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    I try to play when the lottery gets to be about $150 million. Will I win? I doubt it but there is a chance and that chance allows me to day dream about what I might do with the money if I do happen to win. 3 days of wonderful day dreams for just a buck? Sounds like a good deal to me

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    Quote Originally Posted by noxious.sunshine View Post
    Nah. My dad says it's stupid to not buy one scratch off (or numbers ticket) a week, but any more than that and you're wasting money. Esp if you buy the $25 scratch offs.
    Yeah, I think it's kind of dumb to buy the $20 scratch-offs. There's always the off chance that you win nothing off that card and you just threw away $25. I hear people who are struggling on welfare buying those. I think their priorities are messed up. ON scratch-offs I usually just win my money back, but every once in a while I'll win more than what I paid for the ticket, like my $100 example.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister Adequate View Post
    The talk about how unlikely you are to win is a little misguided though. I know the odds are atrocious, but so does pretty much everyone - that's why successful lottery playing isn't called "A prudent investment with a sound return on your money", it's called "Beating the odds". The whole point is that "if". However remote and unlikely, because hey - every week or two SOMEONE wins. Could be me. And if it is, everything changes.
    I'm not sure how you define "misguided," but I would consider the flights of fancy that induce millions of people to waste money on 1 in a billion scams to be more misguided than, well, not doing that. The game is designed (rigged?) to make as many people waste as much money as possible. I think it's safe to say that the vast majority of people who play the lottery do not appreciate how truly remote the odds are.

    It's also possible that someone will throw a wad of bills out of a car at you (and probably equally likely as winning the lottery), and at least standing by the road is free.

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    Sure the odds might not be in my favour, but you've got to be in it to win it!

    I just had to get that line in there somewhere
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    Never played the lottery or gambled. My parents are in to that, and I know my dad has won a few times. The most he has ever one was about $3,000 so I think that has kept him playing and wasting money over the years.

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    Just bought a £5 scratch card...nothing.

    Better luck next time.

    And the time after that.

    And the time after that.

    And the...*fades away*
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    Used to put 10.00 a week at work .. never won anything.. now i work from home not gonna' bother

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    Started buying tickets for the Euromillions this week after finding out there's a £100million jackpot on offer. I'm definitely going to win.

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    give me ten bucks and i'll kick you square in the balls. if that isn't a reality check for losing the state / provincial lottery, go nuts and throw your money away.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Perducci View Post
    Started buying tickets for the Euromillions this week after finding out there's a £100million jackpot on offer. I'm definitely going to win.
    I had a ticket for last nights draw, and I didn't get anything. And seeing is it's a rollover I'm guessing you didn't win big either!
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    I think I might start playing pick 3 since the chances of winning those are a lot greater with there only being three digits.

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    On part with lighting money on fire. No, I don't play the lotto.

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    people i work with will sometimes buy dollar scratchoffs for the whole group. 5-7 bucks for group fun, we know we won't win big

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    My team at work has a syndicate for the Euro Millions, which as part of the team I throw a couple of quid a week in for as part of the team. I'm well aware of how low the odds are of us actually winning anything more than say, a tenner (which between 10 of us on the team, is not really a return but it goes in to a pot for a team treat such as coffees or the like), but I figure less than £4 a week is not going to kill me. In London, that's cheaper than a pint of Guinness and most lagers. Aside from the syndicate which I do more as a "part of the team" thing I don't play the lottery.

    I don't gamble much at all really, it's not my bag. I think with one exception, I've never even played a pub reels gambling machine. Although on that one exception I put a quid in which was 5 spins of the reels at the time and won the jackpot of £25 on my 3rd which meant I certainly was lucky as hell and I cashed out straight after. On the rarest of all occasions when someone has somehow managed to drag me not only in to a casino, but also through some miracle managed to make me gamble (which is 2 occasions, 1 for a stag-do and the other for a birthday) I've played blackjack, on those instances through luck, skill or chance I've come out either breaking even or slightly ahead (on the stag I managed to come out about 50 quid up on what I entered with).

    The worst feeling in the world however, is when I'm sitting there chatting with the guys in the office about something like an upcoming sports game and they're talking about the odds on the bets and I'm like "Ah well **insert prediction of outcome** is sure to happen" and there's great odds I'm literally left gutted when the results come in and my mates are all like "Man, so should have put a punt on that, you'd be up by like £60 going in to the weekend on that" Though when one of the consultants took my prediction and it paid off he certainly brought me a few drinks (he'd gone in on a fiver and come out with about 90 - 100 quid).

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    I do not play the lottery

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