Queen of Hearts game at our local Fish & Gun club last night.

[MissMillie]

Now... pay attention.

The jackpot was $119,703.

That is not a typo. There really are 6 digits in that jackpot figure.

Someone won it.

How keeps 40%, so the winner took home $71,821.80.


(My guy and I DID NOT win it--dammit!)

[Chainfire]

1. I couldn't "fish" with that crew.

[Fla Dem]

2. Thats a heck of a lot of $$$$. How much did you all LOSE!!!!

Did the pot all come from everyone else anteing up? If so, even if there were 100 people playing, that's $1,197.00 per person.

[MissMillie]

3. The game is played over a number of weeks, even months in this case.

So the jackpot grows over time.

There absolutely was going to be a winner in 7 weeks as there were only 7 numbers left.

Oddly enough, I kept telling my guy to pick number 37 (my age, wink wink). Now, picking that number doesn't mean anything unless they pull your ticket. But card #37 was where the Queen of Hearts was hiding.

[Fla Dem]

4. So are you speaking to "your guy"? You could have done a lot with $71,000.

Bet there was a lot of tension in the room.

[MissMillie]

5. His ticket wasn't drawn

so it doesn't matter.

He's been playing about $20/month for the last 5 months, and they never pull his ticket.

As you can imagine, once the jackpot gets bigger and bigger, more and more people buy more and more tickets. Between last week and this week, there were more than 14,000 tickets sold. My guy only had 5 tickets in the pot.

I saw one woman purchase 50 tickets last night.

[Fla Dem]

6. Sounds like me. Never buy a Lotto/Lottery ticket, but

once the pot reaches a certain point, I'll buy a few just to be in the game. And who knows, right?!