(AP) — Many Nebraskans couldn’t resist buying a $2 Powerball ticket for a chance to win Wednesday night’s $425 million jackpot.
Amy Joslin says she and her husband always play Powerball when the jackpot climbs over $300 million. That’s happening more often since lottery officials increased ticket prices last year.
Joslin says it would be sweet to win the big prize because the 33-year-old has four young daughters at home.
But even the big jackpot isn’t enough to attract some players. Twenty-eight-year-old Armando Mendieta of Omaha says he doesn’t buy tickets because he doesn’t like gambling.
And Mendieta says he figures he’d never get lucky enough to match all six numbers to win.
The odds of matching all five white balls plus the Powerball are 1 in 175.2 million.