Why is the first post always "congrats to the winner"? Just once, how about "#*(^@! it should have been me!!! I'm paying $4 gas here!!! I need the $$$ so I can go buy a Prius and maybe some Carbon Credits!!!*"

It's very easy to get the first 5 numbers. Play a full wheel of the numbers from the first odd number to the last even number. It's a few numbers to play, but can be covered by selling your house. For the bonus ball, play all the yellow balls, as in the last several drawings the bonus ball has been yellow.

*The first sign of the End Times is when the Lottery jackpot is advertised as "25 Million Carbon Credits"!

MY thoughts EXACTLY!!!!!  i'm all for "don't hate, congratulate" but dang.  I don't own a house or a paid off car. that should be ME.  I feel that way especially when I see those people who are already loaded (a pharmacist, even) win millions.  makes me want to choke somebody.  but, that is the way the game rolls, anybody can win, a homeless man or donald trump.

Actually if he missed by one number twice, I would consider that very "unlucky." Compare $500,000 to what the two jackpots would have been. Now that would be lucky.

$275,000,000 + 12,000,000 = $287,000,000

Missing ONE number both times cost him about $286,750,000 million dollars. You call that lucky? That is a HUGE difference in lifestyle.

It's very easy to get the first 5 numbers. Play a full wheel of the numbers from the first odd number to the last even number.

Sounds like a plan, play all 3,819,816 combinations in a 5/56 wheel and at worst match a 5+0 for $250K, two hundred  and  fifty-five 4+0 for almost another $40K and win numerous other small prizes.  You might not come out ahead but you'll have a lot people saying "that should have been me".