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Customers line up at Ashwaubenon gas station for Mega Millions

Posted at 9:02 PM, Jul 29, 2022
and last updated 2022-07-29 23:21:45-04

ASHWAUBENON (NBC 26) — The winning numbers in Friday's Mega Millions Drawing are 67, 45, 57, 36, 13 and 14.

Mega Millions Drawing 7/29

There is lottery fever in Northeast Wisconsin. Customers lined up at the Jackson Pointe Citgo on Friday just to grab a $2 ticket, in hopes to have those winning numbers.

We asked, what would you do if you won?

"I take more blood pressure pills before I really read the numbers twice," Harold Ambrosius from De Pere said.

"That's going to be my goal, pay for some school because college tuition is expensive right now," Malak Spencer from Green Bay said.

"Hang out and play, not have a real job, ya know?" one of the clerks at the Citgo, Mike Wendricks said.

Dreaming of what could be if they won the $1.28 billion jackpot. The chances? One and 302 million.

"I'd like to have a big backyard barbeque bash, and have like giveaway games that require no skill," Dennis Charles said, a customer from Luxemburg. "Bobbing for apples; that apple's worth 5-grand, that apple's worth 10-grand. There's a bingo card, everybody gets a bingo card and it's $10,000 if you win bingo"

Some of the customers are first timers, others are well-versed.
"We're rolling the dice here and hopefully I can get lucky," Spencer said.

All of them are customers at the same gas station where one couple won the Powerball back in January. Cliff and Tammy Webster won a jackpot of more than $316 million.

"Well, this is supposed to be a recent hot spot, so I'm bouncing around town hitting a couple stations and this was on my list," Charles said.

Kristy Sommers is the Assistant Manager of this gas station. She said business has been 10x more crazy than normal.

"[We're] probably one of the busiest gas stations in Green Bay right now," Sommers said. "A lot of people coming in saying that they've never played this game before, but they've seen us and they want to try their luck."

She still gets goosebumps thinking that someone else that bought a ticket from her store could win.

"I just, I feel like the energy from everyone coming in, like, you can almost see dollar signs in their eyes because you just think that they're going to you know actually get that chance, too," Sommers said.

The winning numbers will be released nationally at 10 p.m. CST.