Hey I think I can retire now...

[irwin]

http://www.passwird.com/images/w00t10.jpg

:D

edit: actually, lemme try to make this into a worthwhile thread. What's the most you've ever won in the State Lottery? (scratchers, lotto, powerball, etc.)

[coleslaw]

Get that $10 into a 401k plan ASAP! :heh:

[dbax791]

Are you 18 yet? If not I'm turning you in! :P

I won $1500 once on a 5 outta 6 state lotto quick pick. One more number and I'd be on a beach somewhere.

I seriously spend like $5/year on lottery tickets. The most I ever spent was $10 when gigger set up that lotto pool last year.

[GraingerGuy]

I won big!

I got........another lottery ticket....:)

[tweeteresa]

u can send it to me. :P

[hoey222]

heh - $7 - but that doesn't include the 30 mil i'm gonna win this week :D

[coleslaw]

I'm happy to say that I have never and will never play the lottery because, as the saying goes, "the lottery is a tax on people that are bad at math." :P

[Markel]

Originally posted by coleslaw
I'm happy to say that I have never and will never play the lottery because, as the saying goes, "the lottery is a tax on people that are bad at math." :P
:stupid:

[mojo]

Originally posted by coleslaw
I'm happy to say that I have never and will never play the lottery because, as the saying goes, "the lottery is a tax on people that are bad at math." :P that saying is for ppl who don't remember what having "fun" is :P

[InfiniteNothing]

That's not true. If you only bet when the jackpot was bigger than the odds you'd end up on top in the long run.

[coleslaw]

Originally posted by mojo
that saying is for ppl who don't remember what having "fun" is

If I am going to gamble with my money, I'll at least go to Vegas or a casino to play some blackjack. At least there I'd have some control over the game and get some free drinks out of it too! :D

I may not have a good chance of winning millions of dollars playing blackjack, but my luck of at least getting my money is as close to 50% as you can get.

[blueindian]

i won $100 in GA years ago.

not too long ago i hit the VA lottery numbers. all of them. exactly the way they were called, same order and everything. i was all freaking out and yelling to my wife. w00t! we're rich.

virgina does 2 drawings. 1 in the morning and another in the evening. i hit the morning numbers.

the problem was that i had a ticket for the evening drawing

[coleslaw]

Some 90-year-old guy (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=816&ncid=816&e=1&u=//ap/20030604/ap_on_fe_st/lotto_oldest_winner) just won a $16 million jackpot. Guess what payment option he chose? ;)

Yeah, he took the lump-sum payment of $10,089,377.57 instead of the annual payments of $533,333 over 30 years. You think that was the right thing for him to do?? :heh:

[attgig]

Originally posted by dbax791
Are you 18 yet? If not I'm turning you in! :P

I won $1500 once on a 5 outta 6 state lotto quick pick. One more number and I'd be on a beach somewhere.

I seriously spend like $5/year on lottery tickets. The most I ever spent was $10 when gigger set up that lotto pool last year.


oh sure...blame it on me :rolleyes: :P

[Kevster]

I play the CA lottery sometimes. The most I have ever won on a single ticket was $1,300 when I got 4+bonus. I was 1 number away from 20M. I have had several scratchers pay off big - I have had three different $400+ tickets. All in all, I think I'm breaking even right now.

[guiseppewv]

Originally posted by coleslaw
I'm happy to say that I have never and will never play the lottery because, as the saying goes, "the lottery is a tax on people that are bad at math." :P

I think it is tax for the stupid. :D But then again, I play it every once in a while, so what does that say about me? :umm: :D

[Butch]

I had a small good luck streak going a little while back . . . so I figured I'd buy a couple lotto tix and bought $9 worth . . . a mix of scratch off and draws. I ended up winning $21 (a $20 scratch off and a $1 scratch off). Heck, I'll take it, that's a 133% profit.