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View Poll Results: Have you gotten your Mega Millions ticket?
Yes, I've bought mine already 14 100.00%
No, not yet but I'm planning on getting one 0 0%
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Old 03-30-2012, 11:11 PM   #16
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Yeah, that's how rare I buy tickets. I thought it was a MA only game until I saw something on the tv about it. Oops .
No worries - until I went online to find out for sure, I had no idea it wasn't a MA-only game, either.

We were probably both thinking of the MA-only "Mass Millions" ... dunno if that's still played or not ...
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We were probably both thinking of the MA-only "Mass Millions" ... dunno if that's still played or not
I don't know if it is either or not but I think that's what I was thinking about
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If you don't already know, here are the winning numbers

2 4 23 38 46 23

I only got one number on some of the tickets I bought so no winner here
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One of our tickets won $2. The other two won $0. :P Oh well, it was a fun little dream for the evening.
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One of our tickets won $2. The other two won $0. :P Oh well, it was a fun little dream for the evening.
We've been "spending" that money for days...always fun to dream!
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I don't buy them...........I sell them...........lots and lots of $$$$$$$$was spent tonight....the line never ended until I put up the "closed" sign....then some unhappy stragglers appeared
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No winner on my end...David and I bought separate tickets. He wants to wait and look tommorow. He wants to dream a little bit more.
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I only had 2 numbers and no mega number. Not a winner here.... boohoo
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Just so you guys know, this was such big news, they were covering it on the national news here yesterday! Do they know yet if it was an individual or a syndicate that won?
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Just so you guys know, this was such big news, they were covering it on the national news here yesterday! Do they know yet if it was an individual or a syndicate that won?
The only news I have seen thus far is that the winning ticket was sold in Baltimore County, Maryland and that there could be more still out there! Official: Winning lottery ticket sold in Maryland | National & World News | Seattle News, Weather, Sports, Breaking News | KOMO News

All I know is that the numbers that were picked were not the numbers I would have picked if I'd have played this time around so I guess, in hindsight, it was best that I didn't spend that extra $5 on the lottery this week!
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It wasn't me... so Hi Ho... off to work I go!
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3 people won. One from Maryland, one from Kansas and one from Illinois.

Oh well congrats to them and back to work on Monday for me!!
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I won nothing. Boo. But we did have some big dreams. I was going to immediately go on a vacation. My husband, out of the blue, said he would use his portion of the money to buy a fundraising company like the one he works for AND open a rehab facility for addicts. I can say this little bit of dreaming taught me something I had no idea of. I honestly had no clue that he would do something like that.
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That was my first thing too Shawna - I was going to take Lenny and Abby to Disneyland if we won. I was also going to pay off the house for my mother, possibly pay off my brothers house (despite his B of a wife benefitting from it), possibly get a house for my aunt her in MA so she can move back home and then I was going to split whatever was left with my mother. Some of my portion was going to get put away for a WDW vacation next year but I don't know where I would have put the rest.
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