TELL US: What Would You Do if You Won the Powerball Jackpot?
As no one has won Powerball for 16 consecutive tries, the estimated jackpot for Wednesday drawing is more than $550 million. Tell us in the comments what you would do if you won.
For the last two months, no one has been lucky to win the Powerball lottery.
So Wednesday's estimated jackpot is more than $550 million, and likely to go even higher as a buying frenzy has begun.
At $425 million, it would be the largest jackpot in Powerball history.
Powerball is pulled Wednesdays and Fridays. The Powerball lottery is played in 42 states, including Massachusetts and all six New England states.
According to Powerball, the odds of winning the jackpot is 1 in 175 million. The odds of getting all 5 numbers and not the Powerball, earning $1 million, is 1 in 5 million.
Still looking to buy a ticket? There are plenty of other lottery locations nearby. You can find them using this map on the Mass Lottery's website.
What would you do with more than $550 million? Discuss in the comments below.
Cool Fusion
12:45 pm on Tuesday, November 27, 2012
I'd move.. to Navada.. Switzerland .. Hong Kong .. even Anguila. Away from the ruling political warlords that will demand a piece of the action and will confiscate the major portions of the win immediately leaving the residue to snack on in the future.
Bryan McGonigle2
1:07 pm on Tuesday, November 27, 2012
I might go to Burton's and order something I was too cheap to order before winning - like putting bacon and mushrooms on that baked potato.
Bryan McGonigle2
9:20 am on Thursday, November 29, 2012
Sorry to report that any baked potato's I might have in the future will remain bacon and mushroom free.
Sean Seaberg
1:09 pm on Tuesday, November 27, 2012
I would give a million doll hairs to my top 25 favorite people. Create a research and development center for the science technology studies of my preference. I would buy 3 estates for my loved ones and myself. I would start more logical programs to help people in poverty locally and some worldwide. I would create a completely sustainable energy business model and then create a chain of businesses that followed such protocol to make an example for other chains. Then go to disneyland.
daniel archambault
1:43 pm on Tuesday, November 27, 2012
i would purchase a prison large enough to hold all mother-in-laws
kathy Stevens
10:09 pm on Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Build a parking garage under the Common with a disguised entrance. Lure Annies Book Stop back to North Andover in the Old Center with a financial guarantee. Renovate Parson Barnard Barn so that it could be a Farm Legacy Museum. Create a History Trail walking path along Cochichewicke Brook from the lake to downtown. Money can't buy happiness or maybe it can.
Cool Fusion
9:07 pm on Wednesday, November 28, 2012
We already have a Farm Legacy. It's called Smolak's farm that obtained a perpetual tax exemption in the 70's. One can visit in the fall to buy shipped-in pumpkins all lined up neat and tidy in rows along with bruised blow-down apples at nearly twice the price of A1 prime apples found in the supermarket. If your fancy are strawberries.. those too can be had.. if your willing to pick them yourself, pay for the box, and still pay in advance nearly 50% more than the price found at super and farmers markets. No, we don't need another subsidized "Farm Legacy". Just saying.
Tiffany Begin
5:51 pm on Wednesday, November 28, 2012
I would pay of the student loans of myself and my family members, buy a beautiful home for myself and my fiancé, pay off my dad's mortgage, buy my mom and stepdad a house, donate a few million dollars to the MSPCA in Methuen, MA, and travel!
kathy Stevens
10:38 am on Thursday, November 29, 2012
Fun to speculate on what over 200 hundred million could make happen. Improve imfrastructure to support local businesses.
Cool Fusion
11:42 am on Thursday, November 29, 2012
Let's get real. Lotteries in essence are a stealth tax on the poor and the ignorant who are enticed by alluring advertisments into believing that it's a trendy investment that they have a chance of realistically winning by buying tickets in bulk at the local liquor store. It's just the governments version of modern racketeering to exploit the most vulnerable among us. Oh, how we miss the good old days of Arthur Andersen and Enron.
kathy Stevens
3:29 pm on Thursday, November 29, 2012
Yes lotteries run by the state have a regressive impact.