Winning Mega Millions Red Bud store hopes lottery luck strikes
twice  7:30 AM, Nov 28, 2012   |    comments   • Share   • Print
• - A A A +  Red Bud, Ill (KSDK) -- Can a big jackpot be hit a
second time in Red Bud, Illinois?  The Red Bud, Illinois
MotoMart store that sold one of the three $656-million winning
Mega Millions ticket earlier this year has a sign outside that
says "lightning can strike twice."  It was a record jackpot for
Mega Millions.  The Powerball jackpot for Wednesday night's
drawing is $500-million, which is also a record amount.  If you
really want to win the Powerball jackpot, there's a way to
increase your odds and even guarantee a win.  You would have to
come up with every possible combination of numbers you would
need to buy more than 195-million tickets at $2 a piece.  That
means you would have to spend $390-million.  You would have to
take the annuity and collect the $500-million in order to make a
profit, and you'd have to hope you were the only winner.
Theoretically, if someone h