It's been a while since five people split a jackpot. I hope they were not disappointed when they checked the results. Sure you'd love to be the sole winner but it's 20K you never had the day before. I'm sure they are grateful for the blessing.

Actually of the five, one was manual entry so that manual entry person might feel some type of way knowing four machines spit out their numbers after they took the time to carefully select their fantasy. Ofcourse they'd still be more appreciative than salty. The alternative would have been losing but instead they have 20K.

If you win 20K from a QP you'd be over the moon. One of the QPs was a free ticket so that person just went to a retailer and got a single ticket and is now 20K richer.

I find winning with Free Tickets to be so fascinating because so many things have to go right. You have to decide the right time to redeem it because some people do not redeem their free tickets right away, they sit on them for days or longer. Then when you do decide to redeem it, you have to select the right store and be at that right store at the exact right time. So many things could hamper your journey to the store. And all this rain I'm sure caused delay so winning with a free ticket is the luckiest of all lucky. 

It's interesting that FOUR machines across the state spit out the same winning combination. That gives me a little bit of hope. I keep saying the machines in my area aren't lucky but every machine is capable of spitting out a winner. I guess it's less about location and more about timing. 

Sometimes I'd get a QP and the clerk would be like "that's it? Just one?" and I have to remind them that it only takes one to win wish me luck. 

I've always said I don't care if I have to split the jackpot with multiple people I just wanna win this game just one time after all these years.

Congrats to the lucky five!