My Massachusetts Lottery Blog

(I have a whole bunch of Megabucks numbers in my wallet that I haven't checked yet, and I'm going to have to rack my brains to remember what happened on these days besides buying the tickets!...you'll see this note in every one of the posts whose days I'm trying to mentally reconstruct.)

Before I bought this ticket, I went to Dunkin' Donuts. When I sat down to eat my jelly doughnut, I caught sight of the face of one of the employees from in between the coffee urns. Her makeup was carefully applied, and she appeared to be slightly Middle Eastern -- but the most notable thing about her was her expression. Serenely she gazed at the street scene beyond the large glass window. Apparently lost in a thought that was not too important, she did not see me noticing what a good photograph this would have made if I had brought a camera with me. The sharp afternoon sunlight spilled over the curve of her face onto the side that was in shadows.

The numbers I played were:

Megabucks #'s (mine)

06/29/05

Wednesday

4-8-14-22-38-40

Megabucks *'s (winning)

06/29/05

Wednesday

5-6-13-14-15-21

How do you like that?! The one I got right was only one off from two of the other winning numbers. And two other completely different numbers were only off by one, also.

(I have a whole bunch of Megabucks numbers in my wallet that I haven't checked yet, and I'm going to have to rack my brains to remember what happened on these days besides buying the tickets!...you'll see this note in every one of the posts whose days I'm trying to mentally reconstruct.)

While being a very dark-colored bird, the starling has a slight rainbow-like irridescence to its feathers. I noted this while a hungry one sat on my empty bird feeder. More seed for them sat just inside the window on the counter, out of reach (at least for the moment) for this particular poor bird.

Here is the Megabucks breakdown for the ticket I bought that day:

my no's.

02-04-08-16-32-40

06/15/05

23-24-31-34-36-42

I failed miserably, with only one number being one off! However, I took heart in the fact that I asked for a quick-pick, yet got the highly unusual combination of the numbers being double of the one right before it, except for the last one. But note that even the last one is unusual...if you add the third number to the fifth one, you get a sum equal to the last number!

(I have a whole bunch of Megabucks numbers in my wallet that I haven't checked yet, and I'm going to have to rack my brains to remember what happened on these days besides buying the tickets!...you'll see this note in every one of the posts whose days I'm trying to mentally reconstruct.)

"This pizza is delicious!" I exclaimed a little too cheerily to my co-worker who was holding a barbecue to celebrate her son graduating from high school. Truly, it was delicious...but uppermost in my mind was how uncomfortable it was to be standing in the searing summer heat of her back yard.

Then I played these numbers for Megabucks.

06/11/05

1-6-8-24-31-36

However, these were the winning numbers.

06/11/05

5-7-19-29-31-34

Well, that is interesting. Six was off by one in BOTH directions, while eight was off by one in only one direction. And 31 was exactly right.

(I have a whole bunch of Megabucks numbers in my wallet that I haven't checked yet, and I'm going to have to rack my brains to remember what happened on these days besides buying the tickets!...you'll see this note in every one of the posts whose days I'm trying to mentally reconstruct.)


No one is tending this flower box on the back oof my house this year, but these lovely blooms have appeared in it anyways.

The numbers I played were:

8-9-16-19-26-38

Here is the report of the winning numbers, copied and pasted from masslottery.com --

MEGABUCKS
Draw# Date       Winning #  Jackpot Amt Jackpot Winners Where sold
2265 06/01/05   6-7-13-15-16-31 $760,567. None 

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End of Report

As you can see, eight was only off by one, and 16 was correct. Not bad, if I do say so myself!