If you like Euromillones, you will love Powerball, American Superlor Parlor. This offers a colossal jackpot of $ 1.3 billion (1.12 billion euros) this Wednesday, September 3, four times more than the largest award ever won through the European lottery (250 million euros).
The great lot of the Powerball has not earned for 40 impressions, so it is slowly approaching the historical record of $ 2 billion reached in 2022.
On the role, a gain of 1,100 million euros would immediately bring to the lucky one among the richest French, around the 48th position, among the fashion designer Christian Louboutin and Yves-Loic Martin, the head of Eurofins scientific laboratories, according to the classification established by Forbes.
But is it only possible to play it? A persistent rumor would like Powerball to be prohibited for foreigners and, therefore, out of the reach of Europeans. Actually, the Lottery regulations specify “that it is not necessary to be an American citizen or resident to play.”
On the other hand, you must buy your ticket, you sold 2 dollars per unit, in an American state where the game is marketed and, of course, buy it from an authorized revenue. Players have many options: Powerball refers to 45 states, as well as Washington DC, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands of the United States.
It is absent from Nevada, Utah, Alabama, Alaska and Hawaii, who refused to associate, often for moral or religious reasons.
Important taxes
Keep in mind that the regulations of the game specify, however, that “federal and local taxes can be applied to any claimed gain.” Therefore, you must choose the state to buy your ticket.
Especially because the United States tax authorities derive an equivalent commission equivalent to 24% of the profit. According to CNBC, it is more advantageous to resort to the 8 states that do not apply additional taxes on lottery profits (California, Florida, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington and Wyoming).
In the end, once the taxes have been taken, the main prize was $ 631 million, according to the CNBC calculations held this Saturday, while the awards group only reached the bar of one billion dollars.
In comparison, the French state is much more generous since gains in games are exempt from income tax.
An opportunity in 292 million
To try their luck, you will have to choose five random numbers between 1 and 69, plus a “powerball” number between 1 and 26. The chances of winning are small: one in 292 million. Finding the correct combination is much more difficult than in Euromillions (an opportunity of 139 million).
To maximize your possibilities, only one solution: buy several tickets. This is the option that the players had chosen for an American lottery in 1992. 2,500 people gathered to buy 7 million tickets, at 1 dollar per unit, to cover all the combinations of the Virginia lottery that then offered a gain of $ 27 million, says Scientific American magazine.
Each of them had spent $ 3,000 to finally pocket an individual gain of $ 10,800. Scientific American points out that reissued the experience with Powerball would cost $ 600 million …
Source: BFM TV
