$636 Million Mega Millions jackpot split by 2 tickets

Comment #86

THRIFTY — Thu, 02 Jan 2014 23:08:08 GMT

Do not worry.You will win a lottery jackpot at the age of 90. Good luck.

Comment #85

THRIFTY — Thu, 02 Jan 2014 23:05:38 GMT

They are going to spend it all, including the money that you lost playing.

Comment #84

THRIFTY — Thu, 02 Jan 2014 23:03:11 GMT

Playing the lottery.

Comment #83

THRIFTY — Thu, 02 Jan 2014 22:58:39 GMT

You are experiencing Lottery Hangover.

Comment #82

THRIFTY — Thu, 02 Jan 2014 22:56:04 GMT

It takes a while to collect billions of dollars spent to win a $648 Millions jackpot.

Comment #81

THRIFTY — Thu, 02 Jan 2014 22:53:45 GMT

We will see a $600 Millions jackpot in 2015.

Comment #80

THRIFTY — Thu, 02 Jan 2014 22:23:34 GMT

$648 Million Mega Millions jackpot split by 2 tickets

Comment #79

Lucky4Life — Sun, 29 Dec 2013 18:17:25 GMT

Did the second winner ever come forward? I'm a little out of the loop. If not I bet they are waiting until after the first. that's what I would have done.

Comment #78

DC81 — Sat, 28 Dec 2013 03:19:44 GMT

Why not? The fool did nothing to prepare to defend herself or her family's privacy from the nuts and crooks before putting herself out there in front of them all.

I maintain that the second winner was ecstatic that she did it though.

Comment #77

KY Floyd — Fri, 27 Dec 2013 16:45:33 GMT

A NEW GAME started on 10/22/13, that is draw #1! Duh?

Duh, indeed. Calling that the starting point of the new game may be reasonable, but since it was preceded by 5 drawings with rollovers claiming it's the first drawing is ridiculous when you're comparing it to other jackpot runs. Are you seriously telling me that comparing a jackpot run that starts with an advertised jackpot of $55 million to one that starts at $12 million makes any sense at all?

OTOH, that approach could explain why yo... [ More ]

Comment #76

Gleno — Wed, 25 Dec 2013 13:15:26 GMT

The winner in GA sure has the hounds on her trail. Could not believe that someone went out to her allegged home, took pictures of it and posted it on the internet. Not sure if that is bordering on the invasion of privacy, because she came out in public.

Some folks are saying you don't need a lawyer but if she found the right one, they could have advised her about precautions to take before goig public. And yes the lawyers too are no doubt pursuing her as a client, along with hoards of financ... [ More ]

Comment #75

Jon D — Mon, 23 Dec 2013 22:28:53 GMT

Let's remember how this all started, shall we?

Todd said: ...the jackpot total for the Tuesday drawing could wind up being something like $648 million. Not the record, but pretty close.

You said: It's not even remotely close to a record.

I replied to you: It was pretty close in terms of sales depending on how you looked at it. But we can't tell for sure because it was a mixed run, part old matrix, part new matrix.

Then I went on to prove how looking at just sales SINCE THE START OF... [ More ]

Comment #74

KY Floyd — Mon, 23 Dec 2013 19:51:51 GMT

You seem to be confused about when a jackpot run starts. It happens right after there's a winner and the jackpot is reset to the minimum, not when they change the matrix. You wouldn't be stupid enough to say that it only took 5 drawings after the start of December, so why do you pretend it took 17 drawings? The simple fact is that it took 22 drawings to garner a billion in sales, compared to 19 drawings to reach 1.5 billion. More drawings, smaller sales, period. The purpose of MM is to sell tick... [ More ]

Comment #73

bigbear29 — Sun, 22 Dec 2013 21:03:42 GMT

What have you seen that would tell that Curry will be broke in 4 years

Comment #72

DC81 — Sun, 22 Dec 2013 18:57:00 GMT

And the award for horrible comparison goes to...

You know who loves the fact that she came forward so quickly? The other winner.

Comment #71

One-Day — Sat, 21 Dec 2013 19:44:27 GMT

I agree. Based on what I've seen, I seriously doubt Curry will have a penny to her name in 4 years. She'll be completely broke by then. I wish her good luck because she is really going to need it.

