It's rather disheartening to see that two tickets won $600,000 this morning knowing that we were one number away from doing the same on October 18th, 2006. Nobody across that nation got the jackpot numbers right last night so the jackpot once again inches towards record levels.
Several things were working against us last night. The powerball was the last number on the list the spreadsheet would have picked and we got quite a few two whiteballs right in sets, but not a third that would have meant a payout. We didn't have as many participants as well so that didn't help our winning odds either. The odds are only 1 in 36 that you'll win any prize. We only had 42 picks....you do the math. It also didn't help that I was rushing to prepare the numbers and made it to buy tickets with about 5 minutes to spare!
I am currently working on a major tweak to the lottery spreadsheet so maybe that we'll help us fare better next Wednesday. If nobody wins Saturday the cash payout will probably be up to the $70 million range!
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