A whopping 45 winning Fantasy 5 Lottery Jackpot tickets were sold in California today.
One of the winning tickets was sold at the Village Market on Main St. in downtown Clayton.
Check your tickets. The winning numbers were 3, 6, 9, 36 and 39. If you have a winner, it’s worth $7,660.
Thanks to Dr. Jellyfinger for the newstip!
Looks like the state lottery set the machines to grant plenty of winners to prop up the game. mostly quick picks for all of them. the most winners they usually have with jackpots over 300K is no more than 3 winning tickets for the jackpot. go figure.
I agree.
Odds of so many winners are astronomical.
I smell a rat… it’s déjà vu all over again.
Congratulations to the winners! $7660 Before federal taxes are taken out at 35%. No state tax on lottery winnings.
The IRS considers lottery winnings to be ordinary income. They withhold 25%, but you still have to pay whatever your tax bracket requires, which can go as high as 37%.
It seems unfair for any state to tax lottery winnings, so it surprises me that California doesn’t try to take a piece for itself. There are only 15 states that don’t tax lottery winnings. Here are the 10 states that take the highest percentage of winnings:
New York (8.82%)
Maryland (8.75%)
New Jersey (8.00%)
Oregon (8.00%)
Wisconsin (7.65%)
Minnesota (7.25%)
Arkansas (7.00%)
South Carolina (7.00%)
Connecticut (6.99%)
Idaho (6.92%)
This is over and above the federal taxes on lottery winnings.
I won $790 playing Daily Derby about five years ago. After that I saved my non-winning Lotto tickets and was able to offset some of the federal tax on my winnings.
Don’t support the lootto since it changed how much, now little, goes to the schools.
.. true story…less $$ goes to the schools now – Brown started it but Newsom continues in skimming off the top to his pet projects and reduced the % of winners overall
lotto, a tax on the statistically illiterate.
Those number sequences are pretty odd…3 6 9 36 39. Maybe if I choose 2 4 6 24 26 I could break even.
Yes, I noticed that and it is very odd. Starting to wonder if it was a prank to get rid of the lottery.
Don’t play the lotto. It’s a waste of everyone’s time and money. If you feel like risking your money, download coinbase or a similar app and start trading crypto.
You’re an idiot if you play. Unless you win. Then, you’re a genius!
So something doesn’t seem right… 45 winners ??? HUH ? Talked to the owner at The Village Market yesterday and he said of those 45, they had 5 winners at their store alone. Things that make you go huh ??
I wonder if the CA. Lottery folks will ever explain it to us?
So far it’s being ignored.