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Powerball is at $550,000,000 (updated at 4:11 pm) and "possibly" more...

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I want to file a class action lawsuit against RossMAN for tricking me and the 75 plaintiffs into a deal that left us hungry without our lunch money.
 
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

Congrats to whoever won, but that's an accurate quote for the 100 million or so of us that need to suck it up and get our asses to work today.
 
Honest to god, I have no idea what I would do with that amount of money. I have no expensive tastes. I don't feel like being one of those guys that buys 90 cars and pays some guy to wash them every summer so I could look at them. I guess I'd set up some charities and trust funds. I am not a charitable person in general. I couldn't put a dent in that without just actively being an idiot and buying things I didn't remotely want.
 
seepy83 said:
There have been at least a couple of times that people have attempted to buy every combination. AFAIK, it has never worked out. It takes serious commitment...you need to fill out lottery bubble-sheets for ever possible number combination (you can't just go purchase X amount of quickpicks, where X=total number of possible combinations, because you could get duplicates).

If you have all of the ticket slips filled out, and have a large group of people disbursed in a large enough area so that you could get them all printed, it would work. but that just doesn't happen. Plus, there's the possibility of someone else matching your ticket (or multiple people), and the prize being split. You could lose a lot of money that way.
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Lottery syndicate not guaranteed.

Look at this week's drawing, there were 2 winners so if you had also bought $200 million in numbers, you would be out quite a bit. If you have $200 million dollars, there's probably better investments to make than winning the lottery.
 
seepy83 said:
There have been at least a couple of times that people have attempted to buy every combination. AFAIK, it has never worked out. It takes serious commitment...you need to fill out lottery bubble-sheets for ever possible number combination (you can't just go purchase X amount of quickpicks, where X=total number of possible combinations, because you could get duplicates).

If you have all of the ticket slips filled out, and have a large group of people disbursed in a large enough area so that you could get them all printed, it would work. but that just doesn't happen. Plus, there's the possibility of someone else matching your ticket (or multiple people), and the prize being split. You could lose a lot of money that way.
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Yes, this happened in (where else,FL), when the jackpot got to 118 mil a man wanted to buy all 13.8 million combinations, the lotto folks politely declined, they had no logistical capacity to print that many tickets at one terminal for one person. Turns out there were 6 winners so he would have lost money, the full payout is only if you take it over 20 yrs, one time disbursement is much lower.
 
I remember in the 80's a scandal in the NY state lotto, one of the workers that had access to the machine took several balls and injected them (with a syringe) with some helium and took a tiny tab of clear nail polish and sealed it in. Now the balls didn't "float" on their own but with the added helium those balls shot up much faster to the tubes, he would then box the balls he had adulterated when he bought the tickets, turns out he got caught and won little, it was a cash 3 type of game not the full lotto..
 
Baked said:
I want to file a class action lawsuit against RossMAN for tricking me and the 75 plaintiffs into a deal that left us hungry without our lunch money.
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I offered my legal services to get our winnings set up. Now I am offering my legal services to skewer Rossman and Vivi for fraudulently inducing us into this sham lottery. Our damages? ONE BILLION DOLLARS.
 
I did not win anything. $6 for 3 tickets on my own and only 1 white number. I also joined the pot with the group and look like we did not win much either.

So much for my dream to sit in the transcontinental flight first class.
 
Vivi - thanks for reminding me that it wouldn't have mattered if I spent $5 or $500, I'd probably have better odds of getting struck by lightning...twice....on a sunny day.
 
Jeeebus said:
I offered my legal services to get our winnings set up. Now I am offering my legal services to skewer Rossman and Vivi for fraudulently inducing us into this sham lottery. Our damages? ONE BILLION DOLLARS.
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I offer my services to vivi and RossMAN to defend them against these false and slanderous charges.

At any rate, it was worth $5 to learn about vivi's lack of endurance in the sack. :wub:
 
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