rcj1@ihuxi.UUCP (06/20/83)
The Illinois State lottery started in Feb. of this year. Usually there is 1 and sometimes 2 winners for the Grand Prize(=>$1M). Incredibly enough, there were 78 winners of the grand prize this week. This means 78 people picked 6 out of 40 numbers correctly!!! Why do you think this happened? And what are the odds??? I dont know the odds but I can tell you why. The winning numbers were:(believe it or not) 7-13-14-21-28-35 (alt=37)!!! Now you know why 78 people hit it. By the way these people had to split the grand prize and settle for $9,544.00 7,063 people picked 5 of 6 (with or without the alternate number) and recieved $2,300.00 11,399 picked 4 of 6 to pick up $22.00 I'm not sure I should be sending this kind of information to the net so please inform me if I'm doing something illegal... I just thought that the result of this weeks drawing is very interesting. Ray, ihuxi!rcj1