck retirement plan lol

 

[HFS]

So when you buy a ticket do you get some sort of extra something like a power play that doubles the prize?
Are there ways to win less than the jackpot like 4 numbers or something or do you just not win anything?

I think it goes like this:

Basic ticket is $2.

For an extra $1, you get the "multiplier" or "power play" or something like that.
If you match all the numbers, the grand prize (of $1.6 billion in this case) does NOT increase; you'd only get the $1.6 billion).
However, with the extra $1 you spent, all the lower prizes you can win (by matching only some of the numbers) are doubled.
Example: Instead of winning $1 million for matching all the numbers but one, you would get $2 million for spending that extra buck on the ticket.

BTW, according to the OK Lottery the odds of winning the grand prize in Powerball are 1 in 292,201,338.
Click on the tab for "odds and prizes" to see all the odds
https://www.lottery.ok.gov/draw-games/powerball

 

[Aku]

The chances of winning are nil, but I still buy tickets when it gets this high.

 

[RickN]

Heck if I win the whole thing I might just buy an AR and a Glock just to appease a couple of fanboys here. Probably would not shoot them much but everyone needs a couple of throw away guns.

 

[O4L]

Some of us at work went in together and bought tickets. I have $3 invested.

 

[Jack Shootza 50]

Odds of winning are something like 1 in 300 million. I just told the wife to get us three on the way back from getting Chinese. Can’t win if you don’t play. I know the odds are slim. But what the heck for that amount of money. We can dream can’t we. If I win I’ll be opening up up the best shooting range in Oklahoma

A 100 people could put into a pool and if one won split it....still $150,000 each, not bad for a couple bucks' investment.

 

[Jack Shootza 50]

Heck if I win the whole thing I might just buy an AR and a Glock just to appease a couple of fanboys here. Probably would not shoot them much but everyone needs a couple of throw away guns.

If I won it I might be able to buy the White House & Congress and FIRE everybody there!