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Only On ABC 6 - URI Dining Hall Workers Split Powerball Prize

Bryan Monaghan

Story Created: Sep 22, 2008 at 10:29 PM EDT

Story Updated: Sep 23, 2008 at 10:15 AM EDT

When a group of workers at the University of Rhode Island's Butterfield Dining Hall won a big-time Powerball prize, they were all excited and eager to cash in.

Then the $10,000 prize had to be split among the 40 of them.

And then the state took their cut.

In the end, each of the workers were left with enough for a nice dinner or a couple of pairs of shoes. But, its still not a bad return for their $1 investment.

ABC 6 News Reporter Robert Goulston has the story.

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Thursday, Sep 25 at 4:16 PM Patrick DeFeo, Danbury wrote ...

With the upcoming changes to Powerball (the odds will become 1 in almost 200 million with Florida on board), RI players might be more interested in a smaller, multi-million-dollar, annuitized-with-Cash-Option jackpot game. The game is called "Hot Lotto", and it is played in 13 Powerball locations; however, for whatever reason, the RI Lottery hasn't picked it up. (Mass Megabucks continues to refuse to give its winners a lump-sum option; just ask the family of "winner" Louise Outing.)

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Tuesday, Sep 23 at 7:50 AM Kim. Rhode Island wrote ...

It is pretty sad you play for a number of years, can't write off your losses of what you spend each year as a deduction but if you win Uncle Sam and the State take their share UP FRONT. Who writes these laws??

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