LARGEST Powerball Winning Ticket EVER: Massachusetts?
Now that I didn’t win the Mega Millions or Powerball, where WAS the LARGEST Powerball winning ticket EVER, sold?
Well if I am writing this, it’s proof that I did NOT win the Mega Millions BILLION dollar jackpot this week.
We Can Dream, Can’t We?
I’m sure most of us that play the lottery have fantasized on how we’d spend the money. We also plan carefully on WHO we’d tell. I can hear the questions in my head now:
- Can I remain private? “Hey lottery, save the giant check, I’m invisible.”
- How much of the extended family would I tell?
- How many friends, if any would I share the news with?
- Sure, I’d buy Mom a new house, but should I credit the fortune to, “smart real estate investments.”
- How would this affect my marriage?
- What would I buy first, after I pay off my bills?
- How much would I donate to charity?
- Should I demand a hospital wing named after ME?
- Would I quit this job I love?
- Can my wife take me at home EVERY day?
- Do I know how to manage MILLIONS of dollars, properly?
I know I would buy a big Sea Ray boat and have it docked in Rhode Island, in front of my new ocean front home. At this new home, I’d throw a giant 200 person party for my closest friends and family, and shock everyone with surprise guest performer, Donny Osmond, followed by a meet and greet with Tom Brady. Hey, we can dream can’t we?
The Big One!
So now that we have exhausted all dreams, questions and thinking, where WAS the LARGEST Powerball winning ticket EVER, sold?
According to WCVB:
1. $2.04 billion, Powerball, Nov. 8, 2022, one ticket, from California (MOST OF THIS SPENT ON GAS)
2. $1.586 billion, Powerball, Jan. 13, 2016 three tickets, from California, Florida, Tennessee (California, again?)
3. $1.58 billion, Mega Millions, Aug. 8, 2023 one ticket, from Florida (Florida, again?)
4. $1.537 billion, Mega Millions, Oct. 23, 2018 one ticket, from South Carolina (I’d buy a golf course in Myrtle Beach, after expensive gold lessons from Tiger.)
5. $1.35 billion, Mega Millions, Jan. 13, 2023 one ticket, from Maine (Spent on one lobster)
6. $1.337 billion, Mega Millions, July 29, 2022 one ticket, from Illinois (I’d hire private security to follow me around.)
7. $1.08 billion, Powerball, July 19, 2023 one ticket, from California (What, again?)
8. $1.05 billion, Mega Millions, Jan. 22, 2021 one ticket, from Michigan (ooh…nice house on Lake Michigan.)
9. $768.4 million, Powerball, March 27, 2019 one ticket, from Wisconsin (I got nothin..)
YES!! We made the Top 10 in 2017!
10. $758.7 million, Powerball, Aug. 23, 2017 one ticket, from Massachusetts