The identity of the buyer of the largest winning Powerball ticket in Iowa history is still a mystery. Iowa Lottery spokeswoman Mary Neubauer says they know one of the 609 Powerball tickets sold at a northwest Des Moines Dahl's supermarket won the $113 million jackpot.
Neubauer says there is one other clue about the winner. Neubauer says it appears the winner personally chose the six winning numbers — which might indicate the person plays the game regularly. She says the person has 365 days to claim the prize.
Store director Mike Hixson says they've never had a big winner before. He says he was "surprised, elated" to find out someone had won at his store. Hixson says so far they haven't gotten any calls or anyone who's said they're a winner.
Hixson describes his customers as middle class, middle-aged with several retirees — a good neighborhood. Hixson says he's rooting for a regular to bring in the winning ticket. The Dahl's chain wins 10-thousand dollars for selling the winning ticket.
Neubauer says the store will also gain a lot of attention. Neubauer says one thing it will do is make the store the "Lucky store," something she says always seems to happen. Neubauer says people believe if someone won big at the store, then they could win there too. She says this win will also do away with a few of the myths about Powerball in Iowa.
She says they hear Iowans say "nobody ever wins" and "we never have a big winner." She says now someone has won and they've won a big amount. Neubauer says the winner is likely talking with a lawyer and considering all their options — such as the tax advantages of waiting until the New Year to collect.
"Neubauer says it appears the winner personally chose the six winning numbers — which might indicate the person plays the game regularly."
It might also indicate the person has a winning system that he pulls out when the jackpot gets to $100M+.
"Neubauer says it appears the winner personally chose the six winning numbers — which might indicate the person plays the game regularly."
It might also indicate the person has a winning system that he pulls out when the jackpot gets to $100M+.
I hope so, and even better if they are a lottery post member....
i think that would really be something.i like it when someone wins with their own numbers.quick picks get all the attention........
Maybe the guy just made certain he always used at least two numbers from the last jackpots won:
Powerball:
Wed, December 14, 2005 08 · 15 · 16 · 45 · 51 + 11 5 $112 Million
Mega Millions:
Tuesday, November 29, 2005 07 · 08 · 47 · 51 · 52 + 05 3 $35 Million
Only left him four numbers to match.
Duck soup.
Jack
Or maybe he just quickly picked some numbers? I guess the media expects someone who won to jump forward the next day and start doing interviews, even before fully validating their ticket. This helps sell papers, and tv shows...
The tickets belongs to a married couple, and their birthdays (or maybe their kids' birthdays) are the 15th and 16th of August and November. Maybe they're 45 and 51 years old or were born in those years. One thing that's sure is that if they picked powerball numbers based on winning numbers from megamilions, it's a reallly stupid "system" but they got really lucky. Kind of like the people that played the fortune cookie numbers a while back.
The comment about maybe being a regular player is kind of strange. Does the lottery think that everybody who is just an occasional player uses quick pick or that there are no regular players who always use quick pick? They may not have checked, but the lottery department has the data to find out if those numbers are played regularly at the same store or in the same area. It's also kind of odd that the article says they know it was one of the tickets at a specific store. Well, duh. It would be pretty bad if they didn't know, wouldn't it?
The tickets belongs to a married couple, and their birthdays (or maybe their kids' birthdays) are the 15th and 16th of August and November. Maybe they're 45 and 51 years old or were born in those years. One thing that's sure is that if they picked powerball numbers based on winning numbers from megamilions, it's a reallly stupid "system" but they got really lucky. Kind of like the people that played the fortune cookie numbers a while back.
No such thing as a really stupid sysytem "that works"!
Hey...I was supposed to win that Powerball Jackpot! I always play...forgot to buy that one drawing. I'll get a lawyer and sue the winner!!! It's only fair...was it pool? Nah...I just want my share...half!!! (Guys, think I'll get away with it?)
Wed, December 14, 2005, 08 · 15 · 16 · 45 · 51
I'd say birthday numbers also... possible 45 and 51 are their years of age or born in those yrs. Kids 8-15-16 very possible I'm 54 and have 11and 16 yr. old. I call em my late blossoms.
"Maybe the guy just made certain he always used at least two numbers from the last jackpots won:"
The powerball has strange streaks like that. I have seen the powerball go up to about 8 draws without repeating one number. But lately there has been back to back repeats, especially the numbers 42 and 45. I believe no numbers from previous draws are expected to come up at least 50% of the time, at least for a 6/49 game. So it should be slightly more either way for powerball. Sometimes I play multiple lines without using any numbers from the last draw.
Usually it works, but if it does not, all your selections get burnt. Just like everything else, it is all a gamble...
The tickets belongs to a married couple, and their birthdays (or maybe their kids' birthdays) are the 15th and 16th of August and November. Maybe they're 45 and 51 years old or were born in those years. One thing that's sure is that if they picked powerball numbers based on winning numbers from megamilions, it's a reallly stupid "system" but they got really lucky. Kind of like the people that played the fortune cookie numbers a while back.
The comment about maybe being a regular player is kind of strange. Does the lottery think that everybody who is just an occasional player uses quick pick or that there are no regular players who always use quick pick? They may not have checked, but the lottery department has the data to find out if those numbers are played regularly at the same store or in the same area. It's also kind of odd that the article says they know it was one of the tickets at a specific store. Well, duh. It would be pretty bad if they didn't know, wouldn't it?
