Lotto.

[boarderwoozel3]

I'm sure there will be a number of "winners" before the night is over.

**Or do they instantly know from the machine that produces the ticket?

[Alchemy]

I imagine that they do know.

[boarderwoozel3]

They always know...

[Alchemy]

Since the very beginning...

[boarderwoozel3]

This whole charade reeks of thinly-veiled socialist chicanery. I don't like it, not one bit.

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[cutterbutter]

You can simulate playing here. Either once, 104 times, or 1040 times. Scroll to the bottom of the results to see how much money you make total.

http://cockeyed.com/citizen/poker/lo...mulator100.php


Best I've done is "You played 1040 games of Mega Millions. It cost $1040. You won $252." for Ticket: 7, 31, 34, 42, 51, Mega: 34

[lehorne]

I won! Cus I ended up not playing.

[marooko]

2 4 23 38 46 23


5 + 1 3 $640,000,000


5 + 0 161 $250,000
4 + 1 897 $10,000
4 + 0 40,423 $150
3 + 1 46,887 $150
2 + 1 780,589 $10
3 + 0 2,086,571 $7
1 + 1 4,669,851 $3
0 + 1 8,727,236 $2

Winning Tickets Sold:
Match 5 + 1 Jackpot Winners: IL(1), KS(1) and MD (1) Match 5 + 0: Winners in AR(1), AZ(3), CA(29), CO (2),CT(1), DE(1), GA(6), ID(2), IL(12), IN(1), KS (1), KY(4), LA(2), MA(5), MD(4), MI(6), MN(4), MO (1), NC(4), NJ(5), NM(1), NY(17), OH(10), OK(1), PA(5), RI(1), SC(1), SD(1), TN(2), TX(14), VA (5), WA(5), WI(3) and WV(1)

[JustSteve]

Los Angeles Channel 9 News Financial Advice:

1. Don't quit your job until you verify your winnings.


...yaaa don't say?

i wouldn't even officially quit my job, that involves calling the employer or going in and talking to them. i'd just not show up ever again.

[marooko]

This Maryland story is fucked up. Sounds like a big bunch of BS.

[PlayaDelWes]

At a minimum, she needs to give them their money back.

[marooko]

Well that's if she even won. I don't know if it's the story, or the poor reporting on it, but I read all kinds of holes and questions in this story. Winning tickets in the safe, she never returned, she sent her friend to go buy more tickets for her, her manager sent her to buy more tickets, her ticket is hidden in McDonalds even though she may not have returned, when the CCTV footage is reviewed, it's speculated a guy actually won and not her. I mean, if the pool tickets are in the safe, isn't it easy to tell if they won? She even says the numbers "look familiar..." but she hasn't checked the ticket, but she won? And apparently, she said she's going to turn the ticket in the last two or three days. Now today she holds a press conference and wants everyone to "go home".

On her Facebook page, where she calls herself Sheila Paraison for some reason, she wrote, “i don't want da money it made my life a living hell already im gonna give it all to rebuild haiti.”

Employees of the McDonalds are split between being furious that she might be trying to cut them out of a win and skeptical that she actually won anything.

"She could not have hidden any ticket here,” one of them said at the eatery. “She hasn't been back and she doesn't have any locker to hide it. She would not hide it in the bathroom or anything.”

Just a bunch of crap from her and the supposed reporters. The NY Daily News is the only place so far that i read any actual investigation of the story.

She has said she definitely won; she thinks she won; she has the ticket at home; she stashed the ticket at McDonalds; and she has it in another, unspecified secret “safe” place.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...sEnabled=false