lottery

[tkim]

does anyone play the lotte? here in CA, no one won the 89 mil jackpot so now its gunna be well over 100. think i'm gunna invest.

what do you guys think?

 

[Insanitation]

It's up to $77 million here in Texas. Someone has to win it so it might as well be me.

 

[bigrash]

put in the number 9 for me and if you win give me a small portion.

thank you!!!

 

[KameLeon]

I saw the big board yesterday on Highway 80 near UCB yesterday and It said $89 mill! I bet that board makes so many more people buy em than they would! It's so tempting..
I didn't know it went up that much, and no one still won?! Damn.. I'll pick up a random next time..who knows! I wouldn't mind having 100+ mill. LOL

 

[DannyLove]

im here in LA, i did hear no one won the lottery on Saturday or something like that. wow that much. thats amazing. I hope someone gets it and buys me a 360 Modena black on black.

 

[jehh]

I've got dibs on number 9. You can have 10. (I smell a lawsuit here) hehehe

Anyway, I don't play the lotto, it is a tax on stupidity. You are actually more likly to be in a plane crash than you are to win the lotto. I'll buy a ticket after I'm in a plane crash.

Jason

 

[trmiv]

I normally don't play, but at $100 million I will probably buy a couple. I know the odds suck, but hey, you gotta be in it to win it. Who cares if the odds suck, if you don't blow all your money on it, its no big deal. You never know.

 

[bigrash]

sorry jehh, i picked first....so you're gonna have to take 10

 

[shiznut123]

I just came back from the liquor store and its said 7 million on the machine:|

 

[jehh]

yes, but which STATE!!!!

<biting nails>

Jason

 

[jehh]

I would play if I could buy the tickets over the Internet, say have them pick me a QuickPick each time for me automaticly.

Otherwise it is too much trouble.

Jason

 

[IBhacknU]

why not just throw your money to me?

 

[bigrash]

well, i live in ny so i don't have it here. that's why i was suggesting to tkim to use my number.

 

[trmiv]

<< why not just throw your money to me? >>



Because you don't offer the chance, however small, to win $100 million.

 

[jehh]

Pick a number between 1 and 22.6 million.

If you guess the number I'm thinking of, I'll give you 100 million.

Each guess will cost you a buck...

See how stupid the lotto is?

Jason

 

[Insanitation]

jehh,

But people do WIN the lottery. Tell the person who actually wins how stupid he is by playing the lottery and see if he cares.

 

[yakko]

jehh is just bitter because he hasn't won yet.

 

[tkim]

jehh, wow, that's a good perspective. never thought of it like that. but as good as it is, still gotta play. i wanna retire at 25!

 

[Pretender]

It'd be a good idea to buy all 22.6 million possibilities at once (somehow, dont ask how), then be guaranteed the money. It'd suck if someone else won also and you'd have to split it, because then your winnings would be less than the amount you spent. And buying 22.6 million tickets in that short amount of time would probably be tough, eh?

 

[bigrash]

hey that's a good idea pretender. the only thing is that if you have 22.6 million dollars to spend to buy something, you probably wouldn't need to play the lotto anyways

 

[StageLeft]

Lotteries are a tax on those bad at math; i never play

 

[Dunbar]

Your chance of winning the lottery is something like 1 in 200 million. How does the saying go, you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you buy a ticket or not. For those who buy when the pot gets big you're just buying into the marketing (if anything your odds are worse!). Put the money into your retirement account instead. BTW, people who buy huge lots of tickets often lose money even after winning the pot. In some state they actually had a billboard in a poor area insinuating that the lottery was the only way out of the ghetto. I can only chuckle when I see people waiting in huge lines for a phucking 1 in 200 million chance to win the lottery.

 

[trmiv]

<< For those who buy when the pot gets big you're just buying into the marketing (if anything your odds are worse!). Put the money into your retirement account instead >>



Seriously, the money that I spend a year when the jackpots grow big (maybe $15), is not going to make a big difference in my retirement account. Who cares if it's marketing or your odds are bad. As long as it doesn't control your life and you are not spending hundreds or thousands of dollars on it, who cares.

 

[Zucchini]

Still, a chance is better then none. Never buy more then 1 ticket, your really not increasing the odds by any significant amount by buying more.(excluding millions of tickets)

 

[Hanpan]

Lottery is a poor man's tax. Period.

However it's fun to play one in a while. While you chance at 100 million isn't any greater your payout ratio is greater so why not. However buying more than say $20.00 worth of tickets a year is stupid.