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Offline Rollins

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No-chance lottery- how big will this blossom?
« on: July 08, 2008, 09:29:47 AM »
Caught this on CNN, whether or not you're into these scratch/lotto games, should be interesting to see who will take this ball and run with it...

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/07/lottery.tickets/index.html

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Re: No-chance lottery- how big will this blossom?
« Reply #1 on: July 08, 2008, 09:54:52 AM »
Those who play the lottery are those whom are mathematically challenged.

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Re: No-chance lottery- how big will this blossom?
« Reply #2 on: July 08, 2008, 10:54:03 AM »
Those who play the lottery are those whom are mathematically challenged.

Now that's not fair Rip. Some times I get a ticket just for fun when I am traveling through a state with a lottery but never more than just 1-2 dollars worth.

Now when Jim Bob and Jolene Mary Ester win the $50 million dollars and they are living in a double wide and they just want to build a mansion next to the existing double wide is a different story. They will be out of money within a handful of years easily because they can't comprehend that amount of money and just exactly how fast you can spend it or be taxed out of it. Don't even mention all the family roaches that want to come a mooch off them and take it away from them.
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Re: No-chance lottery- how big will this blossom?
« Reply #3 on: July 08, 2008, 11:07:24 AM »
This happens quite of fen in Canada, with scratch tickets.
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Re: No-chance lottery- how big will this blossom?
« Reply #4 on: July 08, 2008, 11:20:18 AM »
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Re: No-chance lottery- how big will this blossom?
« Reply #5 on: July 08, 2008, 11:58:32 AM »
I'll admit that I occasionally purchase a Powerball ticket.  What is a little disturbing (and I have actually seen it) is when people spend 10-15% of their income on various games as their only means of escape from their lives.


I used to watch the older people working at a grocery store spend $100-$150 a week on scratch offs, small jackpots and large jackpot tickets. 
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Re: No-chance lottery- how big will this blossom?
« Reply #6 on: July 08, 2008, 12:11:29 PM »
odds are very high that the airplane you are on will not crash either



But it happens


Usually an old guy who owns a bank wins... its Jods way of humoring himself....


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Re: No-chance lottery- how big will this blossom?
« Reply #7 on: July 08, 2008, 12:33:55 PM »
I don't play the lottery simply because if it were in the stars for me to have money that I didn't earn, I would have been born a son of a wealthy man.  :aok

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Re: No-chance lottery- how big will this blossom?
« Reply #8 on: July 08, 2008, 12:40:45 PM »
I still don't understand what the big controversy is.

You buy a scratch-off ticket with a 1 in 10,000 chance of winning some big prize, with better odds of winning smaller prizes.

Just because the person that bought ticket #5,000 means that the State should be forced to pull all other tickets that have not sold yet?  This will be the end of instant games if this becomes the case.

Do people not realize that the size of the prize is based on the amount of money projected to be brought in by ticket sales?

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Re: No-chance lottery- how big will this blossom?
« Reply #9 on: July 08, 2008, 01:57:06 PM »
So will this cut down on people spending ten minutes picking out tickets at the 7-11 counter, scratching them off at said counter and turning in their $1 winnings to buy another ticket while holding up the line?  Man those people drive my crazy.  :mad:
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