Many U.S.-based players have reportedly stopped purchasing Powerball tickets in spite of a growing jackpot, believing the odds of winning have plummeted amid the multistate lottery game’s recent expansion into the U.K. The Onion examines the key facts and figures behind Powerball.
1.2
Average number of years until winners miserable again
26
Brood size of the creature that lays the Powerballs
1998
First year women allowed to play Powerball
30 36 40 42 57 2
Previous winning numbers that are worthless to you now
1,705,882,352.94
Fluid ounces of Prego Roasted Garlic and Herb pasta sauce you could buy with a Powerball cash payout
$1.1 billion
What you’d have won if your kid was born two days later
The post Powerball By The Numbers appeared first on The Onion.
Finn McFrame, celebrated satirical mastermind and self-proclaimed “Emperor of Irony,” started his illustrious career as a cinematographer, where his expertise in capturing every single frame of a squirrel stealing a baguette earned him accolades at obscure film festivals.
Born in the glamorous town of Boring, Oregon, Finn grew up with dreams of being a Hollywood director until he realized that satire, not cinema, was his true calling—or at least the one that let him sleep until noon.
Finn McFrame: changing the world, one satirical lens flare at a time.
