Winning Powerball numbers drawn for $900-million jackpot

[Omaha Steve]

Source: LA Times

By Matt Stevens, Taylor Goldenstein and Joseph Serna

Update: The winning numbers in Saturday’s record-setting Powerball
drawing are: 32, 16, 19, 57, 34 and the Powerball number, 13.

The largest jackpot in U.S. lottery history has gotten even bigger, as officials announced Saturday that the Powerball payout has risen to a staggering $900 million.

Yet, even with brisk ticket sales, just 75% of all possible six-digit combinations have been selected, officials said.

On Friday alone, California players purchased about $37 million in tickets. Saturday’s sales were expected to be on par -- or higher. As of 1 p.m., Californians had scooped up $17.2 million in Powerball tickets, officials said.

The drawing is set for 7:59 p.m. Pacific time.

FULL story and video at link.

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-powerball-jackpot-20160109-story.html

[JonLeibowitz]

1. Best of luck Omaha Steve. I want you to win.

[George II]

2. We bought one ticket - zero correct numbers.

[Tab]

3. I promise that if I win, I will donate $1 million to Democratic Underground

Who's with me?

[pangaia]

7. No way.

[chapdrum]

4. I'd like to think

that there is a link between this spectacle of desire to join the One Percent, and the fact that the same are protractedly destroying the planet, and us right along with them.

[pnwmom]

5. Hope somebody here won!

[DCBob]

6. We bought 5 tix. Only got two numbers correct.

Ugh. We had already planned out how we were going to spend a large chunk of the winnings.

[TwilightGardener]

8. Dammit. Three tickets, not a single number.

[underpants]

9. We got 1!!!

One. Five tickets.

Damn.

[TwilightGardener]

10. Fools...money...yep.

[chapdrum]

11. Charles Koch is giving the same amount (to his favorite causes)

as the current lottery jackpot.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/charles-koch-is-disappointed-in-2016-republicans-but-will-still-give-900-million/

That has a certain symmetry, somehow.

Must we continually perpetuate this aspect of the circus (as in bread and)?