# Got Your Lottery Ticket? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 26, 2022, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-your-lottery-ticket/968590 "2022-07-26T13:44:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Kedikat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed655f/32.png) [@Kedikat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kedikat)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2022, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-your-lottery-ticket/968590/82 "2022-07-30T02:38:46Z")
I play the lottery regularly. A very lame minimal strategy. I find that I wish to win only a moderate amount. Enough to ensure my retirement. Which is a small amount. With enough left over to give major treats to friends and relatives, which ultimately might ensure their reasonable retirements. When the prize gets huge, I start to feel I will be burdened to carefully allocate the excess to the best charities and other things. It could really have more far reaching consequence. At a Billion. That can have real consequence. I have some solid ideas. But they stop far short of a Billion. At that point I need lawyers to set up funds for certain organizations. Look into all sorts of background stuff. Quit my present job and start that one. But in a slightly nicer house. Somewhere else. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2022, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-your-lottery-ticket/968590/83 "2022-07-30T03:06:42Z")
July 29 drawing: **13-36-45-57-67** Mega Ball: **14** Megaplier: **2** Out of the five tickets we bought, we matched one number. Did I win anything? ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2022, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-your-lottery-ticket/968590/84 "2022-07-30T03:16:41Z")
Thank You! Out of five, I matched two on one pick (13, 67) and another (57) an a second. Here’s hoping it rolls over so we can do it again on Tuesday for even more eye popping cash. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2022, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-your-lottery-ticket/968590/85 "2022-07-30T04:56:34Z")
> [@teelabrown](#): > > I was posting on the 'Raffe about how some states don’t let you remain anonymous if you win. California won’t, so I have to have a plan in place in case the unbelievable happens. Waiting for the results, we found out that a young house guest had thought all that through! She lives in a No Anonymity state, but her parents don’t, so she’d go back home (and hire a lawyer… she found one that specializes in keeping lottery winners safe and unknown). ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2022, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-your-lottery-ticket/968590/86 "2022-07-30T11:12:40Z")
Once again, I have a $2 winner. Makes me think it’s perhaps a waste of time and money to buy lottery tickets… 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![teelabrown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teelabrown/32/8412_2.png) [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2022, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-your-lottery-ticket/968590/87 "2022-07-30T12:21:22Z")
Early reports are that one winning ticket was sold in Illinois. Let’s see if any of our Illinois Dopers are conspicuous by their absence in the coming days. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_was_in_Saudi)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2022, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-your-lottery-ticket/968590/88 "2022-07-30T13:10:30Z")
Was there only one big winner? ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2022, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-your-lottery-ticket/968590/89 "2022-07-30T13:15:21Z")
Looks like it … > **[Mega Millions](https://www.megamillions.com/)** > > Mega Millions is one of America's two big jackpot games, and the only one with Match 5 prizes up to $5 million (with the optional Megaplier). > [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Out of the five tickets we bought, we matched one number. Did I win anything? $2 apparently ! ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2022, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-your-lottery-ticket/968590/90 "2022-07-30T13:22:51Z")
Damnit! They picked the wrong numbers again. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_was_in_Saudi)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2022, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-your-lottery-ticket/968590/91 "2022-07-30T13:24:29Z")
It would seem only one ticket won the big prize. I think that is great. ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2022, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-your-lottery-ticket/968590/92 "2022-07-30T14:23:38Z")
Des Plaines is nearby, but rest assured everyone I did not win. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2022, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-your-lottery-ticket/968590/93 "2022-07-30T15:10:36Z")
Yep. I was slightly excited when I heard it was bought in Illinois and in the Chicago area; I was in Des Plaines yesterday, but that’s not where I bought my ticket from. My best line only had two matches. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2022, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-your-lottery-ticket/968590/94 "2022-07-30T15:33:01Z")
Wow, Des Plaines! I think I was also in Des Plaines yesterday, if not, really close on I90 near the airport. There’s a non-zero chance I know the winner. Better luck next time, all. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2022, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-your-lottery-ticket/968590/95 "2022-07-30T15:34:54Z")
One winning ticket. Chicago area. Not me. ---
**Author:** ![medstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@medstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/medstar)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2022, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-your-lottery-ticket/968590/96 "2022-07-30T21:23:50Z")
Well, at least I won $12.00. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2022, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-your-lottery-ticket/968590/97 "2022-07-30T22:07:13Z")
_“…and shortly afterward it was learned that a certain Mr. Zotti had just bought a chunk of WBEZ-Tribune Media…”_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-your-lottery-ticket/968590.md?page=4)