Subj : Re: Lotos
To   : George Vandervort
From : Dale Shipp
Date : Sat May 14 2005 12:34 am

 -=> On 05-13-05  11:58,  George Vandervort <=-
 -=> spoke to Mike Ross about Lotos <=-

 GV> How does that Explain last weeks "POWER BALL" Lottery

 GV> 110 individual Tickets all had the winning SIX Numbers
 GV> for the same Drawing $12,000,000.00 jackpot..

  According to an article I read, the explanation is that a manufacturer
  of Chinese fortune cookies printed that combination on the back of the
  fortune in a lot of cookies.   Many people got the cookie, 110 people
  actually played the numbers and so won big (but not the jackpot).
  According to the lottery folks, they would have been better off if the
  fortune cookie slip had the jackpot number on it instead of all but
  one -- then the 110 people would have split the jackpot instead of
  each collecting the fixed amount second prize.

                               Dale Shipp
                  fido_261_1466 (at) comcast (dot) net
                              (1:261/1466)


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