A lottery ticket sold in Pennsylvania won the eighth-largest Powerball jackpot in history.
The jackpot totaled $456.7 million. For the record, winning numbers were were: 22-57-59-60-66, and Powerball 7.
Three tickets — sold in Missouri, California and Texas — matched all five white balls. The Texan ticket included an added-on Power Play, and won $2 million.
Last August, Mavis Wanczyk, a Massachusetts woman, received the largest single-ticket jackpot winnings in history, also through Powerball, to the tune of $758.7 million.
We don't have any other information about the winner - yet. We'll probably hear the name on Monday when that person turns in their notice at work (I quit! Immediately!)
The jackpot total - 456.7 million - got me thinking about a conversation that I had with Van and Bonnie recently. We don't buy Powerball tickets regularly. I am one of those people that buys a ticket when the jackpot gets "high enough."
And that's the funny part. We'd all love to win a MILLION dollars. But we actually have a "threshold" at which we think it is "worth it" to buy a Powerball ticket.
I think's it's hilarious that we think, "bah, $200 million isn't good enough - I'll wait til it's $400 million - that's REAL money!"
In fact, my threshold at whch I will buy a Powerball ticket IS $400 million.
What's yours? How do you justify a purchase at that level?