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mc48124

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Mar 15, 2019, 12:45 pm

I was sitting back thinking about the chances that I have ever held the winning numbers to the Powerball or the Mega Millions. Or even the local Fantasy Five or Lotto 47 (Michigan). What I mean by this is, every drawing I buy 5 easy picks, I wonder if any of those easy pick combinations that I once had weeks, months, or years ago, have ever came out. Just a thought of the day, something that been on my mind for a little.
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Mar 15, 2019, 8:19 pm

If you still have the old tickets, you could use the lottery's number checker to find out.

Have your numbers won?

Are you holding a winning ticket, or have your favorite numbers won in the past five years? Enter your numbers and a date range to see if those numbers have been drawn. Only number combinations that would have won a prize will be shown.

Mega Millions lets you check up to five years.

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Mar 15, 2019, 8:39 pm

Quote: Originally posted by mc48124 on Mar 15, 2019
I was sitting back thinking about the chances that I have ever held the winning numbers to the Powerball or the Mega Millions. Or even the local Fantasy Five or Lotto 47 (Michigan). What I mean by this is, every drawing I buy 5 easy picks, I wonder if any of those easy pick combinations that I once had weeks, months, or years ago, have ever came out. Just a thought of the day, something that been on my mind for a little.

To be honest mc48124- you don't want to find out. If for some reason you had a $200Mil lottery ticket 3 months before the drawing or 2 months after,and threw it away, you will be miserable for not days, or weeks, but years, even taking that memory to the grave!

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Mar 16, 2019, 2:45 pm

Quote: Originally posted by TheMeatman2005 on Mar 15, 2019
If you still have the old tickets, you could use the lottery's number checker to find out.

Have your numbers won?

Are you holding a winning ticket, or have your favorite numbers won in the past five years? Enter your numbers and a date range to see if those numbers have been drawn. Only number combinations that would have won a prize will be shown.

Mega Millions lets you check up to five years.

You can also click on USAMEGA and do a Power Search for your numbers for the entire history of the game.

Before you play there are 2 choices to make. Low sum or high sum and consecutive pair or no consecutive pair. Choose correctly and you go from 120 combos down to 30. Not a bad starting point.
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Mar 17, 2019, 11:37 am

Quote: Originally posted by noise-gate on Mar 15, 2019
To be honest mc48124- you don't want to find out. If for some reason you had a $200Mil lottery ticket 3 months before the drawing or 2 months after,and threw it away, you will be miserable for not days, or weeks, but years, even taking that memory to the grave!

Even if you had the tickets with the winnings numbers 3 months prior. Wouldn't the ticket be void anyways?
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Mar 17, 2019, 2:21 pm

Quote: Originally posted by Curious22 on Mar 17, 2019
Even if you had the tickets with the winnings numbers 3 months prior. Wouldn't the ticket be void anyways?

It all depends on where you bought the ticket. New Mexico is the only one with a 90 day limit.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE

Sign the back of your ticket and take it to an authorized lottery sales agent for validation. If you win a prize greater than $599, you may need to complete a claim form and send it to the state's lottery commission.

Winning tickets are subject to validation and must be claimed in the state in which they were purchased. The period in which you must claim your winning ticket varies by state:

Arizona 180 days
Arkansas 180 days
California 1 year
Colorado 180 days
Connecticut 180 days
Delaware 1 year
Florida 180 days
Georgia 180 days
Idaho 180 days
Illinois 1 year
Indiana 180 days
Iowa 1 year
Kansas 1 year
Kentucky 180 days
Louisiana 180 days
Maine 1 year
Maryland 182 days
Massachusetts 1 year
Michigan 1 year
Minnesota 1 year
Missouri 180 days
Montana 180 days
Nebraska 180 days
New Hampshire 1 year
New Jersey 1 year
New Mexico 90 days
New York 1 year
North Carolina 180 days
North Dakota 180 days
Ohio 180 days
Oklahoma 180 days
Oregon 1 year
Pennsylvania 1 year
Rhode Island 1 year
South Carolina 180 days
South Dakota 180 days
Tennessee 180 days
Texas 180 days
U.S. Virgin Islands 1 year
Vermont 1 year
Virginia 180 days
Washington 180 days
Washington, D.C. 180 days
West Virginia 180 days
Wisconsin 180 days
Wyoming 180 days

Before you play there are 2 choices to make. Low sum or high sum and consecutive pair or no consecutive pair. Choose correctly and you go from 120 combos down to 30. Not a bad starting point.
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Mar 17, 2019, 4:54 pm

I prefer to not know that.
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Mar 17, 2019, 10:48 pm

Quote: Originally posted by grwurston on Mar 16, 2019
You can also click on USAMEGA and do a Power Search for your numbers for the entire history of the game.

o' wow. i didn't know that. thanks, GR.

G-night.

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Quote: Originally posted by Cassie8620 on Mar 17, 2019
o' wow. i didn't know that. thanks, GR.

G-night.

You're welcome, Cassie.

Before you play there are 2 choices to make. Low sum or high sum and consecutive pair or no consecutive pair. Choose correctly and you go from 120 combos down to 30. Not a bad starting point.
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Mar 17, 2019, 11:22 pm

I want to win on the tickets I buy for that days drawing such as QP's but I am not concerned with the what if's about having numbers that could be winners some other time.-weshar75
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Mar 18, 2019, 2:04 am

If you picked numbers (self or QP) for a drawing different from the one you purchased, then... so what?

Some people have numbers that they play for every drawing. If you buy five QP, then to replicate that you would have to fill out a play slip with those numbers for every future drawing until the day you die.

It's not going to increase your chances of winning, so why worry about it?
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Mar 18, 2019, 6:46 pm

Quote: Originally posted by Curious22 on Mar 17, 2019
Even if you had the tickets with the winnings numbers 3 months prior. Wouldn't the ticket be void anyways?

You are correct Curious22. What l forgot to add was “ if you played the same numbers for 3 months prior to the drawing or had the winning numbers months after the draw.” I looked up the time l posted that, and that was about the time l was on my 2nd glass of wine.

Interpretation: Cut me some slack.

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Mar 18, 2019, 7:50 pm

Quote: Originally posted by mc48124 on Mar 15, 2019
I was sitting back thinking about the chances that I have ever held the winning numbers to the Powerball or the Mega Millions. Or even the local Fantasy Five or Lotto 47 (Michigan). What I mean by this is, every drawing I buy 5 easy picks, I wonder if any of those easy pick combinations that I once had weeks, months, or years ago, have ever came out. Just a thought of the day, something that been on my mind for a little.

It should depend on how many tickets you bought and the percentage of those tickets against all possible combinations. While the chances of buying tickets that match one of many drawings is better than only one drawing, it's still a long shot. And it's also a reason to play QPs rather than self picks; we can throw away losing QPs and never know if that combo is drawn a year from now. Can't say the same after finding out the same combo we played for years and then stopped playing them are drawn two draws later.

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