Comment #70

brees2012 — Fri, 20 Dec 2013 16:08:01 GMT

The states that's NOT anonymous , should be ............

Comment #69

Jon D — Fri, 20 Dec 2013 16:04:19 GMT

Once again, you're just doing a simplistic analysis of things like individual intervals or totals, not looking at the overall sales activity and trends.

Just simply looking at the $1.5 Billion total of the record 2012 draw is ignoring the circumstances of that draw. You can deny the graph which is as plain as day, but you can't deny the facts:

For 2012 record run, it took 18 draws for the sales to reach a level that significantly exceeded the odds on the game for a likely winner, $191M, fo... [ More ]

Comment #68

KY Floyd — Fri, 20 Dec 2013 15:21:27 GMT

No, I'm using the data. You seem to be ignoring it even when you acknowledge it, since you know that a previous run reached $1.5 billion in sales over 19 drawings, whereas this one took 22 drawings to reach only $1 billion. As usual I can't tell much from that stuff you've got jammed together on the graph, but the raw numbers are easy to understand. Here they are, along with comparisons to one another. Other than corrections for the final totals the annuity values are from lottoreport, as are th... [ More ]

Comment #67

rdgrnr — Fri, 20 Dec 2013 02:04:37 GMT

And you're doing a good job, ressuccess.

I've been watching you.

Comment #66

ressuccess — Thu, 19 Dec 2013 19:34:23 GMT

This is part of my current event to end the year 2013.

Comment #65

psykomo — Thu, 19 Dec 2013 12:30:21 GMT

PNE:

cause eighteen nineteen twenty year ole's know bout blow^ng 100 MIL

Comment #64

Jon D — Thu, 19 Dec 2013 04:43:49 GMT

Agreed. And I think I said that, didn't I:

But we can't tell for sure because it was a mixed run, part old matrix, part new matrix.

Look, I could care less if the new MM matrix succeeds or fails. But this constant whining about, Oh the new MM matrix is horrible, it's evil, it's going to fail! is just not consistent with the data we have post-change. Let's just wait and see.

Comment #63

LottoMetro — Thu, 19 Dec 2013 04:35:19 GMT

When the matrix changed, the advertised jackpot was $55 million. That in itself skews the sales results.

If you compare the closest amount from the record run ($51 million) and start from there, sales then are still greater than the recent run. Even the average sales increase per draw is greater (~38% vs. 24.6%) and the slope is less than half.

Year Run Draws Total Sales Average Sales

2012 $51M - $640M 14 $1,394,213,421 $99,586,673

2013 $55M - $636M 17 $988,757,966 $58,162,233

Comment #62

Jon D — Thu, 19 Dec 2013 04:08:56 GMT

You're ingnoring the data to fit your narrative. Just look at the sales. Compare the new matrix sales post-matrix-change, compared to the record run.

Wow, it looks just like the record run in March 2012 except slightly greater rate of increase of sales. Like I said, $1.5 Billion in 19 draws compared to $1 Billion in 17 draws for the new run, and 1 more draw would be easily bust that $1.5 Billion number and then some. Breaking all records for Sales, Cash and Annuity on the 18th draw. Since the... [ More ]

Comment #61

KY Floyd — Thu, 19 Dec 2013 03:40:26 GMT

It was pretty close in terms of sales depending on how you looked at it.

How do you look at it to make $1 billion over 22 drawings and $1.5 billion over 19 drawings pretty close ?

Every single drawing had bigger sales during the record run, with average sales of about $78 million per drawing. For the current run the average is a bit shy of $45.5 million.

For the modest jackpots in the first several drawings the record run only saw sales that were about 8 to 25% higher. Once the jackpo... [ More ]

Comment #60

JWBlue — Thu, 19 Dec 2013 03:30:15 GMT

Excellent point.

Comment #59

noise-gate — Thu, 19 Dec 2013 00:41:50 GMT

Its her Money, she can do what she wants.

When an NFL team wins the Superbowl, they don't get to touch the Trophy 6 months after the win.

Comment #58

Teddi — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 23:01:59 GMT

Just like she should know to have things organized and have her ducks in a row before claiming. But here she is. Lottery winners 'should' know a whole lot of stuff they don't actually know. And that's usually why they end up bankrupt inside of 5 years.

