If you delay enrolling in Medicare, you can continue to stash cash in a health savings account. But this may not be a good move. By Kimberly LankfordSee my bio, plus links to all my recent stories.
Since tickets cost $2, the prize pool has to be at least ($2 x 175 million = ) $350 million before buying a Powerball ticket is what gamblers call a positive-expectation play â a bet that, statistically, will pay more than $1 for each $1 played.
A line may be enhanced by the purchase of a Powerball number. If Powerball is played, a minimum of four Powerball numbers must be purchased per ticket, at the cost of $0.60 per line. The Powerball number is a number between 1 and 10, drawn from a separate machine from the main Lotto draw.