# Thisclose to winning $270 million.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thisclose-to-winning-270-million/834296>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 21, 2019, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thisclose-to-winning-270-million/834296 "2019-05-21T15:02:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Hermitian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hermitian/32/470_2.png) [@Hermitian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermitian)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2019, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thisclose-to-winning-270-million/834296/21 "2019-05-22T17:00:16Z")

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Racer, congrats!

However, you have already broken the first and second rules of lottery winnings. Don’t talk about winning the lottery.

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**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2019, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thisclose-to-winning-270-million/834296/22 "2019-05-22T19:05:51Z")

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> [@racer72](#):
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> I walked out with $38,000. That was a 24% tax bite from the feds. No state income tax in Washington. Put away another $5000 for taxes.

Ah ok…thanks.

Congrats again

you lousy, stupid, lucky mother fu…

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**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2019, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thisclose-to-winning-270-million/834296/23 "2019-05-22T19:19:59Z")

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> [@FairyChatMom](#):
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> I’ve heard about stuff like this, but it still struck me as funny that her first thought was kidnapping, not VACATION!! or NEW HOUSE!! or something similar. Heck, she didn’t even consider that mayhem might befall her own sons!

She obviously looked at her sons, and decided your daughter was the one the kidnappers knew she would pay for.

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**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2019, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thisclose-to-winning-270-million/834296/24 "2019-05-22T19:22:08Z")

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since the numbers are (supposedly) random, your ticket was in fact no closer or farther away from winning $270 million dollars than any other ticket that did not match all the numbers. So don’t worry about that too much.

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