“SUNRISE, Fla. (WSVN) -- Powerball frenzy is coming to the Sunshine State.
On January 4th, Florida will officially become a Powerball Lottery state and the first tickets will go on sale. Powerball lottery increases the base jackpot to a whopping $20 million.
Tuesday night lottery ambassadors were front and center at Sawgrass Mills Outlet Mall to explain to the novices exactly how the game works.
"This panel A would be $1 and the idea is to pick five out of 59 and one out of 39 in panel B, and the idea is to match all six numbers," said Florida Lottery District Manager Tom Dolan. "The Powerball ticket is $1 or the Powerball ticket with power play is $2. So, that's a lot of money-- big jackpots for simply $1 to play to give it a chance."
The biggest Powerball payout in history was in 2006, when eight workers from a Nebraska meatpacking company hit the big time, splitting a $365 million jackpot. "Oh, I'm excited, gives me more opportunity to win more money," said Powerball fan Kerri Brunson.
All of the money from Powerball tickets sold in Florida will stay in the state and will continue to fund education. With Florida in the Powerball game, officials said the average jackpots are expected to go from $96 million to $141 million.
The first Powerball tickets will go on sale Sunday. The first Powerball drawing will take place next Wednesday night at Universal Studios in Orlando, the new home of the Powerball drawing.”
I may be buying more lottery tickets due to the Powerball coming to Florida. When there is a very big jackpot I will buy one ticket. That is what I do now for a large jackpot. It is worth a dollar for me to dream about what I would do with a lot of money.
I do have three Millionaire Raffle tickets for tonight. I paid $20.00 for one ticket and I was given two other tickets as a gift. So I have three chances to win $1 million dollars tonight. The odds in this drawing a lot better because they only sell one million tickets. There will be nine one million dollar winners and their will be over 1000 prizes from $500.00 to $50,000.00 and I sure hope that I am one of them.
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