..if hundreds or thousands play these numbers. Lets call this a Mass Consciousness experiment. It has happened in the past where many people played the same numbers and won. Once from a fortune cookie and also on the first anniversary of 9/11 in NY (with the numbers 9-1-1). It is real and yes it will be a much smaller take home jackpot for everyone but you will still win something and moreso, you will be a part of history in proving the currently unknown. It will cost you 2 dollars (possibly 4 if you want to buy another ticket with a different powerball to be guaranteed 1 million). Let's do it and be a part of history!!!

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btw..the fortune cookie winners would have only won a little more if the fortune cookie had 6 numbers that hit and all winners had to share a jackpot - it only had 5 on the fortune, which everyone got and therefore got the guaranteed payout of 100k. In mass number play, it might be safer to only play the first 5 and pick a random powerball. In today's game, that's a cool million. If anything else, it would be worth a second ticket with just the first five.