POWERBALL WINNER

krokus · Jan 11, 2016

The_Chief said:
I'm wondering where the multi-millionaires are, not buying every single numerical combination. If the odds are 1:292,000,000, just buy $292 Million in tickets and WIN it. Even if you have to split it with some other lucky soul, you'll still double your money.

The tickets are $2 each, so double your cash request.

The_Chief · Jan 11, 2016

Okay, okay... details :rolleyes:

rurocking · Jan 11, 2016

Check this out...
http://www.cnbc.com/id/49981575

Phases · Jan 11, 2016

We play, ain't gunna lie. It's worth it just to daydream

PattiCakeUS · Jan 11, 2016

This is my favorite part of that article:
"The logistics of the operation are a bigger problem. Let's say it takes about one second to print each number combination. With 86,400 seconds in each day, it would take you five and one half years to print all the required combinations."

I don't usually buy tickets, but with this big of a pot I've been buying one. Someone's going to win, it might as well be me!

olbriar · Jan 11, 2016

Being as I've never disclosed my exact location to anyone here, I will now divulge that I possess the winning powerball ticket. It seemed like an equitable investment with a decent return so I purchased my first, the winning ticket, today. :rolleyes:

Stuntman · Jan 11, 2016

Just remember that it is illegal to bring lottery tickets into the US. If you buy a ticket in the US, do not leave the US with the ticket and then try to bring it back into the US. Your ticket will be confiscated by the border guards if you attempt to bring it into the US.

olbriar · Jan 11, 2016

Dradt! I guess I'll have to cancel my trip abroad and go to work tomorrow. :rolleyes:

Seriously, that is a strange rule.

I've been wondering just what I might do with all of that money. Sure, I'll spend some but I can't spend it all. I sure don't have a shoe box big enough for it. I mean, how do you safely house that much money? Do you invest it? Do you place it in a bank? In a number of different banks? Abroad? Keeping my little bit of overflow has never presented a problem. Now I'm all stressed out about it.

hiredgun · Jan 12, 2016

I don't blame you Mike, Chinese Lottery must be INCREDIBLY rigged right?????

mikedt said:
I haven't bought a lottery ticket in 10 years.

Deleted User · Jan 12, 2016

olbriar said:
I've been wondering just what I might do with all of that money. Sure, I'll spend some but I can't spend it all.

I can certainly be of assistance there.

shalemail · Jan 12, 2016

olbriar said:
I've been wondering just what I might do with all of that money. Sure, I'll spend some but I can't spend it all. I sure don't have a shoe box big enough for it. I mean, how do you safely house that much money? Do you invest it? Do you place it in a bank? In a number of different banks? Abroad? Keeping my little bit of overflow has never presented a problem. Now I'm all stressed out about it.

My better half and I (yea she made me get tickets) (and I got in on the work pool) actually discussed this at length over this past weekend.

After it rolled over and they announced it would be between 1.3 and 1.5 billion for Wednesday's drawing we did the math.
The one time cash pay out would be somewhere in the neighborhood of 900mil. So after taxes we'll say 400-450mil.

We'd give all our friends and family a million each.
We'd buy the Playboy mansion and let Hef live there rent free until he expires.
We'd buy a small island, a decent yacht and build our home there. Then we'd invest, we'd donate, we'd travel.

Oh and I'll buy everyone here breakfast and a nice coffee.

SavageRobot · Jan 12, 2016

I can't imagine what I would do. I think it would break me. I would definitely make family and loved ones much happier first and foremost (and obviously clear all my debts), donate a lot to charity, go jet setting around the world and try everything everywhere at least once. That could take down a fair few years before getting bored.
Even if you managed to gash out 1bln you would still have 300mil! Say interest in a bank is 5%, that's £15m year interest. I have no idea how big money interest works but say they offer you 2%, you would still struggle to spend the 6 million interest.
I just can't comprehend that much money, does not compute.
I would be so happy if I won merely 10 million, but I would still work. Sure I would splurge out first, but I can't imagine doing nothing more than playing snooker on my own in my stately manor house (always end up thinking about Only Fools and Horses when think about winning big)

Deleted User · Jan 12, 2016

My priorities would be:

- Make sure close family members are set up for life
- Decent house, with:- Music room, recording studio, tennis court, snooker room, home cinema
- Probably build a running track/athletics facility and open it up to the public
- Nice car for weekend track days
- Take the family somewhere on extended holiday to figure out what to do with the rest of it

Longer term I'd probably set up my own company, because hey, you've got to have a purpose. But the difference would be I'd be the boss, and it's not really a problem if the whole thing went belly up.

