I never play the lottery, not because I think it's a waste, but mostly because I never think about playing. But the other day, I decided to play a few different types of lottery here in PA.

I dropped 10 bucks on a few different games and one of the games is where you pick 5 numbers. You can bet two different ways, and I picked the numbers to be in order, or straight.

Well, checking my numbers last night, I had 23416 and it came in as 23406. That one number was the difference between winning nothing, and winning $50,000. Granted, 50K wouldn't change much in my life, but it sure would've made for a fast truck!

 

lol dont u still get some money for gettin 4 rite?

 

Nah, not in this game. It's all or none...

But I did win a dollar on one of my other tickets.

 

<----been in the gaming industry before. odds are against you

but 50k on a truck??? better have a fluxcapacitor!!! or be in the 8s lol

 

ah damn in VA you win in the Pick 5 if you get 3 numbers....i think thats like a free ticket or 5 bucks something simple, but 4 numbers gets you i wanna say 250 bucks.

I play the Pick 3 all the time.

 

i got together a group of 10 people at work and we play the lotto twice a week. roughly 30 chances every drawing. best we've done is match 4 of 6. we WILL win dammit.

 

Well, after taxes and a long trip to anywhere, the rest would go towards the truck!

Lucky. The game here allows you to play two ways, straight, where all five numbers have to be in order, or boxed, they can be in any order. And the numbers are only 1 through 10. Box pays like $495.00 while straight pays 50K.

See, that's the way to do it. I read an article last week about the groupd of 10 people who in NJ. Cool story...

WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J. - Ten co-workers at a New Jersey insurance company say they have struck it rich, winning the $216-million prize in Tuesday night's Mega Millions drawing.

The country's newest multi-millionaires off the winning ticket Wednesday afternoon outside the Chubb Commercial Insurance office where they work in Whitehouse Station, Hunterdon County.

The only winning ticket was sold at a gas station in Toms River, Ocean County, New Jersey Lottery officials announced earlier in the day.

"I was the last one to know so, of course, I think it's a joke. I didn't believe them at all," said Linda Harrington, one of the winners.

The diverse group of winners found out when they went in to work Wednesday morning that they had won the lottery. They are a diverse group. They all work in the information technology department, from program analyst to the chief information officer.

"I looked at the ticket, I checked it. I looked at like everybody looking at me and I finally believed that it happened," Harrington said.

They played the lottery each week, putting in $5 a piece, and will often pay up after one of them buys the ticket.

"So, I take it out and I give him the money. And he's like, 'OK, you paid me, right?' I said, 'Yeah, I paid you,'," said Oscar Oviedo, of the winning group.

His co-worker then told him, "'OK, so now you're a millionaire.' I was like, 'What do you mean?' 'Yeah, we won.' And he showed me the tickets and I like couldn't believe it. It was great."

 

50k would sure as hell help out my life!

 

yup, heard about that last week.

 

no ****!
pay off truck.....check
buy daily beater......check
build the truck of my dreams.....check

hell, probley have a couple of grand left over