The Powerball Lottery has arrived, and the first drawing is Wednesday, for an estimated $105 million! Now 30 states are involved and the starting jackpot will usually begin at $20 million; the average jackpot expected to be in the range of $141 million. The Florida Lotto lottery still exists, and compared to the Powerball, the odds for Lotto seem much sweeter.
Powerball jackpot: 1 in 195,249,054
Florida Lotto jackpot: 1 in 22,957,480
In lottery related news, have you heard the story about the guy who bought a winning lotto ticket the same day he passed away? For 20 years, Donald Peters bought lotto tickets, and when he died, his wife of 59 years put all the tickets aside. She almost threw them out, instead checked them, thinking she'd won $6 million bucks. She was informed she had, in fact, won $10 million dollars. One of the couple's three children said his father's response would probably be, "Figures!".
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