Lottery

[Silver & Black]

i have a hard enough time winning something with a 50/50 chance...
:bitching:

[CuseFan10]

I agree with Skeeeeeners, I never play that **** unless I get free scratch offs for Xmas or something.

People waste SOOOO MUCH MONEY playing the lottery, and even with all the secondary prizes, it's still like 99.99999999999999%..

Guy from South Jersey won? Birdsfan or Eagles was it you? :happy:

[JohnnyMapleLeaf]

First of all, it's more like 99.99999999999999999999999999999999% come out losers.

I think he was including the thousands of secondary winners of lesser prizes...

[JB]

Don't play the lottery much. But when I heard about the biggest ever, I played two tickets. But as usual, out of the two I will hit one #

12-13-14-29-47+24
01-11-29-31-55+25

that bottom ticket looks like a NASCAR ticket if I ever saw one. What made you put Waltrip in it?

[Skinsfan]

super high reward

what makes that such a BAD DECISION ?


sure 98% of people come out losers in the end , probably even more,

but like somebody on here said

IF YOU DON'T PLAY, ya can't win ...

First of all, it's more like 99.99999999999999999999999999999999% come out losers.

Second, it's a bad decision because it's not a RISK/REWARD equation. It's a RISK x Prob of Losing/REWARD x Prob of Winning equation.

Lets put it into basic numbers. Lets say you have a 1 in 100 chance of winning a certain lottery. Each time you play you pay $1. So, mathematically speaking, on average, you would have to play 100 times to win 1 time. Thats $100. So, lets say the payout of 1 win is $75. Would you play the game? The average person would have to spend $100 to win $75 in winnings. THAT is why it is a BAD DECISION.

On a side note, how much money would you (or anyone else) have if you could have back every single dollar you have ever wasted in your life?

[joepa66]

DAMMIT ALL....
Guess somebody hit the freaking MegaMillions and it wasn't me.....sooooo, gotta be precautious today as I was so excited to do this at work today:

:boog: :ba:

[BUNK MORELAND]

Low Risk

super high reward

what makes that such a BAD DECISION ?


sure 98% of people come out losers in the end , probably even more,

but like somebody on here said

IF YOU DON'T PLAY, ya can't win ...

[Skinsfan]

And those that have won wouldn't say it's a stupid, poor man's game. They'd say it's the smartest investment they ever made.

Yes, they would say that.... and they would be full of ****. You can drive for 50 miles through a densly populated city at 150 miles an hour, without touching the brakes. You can somehow miraculously avoid hitting anybody, catching all the green lights with no one in your lane, and avoid getting ticketed by the police. But suceeding at that doesn't make the original decision to do it a smart decision.

[NevadaJay]

Gotta have dreams, and if one of my dreams is to win the lottery....well you gotta play if you want to win. And those that have won wouldn't say it's a stupid, poor man's game. They'd say it's the smartest investment they ever made. But for those who don't win, yah, I'll admit, it's a sucker bet. But like I said...gotta have dreams....helps to have more than one.

[V3r1f13d]

I play the daily 3, mega millions, and the big spin (scratcher).

I'm going to spin the wheel one day, just wait...

[Billy Barooooooo]

Big game is/was don't know if it hit at 355,000.

Stupid ass game!

Wife plays it every time it gets big!

Forgetaboutit!!!!


BB

[Horfin]

Lottery is a poor tax, and it makes no logical sense to play it.

Couldn't have said it better myself.

[homedawg]

wont touch the lottery... odds stacked way tooooo high against you... but the wifey plays it every frickin' week, 2,3,4 times or more.... when she wins, she gives it back for more tickets, until she loses it all... 1 way to stop,






:gulp:

[NevadaJay]

For all of you guys that can play, when you win I hope you feel the love donate to those that don't have the option to play MM's (i.e. ME!!)..

[MacDaddy]

Exactly...the only way to win is to drive to the middle of knowwhere to buy your tickets, because then the lotto gods will think that you deserve to win it...not that living in the middle of no where means one is more deserving than one who lives in the middle of somewhere, but for some reason you have a better shot pulling it off buying your tickets at the 7-11 in Huntington WV vs the 7-11 on Rodeo Drive. Either way you have a better shot at catching lightening in a bottle!:nuts:

Damn, Huntington and Rodeo Dr. used in the same sentence. I never thought I would see that.

Best ever was 4 out of 6 in the Texas lotto years ago. Paid about $75 if I remember correctly.