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Post a reply to How would you react if you missed a massive jackpot by one number?

Do better the next time!
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Then, what would be your holiest desire. ex. quest for the
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Jun 23, 2021, 9:48 pm

I'd be straight up cool with a 5 + 0 on MM or PB!

I am the Prince of Thieves!!!
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Same digits. Different games.

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Jun 24, 2021, 12:29 am

I always get the power play or mega plier. So I'd be good with that.

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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Jun 24, 2021, 1:34 am

Quote: Originally posted by noise-gate on Jun 22, 2021
* For entertainment purposes only..

* We talking $300mil and higher. Your thoughts..

* Have great day people!

I would reply, "Oh well, better luck next time".

Good luck everyone.
Karen Nathan

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Quote: Originally posted by Charloot on Jun 24, 2021
I would reply, "Oh well, better luck next time".

Good luck everyone.

I had a Customer tell me ,"I won $10,000 in the Lottery." She was sad smiling. I asked her why she had a Sad smile when she won $10,000, as that's a lot of money, and she replied something like,"Yes, $10,000 is a lot of money, but I won 5 out of 6 numbers. Had I gotten the last number, I would have won 6 million!" OUCH....

"What's your ADDRESS?" May be the CREEPIEST question EVER asked to a Lottery Winner! O.O WTF?

At first, I found the one digit away draws kind of amusing, but now I am PISSED! 15 or 16 times I was off by just one digit in recent times!🤬 No longer find this amusing, it's making me REALLY angry now!🤬
Lottomeister

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Jun 25, 2021, 11:19 am

Quote: Originally posted by Karen Nathan on Jun 24, 2021
I had a Customer tell me ,"I won $10,000 in the Lottery." She was sad smiling. I asked her why she had a Sad smile when she won $10,000, as that's a lot of money, and she replied something like,"Yes, $10,000 is a lot of money, but I won 5 out of 6 numbers. Had I gotten the last number, I would have won 6 million!" OUCH....

In 2015 when MM was over $500 million I had 4/5 and the mega ball was on the next line!

Paid a paltry $172. Still have a copy of the ticket somewhere.

It's always possible that I'm wrong~

But that's never at the top of my list of possibilities.
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rcbbuckeye

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Jun 25, 2021, 12:47 pm

LOL. I forgot that when I lived in Ohio I was off by 1 number on the Ohio Lotto around 1985. Can't remember for sure but I think it was 6/45, $1 bought 2 lines, and the jackpot was $250,000.

Won about $800 or so.

I was happy and sad.

JUST LOOK AT THE ODDS OF ANY JACKPOT GAME, THAT WILL TELL YOU EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW
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Jun 25, 2021, 12:58 pm

Quote: Originally posted by Lottomeister on Jun 25, 2021
In 2015 when MM was over $500 million I had 4/5 and the mega ball was on the next line!

Paid a paltry $172. Still have a copy of the ticket somewhere.

* Wow, that's brutal. Awhile ago the 2nd prize payout for either the PB or MM paid out something like $150K in CA.

* l could be wrong on the estimate but it was no way close to even $300K, whereas other States were paying out a million or more. We can thank Arnold & the State legislature for that.

* Voice of Reason *

* People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it- George Bernard Shaw.
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Quote: Originally posted by rcbbuckeye on Jun 25, 2021
LOL. I forgot that when I lived in Ohio I was off by 1 number on the Ohio Lotto around 1985. Can't remember for sure but I think it was 6/45, $1 bought 2 lines, and the jackpot was $250,000.

Won about $800 or so.

I was happy and sad.

* Better than being sad & sad rcb. Speaking of, l swung by a store yesterday and took a gander at the trash can next to the lotto slips, someone or persons bought 10 - $20.00

scratchers & every one was " not a winner."

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* People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it- George Bernard Shaw.
Stack47

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Jun 26, 2021, 9:19 pm

Quote: Originally posted by rcbbuckeye on Jun 25, 2021
LOL. I forgot that when I lived in Ohio I was off by 1 number on the Ohio Lotto around 1985. Can't remember for sure but I think it was 6/45, $1 bought 2 lines, and the jackpot was $250,000.

Won about $800 or so.

I was happy and sad.

The 1983 to 1987 version of the Ohio Lotto was 6/40 with a starting jackpot of $250,000, but in November 1983 the starting jackpot was increased to $1 million. In 1984 eight people split a $24 million jackpot and started a string of 11 consecutive winning drawings. That and the previous drawing were the only $14 million jackpot were the only two double digit jackpots in the entire life of that game.

The 6/44 Super lotto tickets were $1 until they went two plays for a buck 6/53 game and then back to one play for a dollar 6/47 game. The first Lotto game paid matching 4 and 5 by pari-mutual.

The Ohio Lottery was never afraid to offer all types of new games.

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Jun 26, 2021, 11:49 pm

Quote: Originally posted by Stack47 on Jun 26, 2021
The 1983 to 1987 version of the Ohio Lotto was 6/40 with a starting jackpot of $250,000, but in November 1983 the starting jackpot was increased to $1 million. In 1984 eight people split a $24 million jackpot and started a string of 11 consecutive winning drawings. That and the previous drawing were the only $14 million jackpot were the only two double digit jackpots in the entire life of that game.

The 6/44 Super lotto tickets were $1 until they went two plays for a buck 6/53 game and then back to one play for a dollar 6/47 game. The first Lotto game paid matching 4 and 5 by pari-mutual.

The Ohio Lottery was never afraid to offer all types of new games.

Thanks Stack. It was a long time ago.

? You said 1983 to 1987 the staring jackpot was $250,000, but in Nov 1983 the starting jackpot was increased to $1 million. Did you mean 1988?

Don't remember the 6/44 Super Lotto.

JUST LOOK AT THE ODDS OF ANY JACKPOT GAME, THAT WILL TELL YOU EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW
NJJim

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Jul 14, 2021, 12:04 am

I would be unhappy but not as upset as if favorite set of numbers hit and I did not play!

Seems so simple: three digits, 168 to one odds when boxed... all you have to do is pick the right ones!