Powerball is at 1 Billion $$. What would you do if you won?

[UltraBudgie]

A new car too, I’ve never owned a new car

I might be tempted.

[Mantiss2021]

No,  my island will be in the South China Sea.  The rent is based on me doing the odd favour for my Chinese landlords.....
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Tempting as it may be, I would caution you against hiring a manservant who is less than average height.

And beware suave, British secret agents who drop in unannounced.


Especially if you happen to have more than the customary two nipples!

[schuyler]

Same thing. One ticket only. Last week I matched ZERO numbers.   If I won I would give the majority of it to my local public library. I don't really need any more money myself. I don't want a yacht. I like my current house. I'd give some to my SIL because she is so damn stupid about money. Statistically I know very well it's a fool's game. But one ticket? What the hell...

[rickymouse]

No winner last night.

The jackpot is now up to $1.7 Billion.

If there is a winner, and they take the lump sum, they'd get about 1/4 of it.

That's a lot of money!

Yeah, I didn't win last night.  Evidently you guys know that because I am posting, I most definitely would have had a heart attack if I won.  I am going to buy a few tickets for the next drawing so if I quit posting, you know I won. 

If I do win and survive, I am going to go out and buy ten more cans of coffee.  My luck, if I win, coffee will disappear off the planet.

I think we have a better chance of getting hit by an meteor than winning the powerball....at least that is my luck.  But a cup of coffee in the restaurant I go to is now three and a half bucks plus tip, so it is worth buying a few tickets.  I'll just order water next time I go there to eat instead of coffee.

[FlyersFan]

UPDATE ... Saturdays drawing is now upped to $1.8 billion.

If I win I won't be telling anyone.
Hopefully I can keep it out of the press.

[FlyersFan]

Well ... 1.8 billion .... two winners.

Wasn't us.

We didn't even get one number.

[David64]

I won !!!









$4.

But hey, 4 bucks is 4 bucks.

[UltraBudgie]

But hey, 4 bucks is 4 bucks.

Uh-oh!

[argentus]

I would gift half of it to my best buddy that buys tickets for us.   That's a special level of trust.  

I would get laser surgery and heart surgery for myself, and knee replacements for my Darlin'.   I would build a second storey on our house with an elevator and an enclosed porch on the ground level.  

I would build a very efficient Trade School nearby and fund it for the next 50 years, including maintenance.  

I would fund a proper European-style  protected bike/walking path all around where I live.  I would study and discover a manner of enhancing the disenfranchised folk where I live.  Perhaps made a working farm where they were housed comfortably and got paid for farming.  

I would buy a 32-foot Ranger Trawler, for when we wanted to sport about, and hire a proper captain to teach us to run it.  

I would purchase as much of land as I could afford without going broke adjacent to the Selway-Bitterroot National Forest in Idaho, and create a trust for the Indigenous Peoples -- primarily Shoshoni.  

I would love to show my Darlin' Scotland, and Italy, and Alaska and also the Aurora Borealis.

[rickymouse]

Well ... 1.8 billion .... two winners.

Wasn't us.

We didn't even get one number.

I'm still posting, so I didn't have a heart attack from winning.  I feel so lucky that I did not win.