Powerball and Mega Millions now cross selling tickets in most states!

For all you lottery players out there. If your state sold Powerball it more than likely sells the competing game as well (Mega Millions) starting Sunday and vice versa for the Mega Millions states. Now you can spend twice as much and lose double your money! :D

7 states are undecided (FL being one of them) if they will cross sell tickets...

On October 13, 2009, the Mega Millions consortium and Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL) reached an agreement in principle to cross-sell Mega Millions and Powerball in U.S. lottery jurisdictions. Of the 45 lotteries with either game listed below, 30 will be offering both games starting January 31, 2010. Eight others plan to offer both games after the above date. The other seven lotteries remain undecided or unknown to offer both games.
 
$8 a week habit for me- but I'm going to win it all back one day!

Hoping I hit soon so I can pick the colors on for a new Skater V-488 w/1800HP Chief turbos pushing some Arnesons
 
Hopefully that dog blows out of the boat at speed. :cheers2:

Just so this makes sense after I change it. One of our friendly mods decided I needed a new avatar and it was this dog

Still have a few Mega tickets to check but didn't want check them with the morning coffee rush- the people behind me get mad for some reason. A few years ago I did have some fun adventures holding up the line on a few guys that play 293 different lotto numbers, holding up the line for 10 minutes. Bastages- hate'em when they do that!
 

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Just so this makes sense after I change it. One of our friendly mods decided I needed a new avatar and it was this dog

Still have a few Mega tickets to check but didn't want check them with the morning coffee rush- the people behind me get mad for some reason. A few years ago I did have some fun adventures holding up the line on a few guys that play 293 different lotto numbers, holding up the line for 10 minutes. Bastages- hate'em when they do that!
I figured you were being pimped. :cheers2:
 
The Lottery is a special tax on people who never took combinations and permutations in math class. :)


or statistics........


My one liner for buying tickets:

odds 175 million to 1
you buy 75 million tickets and you still have 100 MILLION chances to LOSE!
so really will that extra $20 make a difference?
 
and then when you do win:

Confirmed: Dead body is that of missing Lottery winner Enlarge Photo In a Thursday January 28, 2010 photo, Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office investigators dig and sift an area that was underneath a concrete slab in the backyard of a home in Plant City Fla. Human remains have been found near a home where investigators were searching for the body Abraham Shakespeare, a missing man who won millions of dollars in the lottery nearly four years ago, Florida sheriff's officials said. (AP Photo/The Ledger, Ernst Peters)

The Orlando Sentinel

Posted: 3:19 p.m. Friday, Jan. 29, 2010


Hilllsborough County officials confirmed this afternoon that the body they dug up Thursday night in Plant City is that of missing former Florida Lottery winner Abraham Shakespeare.

Shakespeare, who had not been seen since April and was reported missing in November, was ID'd through fingerprint analysis, Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Debbie Carter said.

Officials are not saying how Shakespeare died, but law enforcement officials have said they are investigating the death as a homicide.

Investigators have removed earth-moving equipment from where the remains were discovered on State Road 60 in Plant City.

Abraham Shakespeare, a 43-year-old truck driver's assistant, won a $31 million lottery jackpot in 2006, opting for a lump sum payment of nearly $17 million.

The remains were found at a home owned by the boyfriend of Dorice Moore. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd has previously called Moore a "person of interest," though she has not been charged. Judd has characterized the case as a homicide.

On Dec. 5, Moore told The Ledger newspaper that she helped Shakespeare disappear, but now wants him to return because detectives were searching her home and car and looking for blood on her belongings.

Judd has said Moore transferred more than $1 million from Shakespeare's bank account into hers. She said the money was a gift.

Shakespeare had a criminal record that included arrests and prison time for burglary, battery and not paying child support. He used his winnings to buy a Nissan Altima, a Rolex from a pawn shop and a $1 million home in a gated community — but the money quickly caused him more problems.

A former co-worker sued him in 2007, accusing Shakespeare of stealing the winning ticket from him. Six months later, a jury ruled the ticket was Shakespeare's. And his mother, Elizabeth Walker, has said others were constantly asking Shakespeare for a piece of his fortune.

Not long after he bought the million-dollar home in early 2007, he was approached by Moore, family and sheriff's officials have said. She became something of a financial adviser, and property records showed that her company bought Shakespeare's house in January 2009.

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.
 
Pimpin ain't easy

I would love to know what a truck driver's assistant does! Blow the driver, hand jobs on long hauls, foot massages at truck stops?

Guy should have just taken the payments, 31mm over 30 years gives him over a million dollars a year in income (650K +/- after taxes) and he just has to get to the mailbox to get the check. He was young enough that he could have lived long enough to collect all the checks too!
 
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