Just missed high lottery jackpot

[Guest kkktookmybabyaway]

My usual feelings toward playing the lottery are pretty much the same as my feelings toward flushing money down the toilet. However, when a jackpot reaches a specific number you can't help but get a bunch of friends/co-workers to come together and buy some tickets.

 

I did that yesterday with a game called Mega Millions (some of you may know about it and some may not). The jackpot was up to $180 million. I got 57 co-workers together, and we all pitched in $5 each.

 

A few hours ago I was going through our tickets and we were ONE BALL AWAY from winning a $175,000 prize.

 

Granted the money would have come out to roughly $3,000 per person, but $3000 is a heck of a return for a $5 investment.

 

Grrr...

[Guest IDrinkRatsMilk]

Don't they still give you some money if you only miss one? I know jack shit about the lottery, but I heard it on the Simpsons.

[Guest Vern Gagne]

That sucks. I'm never even close when I play.

[Guest Flyboy]

That's ghey. Use affirmative action or something.

[Guest fazzle]

I got 57 co-workers together, and we all pitched in $5 each.

That's a lot of fucking tickets.

[Guest kkktookmybabyaway]

Don't they still give you some money if you only miss one? I know jack shit about the lottery, but I heard it on the Simpsons.

Yes. That ticket I was one number off on was worth $150. It would have been nice to add three more 0's to it, but with that and a few other minor winners everyone is getting $3 of their $5 back.

 

I don't know jack about lotteries, and to tell you the truth I'm glad I don't.

 

I have a feeling I better retire from these lottery pools now because I don't think I'll ever get as close to winning anything like this again (The last time I played in one of these was in December, and each of us won 60 cents per $5 entry)...

[Guest MarvinisaLunatic]

I won $150 today on Slots up in Delaware on a $20 investment. First time I've ever walked away from the place with money ( I usually take only $20-$30 so I don't blow too much), let alone more than I came in with.

[Guest BifEverchad]

I won $2 on a scratch ticket earlier

 

[Gert T 0]

Since I amassed my little car debt, I bought my first lottery ticket when that Mega Millions was at 68 million, and my numbers were like 15, 26, 27, 28, 29. Seriously have four numbers in a row basically showed me that lottery was not the way to go.

 

BTW, did anybody win that?

[Guest kkktookmybabyaway]

http://edition.cnn.com/2003/US/South/06/21...1/mega.million/

 

And I could have been number 7 in Ohio ...

 

LAWRENCEVILLE, New Jersey (CNN) -- Someone in Maryland purchased the $180 million Big Game Mega Millions jackpot winning ticket, Big Game officials said Saturday.

 

Friday's drawing produced the numbers 1, 2, 3, 12, 37, and the Mega Ball number was 35.

 

Forty-two players bought tickets that matched the first five numbers for a $175,000 prize -- six in New Jersey, three in Georgia, three in Illinois, five in Massachusetts, three in Maryland, five in Michigan, nine in New York, six in Ohio, one in Virginia, and one in Washington.

[Guest The Czech Republic]

I love gambling. I believe my love for it started when my grandparents would buy scratch-and-win tickets for me when I was three years old. They also gave me a Japanese slot machine.

[Guest RenegadeX28]

I have recently began starting with the lottery craze. I can play now, since I turned 18 in May. I had this Bingo scratch ticket.....I was ONE number away from getting $10,000! ARGH!

[Guest redbaron51]

doesn't USA tax your earnings from the lottery

[Guest kkktookmybabyaway]

Bigger jackpots yes.

 

Smaller ones I don't know. I don't pay any taxes on my $2 instant win scratch-off card, nor do I intend to start doing so...

[Guest MarvinisaLunatic]

Try being about a half an inch from 20,000 credits ($5000)..I had 7 - 7 and nothing but the stupid 7 stopped about a half an inch from the payline.