re: MegaMillions In gameThread $515 Million 10Pm CST

I would be so upset if I matched 5 of 6 and got like a million instead of close to half a billion.

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Plot twist: payable in bitcoin.

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Was wondering about this. When I win, they give me the lump sum and I convert it all to bitcoin and move out of the country before they try to force me to pay income tax on it.

going through my tickets...

You need more.

Lotto is a tax on poor people, and people dumb enough to give the government more of their hard earned money.

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I'm not saying I'm gonna win, but I'm gonna win.

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Well, we're waiting.gif

someone won

One of the largest Mega Millions® jackpots in history, and the largest ever won during the month of May, goes to a lucky ticket holder in Pennsylvania! For matching all six numbers drawn Friday night – the white balls 6, 9, 17, 18 and 48, plus the gold Mega Ball 8 – the ticket wins an estimated prize of $515 million ($348.6 million cash). That would make it the ninth largest jackpot awarded since the game began in 2002.

It’s the third, and largest, Mega Millions jackpot won in Pennsylvania since the state joined the game in 2010. A Pittsburgh man won a $149 million prize on May 20, 2014, and a $153 million jackpot was won on July 21, 2015, by a Virginia truck driver while on his route in Pennsylvania.

The third Mega Millions jackpot won to date in 2021, Friday night’s win follows a whopping $1.050 billion prize collected by a group of players in Michigan on January 22 and $96 million won by a New York couple on February 16.

In addition to the jackpot-winning ticket, Friday night’s drawing produced a total of 1,702,748 winners at all other prize levels. Fifty-three tickets across the country matched four white balls plus the Mega Ball to win the game’s third prize. Ten of those are worth $30,000 each because they included the optional Megaplier (a $1 additional purchase available in most states); the Megaplier for this drawing was 3X. The other 43 third-tier winning tickets are worth $10,000 each.

In this jackpon run, there were more than 19.5 million winning tickets at all prize levels since the jackpot was last won on February 16, including 31 second-tier prizes of $1 million or more.