Sentences with phrase «lottery jackpot of»

* Based on an investment of # 30,000 in a Lottery Group with # 2,000,000 in deposits and if the Lottery Group wins the entire National Lottery jackpot of # 5,000,000.

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So many tickets have been sold that the jackpot climbed Thursday to the largest in U.S. lottery history, according to officials in Rhode Island, one of 42 states where Mega Millions is played.
However, as we saw before Saturday's drawing, when the jackpot was $ 535 million, taking a closer look at the underlying math of the lottery shows that it's probably a bad idea to buy a ticket.
The one winning Powerball ticket that was sold in New Hampshire is good for a $ 570 million jackpot, capping a weekend lottery jackpot haul of more than $ 1 billion.
It's not unheard of for lottery sales to come up short of jackpot requirements, but usually states have reserves to cover those events, Nettles said.
Tatts derived 66 per cent of its pre-tax earnings from its lotteries division in 2017, though a lack of jackpots hit the company's overall result.
Money: A story on changes in Mega Millions lottery game on Oct. 25 left out several states and the District of Columbia that initially are offering the Just the Jackpot option at its inception that happened Saturday.
I expect my odds of winning the jackpot in any lottery, multiple times in a row, are much better than picking the right god.
Billy buys a New Jersey lottery ticket for each week of the summer, and this year, when the pot reached $ 31 million, his 18 - year - old son, Toby, asked him where he would go if he won the jackpot.
Wenger must feel like he has won the lottery, the jackpot on every online slot game, and the world poker Championship all at the same time, because the combined worth of just those four players must come to over 100 million pounds at current values.
Medenica's plan has been to start slow with Internet lottery products, offering just the big multi-state jackpot games such as Mega Millions, which would add perhaps tens of millions of dollars annually for public education.
No one from New York was the big winner in yesterday's record Powerball jackpot, but dozens of people did win the game's second - place and third - place prizes, according to the New York Lottery.
NEW YORK, NY — The New York State Gaming Commission's Division of the Lottery issued tips to Lottery players considering setting up or contributing to an office pool in advance of Wednesday's historic Powerball drawing for a jackpot of $ 1.4 billi
Beyond the casino floor, people even scooped lottery jackpots using a mix of math and manpower.
Passengers have more chance of winning the National Lottery jackpot than being allocated middle seats at random on a Ryanair flight, according to new Oxford University analysis.
The chances of winning the National Lottery jackpot are 1:45,000,000.
It's like spending your paycheck on lottery tickets because you know of a few people who hit the jackpot.
Unless you are an heir to the Rockefeller fortune or you have hit a ridiculously large lottery jackpot, you probably don't have unlimited amounts of money to throw around.
An ensemble piece about a group of workers at an auto repair show who hit a lottery jackpot, it would have been much more promising if creators David Zabel and Jason Richman had chosen subtlety, which they did not.
When Alice wins the state lottery's $ 86 million jackpot, she approaches New Vibrance, the studio that produces some of her favorite infomercials.
The Powerball lottery went unclaimed last Saturday and the jackpot climbed to US$ 1.5 billion, or about CA$ 2.1 billion and plenty of Canadians are buying tickets whether they're taking a quick trip across the border or buying tickets online from sites like theLotter or from this Toronto bakery in the hopes that luck will be on their side during the Wednesday number draw.
If the odds of winning a lottery jackpot are one in 292 million, and the jackpot prize is expected to be greater than than $ 1 billion, does this make a lottery ticket a wise investment?
It has two parts: a lottery, which then gives the winner the chance to draw the ace of spades from a deck of cards for a bigger chunk of the jackpot.
There's the profoundly slim chance of changing one's life with a massive payoff from a small investment, he said, but — so long as there's no gambling problem — «it's worth it to go out and buy a couple of lottery tickets, especially when the jackpot gets high, if you find it entertaining.»
Lottery stocks are defined as having negative returns between the maximum daily return and future returns, expected stock - specific skewness (relatively less symmetry in returns), relatively lower prices, a high predicted probability of jackpot (extremely large) returns and high volatility.
There are scientific studies that show that we condition ourselves to repeat self - destructive behavior like this for the allure of a large randomly distributed reward... playing the lottery comes to mind here... or going to the casino and hitting one nice sized jackpot and then spending countless hours and dollars trying to hit another.
[For example: To decide — in true muppet fashion — that 10 mio bbls of prospective oil resources are worth up to a $ 1 billion... well, that's just like believing a lottery ticket's actually worth the jackpot two minutes after you bloody bought it!
This illusion of control helps explain why people who buy lottery tickets are given an option to choose their own numbers, even though all combinations have the same (and staggeringly low) chance of winning the jackpot.
Remember - a higher percentage of lottery jackpot winners go bankrupt than regular people!
With the Powerball's jackpot growing to a near record - breaking high, some lottery players might already be thinking of what to do if they win.
A couple weeks ago our pool hit the lottery jackpot for $ 99 million, and now the guy who stopped paying in a few months ago says he should get a cut of the money!!!
Given the enormous Powerball jackpot of recent weeks ($ 587.5 M), and the number of people who play the lottery as jackpots increase (Powerball officials estimated they were selling 131,000 tickets per minute ahead of Wednesday night's drawing), this is likely something we will see more of in the future.
Recently Mr. Sinins obtained a $ 20 million verdict on behalf of five workers who claimed that a co-worker cheated them out of their share of a Mega Millions lottery jackpot.
The technology of honest game results created within the platform based on an international encryption method, along with lotteries of prize funds and Jackpots based on blockchain tech, create new possibilities in gambling games.
Now parents push to get sole custody of the child to help them win the jackpot and child support lottery.
In one study, researchers instructed participants to buy a lottery ticket with a jackpot of $ 1 million.
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