Comment #57

faith2win — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 22:56:45 GMT

Congratulations!!! it's very nice to here we had two Lucky Blessed Winners for the Big Jackpot...I just pray they will use their winnings in a manner that's pleasing to The Lord.....I truly feel like if they will follow this path they want wind up like so many others I've heard of in the past that would wind up completely broke with-in only a few years....such stories as this are very sad to hear about causing so many Broken Hearts.

Comment #56

LottoMetro — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 22:49:42 GMT

Surely she knows that it takes about 2 weeks for the lottery to collect the money

Comment #55

Tatototman65 — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 22:43:58 GMT

Congrats to the two winners!!!

These were my predictions for last nights game:

*1st # even

*2nd # will NOT have a '2' in it

*3rd # odd

*4th # even

*MB 5, 6, 7, 8, or 9

5/5 correct! Again, congrats to the winners

Comment #54

Jill34786 — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 22:29:27 GMT

Unless she has already worked out an arrangement with a bank it will be several weeks before her account gets funded. In the meantime, she will be hounded by friends, strangers and many others looking for a handout.

Comment #53

Toronto — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 22:28:01 GMT

Time value of money

Comment #52

Teddi — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 22:19:28 GMT

Well, I wouldn't say it takes 6 months, but it sure takes longer than 16 hours. Unless she has a lawyer and/or financial planner already lined up, her hotel room booked somewhere to stay until the furor dies down, and she's gotten a PO Box and changed her phone number between the win and now, she's not going to keep that money very long. She'll go the way of Abraham Shakespeare or Jack Whittaker. I'm not seeing how she could have everything planned and set up in 16 hours.... [ More ]

Comment #51

brees2012 — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 22:11:55 GMT

Why so fast , she didn't plan on average it takes 6 monthsall figured out .

Would never rush to get my money like that , always have a plan and 1/2 packed.

Comment #50

Teddi — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 22:07:55 GMT

Well the Georgia winner has already come forward to claim her money. I give her 5 years tops.

Comment #49

Teddi — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 22:06:58 GMT

Some states don't require a news conference, they just require that they make your identity public. Gloria never gave a news conference but they tried to spring one on her. Called the press while she was there filling out paperwork.

Comment #48

dallascowboyfan — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 22:04:50 GMT

Congratulations to the winners

Comment #47

brees2012 — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 22:01:08 GMT

I just read , their's a new conference and one winner will not be there . HOw can you collect your money if you aren't at the conference .

Unless your state is Anonymous ....

Comment #46

golfer1960 — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 21:16:01 GMT

Congratulations to the winners.

Yeah right. Screw them.

Comment #45

HaveABall — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 20:45:18 GMT

Wow, for $1, those two second prize California winners walked away with a lot more than those in the other states

Comment #44

Jon D — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 20:31:10 GMT

Did they find the Cali winner yet? I haven't seen any story except about the store that won in San Jose.

Comment #43

Jill34786 — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 20:30:48 GMT

I found it amusing as well.

Whats even funnier is that it was the boss telling her employees that she quit.

Comment #42

OldSchoolPa — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 20:27:43 GMT

Fack! F*#k! Fo$k! I picked all those numbers but I allowed my allegiance to certain significant numbers like birthdays to cloud my play. Consequently, I only put them on different lines. Won little money but all of those numbers which were not really significant came to me over a series of 2 days. Oh well, it would have been nice being one of those winners but there is always future drawings. Now back to work, you slave! Yes massa Obama

Comment #41

One-Day — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 20:25:14 GMT

LOL. That weird dude in California won't have a penny 6 months from now. It might be a fake story, Paul Horner . :)

Edit: YES IT IS a fake story at prlog

Comment #40

Jon D — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 20:19:12 GMT

That's funny, I like that:

Your mom's, co-worker's, in-law's, boss won the MM JP.

It's like the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. (or separation)

Everyone must know a lottery JP winner within 6 steps.

Comment #39

phoneman76 — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 19:39:58 GMT

The Ga winner should be coming forward soon bc I just got a text from my mom that her coworkers in-laws boss just told her employees she won and ofcoarse quit her job

Comment #38

Piaceri — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 18:58:56 GMT

What a mean, rotten thing to say. If you can't say something nice about someone, say nothing at all. Especially when you are telling millions of people that their life is a waste. Karma is a mean bitch and she bites hard.

