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09-28-2010, 08:19 PM | #1 |
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Mega Millions Lottery
Do you buy tickets for Mega Millions, or one of the other lotteries?
Hey, somebody's gotta win, right? Well no actually, nobody has to win. I've got as good a chance as anyone. Yes, but it's piss poor odds. I played the "Incredibly Depressing Mega Millions Lottery Simulator". I chose 5 numbers, plus a mega million number, and played it twice a week for 10 years... simulated of course. 3 tries, wagering $1040 each time, I won $88, $95, and $152.
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09-28-2010, 09:18 PM | #2 |
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$69, $81, $70, $105, $100. Not much return for 50 years and $5200.
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09-29-2010, 08:50 AM | #4 |
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On the rare occasions I buy a lottery ticket, I rationalise it not as a viable investment with a worthwhile chance of return, but as a license to indulge in daydreams of becoming suddenly rich.
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09-29-2010, 09:49 AM | #5 |
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I play $10/week, because I am going to win. Really, I am.
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09-29-2010, 12:03 PM | #6 |
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I'm with ZenGum...a lottery ticket is a $1 ticket to daydream about winning.
Doesn't stop me from playing, of course...
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09-29-2010, 12:07 PM | #7 |
Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
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Ever since most of our city's street department hit the mega, I'll buy a ticket every now and then.
Mostly I play Rolling Cash 5. Odds are MUCH better. Only 1 in ~575,000 as opposed to 1 in ~175,000,000. I don't need millions. I'll take 100 grand minimum, or whatever it rolls up to. Pay everything off. Save/invest (and retire a little earlier.) Take a really nice vacation. I don't want much.
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09-29-2010, 12:23 PM | #8 |
To shreds, you say?
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Lottery is a tax on people who can't do math
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09-29-2010, 12:33 PM | #9 |
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you stoled my line.
Still true though.
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09-29-2010, 12:35 PM | #10 |
I got nothing
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You played 1040 games of Mega Millions. It cost $1040. You won $104.
I play ONE quick pick for each of the two weekly drawings of the MegaMillions and PowerBall lotteries. My thought is that some poor slop is going to hit...why not me? Granted that winning is a REAL long shot, but you have no odds if you don't play at all. $16 a month to keep my fantasy of becoming rich doesn't seem like a bad deal. I think of it as therapy.
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09-29-2010, 01:04 PM | #11 |
Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
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I can point out 6 or 7 ex bar patrons of mine who will agree with you, dmg.
I probably spend about 5 bucks a month. I mean hell, you got a job? You want to spend a couple bucks on a dream? Why not? @ BigV: you were kidding with the "stoled" right?
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09-29-2010, 01:36 PM | #12 |
To shreds, you say?
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No he not, he am dade sarius.
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09-29-2010, 01:37 PM | #13 | |
To shreds, you say?
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From Solvency.org:
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09-29-2010, 01:38 PM | #14 |
Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
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How you know dat? Didja axe him?
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09-29-2010, 01:40 PM | #15 |
To shreds, you say?
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I axed him sumfin
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