IF YOU WON THE LOTTERY IN THANE

For several weeks, the newspapers had been tracking the Mid-States Lottery prize and printing the total amount for the potential winner. After the amount rose to five hundred million dollars just about everyone started to take notice of this unheard-of amount. People started to line up for tickets. There were people coming from nearby, and even faraway states to buy tickets in the states that sold them. Not every state had joined in this lottery. There were six participating states. The benefit to each of these states was to obtain funds for various projects. School, education, even health funding among other plans were to benefit from the results. It was approaching the largest amount in the history of any lottery. It was generating a great deal of attention. The larger the prize became the more interest accrued and the ticket sales increased. Twice a week the amount increased when there was no winner. At first, after the five hundred million plateau, it jumped by just under two million at each biweekly announcement. A major newspaper reported that people from England and other foreign countries were buying tickets after the prize reached this five hundred million level. As this amount increased to more than five hundred million, the prize advanced almost five million in each biweekly announcement.