A lucky Mega Millions ticket holder will be celebrating a most amazing holiday season in 2019!

A single ticket sold in Ohio matched all six numbers drawn Tuesday night to win the $375 million jackpot ($253.5 million cash).

The final jackpot amount was adjusted upwards based on actual sales, and is the 14th largest prize in the history of the game.

check your tickets folks

Do you really think I would tell you if it was me? Hell no, I'd looking for a lawyer to help me out before anyone knew!! Even my wife, if I could contain myself (probably not)

Dang. Missed it by only six numbers...

A lot of Sigs to be bought in Ohio.

Wish I could tell you it was me!

Missed it by not knowing how to buy a ticket!

I asked my sister since she lives near Mentor. She said it wasn’t her.

Dang

Not me, never bought a lottery ticket in my life.

Me neither.

I can sell you Wednesdays cheap.

I don't believe in gambling. I might lose. I consider lottery tickets to be gambling. My wife kind of likes it, but she had a favored aunt who lived in Vegas. When she was young, she'd go visit for the summers. I had no idea drug stores and grocery stores had slot machines. Wouldn't matter to me. I'm too cheap.

Besides, from what I've read, lottery winners end up being losers. Most get divorced (not the worst thing I guess), many get so much money they end up bankrupt. No money handling skills at all. All the gamblers dream of what they'd do if they win. But they don't tell you about income taxes. And all the scum bags who come calling and demand you donate to their worthy cause.

That town is about 20 minutes from me. That’s where I lived prior to moving here. Hoping a relative bought it. Sure wasn’t me.

Not me although I wish I could say it was. Winner is from Mentor, Ohio and I'm pretty south of there.
I've played a few times but it's very rare. Maybe 2x a year and that's it. Usually when the jackpot is pretty high I'll throw a few bucks at it.

I look at the lottery as voluntary taxation. Thanks to all you participants.

Certainly was not me. I quit playing all lottery games since hitting top prize on the Powerball a few years ago.

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I look at the lottery as voluntary taxation.

^^^^ This.

Plus, if it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have any.

Taking a quick look into the future of the winner, I foresee some painful stupidity and horrible decision making, mixed in with divorce, drug addiction, tax evasion and maybe even a murder or two. At least that's the forecast for the average big lottery winner.

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Originally posted by rburg:
I don't believe in gambling. I might lose. I consider lottery tickets to be gambling. My wife kind of likes it, but she had a favored aunt who lived in Vegas.

When you buy a lottery ticket, you're paying for a fantasy of sudden wealth, kind of like getting a wish from a Jeannie out of a bottle. Yeah, I know. Somebodies got to win. But it's not going to be you (or me). A few times a year I might spent one or two dollars on a lottery ticket to have this fantasy. And I do mean $1 or $2. Never any more. That's a harmless and cheap entertainment expense for the fantasy. But what I don't understand is these people who spend $50 or $100 on lottery tickets, and they aren't part of a pool. Seems foolish to me. Plus these people think that spending all the money makes it more likely that they are going to win. Well, maybe. But they forget that each individual ticket has the same million to one chance of winning. Buying more tickets doesn't change the astronomical odds of winning on each ticket.

I won ten bucks off of a ticket somebody gave me for Christmas.

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Originally posted by LtJL:
I won ten bucks off of a ticket somebody gave me for Christmas.

We always buy 2-3 $2 scratch offs for each adult in the family. We still do stocking stuffers. I did win $40 last year. It’s just for fun and laughs.