Do You Purchase Lotto Tickets ?

I buy them once in awhile if the jackpot gets huge.
But only if it is over 200 million will I take that change at self taxation and then only by 10 bucks. You know what they say "You Can't Win If You Don't Play. LOL

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To my mind, as I can play for free if I want, I have no excuse to pay to play.

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Sometimes. Overall I'd have to say I'm up on the lottery tickets and my trips to casinos. I've never gone to Vegas but been to several of the ok casinos. I usually take about what I'd spend on a night out and drink and gamble in that. Normally I end up alittle down on the evening,$20, but I won $1200 on blackjack one night. Same with the lottery I'll buy a scratcher or power ball from time to time, done better on the scratchers. Won a couple hundred a few times on those, don't know that ive ever win more then $20 on powerball.

Nope! And I can't stand going to a customer service desk & having to wait on others wasting their money.

Can't remember last time we bought. But once in a while it's 'entertainment' & buy one & plan how to spend it.

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The next time you feel the urge to gamble, just send the money to me instead. I will use it wisely.

No. I am better at math than that.

I bought a $4 ticket this weekend. Dreamed of what I would do with $7million: put up a 7 foot fence around the whole property, get Sweetie a backhoe with heating and ac plus all the attachments, 3 dexters- 2 cows and a bull, 4 finn sheep - 3 ewes and a ram, import some guinea hogs, pay the children $15 an hour to work for me, quit my job - but still help the families I see (home care), look after Mom and Dad, garden with all the toys, buy a car where we aren't bumping elbows and knees. I didn't have one number right, but it was fun to see what I really wanted out of life.

Could have done it without the ticket. Won't buy another one until I am in the mood to dream big.

We buy one every now and then (maybe 4 or 5 a year) because we happen to be in a store where they are sold. Just the $2 ticket and just for fun. Over the years we have won enough (free tickets, $10, $100 or part of a smaller prize equaling $70) to pay for our purchases.

We don't count on winning and certainly don't think of a win as a life plan like so many people - but no ticket, no chance.

We live in an isolated region with a total population of 30,000 and this year there was a $1 million winner, a $2 million winner and a work group that split a grand prize netting over $3 million each. About 25 years ago a co-worker won twice. First $1 million and then $100,000. She and her husband are still having fun with that money and they are just in their 50s. In Canada you get to keep it all - nothing goes to the tax man.

Some people buy all the time which is a waste of money and play the same numbers all the time. This is bad news because if you miss buying a ticket and that is the day your numbers are drawn - well that is the day your wife is going to be very annoyed as happened to the son of a friend.

They say that you have a better chance of being struck by lightning twice than winning the lottery so I guess you should wait until you are struck once to inprove your chances lol!

I am moving to Florida........so that dramatically increases my chances of being struck by lightning.......
SO I should buy more lotto tickets!! :-)

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We have lotteries here in Ontario where the tickets are anywhere from $30 to $100 for charities like the Heart and Stroke Foundation or Sick Children's Hospital. Back when I had money I used to buy them all the time and had great luck. I won cash prizes of $100-$250, some portable stereos, a Roots Olympic jacket, snowshoes, a telescope and lots of other stuff I can't think of right now. I don't think I got my money back by any means but the prizes and the odds were more realistic and I knew the money was going to a good cause rather than the government. There were usually cars, vacations, electronics, appliances and cash spread out more evenly then the big government lotteries. I haven't bought those tickets in quite a while now but I would again in the future if I could.

For your Texas Lotto (Mega Millions), you pick 5 numbers 1-75 and a 6th 1-15. This results in 75C5 ways for the first 5 numbers times 15 for the 6th, where

75C5 = (75x74x73x72x71) / (5x4x3x2x1) = 17259390 combinations
17259390 x 15 = 258,890,850 different picks, one of which is the jackpot.
You have a 1 out of 258,890,850 chance of winning the jackpot.

This is just a little better probability than finding an egg under your rooster one morning.

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I bought some for stocking stuffers and one of my kids won $10,000 but after tax's it wasn't nearly as much.

Drum roll please...........(checking my numbers today.......)

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