Comment #37

delS — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 18:34:15 GMT

The frenzy was well worth the dream. But I have awakened to my reality. Lol. But I pray for the winners. That they enjoy their enriched life, that they allow themselves to be ambassadors for will in the lives of others, and that no nightmares arise out of this blessing.

Comment #36

Jon D — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 18:23:01 GMT

It was pretty close in terms of sales depending on how you looked at it. But we can't tell for sure because it was a mixed run, part old matrix, part new matrix.

On the previous record run, it took 19 draws to break $200M sales and then got won, and pulled in almost $1.5 Billion total. On the new matrix, if counting from the start of the new matrix 10/22, it took 17 draws to break $200M sales and then got won, and pulled in just under $1 Billion. One more draw would have been an undisputed re... [ More ]

Comment #35

TNPATL — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 17:56:23 GMT

Happy to see a ticket won out of GA. Congrats to the winners of the tickets.

I hope they enjoy their new found wealth.

I was hoping the ticket would roll over at least one more time. I'm looking forward to seeing a jackpot get really high past $800 million one of these days. Oh will guess we have to wait for that.

Comment #34

KY Floyd — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 17:49:10 GMT

It's not even remotely close to a record. Even if you're willing to accept the anuity value as a legitimate jackpot measure, by changing the terms of the annuity they've made it a complete farce to try and compare this drawing to any previous drawing on a dollar to dollar basis. It's like thinking somebody who weighs 400 pounds isn't fat if we weigh them in kilos.

Comment #33

dpoly1 — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 16:47:30 GMT

It would be great for someone with that has worked hard for many years to get a break

Comment #32

Shelby Mustang — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 16:42:56 GMT

I do believe that my neighbor said he was from Conyers GA

Comment #31

Kumo — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 16:35:21 GMT

Won $5 last night across two tickets, $1 on a regular pick and $4 on a quick pick with the Megaplier. :)

Barring Powerball doesn't go nuts over the next couple of months, we could be looking at another one of these monster Mega Millions jackpots come early March, just intime for my birthday.

I think I am really starting to like the new matrix, inspite of the odds.

Merry Christmas and congrats to the winners, both large and small

Comment #30

pickone4me — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 16:31:43 GMT

That would be quite a waste.

Comment #29

charmed7 — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 16:20:01 GMT

Boy!!!!!! i would love to b at one their houses for Christmas

Comment #28

dpoly1 — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 16:17:57 GMT

I hope that both winners are in their 60's

Comment #27

RedStang — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 16:15:10 GMT

I was skeptically amazed that the numbers drawn were low numbers

All these neophobes complaining about the changes and look what happens. That's why i always play.

Comment #26

JWBlue — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 15:58:39 GMT

San Jose is the land of the wealthy as well.

That is where a lot of the Silicon Valley millionaires live.

Comment #25

TheGameGrl — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 15:47:43 GMT

Keeping an open mind that they come forward in the next few weeks to claim. Age is a number and so is winning. So long as they are breathing and have a pulse, kudos for the win.

I was skeptically amazed that the numbers drawn were low numbers....They knew folks would play birthday numbers....Conspiracy? I think not, just the luck of balls.

Comment #24

Coin Toss — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 15:39:41 GMT

Good for the winners!

Now maybe we can come down from Level 16 lottery insanity and revert back to the normal Level 3.

Comment #23

DC81 — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 15:25:04 GMT

Told ya it wouldn't make it to a billion.

Comment #22

Piaceri — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 15:23:07 GMT

Fifty is the new 40. I hope the winners are in their 50's with kids grown and gone so they can enjoy life best. They're young enough to enjoy it and old enough to know better.

Comment #21

DC81 — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 15:21:21 GMT

You would have to be a special kind of stupid to blow through as much money as both will get in just five years.

Comment #20

DC81 — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 15:20:01 GMT

How do you know the winners weren't already rich or at the very least well off? Plenty of already well off people have won in the past.

Comment #19

mypiemaster — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 14:49:25 GMT

What's the matter sonny boy, your octogenarian girlfriends dumped you huh

Comment #18

pickone4me — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 14:46:39 GMT

Shenanigans, time for an investigation! It can't be conicidence that the same state wins all the time. Oh and the state that the draws are done from coincidentally won too.

