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tg636 — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 17:25:59 GMT

$50,000 is only 0.017% of the jackpot. That's 1/100 of 1%. Pretty stingy for such a huge jackpot. Massachusetts pays sellers of winning tickets of other jackpot games 1%. If Mr. Patel had received 1%, he would have got $2,900,000.

Lottery-ticket seller also a Mega winner

Lottery Post — Mon, 05 Jul 2004 12:42:32 GMT

Whoever bought the winning ticket in the $290 million Mega Millions lottery drawing couldn't have been much happier Saturday than the person who sold it.Jay Patel, owner of Powers Liquors, was elated as he waited along with everyone else to find out which one of his customers won the huge jackpot in Friday's drawing with the numbers 10-25-38-39-50 and Mega Ball 12.A hand-lettered sign that read, We sold $290 million's jackpot here hung in the window of the store Patel called the luckiest Powe... [ More ]