US Lotto

Has reached its second ever highest total.

$656 million 😲

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Is/Are there one or more winners?

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I would be willing, for a price, to help you find it again.

Odds to win are 259/1. Not very often that you actually get the odds to play the lotto.

Originally posted by Trev33
Has reached its second ever highest total.

$656 million 😲

So check it out.

The current cash payout is $341M.
Then you get taxed. Call that tax $130M.
That leaves you about $211M as your little nest egg.
Figure you can get 10% return on that.
That puts you at $21.1M/year.
But good ol' Uncle Sam wants his 38% for capital gains.
That leaves you with $13M after those taxes.
So now, you are tasked with spending $1M every month of the year for the rest of your life, without ever touching your nest egg!

Good luck.

Originally posted by FreakyKBH
So check it out.

The current cash payout is $341M.
Then you get taxed. Call that tax $130M.
That leaves you about $211M as your little nest egg.
Figure you can get 10% return on that.
That puts you at $21.1M/year.
But good ol' Uncle Sam wants his 38% for capital gains.
That leaves you with $13M after those taxes.
So now, you are tasked with spen ...[text shortened]... month of the year for the rest of your life, without ever touching your nest egg!

Good luck.

Hardly worth buying a ticket.

Originally posted by Trev33
Odds to win are 259/1. Not very often that you actually get the odds to play the lotto.

That's 1 in 259 million.

Originally posted by lolof
Is/Are there one or more winners?

Drawing is tonight at 11:00 p.m., Eastern Time.

Originally posted by HandyAndy
Drawing is tonight at 11:00 p.m., Eastern Time.

No, I don't have a ticket. 🙂

Originally posted by HandyAndy
That's 1 in 259 [b]million.[/b]

That's what i meant of course. Just left out the MILLION ... minor error 😵

Originally posted by HandyAndy
No, I don't have a ticket. 🙂

You have 500 tickets, right? 😉

How much is a ticket anyway? Been watching people queue (how do you say that in American English? I'm sure you spell it differently) for them on TV today. I'd buy a few tickets, but not if it meant queuing for more than 5 mins.

Originally posted by Trev33
queue

¿Que?

Originally posted by Trev33
How do you say that in American English?

That 😕

Originally posted by ChessPraxis
¿Que?

¿Como se dice cola en americano Inglés? Creo esperar en línea, ¿no?