My Mom missed the million last night by ONE NUMBER, she had five numbers and won $500.00! She said the only reason she picked up the $5.00 ticket was because of me, she sees my Sweet Million tickets around the house all the time and heard me talk about the September promo (maybe she will give me a tip, lol). She won on the freebie, I still can't believe she came so close, she matched 10,29,30,31, and 33 (she had number 6, but 34 came out instead). I read on the NY Lottery web-site that only 35 people won $500 and she was one of them. The ironic thing is I never buy my tickets where she purchased her winning one because it's too close to our house and I told her the store didn't feel lucky to me (lol).
Mom got confused about Sweet Million, she wrote down the SM numbers down last night, and went to bed thinking that she had only matched four numbers because she thought the 5th matching number she had was like the Mega number! When I woke up this morning she asked me if I had the SM numbers so I looked on-line and as she was reading her ticket aloud and I told her that she had 5 numbers and SM doesn't have an extra ball like Mega, and she was still asking me if I was sure she won $500. Actually, if she was playing MM and had 4 numbers and the Mega number she would have won $10,000, or if she had all 5 numbers in MM (like she did on SM) she would have won $250,000, but she didn't realize that because of her confusion, and I suspect she was thinking she won more than $500 on SM for matching 5 numbers because she's not familiar with the prize amounts for SM.
Don't worry, Mom won't waste the money you guys put in the SM pool, she is on a fixed income and the money will come in very handy, I'm so happy for her, she plays NY WIN4 a few times a week and hasn't won anything in a long time, and a few nights ago she played 9253, but 9250 came out instead and she was very disappointed, so I told her to keep trying and she will win soon, but I never thought she would win SM!
Well, I was almost the daughter of a millionaire which would have made me a millionaire someday! I didn't have 3 matching numbers last night, the first time in three draws that I ended up winning nothing. I hope the next time I post here it will be to say that Mom or I won the big one , we'll keep trying!