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• WinWinChicDin

  

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  Feb 13, 2017, 4:59 pm

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  The morning word got out that the mega was won in Albany NY I was on a very early flight out of town.

  My cousin called me just before the boarding door closed to find out if it was me.

   

  I was trapped on a plane, without my ticket, on a flight to the west coast......my emotions were all over the place and I was beside myself with panic. but I could not so much as peep to anyone just in case I had actually won.

   

  When I found out it was someone else's win I was gutted.

  Gutted but hopeful my day will come soon.

   

  The restaurant workers who bought a ticket matching the numbers for a draw but for a different draw would leave me so traumatized.....

   

  Any such close but not so close experiences out there
• MaximumMillions

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  Feb 13, 2017, 5:13 pm

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  Did you also buy in the same store?

  I've had a ticket from a winning state a few times and of course there's always a "What If" moment, but that's is usually all it is. Winning stores aren't released here.

  Why were you so nervous on the plane? Were you playing numbers close to the winning combo? You can always get right back on that plane in case of a lotto emergency.
• Redd55

  

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  Feb 13, 2017, 5:40 pm

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  When PB reached 1.5 billion, as a joke a guy called his mother at her job and told her she had won. It was reported to the media, too. Really sort of cruel.
• Stack47

  

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  Feb 13, 2017, 11:36 pm

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  In response to MaximumMillions

  Quote: Originally posted by MaximumMillions on Feb 13, 2017

  Did you also buy in the same store?

  I've had a ticket from a winning state a few times and of course there's always a "What If" moment, but that's is usually all it is. Winning stores aren't released here.

  Why were you so nervous on the plane? Were you playing numbers close to the winning combo? You can always get right back on that plane in case of a lotto emergency.

  A few years ago when the MM jackpot was really high, I bought some tickets in Michigan. Find out the jackpot winning ticket was sold at a gas station right across the highway from where I bought my tickets. The winning ticket was bought the day before so I really wasn't that close. And missing a jackpot by one numbers isn't that close either considering how many combos there one number short.
• MaximumMillions

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  Quote: Originally posted by Stack47 on Feb 13, 2017

  A few years ago when the MM jackpot was really high, I bought some tickets in Michigan. Find out the jackpot winning ticket was sold at a gas station right across the highway from where I bought my tickets. The winning ticket was bought the day before so I really wasn't that close. And missing a jackpot by one numbers isn't that close either considering how many combos there one number short.

  I agree, a miss is really 291 million and some turns away from the winning combination.