{"id":5156,"date":"2011-01-05T21:34:15","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T01:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=5156"},"modified":"2011-01-05T23:14:58","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T03:14:58","slug":"lost-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2011\/01\/05\/lost-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting case where four of the numbers on Lost (<strong>4, 8, 15<\/strong>, 16, 23 and <strong>42<\/strong>) came up in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nylottery.org\/ny\/nyStore\/cgi-bin\/ProdDetEv_Cat_333661_NavRoot_304_ProdID_1651882.htm\">big prize<\/a>. What is more interesting to me is that maybe over 9,000 played them. (I say maybe because people only seem to be referencing the number of $150 winners by<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/DamonLindelof\/status\/22525941871812608\"> LOST creator&#8217;s Twitter<\/a>.) Let&#8217;s say all 6 LOST numbers showed up in the lottery jackpot and 9,078 people played them. There is an important clause:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>*Note: The jackpot prize will be divided equally among multiple jackpot winners. All other prizes are fixed amount, except as set forth below.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Therefore&#8230; $355,000,000 \/ 9,078 = $39,105.53<\/p>\n<p>If instead you got the first five but missed the megaball, you would get $250,000. People might want to keep this kind of thing in mind when selecting numbers. You want to win, but you want to win with something no one else would play. I wonder if this will make people have second thoughts about playing a set of numbers so many others are now known to play?<\/p>\n<p>Then again, people pool their numbers. The largest pool I&#8217;ve heard of was about 50 people coughing up $5 each.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. People playing their special numbers religiously in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.galottery.com\/education\">Georgia lottery put both me, my brother, and a number of my friends through college<\/a>. So keep up the good work! Lots of kids need you to put them through college too. HOPE is underfunded, so play more so more deserving kids can get educated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting case where four of the numbers on Lost (4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42) came up in a big prize. What is more interesting to me is that maybe over 9,000 played them. (I say maybe because people only seem to be referencing the number of $150 winners by LOST creator&#8217;s Twitter.) Let&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1202,12,232],"tags":[1822,1821],"class_list":["post-5156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky-games","category-humor","category-metrics-stats","tag-4-8-15-16-23-and-42","tag-georgia-lottery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-1la","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}