The last time someone won the Powerball jackpot after the July 19 drawing for the $1.08 billion pot.

Powerball’s massive jackpot will rollover and increase after Saturday’s drawing produced no winning tickets, according to the game’s website.

The $1.4-billion jackpot now grows to $1.55 billion but remains the third-largest in Powerball’s history (the second largest was $1.586 billion in 2016).

The last time someone won the Powerball jackpot after the July 19 drawing for the $1.08 billion pot. The winning ticket then was sold in California.

  • Ghoti_@lemmy.worldEnglish
    321·
    1 year ago

    Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I find the lottery fun in moderation, but I only spend like $50 on lottery tickets a year so I’m not exactly the target audience anyway.

    • PlatinumSf@pawb.socialEnglish
      253·
      1 year ago

      The lottery is by and far an excessive tax on the poor. That’s my only problem with it.

      • SCB@lemmy.world
        181·
        1 year ago

        Generally the big culprit there is the scratch-off stuff you see at gas stations.

        Powerball, due to the delays in reward processing, is not as “addictive” as scratch-off/peel-off gambling.

        • PlatinumSf@pawb.socialEnglish
          51·
          1 year ago

          True, but I just don’t think we should incentivize funding amazing programs with money sources primarily funded by the underprivileged day dreaming of a better life. It just seems sad.

            • PlatinumSf@pawb.socialEnglish
              5·
              1 year ago

              Unfortunately for your world views, no. I’m 28 and able to engage in empathy for the plight of my fellow man. Sad you’ve gotten that used to callous realities.

      • radix@lemmy.worldEnglish
        202·
        1 year ago

        Few people bat an eye at spending $40 for two tickets and food to a movie for two hours. If $20 gets someone a few hours of escapism and dreaming, it’s not that big of a deal. But like any other entertainment, spending that much every day is probably not good, and certainly not if it’s done only as an investment.

        • HeyJoe@lemmy.world
          4·
          1 year ago

          I am that person who doesn’t mind $20 when it gets around 1 billion. The problem lately is I used to enjoy it more when it was $10 for 10 tickets and 2nd it really is taking a long time for anyone to win which is turning into a problem now… I am considering either dropping down to $10 or upping my starting time to 1.5 billion since it really seems to be getting pretty high quicker these days as well. This next drawing will make it $60 now in 1 week and I am not ok with it anymore.