Many people are waiting for $1.5 Billion Powerball main prize. Next lottery draw date. 13th January 2016
One group of 292 lottery players, from Tampa in the USA, have bought 73.000 lottery tickets, for a total cost $146.000 USD. That is a lot of cash!
They did this in order to increase chances of the big win. Powerball has reached record levels, which nobody seen ever before.
Although the odds of winning are against them, which are 1:292 million.
They are hoping for a big win. Next estimated prize is huge $1.5 Billion!
It all started with one message sent on Facebook, initiated by two friends.
Can foreigners buy Powerball lottery tickets?
The message said:
“$500 in order to participate in this Powerball group, per person. And we take care with buying all those lottery tickets.”
Many people decided to give it a try. Because participating in large group gives more power to win big money. This is allowing them to buy much more lottery tickets, than it would be possible otherwise. Final number of participants reached number of 292 people.
Therefore organizers were able to collect such a large amount of 146 thousand dollars by pooling money from all participants.
The owner of lottery ticket machine said, he is printing all those lottery coupons since Sunday. That is 73.000 lottery tickets worth $146 thousands USD.
Powerball tickets are still being printed! Shopkeeper shows in his hand 5000 lottery tickets worth $10,000.
Each time when a customer enters the shop, the process is put on hold, in order to sell Powerball coupon to that customer.
It is actually possible, the customer who bought that one ticket in between, could be the lucky coupon.
Now the big problem is to check all those numbers and tickets. In order to find out, if there is the winning coupon.
Since they bought them all at the same store, winnings above $250.000 will be known tomorrow automatically, because the shop will be informed by Powerball representatives.
Therefore they will know tomorrow morning if there are any big wins.
Also tomorrow they start checking all those tickets for smaller winnings.