The winning MM has been sold! Oh my!

Reply #28

JADELottery — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 16:04:10 GMT

pff, please.

Reply #27

PlayTwoWin — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 14:51:51 GMT

Imagine that.

Reply #26

GYM RICE — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 05:36:27 GMT

Looks like there is multiple winners from different states. Maryland is the first to report they have a winning ticket...

Reply #25

Simba774 — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 02:25:03 GMT

It starts at 12 million and I think so too. Too many tickets have been sold for there not to be a winner/winners. If it rolls then God snip !

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Reply #24

Wendy G — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 02:18:30 GMT

so that means the live drawing is bogus if the lottery knows the winning combination already. wow. that is all i

have to say. if i had know that i would have limited the amount of tickets i'd brought. oh well

jokers wild

Reply #23

ttech10 — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 00:22:27 GMT

Whenever someone throws out those 99% or 95% statistics, I just think about what percentage the people who won the past jackpots had. People win with 1 out of 175,711,536 just the same as people can lose with 175,711,535 out of 175,711,536.

Reply #22

MADDOG10 — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 23:54:43 GMT

It's quite possible that it could roll, not likely, but still very possible.

Reply #21

LucyMontgomery — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 23:47:12 GMT

exactly. that 5% is stilllllllll leaving plenty of wiggle room for the ppl who missed the winning deadline ha

Reply #20

diamondpalace — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 23:44:41 GMT

Even at 95% of the combination already sold, with 5% leaves us with 8,785,577 combinations available. There are still a chance and the winning ticket could be in the remaining 5%.

Reply #19

ryanm — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 23:40:04 GMT

A few years ago, when Mega Millions was The Big Game, and it had its first jackpot over $300 million, with odds of only around 80 million to one, I think someone mentioned the last draw before the jackpot was won was a draw in which 96% of all possible combinations were purchased, yet the ball machine picked a combination that was in the 4% that wasn't purchased = no winner. It could happen again.

Reply #18

ttech10 — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 20:51:50 GMT

You know you're tired when you see this thread and then the time stamp and realize, Darnit, I bought tickets after that time and so you think there's no way you could win.

Anyways... now that I'm thinking clearly... I'll say that the only way I'll believe all numbers have been played is when there's video of an official spokesperson saying they have, in their system, it listed as every possible combination as being sold/played. I'm assuming anything as of now is just that it's likely it has b... [ More ]

Reply #17

smooth11484 — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 20:44:41 GMT

itll go to a billion and who ever wins better be a navy seal

Reply #16

KY Floyd — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 20:25:09 GMT

Based on how many tickets have been sold, 95% is pretty close to what probability predicts, given a random distribution. Any non-random influences (playing birthday numbers and patterns, for example) will reduce the number of combinations played.

As a practical matter it's absolutely impossible to sell every combination unless they are deliberately assigned.

Reply #15

WesternRedDoug — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 20:07:21 GMT

Article on the Los Angeles Times website at 12:30 pacific says that 95% of combinations have been sold. That's from a Mega Millions spokesperson.

It also says that if it rolls, they may do the drawing in Times Square next week.

Reply #14

diamondpalace — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 19:28:21 GMT

Need evidence that your statement is true. Did not even bother to supply us with a link or a copy of the email you got. In a scientific community such statement is useless.

Reply #13

CDanaT — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 19:18:01 GMT

I agree, the frenzy will come to an end tonight........too bad though, I enjoyed seeing all the unique ideas that have been posted over that last few days, especially about the guy that was going to go collect from his winning jackpot ticket while wearing a Mello Yellow T-Shirt, Jockstrap and Red Converse hi-tops.

Reply #12

dallascowboyfan — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 19:00:38 GMT

it will go back to $12 Million

Reply #11

lakerben — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:58:45 GMT

All the excitement will be over tonight. It will be back to 20 mill or whatever it starts at.

Reply #10

JADELottery — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:57:42 GMT

well, I live in Minnesota and I'm on the Minnesota Lottery's e-mail list and haven't seen anything yet.

been to their website, haven't seen anything.

been to the Mega Millions site, nothing yet.

Reply #9

B$Rizzle — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:55:23 GMT

You sure they dont mean enough tickets have been sold to cover the # of combinations VS all of them HAVE been covered?

Strange they would say this considering many people play to be the only winner. If those same people knew the all winning combo's have been sold, they wldnt spend the $$$.

The last several draws sold enough tickets to cover the # of combo's BUT not a single person actually had the actual winning combo.

Reply #8

lakerben — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:52:43 GMT

I guess 100 or more winners.

Reply #7

JADELottery — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:42:50 GMT

really.

keep going.

Reply #6

PlayTwoWin — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:38:35 GMT

First of all. snip you. Im not looking for attention, I'm not a teenage girl.

2nd the Minnesota Lottery claimed that. Ya snip .

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Reply #5

JADELottery — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:03:36 GMT

if it doesn't reply back with some credible information, we'll know it was an attention grabbing pud that needs to go back to masturbating for excitement.

Reply #4

tbraddock — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:02:20 GMT

I was wondering the same thing....

Reply #3

WesternRedDoug — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:57:04 GMT

Who is the lottery that made that statement

Reply #2

JADELottery — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:54:52 GMT

what's your source?

if you can't post a link, you can say who it is.

Reply #1

haymaker — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:52:22 GMT

i have 2 of em.

The winning MM has been sold! Oh my!

PlayTwoWin — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:41:43 GMT

Every single combination available has been sold according to the lottery. Someone will win. Maybe others.

Crazy