sherm03
Posts: 7,349
Mar 30, 2012 11:13pm
Nothing.
ts1227
Posts: 12,319
Mar 30, 2012 11:14pm
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.WebFire;1132391 wrote:I think they know within the hour.
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WebFire
Posts: 14,779
Mar 30, 2012 11:24pm
Correct. Just read that. Thanks.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.
Crimson streak
Posts: 9,002
Mar 30, 2012 11:34pm
Got 2 and 23 but not the mega ball
BORIStheCrusher
Posts: 1,893
Mar 30, 2012 11:56pm
I lost.
se-alum
Posts: 13,948
Mar 31, 2012 12:05am
Suggestions on how to spend my $2 win?? Keep in mind, I spent $5 on the ticket.
j_crazy
Posts: 8,372
Mar 31, 2012 12:23am
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....
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gut
Posts: 15,058
Mar 31, 2012 12:25am
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!
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!
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gut
Posts: 15,058
Mar 31, 2012 12:30am
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.chicago510;1132383 wrote:2-4-23-38-46 MB-23
2, 4 and 23 were probably popular plays
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I Wear Pants
Posts: 16,223
Mar 31, 2012 12:43am
Had the first 3 numbers, won a cool $7 off a $1 play. Hooray.
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I Wear Pants
Posts: 16,223
Mar 31, 2012 12:45am
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.
sherm03
Posts: 7,349
Mar 31, 2012 12:53am
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.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!
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MontyBrunswick
Mar 31, 2012 1:22am
MSNBC saying a winner was sold in Maryland.
SportsAndLady
Posts: 35,632
Mar 31, 2012 1:23am
Yeah, Maryland...damnit, I wanted to see it go to $975 mil!
Rotinaj
Posts: 7,699
Mar 31, 2012 8:25am
Maryland can suck my left testy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OneBuckeye
Posts: 5,888
Mar 31, 2012 8:37am
There is more than one winner... other states havent come out with it yet.
killer_ewok
Posts: 11,379
Mar 31, 2012 9:35am
OneBuckeye;1132483 wrote:There is more than one winner... other states havent come out with it yet.
Kansas and Illinois.
Heretic
Posts: 18,820
Mar 31, 2012 11:35am
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.
chicago510
Posts: 5,728
Mar 31, 2012 11:50am
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.
Not bad, but not quite $640m.
Rotinaj
Posts: 7,699
Mar 31, 2012 12:10pm
Id rock paper scissors with the other 2 for all the money!!!!!!!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.
chicago510
Posts: 5,728
Mar 31, 2012 12:26pm
I wouldn't. 100% chance at 200 mil vs 1/3 chance at 600 mil? You'd be nuts.Rotinaj;1132541 wrote:Id rock paper scissors with the other 2 for all the money!!!!!!!
dwccrew
Posts: 7,817
Mar 31, 2012 1:37pm
1 number and 1 mega ball on the same line. $3.
OneBuckeye
Posts: 5,888
Apr 2, 2012 9:14am
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
Raw Dawgin' it
Posts: 11,466
Apr 2, 2012 9:21am
LOL single mom with 7 kids working at McDonalds - she'll go broke in a couple years and be right back behind the counter.
OneBuckeye
Posts: 5,888
Apr 2, 2012 9:24am
Must be sleeper's ex wife.