Thanks for the reception...

If it was me... I would form a blind trust and let my attorney take care of it!...if, I had the winning ticket...which I don't!!!

The reason for my earlier post was that we are a lotto retailer and some of our customers were very upset with the fact that the "smaller" winning tickets could not be cashed until after 11 am.  I realize this is unusual, but, I don't understand why they can't share some information with us vendors. It seems to me that they could do better that's all.

 Oh, well... off to a cheap lunch... later

I know!!! It should have at least gone to $15 million. I keep saying that these lotteries need to focus on high jackpots. People who want better odds with smaller prizes should just play something else. The crazy odds in this game make no difference to people once the pot grows so large and sales would probably be high on an average rate. I have a question though...if if rolled until Friday, it would have been $470 mil, now it's $15 mil, and the winners split $370 mil....so where did that $100 mil go?

03/06 Results=16-22-29-39-42 MB-20

Match 5+1 Winner:
- Georgia (1)
- New Jersey (1)

Match 5+0 Winners:
- California (9)
- Georgia (6)
- Illinois (3)
- Maryland (1)
- Michigan (3)
- New Jersey (2)
- New York (8)
- Ohio (2)
- Texas (7)
- Virginia (1)
- Washington (1)

5+1 0,000,002 $370,000,000
5+0 0,000,043 $250,000/$242,232
4+1 0,000,319 $10,000/$8,616
4+0 0,014,111 $150/$149
3+1 0,015,589 $150/$137
2+1 0,251,648 $10/$9
3+0 0,692,511 $7/$7
1+1 1,504,648 $3/$3
0+1 2,852,862 $2/$2
====================
TOT 5,331,733

Jackpot Rolled Back to $12,000,000 for the 03/09 Drawing!

Miss NYC...that $100 million is still in our pockets.  There never was $100 million.  That was the estimated jackpot based upon sales for today through Friday. 

Intererstig to note, if the jackpot (of $12 million) where to hit on the next draw, the lotteries would actually be in the red for Friday's draw.  I'm sure they could use some of the money from the last run to make it up.  The lotteries take a chance by starting out at $12 million and have caught up by the second draw.

They may not make 50% when the jackpot is hit on the first roll, but it's very unlikely that the lottery would be in the red.  The lowest  that ticket sales have been since CA joined is a bit over $13 million. The expected payout for smaller prizes is only 18%, which would leave more than $10.5 million which is more than enough to pay the jackpot and expenses.

Thanks for the prize breakdown, Raven.

Looks like Californians got a relatively fair shake on the pari-mutuel prizes.

45 tickets matched all five numbers.  With 46 mega balls and plenty of repeat numbers, it's easy to see how the jackpot could have rolled if a different gold number had come up.

I see said the blind man to his deaf daughter who was listening to the radio!

Match 5+1 Winner:
- Georgia (1)
- New Jersey (1)

Match 5+0 Winners:
- California (9)
- Georgia (6)
- Illinois (3)
- Maryland (1)
- Michigan (3)
- New Jersey (2)
- New York (8)
- Ohio (2)
- Texas (7)
- Virginia (1)
- Washington (1)

5+1 0,000,002 $370,000,000
5+0 0,000,043 $250,000/$242,232
4+1 0,000,319 $10,000/$8,616
4+0 0,014,111 $150/$149
3+1 0,015,589 $150/$137
2+1 0,251,648 $10/$9
3+0 0,692,511 $7/$7
1+1 1,504,648 $3/$3
0+1 2,852,862 $2/$2
====================
TOT 5,331,733

Jackpot Rolled Back to $12,000,000 for the 03/09 Drawing!

Does anyone else find it interesting that Ohio, the same state known to have had frequent mega millions winners in the past, balances the books for this lottery? I know the game is totally random, but at the very least, it is a strange coincidence.

Late Breaking News:

5+1 0,000,002 $390,000,000

I read that fact today and said the same thing...it makes you wonder!

You have a point, Todd.  Believe me, I wouldn't complain if I had won in GA, but now the news is saying the jackpot was $390 million or $116.5 million cash for each winner.  So that's just about $7 million in state tax!  116.5 x 6% = 6,990,000

Not only did MA not sell a jackpot winner, apparently it was the only state not to sell a 5+0 ($250K) winner....

I noticed that also.........hmmmmm.... it does make you wonder!

Not even a second price in massachusetts. this was the last time i play MM, it doest matter how much you try how much money you lose playing you are never going to win the JP and you are never going to win the second tier and might never even win third price