Here’s an interesting winner story from this week: An eastern Iowa man won two prizes of $10,000 in the same Mega Millions® drawing with tickets from different stores.
Larry Witmer of Solon bought his easy-pick tickets a few hours apart on Tuesday for that night’s Mega Millions drawing. Five of the numbers on his plays were identical, and that’s how he ended up hitting big -- twice.
Each of Larry’s tickets matched four of the white balls and the Mega Ball® to win a $10,000 prize.
Games like Powerball® and Mega Millions are purposefully designed to allow repeat plays of the same numbers. That’s how jackpots can end up being split by multiple tickets across the country. It’s a security feature of the games and that demonstrates random selection.
In Larry’s case, his plays weren’t entirely identical, but they came close. And that random outcome had a VERY positive impact.
Congratulations, Larry!
When the lottery repeats tickets with the same numbers its not to make winners to split jackpots its to make more losing tickets to increase the jackpots. It looks like the lottery has adopted the ALGORITHMS of the cheater who fixed the HOT LOTTO.
If the lottery was TRULY RANDOM you would not have the number of tickets they produce with the same numbers every drawing. As the lottery claims it "designed" the lotteries do this. If this is true, WHERE IS THE TRUE RANDOMNESS IN THE LOTTERY DRAWINGS?
Posted by: STEVEN B SMITH | December 07, 2021 at 09:03 AM
Congrats! That is Awesome! Send some of that luck my way!
Posted by: Tami | December 04, 2021 at 07:15 AM