Powerball is once again upon us.

There was no winner last Wednesday when the magic numbers were 14, 25, 30, 33 and 47, and the Powerball was 8.

So all that jackpot money rolls over and the estimated bundle available for Saturday’s drawing is 50 million, with $32.6 million cash value.

Powerball shares a jackpot with 44 states plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

There are actually nine ways to win, and your chances get better the farther away you shoot for the massive jackpot.

Your chances of winning the grand prize are 1 in 175,223,510.00.

Your chances of winning $1,000,000 are 1 in 5,153,632.65

But, hey, your chances of getting $4 are 1 in 55.41.

It costs two bucks to play and your overall odds of winning a prize are 1 in 31.85.

And people do will, occasionally, becoming heroes after the fact -- or at least patrons of the arts.

In June of 2014 a fellow named Roy Cockrum purchased a Powerball ticket at a Kroger supermarket and ended up winning $259 million, the largest lottery jackpot in the history of Tennessee.

Cockrum took the money in the form of a lump-sum. After taxes, he was left with $115 million.

There have been enough movies and TV shows about people losing their minds after winning big, but Cockrum had his head on straight before he even got his ticket.

As reported in the Chicago Tribune, he said: "I had made a mental note throughout my life of all the people who were going to get my support should I ever have a pile of cash."

"I think everyone who plays the lottery knows what they would do with the money, were they to win," said the Powerball winner.

Cockrum plans to eventually give away the majority of his new money to nonprofit American theater. He has already made grants to the Goodman Theatre and the Steppenwolf Theatre.

On his choice to fund the arts rather than political causes, Cockrum said that he thinks “society is in trouble when culture is ignored."

"People can be duped by the first political wind that blows their way. They can be persuaded to vote against their own self-interest. Culture is what enriches us all. We are all in trouble when the arts are not supported, when there is no seed of change," said the novice benefactor.