Comment #17

dr65 — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 14:38:15 GMT

2 tickets win the jp! WTG to those players. Where is the news on the lower tiered prizes? Anyone know?

I didn't win anything and really didn't expect to but I guess with my talk about I don't need THAT much, I

suppose someone was listening and didn't let me win any of it.

I'll change tunes next time the jp is up there: I NEED EVERY CENT OF IT. That should do it.

Comment #16

WWWBUKTN — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 14:36:15 GMT

If it's in the Buckhead area the person who won can very well be from the riches side of the tracks already. I just hope the people are under the age of fifty as I hate seeing senior citizens win.

I was kind of shocked none of the 5 + 0 people played the Megaplier option.

Comment #15

HEMI6point1 — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 14:28:26 GMT

For their sake I hope they don't blow it in 5 years like many other winners!

Speaking of, I wish the feds mandated that all states give the option of claiming anonymously. Down here in FL, if you win you can decline to take a photo but you still have to give out your name and city. That may be fine if someone's name is John Smith but when someone's name is like, well.... MINE it would be pretty easy to figure it out.

Down here, I'll continue to play the state lotto which is up to 46 mil... [ More ]

Comment #14

mypiemaster — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 14:23:33 GMT

Completely anticlimactic for real.

Comment #13

surimaribo24 — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 14:03:39 GMT

luck changed two human live overnight from rag to riches style . congrats to the winners

Comment #12

DDOH937 — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 13:58:24 GMT

Well, A bit disappointed it didn't roll at least once more but a hearty congrats to the winners!!! Be smart, careful and all the best!! I've got next

Comment #11

sully16 — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 13:52:06 GMT

Congrats to the lucky winners, On to the next

Comment #10

Todd — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 13:37:27 GMT

I'm not sure why it takes the states so long to come up with a final jackpot tally for Mega Millions, but apparently the jackpot total for the Tuesday drawing could wind up being something like $648 million. Not the record, but pretty close.

Comment #9

helpmewin — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 13:17:59 GMT

Comment #8

mypiemaster — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 13:17:17 GMT

Completely anticlimactic

Comment #7

whiteballz — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 13:17:05 GMT

personally, I wish the jackpot rolled. It's going to take months for the JP to build up again.

Comment #6

Win$500Quick — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 13:09:41 GMT

Congrats and Merry Christmas to the 2 lucky winners.

Comment #5

Piaceri — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 12:38:47 GMT

I had fun, party pooper.

Congrats to the winners.

Not happy with MM starting cash is no different than before, despite the 'increase' of the annuity to $15m. Oh well, onward to Powerball! Woo hoo

Comment #4

hearsetrax — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 12:30:59 GMT

well that was fun

Comment #3

phoneman76 — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 12:30:49 GMT

Ironically that happened here in Ga where lady who was unemployed ask the clerk for a won on mega millions and accidentally gave her a PowerBook ticket and won 72 million but i doubt that's the case here bc this newsstand on Lenox rd is Located in a Upscale mall so it either a mall employee, shopper or the newsstand owner

Comment #2

Kee12 — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 12:27:52 GMT

Congratulations to the winners. At least, the lottery fever will be at rest for now. We didn't win anything. We look forward to SLP later today as one ticket was bought for that as well.

Comment #1

Shelby Mustang — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 12:24:51 GMT

All I can say is...I wish it had of been me LOL. No Good Luck and a Super Merry Christmas to the winners. Wouldnt it be great if it was somebody on unemployment and couldnt find a job or something like that and the got this huge financial blessing just in time...That's my Christmas wish

$636 Million Mega Millions jackpot split by 2 tickets

Lottery Post — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 12:18:05 GMT

Winners in California, Georgia

Includes video report

Winning tickets for an estimated $636 million Mega Millions jackpot, the second biggest in U.S. lottery history, were sold in San Jose, California and Atlanta, Georgia, lottery officials said late on Tuesday evening.

There was no immediate word about who the winners were, but one winning ticket was bought at a retail location whose name was given as Jennifer's Gift Shop on Tully Road in San Jose, according to Alex Traverso, a lottery... [ More ]