What Would You Do If You Won the $550 Million Powerball Jackpot?
As no one has won Powerball for 16 consecutive tries, the estimated jackpot for Wednesday’s drawing is $550 million. Tell us in the comments what you would do if you won.
The $550 million question being asked everywhere this week is what would you do if you won the Powerball jackpot Wednesday? For the last two months, no one has been lucky to win the Powerball lottery. So Wednesday's estimated jackpot is $500 million – the largest jackpot in Powerball history. Powerball is pulled Wednesdays and Fridays and is played in 42 states, including Massachusetts and all six New England states. According to Powerball, the odds of winning the jackpot is 1 in 175 million. The odds of getting all 5 numbers and not the Powerball, earning $1 million, is 1 in 5 million. We took to Facebook to see what Patch readers would do if they won $500 million. Here’s what they had to say: So Foxborough, we want to know … what would …
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Iosua Howard Sheppard
10:29 am on Tuesday, February 19, 2013
I would build a big center for drug rehabilitation that would center the clients lives around helping others in need. Of course I would make sure I get my mother the one thing in life she has always wanted, a yellow Corvette. I would have a new center built for Hope City downtown and make sure it was always stocked with food for the homeless. In that center would be a program to help the homeless… more ›