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If I were Filthy Rich
By MacTheHat
+31 Powerball coming to the UK

The US powerball is coming to the UK in a new joint game. At £4, double the cost of a regular lottery ticket will you be playing? How long before we see our first UK powerball billionaire?

Recent responses

+27 @zishazhe Guess that ends me playing both powerballs and mega millions.

+16 @Interesting_Sun The UK Powerball will be paid out over 30 years, they still won't pay tax on lotto winnings and they don't have the choice of lump sum as is done in the USA so when will a UK winner actually get a billion dollars? Even if they won a billion dollar jackpot this year, it would probably be 30 years?

+13 @Cheap-Bathroom-4426 they should at least change back the price of the mega millions if they’re going to add more countries to the powerball game

+11 @Ungreat It's annoying the American lottery jackpot style is being reported in UK news. It isn't a £1b jackpot if it's paid out in £30m installments. That's less than the return on the £1b if you invested it. Still life changing money but I hate the artificial jackpots for headlines.