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Re: Huge Lottery

#226 Post by Coupon Boy » Mon Jan 11, 2016 2:51 pm

I never bought a Lottery ticket and never will. You're ALWAYS going to lose more than you gain on average, and even if by some miracle you win the jackpot it will likely change your life for the worse like countless other winners in the past.

This $1.3 Billion jackpot is a way to boost sales as it gets everyone thinking "$2 can make me an instant Billionaire? Sign me up!!!" It's nowhere near that simple, and it never will be.
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Re: Huge Lottery

#227 Post by BackInTex » Mon Jan 11, 2016 3:12 pm

Coupon Boy wrote: This $1.3 Billion jackpot is a way to boost sales as it gets everyone thinking "$2 can make me an instant Billionaire? Sign me up!!!" It's nowhere near that simple, and it never will be.
No, after cash value & taxes, probably more like a 1/2 Billionaire. I've got little use for more than $50 million. I would even be hesitant to set aside more to "pass it down to further generations" as I've seen what "old money" produces. There would be lots of charities receiving $$.
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#228 Post by TheCalvinator24 » Mon Jan 11, 2016 3:42 pm

Bob Juch wrote:Some people just can't do math:

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The math on the second one works.
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#229 Post by Bob Juch » Mon Jan 11, 2016 4:10 pm

TheCalvinator24 wrote:
Bob Juch wrote:Some people just can't do math:

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The math on the second one works.
Is my calculator broken? I come up with 29.78819994078106 years.
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#230 Post by BackInTex » Mon Jan 11, 2016 4:20 pm

Bob Juch wrote: Is my calculator broken? I come up with 29.78819994078106 years.
No, not your calculator. Your reading comprehension and application to word problems.
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Re: Huge Lottery

#231 Post by Bob78164 » Mon Jan 11, 2016 5:00 pm

Bob Juch wrote:
TheCalvinator24 wrote:
Bob Juch wrote:Some people just can't do math:

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The math on the second one works.
Is my calculator broken? I come up with 29.78819994078106 years.
That average rent is a monthly rent.

But I'm surprised that the number of homeless vets in this country is as low as 50,000. --Bob
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Re: Huge Lottery

#232 Post by BackInTex » Tue Jan 12, 2016 1:28 pm

Estimated jackpot now at $1.5 billion (cash value $930 million).

As someone once said, "That's killin' money."
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#233 Post by earendel » Tue Jan 12, 2016 1:30 pm

I could end up being the only person in my office after Wednesday's drawing. Everyone's pooling money to buy tickets, but I'm not. I figure why add my $2 to someone else's jackpot.
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#234 Post by ghostjmf » Wed Jan 13, 2016 10:05 pm

Got one of the white #s. The 27. I read this means I win nothin'.
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#235 Post by silverscreenselect » Wed Jan 13, 2016 10:10 pm

I've never lost a billion dollars quite that quickly ever before.

The good news is that I matched the powerball number on one of my tickets so I only lost $2 this time around.
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#236 Post by BackInTex » Wed Jan 13, 2016 10:30 pm

I had a ticket with 3 numbers. Two had the same powerball; 10. I also, for some reason on that ticket I paid the Powerplay. So I will win a multiple of 2x4. I won between $16 and $40. The ticket cost me $12. Plus the $5 from work (that will pay nothing). So I'm somewhere between -$1 and +$23.
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Re: Huge Lottery

#237 Post by Bob78164 » Thu Jan 14, 2016 2:54 am

Nuts. And I was so sure I was going to win. --Bob
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#238 Post by Pastor Fireball » Thu Jan 14, 2016 6:00 am

Bob78164 wrote:Nuts. And I was so sure I was going to win. --Bob
Join the club. I matched all of the white balls. Unfortunately, they were on five different lines.
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Re: Huge Lottery

#239 Post by silverscreenselect » Thu Jan 14, 2016 6:29 am

Pastor Fireball wrote:
Bob78164 wrote:Nuts. And I was so sure I was going to win. --Bob
Join the club. I matched all of the white balls. Unfortunately, they were on five different lines.
I have two words for you:

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Re: Huge Lottery

#240 Post by MarleysGh0st » Thu Jan 14, 2016 8:57 am

I got the Powerball! That means I broke even on the two tickets I bought! Woo hoo!

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#241 Post by Pastor Fireball » Thu Jan 14, 2016 12:55 pm

silverscreenselect wrote:
Pastor Fireball wrote:
Bob78164 wrote:Nuts. And I was so sure I was going to win. --Bob
Join the club. I matched all of the white balls. Unfortunately, they were on five different lines.
I have two words for you:

Cut

Paste
Except that you can't do cut-and-paste with the bar code at the bottom of the ticket. The lottery officials will scan that and know that my winning ticket is faker than LeBron James's hairline.

Nice thought, though...
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Re: Huge Lottery

#242 Post by SportsFan68 » Thu Jan 14, 2016 11:17 pm

I won $2!

I don't remember if it was on my PowerBall or MegaMillions ticket.

Both are back to earth, more or less. They're both still stratospheric to me. I don't know what I'd do with $40 million.
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Re: Huge Lottery

#243 Post by CarShark » Fri Jul 08, 2016 8:29 pm

I'm back again! That's because the MegaMillions is now up to $540 million for tonight's drawing. Also, the Powerball is at $288 million. I played a few tickets of both!
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