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sherm03

I go balls deep.

7,349 posts
Mar 31, 2012 3:13 AM
Nothing.

Mar 30, 2012 11:13pm
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ts1227

Senior Member

12,319 posts
Mar 31, 2012 3:14 AM
WebFire;1132391 wrote:I think they know within the hour.
It's usually a few hours for all 40+ states to tabulate their results and report it. 2-3 AM we'll know if all goes well.
Mar 30, 2012 11:14pm
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WebFire

Go Bucks!

14,779 posts
Mar 31, 2012 3:24 AM
ts1227;1132396 wrote:It's usually a few hours for all 40+ states to tabulate their results and report it. 2-3 AM we'll know if all goes well.
Correct. Just read that. Thanks.
Mar 30, 2012 11:24pm
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Crimson streak

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9,002 posts
Mar 31, 2012 3:34 AM
Got 2 and 23 but not the mega ball
Mar 30, 2012 11:34pm
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BORIStheCrusher

drunk

1,893 posts
Mar 31, 2012 3:56 AM
I lost.
Mar 30, 2012 11:56pm
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se-alum

The Biggest Boss

13,948 posts
Mar 31, 2012 4:05 AM
Suggestions on how to spend my $2 win?? Keep in mind, I spent $5 on the ticket.
Mar 31, 2012 12:05am
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j_crazy

7 gram rocks. how i roll.

8,372 posts
Mar 31, 2012 4:23 AM
se-alum;1132425 wrote:Suggestions on how to spend my $2 win?? Keep in mind, I spent $5 on the ticket.

Panhandle for 50 cents....
Mar 31, 2012 12:23am
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gut

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15,058 posts
Mar 31, 2012 4:25 AM
11 numbers - total - on 20 tickets. So I had 120 random numbers, and hit on less than 10%. No powerball, and my expected value is less than 1 number per ticket!

Oh well, fun while it lasted. But imagine the people who get the first 5 numbers and then have >2% chance of winning with the powerball, only to come up short!
Mar 31, 2012 12:25am
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gut

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15,058 posts
Mar 31, 2012 4:30 AM
chicago510;1132383 wrote:2-4-23-38-46 MB-23



2, 4 and 23 were probably popular plays
But that's a tough one. If you were picking your own numbers, would you really have 23 twice? And then 46 is double that, haha.
Mar 31, 2012 12:30am
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I Wear Pants

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16,223 posts
Mar 31, 2012 4:43 AM
Had the first 3 numbers, won a cool $7 off a $1 play. Hooray.
Mar 31, 2012 12:43am
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I Wear Pants

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16,223 posts
Mar 31, 2012 4:45 AM
It's highly likely that someone won, they said 95% of the possible combinations were sold so unless it's in that. 5% we'll have a $12 million jackpot next time.
Mar 31, 2012 12:45am
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sherm03

I go balls deep.

7,349 posts
Mar 31, 2012 4:53 AM
gut;1132434 wrote:11 numbers - total - on 20 tickets. So I had 120 random numbers, and hit on less than 10%. No powerball, and my expected value is less than 1 number per ticket!

Oh well, fun while it lasted. But imagine the people who get the first 5 numbers and then have >2% chance of winning with the powerball, only to come up short!
I would have been perfectly fine taking the first 5 numbers and missing the last number. Sure, I missed out on millions, but $250,000 would make me feel pretty good about things in the morning.
Mar 31, 2012 12:53am
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MontyBrunswick

Mar 31, 2012 5:22 AM
MSNBC saying a winner was sold in Maryland.
Mar 31, 2012 1:22am
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SportsAndLady

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35,632 posts
Mar 31, 2012 5:23 AM
Yeah, Maryland...damnit, I wanted to see it go to $975 mil!
Mar 31, 2012 1:23am
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Rotinaj

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7,699 posts
Mar 31, 2012 12:25 PM
Maryland can suck my left testy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mar 31, 2012 8:25am
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OneBuckeye

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5,888 posts
Mar 31, 2012 12:37 PM
There is more than one winner... other states havent come out with it yet.
Mar 31, 2012 8:37am
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killer_ewok

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Mar 31, 2012 1:35 PM
OneBuckeye;1132483 wrote:There is more than one winner... other states havent come out with it yet.

Kansas and Illinois.
Mar 31, 2012 9:35am
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Heretic

Son of the Sun

18,820 posts
Mar 31, 2012 3:35 PM
Man, and I even put a dollar in a company pool, making my losses $3. It's a good thing I live in a rural area...no buildings high enough for me to jump off of, since history's stock market troubles have taught me the only way to handle this kind of financial loss is that kind of AN HEROing.
Mar 31, 2012 11:35am
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chicago510

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5,728 posts
Mar 31, 2012 3:50 PM
So the winners get $213 mil, minus taxes and adjusted for the present value of the money if they take the lump sum.

Not bad, but not quite $640m.
Mar 31, 2012 11:50am
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Rotinaj

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7,699 posts
Mar 31, 2012 4:10 PM
chicago510;1132535 wrote:So the winners get $213 mil, minus taxes and adjusted for the present value of the money if they take the lump sum.

Not bad, but not quite $640m.
Id rock paper scissors with the other 2 for all the money!!!!!!!
Mar 31, 2012 12:10pm
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chicago510

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5,728 posts
Mar 31, 2012 4:26 PM
Rotinaj;1132541 wrote:Id rock paper scissors with the other 2 for all the money!!!!!!!
I wouldn't. 100% chance at 200 mil vs 1/3 chance at 600 mil? You'd be nuts.
Mar 31, 2012 12:26pm
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dwccrew

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7,817 posts
Mar 31, 2012 5:37 PM
1 number and 1 mega ball on the same line. $3.
Mar 31, 2012 1:37pm
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OneBuckeye

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5,888 posts
Apr 2, 2012 1:14 PM
Maryland woman won't share $105M lotto jackpot with McDonald's co-workers


Mega Millions mania has plunged a Maryland McDonald’s into a bubbling cauldron of controversy hotter than a deep-fried apple pie.
Workers at the fast-food joint who pooled their cash for tickets are furious at a colleague who claims she won with a ticket she bought for herself and has no intention of sharing.
“We had a group plan, but I went and played by myself. [The ‘winning’ ticket] wasn’t on the group plan,” McDonald’s “winner’’ Mirlande Wilson 37, told The Post yesterday, insisting she alone bought one of the three tickets nationwide that will split a record $656 million payout.
“I was in the group, but this was separate. The winning ticket was a separate ticket,” the single mother of seven said as she and her fiancé left her home in the squalid Westport neighborhood to attend church.
The Haitian immigrant refused to show what she said was the winning ticket, claiming she had it hidden in another location and would present it to lottery officials today.
Pressed as the day went on, she became more cagey.
“I don’t know if I won. Some of the numbers were familiar. I recognized some of [them],’’ she said. “I don’t know why’’ people are saying differently. “I’m going to go to the lottery office [today]. I bought some tickets separately.”


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/04/02/maryland-woman-wont-share-105m-lotto-jackpot-with-mcdonalds-co-workers/?test=latestnews#ixzz1qt9SL2BM
Apr 2, 2012 9:14am
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Raw Dawgin' it

Just Ain't Care

11,466 posts
Apr 2, 2012 1:21 PM
LOL single mom with 7 kids working at McDonalds - she'll go broke in a couple years and be right back behind the counter.
Apr 2, 2012 9:21am
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OneBuckeye

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5,888 posts
Apr 2, 2012 1:24 PM
Must be sleeper's ex wife.
Apr 2, 2012 9:24am