One thing that's sure is that if they picked powerball numbers based on winning numbers from megamilions, it's a reallly stupid "system" but they got really lucky
KY:
Any system that wins a jackpot can't be called stupid by anyone who isn't.
I'd gladly use a system that involved standing on my head stacking BBs if it worked. So would everyone else here, I'm betting.
Jack
fja wrote:
<< No such thing as a really stupid sysytem "that works"! >>
There's no such thing as a system that works, period. If your chosen system happens to result in picking the numbers that get drawn that's great, but it's just a matter of luck. If 1% of players pick their numbers based on some manipulation of the lot code from a can of Campbell's chicken noodle soup, then it's a safe bet that about 1% of winners will have picked their numbers based on lot codes from cans of Campbell's chicken noodle soup. It's an equally safe bet that far more people who used that system will have lost, and the ratio will be a function of the odds of the game. Everybody who buys a ticket has a system for choosing their numbers whether it's as convoluted as starting with numbers from a soup can or as simple as letting the machine choose the numbers, but the chosen system does nothing to change the odds. A system will determine which numbers are played, and in that limited sense it will affect who wins, but the system only works if it consistenly lets you win more than you play.
Is there such a thing as a "LUCKY STORE"? Gamblers tend to be superstitious; there are a few stores that sold jackpot winners twice...how does that figure? It sure is lucky. I bought Powerball tickets at "the luckiest store PA"; it sold that state's largest Powerball Grand Prize winner, call me superstitious, but it's a lucky store. Will luck strike twice? I'm betting on it.
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It depends on what you want the system to do....If you want it to consistantly work, then your right there are no systems that will be successfull.. If you create a system with the thought of one day hitting the lottery, and it does, then your system works, period.....if in 10 years you hit the lottery again,,,,then you have gone to the next step of proving your system,,,,,
If I play the same numbers for 10 years and win, because thats what I think it will take, then its a system,,,,I used my system to get me to the right place at the right time. Its the once in a lifetime shot to win is what I used my system for.....therefore my system worked! The only way it will fail is if I stop using it or die before It hits.....
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It depends on what you want the system to do....If you want it to consistantly work, then your right there are no systems that will be successfull.. If you create a system with the thought of one day hitting the lottery, and it does, then your system works, period.....if in 10 years you hit the lottery again,,,,then you have gone to the next step of proving your system,,,,,
If I play the same numbers for 10 years and win, because thats what I think it will take, then its a system,,,,I used my system to get me to the right place at the right time. Its the once in a lifetime shot to win is what I used my system for.....therefore my system worked! The only way it will fail is if I stop using it or die before It hits.....
Since you agree there is no system that will allow you to win consistently, I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to say. Are you suggesting that there's some system that would predict all of the winning numbers on very rare occasions, yet never predict enough of the numbers to win lower level prizes? I really can't imagine any basis for such a system other than a belief that black magic works, but only on very rare occasions. Or perhaps God wants you to win, but you, Mother Teresa, and Father Flannigan are further down his list than Jack Whittaker?
There is one thing that consistently results in jackpots being won by people who have been unable to win lower level prizes with enough consistency to turn a profit, and that's simple probability. If you pick a set of numbers, by whatever "system" you choose, extraordinary luck or extraordinary coincidence might result in the lottery picking the same set of numbers. It works for other people almost every week, and you have just as much chance as they did. Of course, you also have just as much chance of losing as the millions of people who lose every week.
Winning twice in ten years, or even ten days doesn't do squat to prove a system works. All that does is show that probability does exactly what it's supposed to, which is allow some events to happen more often than expected and some to happen less often. Actually, there's no way to prove conclusively that a system works because extremely improbable things happen all the time, but if you can show me a system that picks 3+PB or 3+MB just 5 times in 2006 (on 1 or 2 tickets per draw) I'll probably be convinced.
MATHEMATICIANS SAY THAT THERE ISN'T SUCH A THING AS A WINNING LOTTERY SYSYTEM. WAVE THEORY ETC. STATE THAT THERE ARE 'STREAKS', BUT THAT DOESN'T MAKE A SYSTEM. TRENDS, STREAKS, MOMENTUM SURE. A WINNING SYSTEM? AS ALWAYS, GOOD LUCK.
OK !
My system is not a winning system but it is a system that works because it does what I want it to do. I continue to think if it pick combinations, it will pick a winner eventually.
As the ticket was sold in Iowa, the winner(s) must be at least 21. In 1999 there was a partial share of a Powerball jackpot belonging to someone in IA not old enough.
Luck can only help a system. When it does, the results are pretty.
Luck can only help a system. When it does, the results are pretty.
i agree,i wish that would happen with the system i'm using.....
Powerball winner may be a regular player
Oh? So I guess all those people who have played QPs for many years, including myself, are not regular players? Does this mean everytime I play a QP I am not a regular player, but if I play my own numbers I ama regular player? Sometimes people say the stupidest things.
Powerball winner may be a regular player
Oh? So I guess all those people who have played QPs for many years, including myself, are not regular players? Does this mean everytime I play a QP I am not a regular player, but if I play my own numbers I ama regular player? Sometimes people say the stupidest things.
Many regular players play every drawing via QP. Some people may not realize all they have to do is mark their numbers once to play many drawings over years.