Wisconsin man wins $1.4 million playing 4 identical tickets

Comment #16

sirbrad — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 02:12:26 GMT

Thanks for the detailed explanation, that helped a lot.

Comment #15

KY Floyd — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 07:49:47 GMT

It depends on how the game is set up. Jackpot games have a jackpot that grows with ticket sales and whatever the jackpot is when it gets won, it gets shared equally between all winning tickets. If there are 3 winning tickets each gets 1/3 of the jackpot whether they belong to three different people or were all bought by the same person. Just as PB and MM have fixed prizes at the lower levels, some games have fixed prizes for the first place prize, too. In those games each winning ticket usually... [ More ]

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sirbrad — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 01:14:36 GMT

Not all lotteries work like that do they? I thought on games such as powerball, you are only allowed one winning ticket. If there are multiple winners between others, the amount it divided. If you have multiple tickets, they are all still divided up to equal the one amount

Comment #13

LckyLary — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 01:40:24 GMT

In a NON pari-mutuel system if you have a strong algorithm it makes sense to play multiple on your best set of numbers. There was someone in Seattle a few years ago that got 5 #s on Mega on 10 tickets. One time a store clerk ran a JC5 ticket twice and it had 3 of 5 on it so I got a 2x prize.

Comment #12

rdc137 — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 00:23:30 GMT

True, but $1.4M is not too shabby at all.

Comment #11

rdc137 — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 00:23:29 GMT

True, but $1.4M is not too shabby at all.

Comment #10

whodeani — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 22:05:26 GMT

If he would have spent $8 more, (16 tickets) he would have won $7,000,000. Supercash will pay out up to 20 winning tickets.

Comment #9

JADELottery — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 21:43:22 GMT

Also, not mentioned in this article, he purchased the tickets at two different locations. He played the same two lines at Piggly Wiggly, 1100 E. Commerce Blvd., Slinger and the same two lines at Tri-Par Oil, 651 E. Washington Ave., Slinger. This is from the Wisconsin Lottery's News Release dated 2006-12-07.

Great job guy, I hope you win again.

Comment #8

Badger — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 20:52:24 GMT

Really...I started playing it again when they went to the new 1/39 format. The old 1/36 format paid nothing at all for 3 of 6 and that was always pretty easy to get. Now at least you get a buck for 3 of 6, and that's twice what the line costs you. As to the jackpot odds, that is still a lot better than Powerball. If I worried about jackpot odds a lot, I wouldn't play. The thing you can be sure of is that the odds will be beaten on a regular basis. The old 1/36 format for SC used to produce jus... [ More ]

Comment #7

DoubleDown — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 19:15:42 GMT

My thoughts exactly...

THIS is why some people play the same numbers multiple times !!!

As Bill Engvall says :

HERE'S YOUR SIGN !!!!!

DD

Comment #6

DetroitJazzMan — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:38:06 GMT

I've been doing this for years. I just figured that if my numbers came in, I gould immediately collect some pizza and beer money, disappear and wait for the big one to be deposited. Looks good on paper, however.........time will tell

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qutgnt — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:01:55 GMT

SuperCash is a decent game. I just hated it when they jacked up the grand prize to 350k from 250k while almost doubling the odds. Little lottos that have grand prizes of 100k-250k are good, not everything needs to be a super jackpot game.

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justxploring — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:30:48 GMT

I've never admitted this before, but 2 of my 4 lottery tickets have 5 of the same numbers. I once played my numbers and the clerk must have made a mistake (or the machine read the slip incorrectly..can't honestly remember) and then I kept it. So I added it to my other 3. That was about 4 or 5 years ago.

It's not the same as betting the same number twice, but when people criticize me for having 2 slips that are almost identical, I point out that every set of numbers is entirely different... [ More ]

Comment #3

dumars798 — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:38:58 GMT

WTG

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derek7 — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:37:49 GMT

I think people do that often. They do not win that often though so we just don't hear about it every day...

Comment #1

CA LotteryGuy — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:21:14 GMT

Maybe this guy read the recent thread about betting on numbers multiple times

Wisconsin man wins $1.4 million playing 4 identical tickets

Lottery Post — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:09:03 GMT

A man holding four winning lottery tickets each worth $350,000 has claimed his prize, a Wisconsin lottery official said Thursday.

Tobin Thomas of Slinger won a total of $1.4 million in the state's SuperCash drawing Tuesday.

SuperCash winnings are paid in a lump sum, which will work out to about $950,000 after taxes, lottery spokeswoman Jessica Iverson said.

A telephone number for Thomas in Slinger was disconnected. No other contact information was available.

Unlike other lotteries th... [ More ]