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No winner yet, Powerball at $675 Million biggest in U.S History

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th3dude

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DrForester said:
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Lol, today's the 9th.
 
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Quixzlizx

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N.Domixis said:
how long do they have for someone to come out and say they won before they try again?
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Winners have between a month and a year to claim their prizes, depending on the state. We'll know how many winners there were from the lottery commission at some point in the next few hours, though.
 
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Unknown Soldier

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Jakeh111 said:
God damn you're starting to sound like the crazies that's come into the gas station I worked. Some would have a stack of papers where they've been doing work on to get their numbers... I hates those people...
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George Orwell wrote about this decades ago in 1984.

It was nearly twenty hours, and the drinking-shops which the proles frequented ('pubs', they called them) were choked with customers. From their grimy swing doors, endlessly opening and shutting, there came forth a smell of urine, sawdust, and sour beer. In an angle formed by a projecting house-front three men were standing very close together, the middle one of them holding a folded-up newspaper which the other two were studying over his shoulder. Even before he was near enough to make out the expression on their faces, Winston could see absorption in every line of their bodies. It was obviously some serious piece of news that they were reading. He was a few paces away from them when suddenly the group broke up and two of the men were in violent altercation. For a moment they seemed almost on the point of blows.
'Can't you bleeding well listen to what I say? I tell you no number ending in seven ain't won for over fourteen months!'
'Yes, it 'as, then!'
'No, it 'as not! Back 'ome I got the 'ole lot of 'em for over two years wrote down on a piece of paper. I takes 'em down reg'lar as the clock. An' I tell you, no number ending in seven-'
'Yes, a seven 'as won! I could pretty near tell you the bleeding number. Four oh seven, it ended in. It were in February -- second week in February.'
'February your grandmother! I got it all down in black and white. An' I tell you, no number-'
'Oh, pack it in!' said the third man.
They were talking about the Lottery. Winston looked back when he had gone thirty metres. They were still arguing, with vivid, passionate faces. The Lottery, with its weekly pay-out of enormous prizes, was the one public event to which the proles paid serious attention. It was probable that there were some millions of proles for whom the Lottery was the principal if not the only reason for remaining alive. It was their delight, their folly, their anodyne, their intellectual stimulant. Where the Lottery was concerned, even people who could barely read and write seemed capable of intricate calculations and staggering feats of memory. There was a whole tribe of men who made a living simply by selling systems, forecasts, and lucky amulets. Winston had nothing to do with the running of the Lottery, which was managed by the Ministry of Plenty, but he was aware (indeed everyone in the party was aware) that the prizes were largely imaginary. Only small sums were actually paid out, the winners of the big prizes being non-existent persons. In the absence of any real intercommunication between one part of Oceania and another, this was not difficult to arrange.
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DrForester said:
Someone JUST bought that ticket for the next drawing on Wednesday. You can see on the top that it was bought at 10:something PM today.
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Yeah I didn't think you could buy a ticket for the next draw when the machines go offline for the current draw. That time seems off as it would need to be 21:00 for today's draw.
 
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DrForester

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Kadin said:
Yeah I didn't think you could buy a ticket for the next draw when the machines go offline for the current draw. That time seems off as it would need to be 21:00 for today's draw.
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Sales close at 9EST, but I think they reopen for the next drawing immediately following the drawing.
 
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PHOENIXZERO

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Can't wait to see stores around here with signs either stuck at 999 or messed with to display 1.3 billion if no one in fact won.

If no one did, holy shit!
 
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