Congrats to all the winners...now to MM.

Happy  First Sunday.of Lent......

..I love PA as much as anyone and have friends who were born and raised there.....the Eagels are AWESOME..however, it seems like aeverytime there's a winner it's from either PA, INDI, IL, MO  I Bet the winners were "quik pick" because of the #58....anyway...while back at the ranch....CONGRATS TO THE WINNERS.....;..) I hope sooner rather than later one of us who purchases PB Tickets in the DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA....will pull an upset.......;...)

Congrats to the powerball winners!

Wow, another PA winner... I guess the New Year won't be slowing PA down in winning. I wonder how many more PA winners there will be over the rest of the year.

Ok I know that some of you's guys are gonna call me crazy but does anyone else see the irony is the latest PB winners? It just seems a little bit odd to me.

Okay......the Indiana players that won were from Ohio .....a MM state......and in the press release they stated they didn't like the current games in their state so they play in Indiana

and not too long ago the 315mill winner in Indiana was from Ohio......a MM state

Now these 2 winners from Delaware and Pennsylvania are both bordering New Jersey ....... a MM state that has made note publically that their lottery sales are slightly down.

The lady that won in NC was along the Virginia state line ........a MM state

The family that won in Tennessee was near Chattanooga that borders GA........a MM state

Now that I look at the map.........almost all of the states that border MM states are the ones that have the most PB winners......A perfect example of PB states that have alot of winners.....PA that borders 4 MM states. The state of Texas....there have been numerous winners in NM, OK, & LA. Va which borders 3 PB states

Then to bacisally stick its tongue back out at PB for doin this MM let the jackpot be raised to 330mill and it was split between the 4 MM states that border the PB states with the most hits......Va, Tx, Md, & NJ

Now say for instance PB controls where the jkpt will be hit. It would be an extreme embarrassment to MM if they lost a state to PB the way Georgia did to PB years ago. What if PB is allowing these jackpots to be hit near state lines for or in bordering MM states.    Does anyone else notice this or am I alone on this one....

I call it opportunity. Whoever purchases a lottery ticket deserves a chance to win.

Congratulations to winners.

I am all in Mega Millions now for $2. Perhaps greed may urge me to wage another $10 buck with some strange combinations.

It's nice to see that multiple people have won the jackpot. It allows more then one person a chance to experience a big win. Congrats to them!

Where in Delaware was the ticket purchased?

Congrats to the two winners.  

Also, IF the PB and MM can control where the winners are this is an interesting theory.  

My mom is hoping it wasn't in Wilmington.  Something told her to buy a ticket the other day and she didnt do it.  Now she says she feels just sick about. What even funnier is that she also has a house in in the sourthern part of Deleware near the MD border and has been up and down the road all weekend passing numerous gas stations.  Better luck next  time I guess.

Have fun

Happy First Sunday of Lent.....

.......Chasin....I read your post and I think you would make a pretty good Detective.....did you ever see the movie "Rear Window"  well I think you would have been a better Detective than the actor McDonald Carey who played the Detective in the Movie.......;...) I like the way you think and analyze.....

Your mom can take solace in the fact that lots of people in Wilmington  bought tickets and won nothing.  She did the same and it cost her nothing.

Recently, I went to the Powerball site and looked up how many jackpots had been won between Indiana and Pennsylvania since PA joined in 2001.  Before the latest jackpot win, Indiana was leading 11 to 10. I thought this was very interesting since PA has always had at least twice as many overall prize winners each draw than Indiana.  In the Sat. 2-28-09 draw, PA had 200,000+ overall winners to Indiana's 46,000+. My basic theory has been that more often than not, the jackpot winner will come from an area where the most tickets are sold.  Since prize winning is based on certain odds, states that have the most winners will sell the most tickets. The fact that Indiana has averaged less overall prize winners than PA with as many winners of the jackpot seems to hurt my theory.

I have no doubt in PA's case that a lot of tickets are purchased by out of state players.  I know for a fact that one 7-11 in Wilmington, DE had two lottery machines with long lines back before PA joined Powerball.  These sales fell off after PA joined.  So I am sure in the Philadelphia area where many people from NJ come across the river to work, a lot of Powerball tickets are carried back home.  PA has a large population also to account for more sales.

In contrast to this, DE only had about 20,000 overall prize winners for the Sat. draw, showing that a winner can come from any populace once in awhile.  Since Florida joined Powerball, it has had more overall prize winners than any other state for every drawing until this 2-28 draw when they only had 185,000+. Previous to Florida joining, PA was the leader for overall winners. I would expect though that there will be a lot of winners in Florida eventually, since these figures should represent more ticket sales than any other state.

Yeah, like some of you are alluding, I also think the lotteries are fixed.

Now that would be the biggest conspiracy if a savvy journalist was to break the story to the world. And you know what, I highly suspect the government is in on it. The more people gamble, the more the government collects in taxes. You see, they collect when someone spends that dollar then collect 25% of the jackpot.  And besides, lotteries provide states with cheap revenues "for the children" relieving pressure from the federal government.

ha ha ha but that does not stop me from gambling, it never has.

I wanna win the MM jackpot,,,i live on a bordering state next to the land of lincoln,,,good luck everyone

This was my mothers' bday.  I felt convicted to play the numbers, but stuck to my "regulars" anyway for budget purposes.  Can you imagine my guilt right now?

Way to go Pennsylvania !!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hope I am the next winner in PA !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here in the state of California we don't have the Powerball game.They have it just to the north of us in the state of Oregon and to the state of Arizona,just south of us.I don't know why they don't play the Powerball game here.I'd love to play it here.

I'd say Arizona is more east than South of California. Anyway, California is a Mega Millions state and I'd imagine there are contractual restrictions on a state having both, not to mention that it would split sales even more. Even with California being by far the most populated state in the country, it's number of players of MM is rather pathetic in comparison to other states.

I played in Delaware once, but not recently. Surprised with the new matrix that DE came up being a small share of sales.. I will guess that it was someone visiting the Delaware House rest stop (did they remodel all that yet?), and as for the PA ticket, they're quiet about where it was sold in either State, but I did play-ahead PA Powerball around my Birthday last month. I remember the machine was screwing up, and gave me Powerball tickets with a start draw of Feb. 25 (a month later than I asked) for 10 drawings well into March. Of course you know how it is, that was a while back, I got busy and very disorganized, am not sure where all them PB tickets are now but I guess I will find them during Spring cleaning. In the meantime, where was it sold?

Question: Why do we have one story complaining about Lottery sales down because of the minidepression, and another story complaining about the unemployed playing extra when they shouldn't be?

People go to where the jackpots are but only as far as necessary. Border locations get much heavier play.

I believe my theory is correct. Powerball had 2 winners which were in states that border NJ and now MM gave the jackpot to NJ....I wonder/bet NJ is considering switching over to PB.......or PB is really trying to hard to convince them to switch.

Something inside of me deflated when i saw the winner is in NJ. I just lost a majority of my desire to want to play either game. Now for the first time in a looooong time I am thinking about switching back to scratchers......but even with those it seems like an unusually large amount of the top prize winners are in rural areas. *sighs*

Anybody want to tell me I'm crazy and convince me that one day I still have a snowballs chance in h*ll of winning.....

have fun!!!!