The block in which the above post is included has a merkle root of be6a39f167172325ba3d06583de8aa1c9eb18b80.
The last two digits of this root are used to determine if there is a winner. Ending in 0 gives an upvote and ending in 00 means the jackpot was cracked. The remaining digits determine which ticket wins. To do this we compute the residual after dividing the root by the number of virtual tickets. In this case this would be:
be6a39f167172325ba3d06583de8aa1c9eb18b = 4246395207003722317205224367963292095567802763 in base 10. The residual after dividing by the number of shares (999) is 178. Therefore ticket number 178 would win.

Because the last digit of the merkle root is 0, we have a winner. The winner determined by the merkle root is: steem-jackpot.
In order to find the winner we have removed the last 2 digits of the root. Congratulations to the winner, you got an upvote! The jackpot was not cracked.