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03-30-2012 , 08:25 PM
Bought one more, used random.org
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03-30-2012 , 08:31 PM
I don't like your chances, my cousin used random.org to pick his NCAA bracket last year, did so badly he didn't join to donate five bucks this year. Random.org just isn't lucky, stay away.
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03-30-2012 , 08:33 PM
got bored and added up all the actual prizes won since the jan 27 drawing (the first in this string). ignoring taxes on teh 250k and 10k prizes and just assuming the number of tickets sold was the jackpot prize (the number is obv wayyyyyyyyyyyyyy more), gubment has made $1,961,714,831 in the last 2 months on mega million tickets. it's estimated that for this drawing alone 1.46 billion in tickets are being bought. so the real number is probably what, closer to $5 billion made in teh last 2 months

what a racket
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03-30-2012 , 08:37 PM
Gotta let the poor people subsidize your huge win by juicing the pot when the jackpot is low. What I love is that on the Mega Millions tickets I bought, there's an ad saying Wednesday's Lotto Jackpot is now 3.5 million dollars! What kind of a degenerate is going to spend money on a one in ~45 million chance at 3.5 million when you can get a Mega Millions ticket for the same price?
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03-30-2012 , 08:41 PM
well the government is just going to give the money back to poor people anyway. guaranteed return on investment for them!
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03-30-2012 , 08:54 PM
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Originally Posted by ItsRainingMen
got bored and added up all the actual prizes won since the jan 27 drawing (the first in this string). ignoring taxes on teh 250k and 10k prizes and just assuming the number of tickets sold was the jackpot prize (the number is obv wayyyyyyyyyyyyyy more), gubment has made $1,961,714,831 in the last 2 months on mega million tickets. it's estimated that for this drawing alone 1.46 billion in tickets are being bought. so the real number is probably what, closer to $5 billion made in teh last 2 months

what a racket
Where did you get that 1.46 billion number? The estimates I've seen are more like 600 million tickets sold.
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03-30-2012 , 08:55 PM
600 million $1 tickets and a $640 million jackpot? Yeah that makes a lot of sense
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03-30-2012 , 08:55 PM
front page of yahoo

edit: more specifically http://news.yahoo.com/americans-bet-...203515291.html
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03-30-2012 , 09:00 PM
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Originally Posted by schu_22
600 million $1 tickets and a $640 million jackpot? Yeah that makes a lot of sense
There was already $363 million in the prize pool.

Edit: from that link:

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On Friday, the lottery estimated that total ticket sales for this jackpot, which has been building up since Jan. 28, will be about $1.46 billion, said Kelly Cripe, a spokeswoman for the Texas Lottery Commission.
$1.46 B is the total amount spent since January, not the amount spent for tonight's draw. Article is misleading.
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03-30-2012 , 11:07 PM
Didn't match a single number on any of my three tickets, gotta up my lottery game. Come on billion dollar jackpot
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03-30-2012 , 11:14 PM
Random.org with the epic blue ball. Got 1 number and was off by 1 on 3 others
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03-30-2012 , 11:23 PM
Well then
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03-30-2012 , 11:45 PM
i got 3 numbers is that worth anything? half the jackpot for half the numbers?
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03-30-2012 , 11:52 PM
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Originally Posted by dkgojackets
i got 3 numbers is that worth anything? half the jackpot for half the numbers?
$7

Breaking news I did not win
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03-31-2012 , 01:19 AM
scratch that. AP reporting at least 1 person from baltimore won. no word on others

almost obama!
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03-31-2012 , 01:22 AM
it's me

gonna buy the ravens
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03-31-2012 , 01:27 AM
Eh **** us all anyway for the limber-dicked *********** we are
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03-31-2012 , 04:53 AM
Banking on it being my mom. She ain't disappointed me yet... why start now?!
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03-31-2012 , 04:58 AM
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Originally Posted by g-bebe
it's me

gonna buy the ravens
and what will you do with the remaining $600m?
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03-31-2012 , 07:35 AM
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Originally Posted by BASaint
marty

was your password '12345'
that's amazing, i've got the same combination on my luggage
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03-31-2012 , 09:05 AM
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Originally Posted by schu_22
600 million $1 tickets and a $640 million jackpot? Yeah that makes a lot of sense
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03-31-2012 , 09:19 AM
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Originally Posted by dkgojackets
i got 3 numbers is that worth anything? half the jackpot for half the numbers?
I got the first two right...
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03-31-2012 , 10:01 AM
I was hoping for the Lost numbers to win and then it being split like 50k ways.
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03-31-2012 , 11:04 AM
I wish Dane Cook had gone #1 in the comedy draft.
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03-31-2012 , 11:06 AM
That would have gotten the haters pretty, pretty mad
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