Fraud?
“ Fraud?”
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Not likely. What is likely is two players playing the same play slip with a player picking up (intentionally or accidentally) another person’s used play slip.
More likely would be the same player picking the same combination of numbers on multiple play slips or accidentally giving the clerk the same play-slip multiple times.
Maybe. Maybe not.
Perhaps the person split the jackpot with themselves by buying two tickets. They may have hoped for a smaller prize.
A lady in Vancouver BC bought two tickets, because she dreamed the numbers. She was only expecting $20 on each ticket, but she won the jackpot and was the only winner.
If the people who bought the tickets knew each other and just purchased tickets with the same numbers, no.
That would be a waste, though, as they could have just split the cost of a single ticket - they didn’t get any more money as the pot gets split. But some don’t think things all the way through like that.
“Fraud?”
Mega Millions numbers are drawn from two sets of numbers. Five numbers are drawn from one set of 56 numbered white balls and one Mega Ball number is drawn from a second set of 46 numbered gold balls.
Players may pick six numbers from two separate pools of numbers - five different numbers from 1 to 70 (the white balls) and one number from 1 to 25 (the gold Mega Ball) - or select Easy Pick/Quick Pick. You win the jackpot by matching all six winning numbers in a drawing.
Fraud? The odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot are 1 in 302,575,350. One can only imagine what the odds are for two winning tickets to be bought at the same location. And why a Chevron service station in Encino? Kinda has that aroma doesn’t it?
Of course I’m surprised the state of Mexico north would still allow their gold ball to be called mega.
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