We're going to need more digits for this Powerball

First of all, you didn't win the $949.8 million Powerball drawing last night. Sorry!

Given that, the next jackpot could reach an estimated $1.3 billion, lottery officials told ABC News.

And given that (again), there aren't enough digits to note this on the lottery ad on St. Mark's Place near Second Avenue, as these photos by EVG Powerball correspondent Steven show...



According to someone who knows math and stuff, there's a 1 in 292.2 million chance of winning the Powerball's grand prize.

Breaking: EV Grieve did not win the Mega Millions

Of course, we never even bought any tickets. Still, you never know. The winning tickets for the $640-million jackpot were from Maryland, Kansas and Illinois. (Just think: $640 million is roughly 3 percent of Mayor Bloomberg's $22 billion net worth!)

In any event, we did enjoy some of the homemade signs with updates during the Mega-Millions frenzy

And, here on Second Street and Avenue A, the Penistrator, or a clever imitator, did this last week...

[Via Matt LES_Miserable]

And, to telegraph it...

No Powerball jokes, please.

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Spotted on East 14th Street by @robbyohara