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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
The odds don't get worse, but the odds of winning the jackpot do. The more tickets sold, the greater the odds of a shared jackpot.

There was a story in New York some years ago about someone winning a $20M jackpot in a Pick-6 drawing. I believe that was the largest jackpot in New York history at the time. The following week, there was a new jackpot of several million dollars that got split so many ways that each winner got less than $10,000. The winning numbers were a sequence like 5-10-15-20-25-30 or something like that, and there were literally hundreds of people who played that exact same set of numbers.

93 posted on 01/09/2016 7:26:11 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("It doesn't work for me. I gotta have more cowbell!")
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To: Alberta's Child

It might have had something to do with Chinese fortune cookies- that’s how the same number showed up so many times.


203 posted on 01/09/2016 10:12:53 PM PST by Redcitizen
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