Lottery News and Stories
Is anyone a $370 million winner?
Wednesday, March 07, 2007 posted 04:04 AM EST
Winning numbers for the $370 million Mega Millions jackpot were drawn Tuesday night -- but it wasn't immediately clear if
anyone actually has a winning ticket.
The winning numbers were: 16-22-29-39-42, and the Mega Ball was 20.
Lottery officials said it would be several hours before they knew if there was a winner and, if so, where the winning ticket
was purchased.
The huge 12-state jackpot had astonishing odds: 1 in 175,711,536. That's ""175,'' as in millions. Those odds are even worse
than one of those carnival booths where you pitch a dime and try to get it to land on a piece of glass.
But anyone can dream, and any adult with $1 could play.
Before Tuesday night's drawing, the Mercury News interviewed people from all walks of life well, OK, from at least several
walks of life to see what they'd do if they won the jackpot.
The Rev. Jonathan Cuarto, parochial vicar at Saint John the Baptist Catholic Church in Milpitas, has never played the lotto
and isn't planning to start now. And even if he did get a windfall of well over $370 million, he wouldn't spend it on fast
cars or a mansion. He'd "donate it to the church. I could make my church bigger to accommodate a lot of people."
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