Awesome, although it's not a good idea to play a popular series of numbers like that if you intend to win big.
These people should keep an eye on the sky for stray meteorites.
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtYB9Y0vkOo&feature=related[/yt]
41,763 Hurleys Win $150 in Mega Millions Lottery
- Thread starter Locutus of Bored
- Start date
Awesome, although it's not a good idea to play a popular series of numbers like that if you intend to win big.
These people should keep an eye on the sky for stray meteorites.
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtYB9Y0vkOo&feature=related[/yt]
There's no rule that says you can only have one thread on a subject for the entire board. There are people in Miscellaneous who might not post in GTV&M. I rarely post there. Plus, since this is real world news, it also applies here and not exclusively to GTV&M.
I think it's cute, even if they didn't win all that much. Alas. I don't really have a set of numbers that I'm attached to.
I can picture Hurley yelling at all of them for playing the numbers though.
Apparently he did - or, rather, Jorge Garcia did:
(From the L.A. Times story.)
That's hilarious.
LA should brace itself for a massive meteor shower.
LA should brace itself for a massive meteor shower.
I rarely play the lottery unless the jackpot is obscenely large. On a few occasions I was tempted to play The Numbers. And then I envisioned this scenario and reconsidered.
Not that it matters. Even if this weren't a "true" drawing of the numbers, the odds against it happening in my lifetime were still ridiculous.
Not that it matters. Even if this weren't a "true" drawing of the numbers, the odds against it happening in my lifetime were still ridiculous.
But even if you play your own numbers you never know how many others play that set.
A friend of mine won once by having 5 of 6 + the bonus,, but because so many had the same numbers he played it was only $47,000+ normally its somewhere between $130,000 to $160,000.
But the odds of winning small are a lot better than the odds of winning big. I'll take $150 if I can get it!
this is true of course, but at least your not playing numbers you know thousdands if not millions of others are playing. You know people are playing the Lost numbers, I think it came very close to it in the UK lottery.
I also agree the odds are very low, which is why I only play a handful of times a year.
If playing lotto is anything more than a really rare thing for you, you could just not by lotto tickets and you'd probably save a lot more than $150.
I don't have a problem with playing Megamillions twice a week. $104 dollars or so a year and you might win millions.... pretty good trade off.
Something similar happened in the UK lottery some years ago. All the numbers were below 31, which meant lots of people playing their/family birthdays as their numbers won. I think the jackpot was about £15 million, split more than a thousand ways. Still a tidy sum, but you'd still be a bittersweet I'd have thought.
That'll never happen to me. My numbers are spread out. I use the same ones every time, because a choir of singing and dancing monks with a fondness for ABBA tunes told me to play them in a dream. THAT'S the way to pick numbers, fools.
That'll never happen to me. My numbers are spread out. I use the same ones every time, because a choir of singing and dancing monks with a fondness for ABBA tunes told me to play them in a dream. THAT'S the way to pick numbers, fools.
How many times have you, or someone you know, been struck by lightning and survived?
Similar threads
