Thought I'd check my Mega Millions lottery ticket; I knew from past experience to not even bother for a few minutes after the drawing and it's a longer wait when the jackpot is huge as it is now.
The official Texas Lottery site has the results for all the Texas games as well as Powerball and Mega Millions. I waited for thirty minutes, then clicked on the link and got this error message:
A little unusual, but not totally unexpected. I then went to the official Mega Millions site and saw this:
The Texas Lottery site was probably just overwhelmed with traffic. I bet I could have kept refreshing and eventually got the site to load. I imagine the Mega Millions site servers have crashed.
Not sure why I'm even bothering about it; I'd bet - if I had it - 363 million I didn't win. The odds of me winning that bet are much better than the odds I won the lottery. (the same, only in reverse)
Oh well, I'll just go on to bed ,check in the morning. I might be a multi-millionaire when I wake up.
Yeah, right.
UPDATE: According to an unofficial lottery results website, no one won the lottery. They put the new jackpot at 476 million with a cash value of $341.4 million. They also state it will be the largest prize "the world has ever seen."
I plan on buying a ticket early. I remember a drawing for a huge jackpot a few years ago where there was so much activity, the Texas Lottery machines couldn't communicate w/ the main computer in Austin..
A little unusual, but not totally unexpected. I then went to the official Mega Millions site and saw this:
The Texas Lottery site was probably just overwhelmed with traffic. I bet I could have kept refreshing and eventually got the site to load. I imagine the Mega Millions site servers have crashed.
Not sure why I'm even bothering about it; I'd bet - if I had it - 363 million I didn't win. The odds of me winning that bet are much better than the odds I won the lottery. (the same, only in reverse)
Oh well, I'll just go on to bed ,check in the morning. I might be a multi-millionaire when I wake up.
Yeah, right.
UPDATE: According to an unofficial lottery results website, no one won the lottery. They put the new jackpot at 476 million with a cash value of $341.4 million. They also state it will be the largest prize "the world has ever seen."
I plan on buying a ticket early. I remember a drawing for a huge jackpot a few years ago where there was so much activity, the Texas Lottery machines couldn't communicate w/ the main computer in Austin..
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