Barrie Edwards of Willow Street did not buy the Aug. 2 Powerball ticket that earned him over $42 million - he received the promotional ticket for free when he purchased two Pennsylvania Lottery Match 6 tickets. Now, Edwards and his wife are sharing their good fortune with a dozen relatives.
Secretary of Revenue Tom Wolf and Lottery Executive Director Ed Trees today presented a ceremonial check for $42,529,765.37, less 25 percent federal withholding, to 14 members of the Edwards and Funk families of Lancaster County, holders of the single jackpot-winning ticket from the Aug. 2 Powerball drawing.
The families' jackpot-winning ticket matched all five white balls, 02-05-28-33-54, and the red Powerball, 30, to win the jackpot, which grew over nine drawings to an annuity value of $86.3 million. The $42.5 million cash prize won by the Edwards and Funks is the 10th largest prize awarded in Pennsylvania Lottery history.
"The Edwards and Funk families weren't the only winners in the Aug. 2 Powerball drawing," said Wolf. "Pennsylvania's older residents benefit from programs funded by Lottery proceeds, and the Aug. 2 jackpot generated more than $6.2 million for those programs."
Barrie Edwards watched the televised Powerball drawing to learn he held the jackpot-winning ticket. He immediately ran to share the news with his wife, Jean, who had gone to bed. Shortly after the drawing, the Edwards called Terry and Linda Edwards, Barrie's brother and sister-in-law, to inform them of the jackpot win.
Barrie and Terry Edwards and family members have purchased Lottery tickets for years, and long ago they made a verbal agreement that if one of them won a large jackpot, the prize would be split among family members, all of whom are natives or long-time residents of Lancaster County.
There's a lot of confusion about lotto winning odds - especially Powerball. Some players don’t enter a Powerball game because they think the odds are too high... in the 100 millions most times.
They ask how could anyone win with those inflated odds.
Maybe an explanation is needed...
Let's take Powerball's winning odds, which is around 1 in 146,000,000.
Most people think they haven't got much chance with odds like that - a one in 146 million chance!
Not so. They're looking at it incorrectly.
The recent Powerball gave the odds at 1 in 146,107,962. If a player had only 1 winning number, that figure would be the true odds.
But what if the player had 2 winning numbers? The odds would then drop by 50% to 73,053,981. You could keep on working these odds out and seeing how they improve with the addition of every winning number:
3 balls - 365,269,90
4 balls = 18,263,495
5 balls = 9,131,747
6 balls = 4,565,873
But did you realize this is for the main prize? That's just one single prize. The most recent Powerball had over 480,000 prizes, ranging from the jackpot at $57 million to a $3 prize - in one game alone.
So the odds drop from 146 million all the way down to 1 in 68 for getting ANY prize.
While that's a massive reduction, it gets much better...
My Silver lotto System will increase your winning odds by 80%. That means in 8 games out of 10 you'll get a winning prize, based on my own calculations, experience and those of hundreds of my buyers.
Let's apply that formula to the 1 : 68 odds.
If you calculate 80% of those odds, it now brings them down to 1 in 13.
Wouldn’t YOU be more enthusiastic about playing Powerball now - knowing that your odds have plummeted from 146 million to just 13?
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12 21 36 38 49 Powerball 18
There were no jackpot winners, but 446,488 players won more than $8 Million. The next draw will be Wednesday 18 April 2007. The Jackpot stands at $36 Million.
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I've just visited yet another website which suggests, with countless figures and computations, that the chances of winning lotto are less than being hit by a bus.
Sometimes I laugh at these statements. Sometimes I argue back. Sometimes I despair for the gullible people who read these statements without giving it any thought.
You see, all you have to do is visit each and every one of the 428,250 people who last week won a prize in Powerball.
Ask them whether these statistics apply to them.
"Did these odds stop you from winning?" They'll laugh in your face while getting on the phone to their local car dealer to order a new Caddy.
Look... nearly HALF A MILLION PEOPLE WON last week!
So who's right?
Wouldn't that encourage you to get started on Powerball with my PowerSpread System right away? If not, just ask a winner what they think you should do!
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6 15 38 42 51 Powerball 18
There were no jackpot winners, but 380,160 players won more than $3.3 Million. The next draw will be Saturday 14 April 2007. The Jackpot stands at $27 Million.
2 28 31 54 55 Powerball 23
There were no jackpot winners, but 428,250 players won more than $5.5 Million. The next draw will be Wednesday 11 April 2007. The Jackpot stands at $20 Million.
There was one Powerball winner in the state of South Carolina for yesterday's draw, getting the $15 Million grand prize!
18 30 39 40 53 Powerball 16
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2 5 16 36 40 Powerball 36
Accuracy Rating using PowerSpread System: 99%
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