Justin Sullivan/Getty Images There were no winners in Saturday night’s Powerball lottery drawing, putting the jackpot at $ 620 million. No one won the last Mega Millions drawing either, sending its jackpot soaring over $ 1.6 billion. The two jackpots are now worth more than $ 2.2 billion combined. The massive Mega Millions jackpot has […]
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We did the math to see if it’s worth buying a Powerball or Mega Millions lottery ticket
Thomson Reuters The jackpots for both Powerball and Mega Millions are above $ 300 million as of Thursday morning. Even though that’s a pretty big prize, working through the math of how lotteries work suggests buying a ticket is not a great investment. The low probability of winning and the risk of splitting the prize […]
Here are the winning numbers for Wednesday’s record $700 million Powerball
Thomson Reuters Here are the winning numbers for Wednesday night’s Powerball jackpot, which hit $ 700 million: 6, 7, 16, 23, 26, and Powerball number is 4. The jackpot is the second-largest in US history. The record was in 2016 for a $ 1.5 billion jackpot. Powerball drawings happen every Wednesday and Saturday at 10:59 […]
The Powerball jackpot is now $700 million — here’s Mark Cuban’s advice for the winner
Brian Snyder/Reuters The Powerball lottery jackpot has reached $ 700 million. That makes it the second-largest lottery jackpot in US history. The largest Powerball lottery jackpot in history was in January 2016, when it reached $ 1.5 billion. Back then, Business Insider reached out to billionaire Mark Cuban to ask about his tips for potential […]
We did the math to see if it’s worth buying a ticket for the $430 million Powerball jackpot
Thomson Reuters The Powerball Mega Millions jackpot for Wednesday’s drawing, after no one won on Saturday, is up to $ 430 million as of 12:30 PM ET Tuesday. That is a pretty huge chunk of money. However, as we saw with last week’s similarly large Mega Millions jackpot, which someone did win on Saturday, taking a closer […]