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If you play Powerball, you may want to check your tickets! The Maine Lottery Facebook page says a Powerball winning ticket worth $1 million dollars was sold at a Leadbetter’s Super Stop in Bangor. If you missed it last night, the Maine Powerball numbers were 11-21-31-41-59...

So you've won the billion-dollar Powerball jackpot. After you recover from the shock, it's likely that you are going to look to upgrade your living situation. We want to help!

No luck this time. There were no wiinning tickets drawn in Saturday's (Jan. 9) Powerball drawing.

I’m sure you've heard that tonight's annuitized Powerball jackpot is estimated to be about $425 million. I wasn’t going to buy a ticket, I was going to wait and see if the jackpot ballooned up even higher for Saturday, but I succumbed to the fever of it all.

So, what goes into choosing your numbers for Powerball? Do you use birthdays and special dates? Do you use a pattern on the card when you fill it out? Do you use the same numbers week after week? Do you just let the machine pick your numbers?

Over the weekend a $2 million Powerball ticket was sold at the Canaan Superette. The winner matched five numbers and turned the $1 million prize into $2 by playing the Power Play option.

Nolan Daniels did not win hundreds of millions of dollars as part of last week's record breaking Powerball $588 million jackpot. But he did trick millions of people on Facebook into thinking he had.

On Wednesday, the Powerball lottery reached a record $587.5 million. So far two winning tickets have been announced, one in Arizona and one in Missouri. But there's at least one more guaranteed winner: the Internal Revenue Service. Lottery winners can take their prize in the form of a lump sum or an annuity paid over the next 29 years...

I have a big fat loosing Powerball ticket sitting on my desk. Heck, it was fun to dream for a little while about the 'what ifs' of winning $579 million and what great things I could do! I would have been VERY generous with the money if I had won. But every Maine lottery ticket, winner or loser helps Maine’s General Fund. Winning tickets were bought in Arizona and Missouri.

What would you do with $500 million dollars?  I just went to fill up the Moose Caboose at the Irving on Western Avenue in Augusta. The sign reads "Wednesday night’s Powerball jackpot is $500,000,000" (annuitized). As a game show host would say, “a half billion dollars.”

It's the day after the election, now what? I wanted to write on something else, so here we go. Wednesday and Saturday is when they have the 'Megabucks' and 'Powerball' drawings. The other big two lotteries here in Maine are 'Hot Lotto' and 'Mega Millions.' Tonight’s 'Powerball' jackpot is at an estimated 143 Million dollars.