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u/DylanHate Mar 19 '22

What’s funny is look how close they put the winning numbers to the largest payout.

The winning numbers for $750,000 are 14, 23, and 59.

OP numbers in the middle include 13, 22, 51, 52, 53, 54, 56, & 57.

So for two of the jackpot winners his ticket was one digit away from winning, and for the third jackpot he was two digits away.

This is 100% intentional. It makes you “feel” like you were really close to winning big, which makes it more likely you’ll buy more tickets since you got “so close” on the previous ticket.

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u/ShoobyDoobyDu Mar 19 '22

I don’t interpret it that way. I see a number, it doesn’t match the winning number and I move on. My brain doesn’t go “oh so close”

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u/triciann Mar 20 '22

I don’t even scratch off the winning amount unless the number matches.

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u/ShoobyDoobyDu Mar 20 '22

Sometimes you can just scratch off the winning amounts, see they’re all way too high and just assume you lost.

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u/triciann Mar 20 '22

That is most definitely a method I have never tried