LOTTERY LUCK!
62 co-workers to share in $250,000 lottery prize
Boston.com : 04/04/2012
By Alli Knothe, Globe Correspondent
They’re spreading the wealth. A group of 62 co-workers from Belmont Medical Associates in Cambridge stepped forward to claim the fourth of five $250,000 prizes in Massachusetts for Friday’s Mega Millions lottery game, Lottery officials said today.
Each person pitched in $2 to share 124 tickets, which were bought from Handy Variety on Common Street in Watertown. The prize will be split 62 ways, officials said, adding up to about $2,800 after taxes for each person.
Gail Langley, a business manager who has been working at the primary care group for 29 years, said everyone in the office is “flying high” today.
“They’re more in awe that we beat the odds,” she said. “A lot of these people have never played. They only saw that everyone else was doing it and said, ‘Yeah, I’ll put in $2.’”
Langley said almost everyone in the office, from medical assistants to secretaries and managers, were asked to participate. Only the doctors weren’t asked because they’ve been lucky in other games of chance in the past.
She said the money will go a long way: “We have a lot of single moms here and there’s a lot they can do with it.”
Though the office does several activities like this each year, “This is the one that put the biggest smile on people’s faces,” she said.
The winning numbers were 2-4-23-38-26 and the Mega Ball was 23. The odds of matching all six were 1 in 176 million, but to match only the first five the odds were 1 in almost 4 million.
“I have to admit, it makes you feel like anything’s possible,” Langley said.
Boston.com : 04/04/2012
By Alli Knothe, Globe Correspondent
They’re spreading the wealth. A group of 62 co-workers from Belmont Medical Associates in Cambridge stepped forward to claim the fourth of five $250,000 prizes in Massachusetts for Friday’s Mega Millions lottery game, Lottery officials said today.
Each person pitched in $2 to share 124 tickets, which were bought from Handy Variety on Common Street in Watertown. The prize will be split 62 ways, officials said, adding up to about $2,800 after taxes for each person.
Gail Langley, a business manager who has been working at the primary care group for 29 years, said everyone in the office is “flying high” today.
“They’re more in awe that we beat the odds,” she said. “A lot of these people have never played. They only saw that everyone else was doing it and said, ‘Yeah, I’ll put in $2.’”
Langley said almost everyone in the office, from medical assistants to secretaries and managers, were asked to participate. Only the doctors weren’t asked because they’ve been lucky in other games of chance in the past.
She said the money will go a long way: “We have a lot of single moms here and there’s a lot they can do with it.”
Though the office does several activities like this each year, “This is the one that put the biggest smile on people’s faces,” she said.
The winning numbers were 2-4-23-38-26 and the Mega Ball was 23. The odds of matching all six were 1 in 176 million, but to match only the first five the odds were 1 in almost 4 million.
“I have to admit, it makes you feel like anything’s possible,” Langley said.
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