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Eugene

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10. There are three winning tickets.

Reply to Hissyspit (Original post)

Sat Mar 31, 2012, 09:10 AM

Mar 2012

Source: BBC

31 March 2012 Last updated at 12:44 GMT

US lottery: Search on for 640m jackpot winners

The search is on in the US for the winners of the world's biggest ever lottery jackpot - $640m (£400m).

Three tickets have now been announced as sharing the massive prize, with the winners in the states of Maryland, Kansas and Illinois.

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$640 Million Mega Millions Jackpot Hit in Maryland [View all] Hissyspit Mar 2012 OP

I hope, that whoever wins it...spends it wisely.... Broken_Hero Mar 2012 #1

I hope they are a Democrat and not a GOPer :) n/t Tx4obama Mar 2012 #2

I was just hoping that whomever won, wasn't Broken_Hero Mar 2012 #4

If I hit that, I'd want to stay annonymous sakabatou Mar 2012 #3

Yes. aquart Mar 2012 #5

yeah, i was thinking i would rather get like 10 million and remain anonymous JI7 Mar 2012 #12

A new one percenter is born. Kablooie Mar 2012 #6

Right... Earth_First Mar 2012 #7

Do you have a problem with math? Hassin Bin Sober Mar 2012 #11

Do you have a problem with semantics? Earth_First Mar 2012 #13

Your understanding may have changed. Mine is that sudden riches make someone a member of the 1%. Kablooie Mar 2012 #14

I remember Al Franken wrote on the back cover of one of his books..... Hassin Bin Sober Apr 2012 #15

Guess I'm gonna stay a poor Democrat ! n/t SamG Mar 2012 #8

I hope it is someone who truly needs it and not a horder. Aside from that, I have lots of madmom Mar 2012 #9

There are three winning tickets. Eugene Mar 2012 #10

I know a guy who won the lottery, $40-some million, took the cast option of $14M and changed his truthisfreedom Apr 2012 #16