Following is the official participation list. If your name is not on this list, you do not have any shares of the lottery pool! Please email me with any corrections. All new additions are closed as of 7pm. All mail entries have been received and are posted, so if your letter didn't get to me on time please make other arrangements if you still want to participate. I am not responsible for lost or late entries.
Participant list
Iwog: $100
Badger: 10
Ariana: 5
Gloria: 5
Patrick.net: 5
Sigmond: 10
Vicente: 24
SFace: 20
Jelly: 8
Jquint83: 13
chubbuni13: 10
Scout3y: 3
Cruzcat: 20
beckham79: 13
PKD: 50
Seymour: 31
IHopeIWinTheLottery: 30
megamillions: 39
montanatomatoes: 11
KK: 10
Drew: 20
VC: 3
Grinderman: 30
permanent_marker: 10
bibetet: 20
Now is our chance to get rich! For this Friday's drawing. This might be the biggest jackpot in history and estimated to be over $540 million. Any winnings totaling over $100 will be allocated per share based on the amount of money you "invest" in the pool. Any tax consequences are the responsibility of each individual winner. Tax consequences vary by state. http://www.megamillions.com/
Rules
* $1 = 1 share.
* Any winnings will be collected as lump sum cash option and not an annuity.
* You can put in as much or as little as you want in whole dollar amounts. (within reason)
* Checks are okay but if they bounce your shares will be invalidated and I'll hunt you down.
* Winnings less than $100 will be donated to Patrick.net instead of split into little pieces.
* Money received late by mail will be put in the 4/3/12 drawing.
* ALL numbers will be quick pick and ALL numbers will be posted on this page by 7:30pm Friday evening before the drawing begins.
* You're welcome to participate even if you think I suck.
Address:
Pauliwog
2801 Concord Blvd.
Concord, CA 94519
(make sure you include both your real name and your patrick.net screen name. Real names will not be published)

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Any more people interested to hit the 500 share mark? Just remember, more shares more chances of winning.
Getting ready to collect the winning mega lotto. I just came back from Moffett Airfield. Hanger One is the most suitable place for me to store all the green papers. I don't trust banks.
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iwog says
F!@#$%!#@%$
;)
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Probability expects multiple winners this time around, because of the sheer number of tickets sold.
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2012/03/30/mega-millions-sells-more-than-2-tickets-for-every-u-s-resident/
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Oh well. Odds favor 3-4 winners, so if we're stuck with only $150 million to share I guess we'll have to try and make do.
BTW the coolest possible outcome would be the 6% chance of ZERO winners, almost guaranteeing the 4/4/12 jackpot will reach $1 billion.
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Update: Total shares/tickets: 500
I've repaired the first scan of 270 numbers and uploaded the second group of 230 numbers. There should be a total of 500 individual quick pick numbers. (a duplicate is extremely unlikely but I guess it's possible)
Lottery Pool #1
Lottery Pool #2
I'm leaving the cutoff at 7:00pm pacific, but if you want to join (or add shares) please be prompt since it will make my last trip to 7-11 and scanning easier.
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Two numbers are the SAME !!
Cannot believe this.
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http://news.yahoo.com/mega-millions-jackpot-increases-640-million-160129329.html
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Two numbers are really the same?? Is that true? thats like winning the Jackpot right there. I dont believe it
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Although very unlikely (5% chance), it will be funny if no one win.
Will these $1000+ buyers buy again?
They could go broken quick.
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Still waiting to hear from you FortWayne. This is your 30 minute warning!
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I'm waiting for the jackpot to be over a billion before I buy a lottery ticket.
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Okay there are no new entries and praise Bevis I will not have to go stand in line to buy additional tickets.
The official list at the top of this thread is how shares will be allocated.
We have 500 numbers. They are posted. Good luck!
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This is a scam.
He just post the numbers which he knows will NOT win !
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jvolstad's website
Free beer for all if I win the big one.
:-)
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If anyone finds a link to the numbers, please post it.
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These are the numbers that could change your life: 2, 4, 23, 38 and 46. The Mega ball selected was 23.
So did we win anything :-)
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Didn't win.
Got about 8 mega ball with 23.
But that 02 killed them. Lots with 04.
Edit:
That 2 23 will kill lots people :)
I never know it is even possible !!!
Hopefully, no one win, so we can waste another $500
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If those are the right numbers, than there are a couple of small ones and a 3 out of 6.
Oh well. I should have kept my day job. : (
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Oh bummer. Well it was a fun excursion.
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Well it was worth a shot. If nothing else we can still congregate on patnet and bitch about house prices.
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I'm guessing I'll send about $25 in misc. booby prizes to pat.net so it wasn't a total loss.
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col b row 1 ticket (d) was 4/5. That's it.
45 - 4
20- -23
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4/5
That is 1:15313 chance.
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wow, you had to do it didn't you.
4 out of 6
If only.............
Unfortunately it's still only going to be about $150. How about we give the small winnings to Patrick, and put the $150 into next week (same share schedule) OR we hold on to it and wait until the jackpot builds a little bit.
Ideas?
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I vote for giving it to Patrick.net.
You can always starts new pool for next one. Keeping same pool could be complicated if more people wants to join in.
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PKD says
I would close it to new entries and just play the old list, but I'm certainly willing to donate it to patrick too.
more votes?
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I vote for donating to patrick.
New pool next week assuming no one hits the jackpot ?
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Cruzcat says
Absolutely but that's 1 chance in 20. 95% chance that someone won tonight.
However there's no way I'm not going to participate in the first ever billion dollar math-idiot games. =)
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>4/5
>That is 1:15313 chance.
Not if you buy 500 entries.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZomwVcGt0LE
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$20. Easy come, easy go.
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If we won less than $100 donate it to Patrick.net . If more than $ 100 just throw it on the next draw .
Thanks for organising the pool Iwog .
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Winning Mega Millions ticket bought in Maryland!
"2-4-23-38-46, Mega Ball 23.
If those are the numbers on your Mega Millions lottery ticket, you've won a jackpot worth a world record $640 million.
At least one ticket matched those numbers following Friday night's drawing - purchased in Maryland's Baltimore County, lottery officials said early Saturday."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-03-29/megamillions-jackpot/53872762/1
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People are desperate in this country.
I cannot believe that someone will buy $1000+.
The odds is 1:170,000 with 1000 tickets. That is like hit by a lighting in a theater.
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Letterman said last night something like Your odds of winning are about the same irregardless of whether you bought a ticket
I guess I should look around work to see if anybody doesn't show up since one of the three winning tickets was bought in Baltimore County.
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I expect that the house price will skyrocket in Maryland, Illinois and Kansas.
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Any update on the $150 winning?
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PKD says
So far all the votes are for donating it to Patrick. It works out to be around 37 cents a share.
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iwog says
Sounds good.
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I vote sending it to me. Just a thought. :)