Six $1 million lottery prizes won at same Louisiana store

Comment #32

BuyLow — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 21:32:59 GMT

And now a lady in VA has claimed two $1,000,000.00 prizes from one drawing....

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dallascowboyfan — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 03:13:32 GMT

Welcome to the LP ScratchOffKING.....

Comment #30

ScratchOff KING — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:49:19 GMT

wow congrats

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dopey7719 — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:30:40 GMT

I AM SPEECHLESS!!! WAY TO GO

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Artist77 — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 21:34:36 GMT

I did not buy the mistake tickets the clerk had made in regard to my transaction today. There were too many of them. lol

I always visualize winning the second level prize, not sure why.

Comment #27

OldSchoolPa — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:09:58 GMT

If that is the case, I bet that winner is probably thinking, Dang it, I could have had $6 million vice just $3 million if I would have only ponied up an additional 6 bucks...which is why I too always buy the mistake ticket. Given how lawsuits have been churning as of late, I wonder if the original purchaser of the ticket who declined the mistake ticket will try to sue the lottery to get the other winning ticket? But that person would not have a case since playing the lottery is a lot like buying... [ More ]

Comment #26

Jill34786 — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:08:13 GMT

Actually, I believe the ticket cost $6 as it had 3 lines with the Megaplier. Can you imagine the customers who were offered to purchase the mistake ticket and yet declined to do so...probably because of the $6 price

Comment #25

LottoGuyBC — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:00:31 GMT

Congrats to the Winner

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Simba774 — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 06:09:39 GMT

Wow, talk about lucky. I wonder if they bought a bag of chips and soda with a food stamps card while in the store

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dallascowboyfan — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 02:24:39 GMT

Congrats to the winner/s

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Loops — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 21:00:20 GMT

Grats to them. Hope they spend/invest it wisely.

Comment #21

Lucky SOB — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 18:22:49 GMT

the title is some what miss leading, i thought 6 diffrent people had won.

congratz to the winner

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Halle99 — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 03:06:53 GMT

WOW congrats the the winner(s)...

This also happened to me twice during the MM record jackpot, my 5-line and 3-line plays were printed twice and I had to buy them because I did not want the store clerk to win with my numbers...call me greedy lol

Comment #19

HaveABall — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 23:48:50 GMT

This can be a good strategy, as often a state's or retailer owner's rule is that employees can't purchase those extra/mistake lottery tickets (or can't purchase any of the retailer's lottery tickets).

Comment #18

Aust — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:29:34 GMT

I always buy those extra tickets that other people don't want as well.

Comment #17

VenomV12 — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:06:35 GMT

Sometimes pure dumb luck is the best kind of luck.

I always buy the mistake tickets, they usually win more than the ones you buy.

Comment #16

winwi5 — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:49:36 GMT

This story is amazing, the winner made a smart move however i have a lottery method that gives me either 5 or 6 of the lottery numbers and i use a wheel off gail howard site if i wouldv'e used her 18number wheel on her site i could have won 5 number prize on ticket number 17.

Comment #15

rad242 — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:35:00 GMT

I've volunteered to kick myself on their behalf! Can you imagine the turmoil those clerks are going through?

Wow, if I wasn't so cheap?

It was only a dollar!

3 million dollars was staring me in the face.

Well the only thing left ot do is to pretend to be excited for the actual winner

Comment #14

manali — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:17:47 GMT

Congrats to all.

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Cletu$2 — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 14:46:41 GMT

Just goes to show that sometimes it pays to buy mistake tickets.

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maximumfun — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 14:26:11 GMT

Amazing. And the ticket with the other 3M$ was 'just sitting there'. I bet there are alot of clerks who are kicking themselves now! Congrats to the lucky blessed winners

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dpoly1 — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 14:07:37 GMT

Very Nice

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RedStang — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:51:48 GMT

I recently started playing the megaplier/power play because of the possibility of hitting the second prize, like he did. Guess they did'nt fix the glitch.

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B$Rizzle — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:26:22 GMT

Ya know, the more I think about it, I am starting to consider doing this. I rarely win anything on PowerBall Mega anyways. I look at it like this, a player is either going to rarely match any #'s at all, or even a couple. It just takes that one time to match 5. Instead of buying multiple tickets, I may just stick to a couple lines of the same # with a diff Powerball.

Just like many Mega PowerBall winners, I am sure they have played the same #'s for years rarely matching multiple #'s or g... [ More ]

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mcginnin56 — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:03:16 GMT

Very shrewd gentleman. Importchips take notice of this one

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GGStarlings — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:50:07 GMT

That's interesting, someone using the same numbers multiple times to change the MegaBall. We don't often hear of this happening. It's something I've thought of doing, since you don't win big unless that ball is right.

Congratulations to this guy with his lucky numbers and the person holding the duplicate

Comment #6

rad242 — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:45:33 GMT

Lady Luck is an Equal Opportunity kinda gal! Personal numbers are back in high fashion

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Nikkicute — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:42:53 GMT

Dude claimed his prize quick!! lol I don't blame him!

Sometimes it pays big to play your own numbers, nice win and no quick pick

this time around!

Lucky is all I can say, never thought of playing the same number

more than once for the same draw, he turned a smaller prize into his own jackpot!

Congrats to the winner

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Cletu$2 — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:42:49 GMT

Congratulations to BOTH of the lucky winners

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tryintohit — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:29:43 GMT

All I can say is WOW! CONGRATS

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BuyLow — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:11:07 GMT

Apparently, the winning ticket was inadvertently printed twice. According to workers at the store, that ticket sat behind the counter a couple of hours before someone walked in and agreed to buy it.

Another case of an exact duplicate ticket? Let hope the slip was run through twice and not the the computer printing twice inadvertantly. Anyways, I always buy the mistake tickets my retailer has displayed for sale.

Comment #1

maringoman — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 11:50:04 GMT

Some people have great faith in their chosen numbers. I have some numbers I have played for years but they have never come. I guess I'm going to keep playing them and see what happens.

Six $1 million lottery prizes won at same Louisiana store

Lottery Post — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 11:37:12 GMT

It's the biggest thing to hit Watson, Louisiana, since the new WalMart; granted, the new superstore opened Wednesday, but it's hard to overshadow an event like that.

It's hard to believe, says Ingrid King as she sips sweet tea inside Rotolo's restaurant.

Lottery officials say six different $1 million Mega Millions lottery prizes were won from tickets sold at a gas station in Watson, Louisiana.

The winning tickets were drawn in Tuesday's Mega Millions drawing.

Louisiana Lottery offic... [ More ]