Powerball

For twenty minutes on Saturday night, employees at Grissini’s Restaurant in Englewood Cliffs thought their lives were changed forever. You can see pandemonium erupt the moment it seemed like Saturday’s $949 million Powerball jackpot was theirs.

Getting involved would technically increase your chances of winning, but it may not be worth the trouble.

Lottery ticket buyers have to suspend their belief in math to drop $2 on an infinitesimal chance to win the Powerball jackpot, but in Nevada, they also have to drive across the desert and wait in lines that can stretch for hours.

The Wall Township area could be your lucky place to buy a ticket for Wednesday's Powerball drawing with an astounding $1.4 billion annuity jackpot.

With up to $1.4 billion at stake in Wednesday's Powerball, questions about the drawing seem to be as abundant as the convenience-store kiosks offering tickets for the record-breaking jackpot.

Here is what Deminski and Doyle are talking about on today’s show.

$900 million Powerball jackpot is biggest ever for Saturday's drawing

Taxes can eat up close to half a Powerball jackpot, but the amount taken out can vary widely depending on where a winner lives -- meaning state and local taxes can mean a difference of tens of millions of dollars.

How did the jackpot get so large? What are your odds? Here's everything you need to know about Saturday's Powerball drawing.

To celebrate the largest Powerball jackpot in U.S. history, here are the Top 10 songs about money.