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Most likely the 15 bought in Bethesda were by the same person/group. Even if there were no other 5/5 tickets, each would be worth less than $50,000. It made no sense to buy so many duplicates.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out. If it was 21 different people and the numbers weren't quickpicks I'd start to be a little suspicious. Remember what happened in Pennsylvania in the early 80s.

I'm not so sure Cash, it might have been a smart move.  If it was a group of 15 people and they only bought 1 set of winning tickets, then there would only be 6 winning tickets total valued at $100,000 a piece, and they would have to split $100,000 15 ways.  but 15 of the 21 tickets valued at 28,500+ each, gives them $427,500+ out of the 600,000 and each person gets there own ticket to sign and deal with. If it was just one person with 15 of the tickets they just took 2/3 of the pot all by themselves.   But alot of this is just speculation right now,,,Or am I missing something here?

There was an Ohioan who did the same thing when Ohio had the Buckeye5 game because Ohio guaranteed $100,000 per winning ticket up to $1,000,000.  He bought 18 duplicates and thought he was getting $1,800,000 but there was one other winning ticket  so he got less than the $1M dollars limit and sued because he thought the store clerk should have told him about the $1M limit when he asked for more than 10 duplicates.  The court said it was his responsibility to read the rules on the back of the play slips.  He wasn't happy with winning 95% of the $1M dollars prize.

The one person who had 15 tickets bought them at different times.  Now I'm waiting to see if he/she is an acquaintance in any way with the other  6 winners.  Hmmmm..  With all the people on this forum I would like to know one who would buy 15 tickets with the same 5 numbers.  Also we get 3 tickets for $2.00 and there is 9 tickets on a board.  Math doesn't even seem right.

The top prize in Maryland BM5 is $50,000, not $100k. The cap is exceeded only when there are at least 13 winners.

There have been several members post 10 or more duplicates on the prediction board many times.  I assume some of them post predictions in the same manner that they actually play, I do.  I also assume when someone plays duplicates knowingly, they have a strong hunch about that combination and sometimes they're right.

RJOh, I've been on this forum quite awhile could you show me just one member who posted 10 (5 digit predictions) all the same.

I wasn't just talking about the pick5 games.  I was talking about the prediction board in general.  You'll have to do a search to find a particular case.

Maryland,

This is a link to the story about the Ohio man who bought multi able pick5 tickets with the same numbers.

http://www.lotterypost.com/thread/83735?q=Ohio+buckeye+five&tab=nw&rp=search

Thanks RHOh, guess you got me.  By the way I hear the guy is a taxi cab driver, if it's all fair and square more power to him.

I also read a news story about a guy who won a million or so dollars playing PowerBall by playing the same combinations of five several times and picking different PBs.  He didn't pick the right PB so he didn't win the jackpot.

This logic doesn't make sense to most players but when players win using it who going to argue with them.