Deleted User · Jan 12, 2016

And I don't care how much money I had, this is just obscene

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/worlds-most-expensive-christmas-tree-star-sale-615000-1530925

Prinny · Jan 12, 2016

I saw something about free coffee. o_o

Is that not what this threads about?

Seriously though I went to a local grocery store the other day, and the line for lottery tickets was 20 feet long. Holy crap. I honestly don't know what I'd do with that much money. Besides pay off my debt and give my parents money. Then....who knows o_O

Unforgiven · Jan 12, 2016

My wife and I each buy a ticket when it gets big. Then we daydream about not having expenses. It's funny, we don't talk about buying houses, cars, or yachts, just not having bills.

olbriar · Jan 12, 2016

It's that getting up in the morning knowing you don't have any financial worries that would be nice. I think you have to be rich to dream rich. All I really want is to be completely secure. Something I've never been. Self employment = constant worries. Oh, and some new socks and undies would be nice.

lunatic59 · Jan 12, 2016

I'd go to the bank and cash a check for $1,000,000.00 and ask for it in nickels. Then when they brought the truck around, i'd write out a deposit slip for $1,000,000.00

lunatic59 · Jan 12, 2016

olbriar said:
It's that getting up in the morning knowing you don't have any financial worries that would be nice. I think you have to be rich to dream rich

I am not rich. I don't know that I'd even say i was "comfortable", but we've got some money in the bank and our house is paid for. I was much happier when I didn't have all this stuff to worry about or who was trying to scam or tax me.

dan330 · Jan 12, 2016

you know... I think I would try to make a movie... be a producer. maybe a small minor silly part for fun.
budget: $50million.

olbriar · Jan 12, 2016

I suspect there are worries at every level from poverty to unlimited funds. I'm ready to try on the filthy rich worries. I've spent six decades on the other end of the spectrum.

Unforgiven · Jan 12, 2016

Stuntman · Jan 12, 2016

olbriar said:
Dradt! I guess I'll have to cancel my trip abroad and go to work tomorrow. Seriously, that is a strange rule.

It's more of an issue for Canadians. We often go down to the US on day trips. If we buy a lottery ticket there, we are allowed to win. We are allowed to take the ticket out of the US, but not allowed to bring it back in. Yeah. It is weird. Just heard this on the news up here yesterday. Some border guards are warning Canadians about this weird law.

mikedt · Jan 13, 2016

hiredgun said:
I don't blame you Mike, Chinese Lottery must be INCREDIBLY rigged right?????

There's two state lotteries, Sports Lottery and Welfare Lottery. But I don't think it's any more rigidly controlled than most other countries. Lottery tickets and scratch-cards can only be sold by licensed vendors, usually lottery shops, supermarkets or convenience stores. As a foreigner I could play if I wanted, there's no restrictions on that. I can also play the UK National Lottery or EuroMillions online if I wanted as well.

However there's no other forms of legal gambling in the mainland, but mahjong and poker are played for money in many places, sometimes in the street. but there's certainly no fruit machines or anything like that. For full-on, high stakes casino gambling, Macao is really the place, the "Las Vegas" of Asia.

BTW, here's another embedded use of Android...a lottery sales terminal from China....
http://jepower.en.made-in-china.com...uilt-in-Printer-Nfc-RFID-Reader-Wi-Fi-3G.html

today · Jan 13, 2016

Worst thing about winning that kind of cash would be losing your anonymity. Imagine all the attention a pile of money like that would attract. Not all the attention would be upstanding either. Very unnerving. I'd probably be

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