Most winners in a lottery?

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david1691 — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 01:49:58 GMT

ScoobyDue where are you? The Pennsylvania Lottery's Cash 5 game selected the numbers 5 10 15 20 25 on February 6, 2004. The jackpot that day was $100,000. There were 242 winners and each received $439. Then in their Treasure Hunt game on December 4, 2010 the numbers 1 2 3 4 5 were selected. The jackpot that day was about $62,000. There were 42 winners and each received $1266. A link to their website is here on Lottery Post. It'll let you search for specific numbers for a specific date range. I h... [ More ]

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wander73 — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 22:15:52 GMT

I don't google, it was a family in Trenton NJ.

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Raven62 — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 21:19:03 GMT

Could it have been this one:

https://www.lotterypost.com/news/112702

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KY Floyd — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 20:48:09 GMT

I don't remember ever hearing about that many winners for a jackpot game. let alone details.

The numbers were all multiples of 9, but a Philippine lottery had over 400 winners a few months ago, and quite a while back over 100 people won the 2nd place PB prize when they all played a set of (seemingly normal) numbers from a fortune cookie. I once looked and couldn't find the details, but a NY game (probably Take 5) draw multiples of 5 (perhaps 7 to 10 years ago). IIRC one multiple was missed s... [ More ]

Most winners in a lottery?

ScoobyDue — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 19:21:12 GMT

It seems I remember a ton of people winning a New Jersey lottery once but I can't find anything on it

It was a popular combo like 10-15-20-25-30 or something and 1,000 people (or more!) went to bed thinking they won millions and woke up to $10-12,000 each or something silly like that

Anyone recall this?

I have googled and googled and can't seem to find it