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Someone In Illinois Has Won The $1.337 Billion Mega Millions Jackpot Prize, And Here Are The Best Twitter Reactions (30 Tweets)
Winning a huge amount of money in the lottery is always a life-changing point, and for someone who bought a Mega Millions lottery ticket at a gas station in Des Plaines, Illinois, that moment has already arrived. The winnings amounted to $1.337 billion, but so far the lucky one, who spent only two dollars on the purchase, has not yet appeared.
According to statistics, about 302M tickets were bought for this draw, which means that about the same number of people across America were not as lucky as the unknown person on the highway northwest of Chicago. What's the best way to deal with disappointment? That's right, irony!
Twitter is now full of brilliant jokes and puns from people who bought a ticket and the only prize they received was a while of daydreaming about what would happen when they won. After all, it's never a pity to pay two dollars for a good dream!
Bored Panda has collected some of the most original, ironic and amusing reactions from Twitter users, and if the jackpot could be won simply by being witty, many of these people would already be fabulously rich.
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#1
Katy McMouse 2 years ago
Installments or lump sum ? - (asking for a friend who may or may not have won the same).
Gerard Murphy 2 years ago
I have suffered for so many years as a cleaner at a flower shop with a very low pay. I love playing lottery games because I wanted to make it in life just to make sure my children do not suffer the way I did but I never won big and that was so discouraging till I saw online about spells to win lottery games and I was referred to Dr Amber via WhatsApp who prepared a lottery spell for me and gave me some numbers to play the lottery game that made me a winner of 6 MILLION EUROS after checking for the winners of the game at the store I played it. Everything just changed within a second and I was so happy because I am finally free from poverty. I don't know how long you have been playing the lottery without winning big but Dr Amber is like a GOD that has come to help and if you need your ex back, he can help you too for he does all types of spells. For more details, WhatsApp, call / text Dr Amber via +1 318 306 5044 or email: amberlottotemple@yahoo.com or check: amberlottotemple.com
Doug Canning 2 years ago
Rumour has it that the guy’s wife after hearing they had won, asked her husband “what about the begging letters?” He replied “keep sending them out!”
The current jackpot prize amount has been collected since April 15, when the previous jackpot was won somewhere in Tennessee. True, then it was much less - "only" $20 million. This time the winning balls were numbers 13, 36, 45, 57 and 67, as well as the golden Mega Ball number 14.
#7
Katy McMouse 2 years ago
Demand a recount! Hire a crazy asss lawyer to start calling every lottery official he can find. Storm the 7-11 you bought the ticket from! Occupy the slushy machine and call it a victory! (And don't forget to post it all online. Better yet - buy lots of billboards).
#8
Wysteria_Rose 2 years ago
My husband and I had a whole conversation on how much we'd give away to friends and family...our kids were set for life. Sorry, kids!
#10
This is the second largest jackpot prize in Mega Millions history and the third largest in the whole US lottery history. On the other hand, the biggest prize, $1.586 billion from Powerball, had to be divided among three winners in 2016. But two years later, also in Mega Millions, a winner who wished to remain anonymous single-handedly got $1.537 billion.
#15
In too many fandoms 2 years ago
Who thought it would be a good idea to make Alaska appear against Mexico???
Subject to all taxes, the winner of this draw can expect to receive $780.5 million as a cash lump sum, or receive annual payments for the next thirty years. And the local retailer who sold the winning ticket will also receive a cash bonus of $500K.
#17
"We have not heard from the winner yet," says Harold Mays, Illinois Lottery Director. "We don't know whether or not they're aware they've won this incredible prize. So we're telling all of our players - check your tickets." It would be a shame if the person who won such an incredible amount ends up either throwing away the lucky ticket or losing it. In any case, this person will go down in history - as a great lucky one or a great loser.
By the way, this is not the last lucky winner of this Mega Millions draw. According to the lottery's official announcement on Saturday, 26 more tickets won second-tier prizes, ranging from $1M to $2m apiece. In total, more than 14M tickets won at least two dollars - that is, their buyers at least went to zero.
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DuchessDegu 2 years ago
I've played the £1.9 million Euro Millions a couple of week ago and I won £12.00. Just a few zeroes missing.
SoozeeQ 2 years ago
I won $25 once. I *was* hoping for $12 million, but still ...
Load More Replies... Miss Frankfurter 2 years ago
In all seriousness (sorry, I know this is a funny take on losing) but thinking what I could do IF I had won, there are so many people in Appalachia right now who didn’t possess much to lose in the first place. I would want them to know that help is on the way.
Brian bell 2 years ago
Back in the day my grandmother used to buy "all us kids" a lottery ticket (don't remember the game, but one with balls in a vaccum tube and a "red" last one) Anyhow, after a few months of watching more often than not having NO numbers match, I opted for her to buy me a Coke instead, so I could happily have my sugar rush watching all of us lose yet again... That is why I don't play.
Bill Allen 2 years ago
Ha! I didn’t make a donation to that fund this time. I’m at least $2 ahead of the game.
Stacey Rae 2 years ago
2 billion! So much good could be done with that! So many struggling people could be helped with even a half of that.
Wintermute 2 years ago
My question is at which point in the cost benefit spectrum does your two dollars become worth it. Like people are seeing a $300 million jackpot and thinking, "Nah, not enough for me to risk it all yet? Call me back when it gets to the BIG bucks?"
Squirrel Girl 2 years ago
if I had won I would've paid off mortgage and other bills and helped my family and other people. and gotten a dog.
DuchessDegu 2 years ago
I've played the £1.9 million Euro Millions a couple of week ago and I won £12.00. Just a few zeroes missing.
SoozeeQ 2 years ago
I won $25 once. I *was* hoping for $12 million, but still ...
Load More Replies... Miss Frankfurter 2 years ago
In all seriousness (sorry, I know this is a funny take on losing) but thinking what I could do IF I had won, there are so many people in Appalachia right now who didn’t possess much to lose in the first place. I would want them to know that help is on the way.
Brian bell 2 years ago
Back in the day my grandmother used to buy "all us kids" a lottery ticket (don't remember the game, but one with balls in a vaccum tube and a "red" last one) Anyhow, after a few months of watching more often than not having NO numbers match, I opted for her to buy me a Coke instead, so I could happily have my sugar rush watching all of us lose yet again... That is why I don't play.
Bill Allen 2 years ago
Ha! I didn’t make a donation to that fund this time. I’m at least $2 ahead of the game.
Stacey Rae 2 years ago
2 billion! So much good could be done with that! So many struggling people could be helped with even a half of that.
Wintermute 2 years ago
My question is at which point in the cost benefit spectrum does your two dollars become worth it. Like people are seeing a $300 million jackpot and thinking, "Nah, not enough for me to risk it all yet? Call me back when it gets to the BIG bucks?"
Squirrel Girl 2 years ago
if I had won I would've paid off mortgage and other bills and helped my family and other people. and gotten a dog.
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