Anyone left that still thinks the lottery is on the up and up.

Been There · Nov 10, 2022

I enjoy playing the lottery, the Lotto and the Mega Millions. I buy a couple of tickets each week. I haven't had any luck with scratch-offs. Maybe a free ticket or some $2.00 winners and an occasional $5 or $10 winner. Last year, I risked it all by buying a $50 Christmas scratch-off. I got nothing. There will be no more of that.

JustDave · Nov 10, 2022

Way back when, I bought $5 worth of tickets each week. This was back when BASIC programming was almost necessary to get anything out of your computer. I wrote a program where I recorded my lotto numbers for the week, and where I could enter the actual winning numbers after the draw. Then I would press the "calculate" option, and I would be given the results pronto. I was actually surprised that I frequently won one or two of those little 4 out of 5 hits that would cover my losses for the week. Of course, I was always behind overall, because that's the nature of legal gambling. While it was fun pressing the calculate option, I probably spent more time writing the program than the time I saved on the drudgery of manually checking the the numbers by hand.

fuzzybuddy · Nov 10, 2022

Hey, I'm a liberal, where's my 2.5 billion? I like winning, but I detest losing. I'm way too cheap to play the lottery. There's one winner and a few hundred million losers-talk about lousy odds. I don't believe there's an evil lottery cabal, fixing the thing so their friends win. Maybe the distrust of lotteries comes from the McDonalds promotion as a kind of lottery, with free tickets. And the girlfriends of the managers just happened to win new cars.

Serenity4321 · Nov 12, 2022

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