Do you play the Lottery?

Paulina

Paulina

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Once in a while my husband will go to 7-11 and he'll dig out all of the used lottery tickets in hopes enter for a second chance. Most scratch offs here give you a second chance. Most people will scrap them after the first chance. So today he went to get more losing tickets. A lot of them if you will. Todays, pile was $10.00 - $20.00 for 1 ticket. Can you imagine plopping down a $20. just for 1 ticket? Geez. I guess folks have money to burn after all. Blows my mind.
 

When it gets to a billion dollars I will spend $5 just to be in the running.
 

I tend to buy a couple of tickets when the prize money is high so not every week. It's got to be over Ā£1m for me to risk losing five quid though ;)
 
$15 a week is a small price to pay. But I prefer to play the state lottery, it's $5 every draw three draws is $15. Will I hit? (cross fingers) do I think I'll win? No I know the odds are too great against me, but if I don't play, then I wouldn't have a chance.
 
Yes, I always have lottery tix. I don't spend a lot. I just play the state lottery game with the biggest jackpot. If you don't play, you can't win. :giggle:
 
Here in Alabama we don't have lotteries, horse/dog races or gambling ... not legally anyway.

I live only 25miles from the Florida line and will travel for mega this and power that when the jackpots are high.
Never win anything though. Well, won $2, maybe $4, last time I played.
That wouldn't even pay for gas to go get tickets.
 
About twice a year I will buy a lottery ticket....just because. Sometimes I include one or two of those quick scratch tickets. Otherwise I stay away from lotteries only because I don't like the odds.
 
Naturally said:
Here in Alabama we don't have lotteries, horse/dog races or gambling ... not legally anyway.

I live only 25miles from the Florida line and will travel for mega this and power that when the jackpots are high.
Never win anything though. Well, won $2, maybe $4, last time I played.
That wouldn't even pay for gas to go get tickets.
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Mobile has a popular dog track. I assumed there were others in the state, but maybe not.
 
I played the Louisiana State Lotto game for a bunch of years. I finally hit one week, 5 out of 6 numbers, which paid $4500+. I figured that was my win, so I haven't played it since. Mississippi finally got a state lottery, but I don't play it.

My wife likes to play the country-wide MegaMillions, or whatever it's called. I've told her that the odds of her winning are almost as long as if she didn't play at all.
 
Virginia residents buy a ton of them. Gas Station I used to go to always had 5-10 people there dishing out bucks on them, scratching like mad on scratch offs and cashing in right away and calling out numbers for numerous tickets. Took forever to just pay for my gas.
 
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