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pwd72s 01-06-2018 04:21 PM

Is it to late?
 
To buy a losing Powerball ticket? :D

widebody911 01-06-2018 05:08 PM

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Crowbob 01-06-2018 05:16 PM

I dont buy 'em even if they're not expired. It eliminates with 100% certainty that I can lose.

RKDinOKC 01-06-2018 06:08 PM

Told someone I understood it is more likely to be killed by and asteroid than win the lottery. She said that can't be true because people win the lottery. I said, tell that to the dinosaurs.

LWJ 01-06-2018 06:27 PM

Worth the fantasy. I buy one every year or so. Expect to lose.

Jim Richards 01-06-2018 06:45 PM

Imagine getting hit by an asteroid right after winning the lottery.

speeder 01-06-2018 06:51 PM

I once heard that your chances of winning are the same whether you play or not.

craigster59 01-06-2018 06:56 PM

I always buy one when I go into the liquor store to buy a 12 pack. I always walk out a winner.

JavaBrewer 01-06-2018 08:29 PM

I buy one every month or so. Cheap thrills.

vash 01-06-2018 08:47 PM

Only in the office group. I知 not gonna be the only a-hole that has to keep coming to work.

Baz 01-06-2018 09:07 PM

Twice a year I spend $50 for 50 draws for regular Florida lotto (6 numbers - no powerball). This gives me a chance each drawing (twice a week) for an entire year (less 2 weeks).

I only have one set of numbers so it's a buck per drawing.

To each their own but at $2/week it's a no brainer. Besides...I don't drink or smoke so how much does that save me each week? Easily $2., right?

The kicker is......I only have to 'stand in line" twice a year to buy the 2 tickets and twice a year to check the two tickets. I don't check the numbers until the 6 months is up.

I could be a lottery winner as I type this.....I'll know more after April 28th when this ticket runs it's course!

sc_rufctr 01-06-2018 09:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by speeder (Post 9875359)
I once heard that your chances of winning are the same whether you play or not.

Typically your have a 1 in 30,000,000 chance of winning the lottery. Mathematically that's almost the same as not playing.

But most weeks somebody somewhere wins and we all know if you don't enter you have a 100% chance of not winning.

Another way to look at it. Do you know anybody who has won the lottery?
I know lots of people and I can't think of one person who has won anything of significance.

About 4 years ago I entered a McDonald's competition using my mobile and a code on their burger packaging.
About 5 minutes later I received a txt telling me I had won $1,000! :D

"Money won is twice a sweet as money earned" (The Color of Money)

KFC911 01-07-2018 04:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jim Richards (Post 9875357)
Imagine getting hit by an asteroid right after winning the lottery.

That's the ONLY reason I won't buy one. I'm absolutely sure I'd win...then BAM :)!

KFC911 01-07-2018 04:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vash (Post 9875483)
Only in the office group. I知 not gonna be the only a-hole that has to keep coming to work.

There will always be one!

I just won 500 bazillion dollars...can't even go to Disneyworld....

Gotta be at work tomorrow moning :)

ckelly78z 01-07-2018 06:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vash (Post 9875483)
Only in the office group. I知 not gonna be the only a-hole that has to keep coming to work.

This right here ^^^^. I would be the most foul mooded a-hole in the world if all my co-workers retired early with excess cash, to leave me picking up the pieces.

Bill Douglas 01-07-2018 11:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vash (Post 9875483)
Only in the office group. I知 not gonna be the only a-hole that has to keep coming to work.

Ha, some friends who worked for ANZ bank did win. One girl resigned on the spot, lots of funny happy stories from this group.

dad911 01-07-2018 11:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vash (Post 9875483)
Only in the office group. I知 not gonna be the only a-hole that has to keep coming to work.

Oops sorry guys.... the group tickets lost, but I happened to purchase this one for myself......

Lottery office pools gone terribly wrong - Jan. 13, 2016

carreradpt 01-07-2018 02:41 PM

I know someone who has won. My little sister back in 2014. 5 of the numbers but not the Powerball number for a cool $1,000,000. $662,500 after taxes was her check.

Guess that screws me out of winning. One winner per family. Damn!


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