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Posted January 14, 2016
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HereForTheBeer: Besides, the odds are slightly better than me being married to one woman for ~25 years, and I managed to win that lottery. So it's possible.
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bler144: Probably still better odds than being married to ~25 women for one year.

But congrats :)
Thanks! Fortunately for me, the Lottery Tax Credit isn't large enough for her to hire a divorce lawyer.
Posted January 14, 2016
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bler144: That's basically what happened here. It's a multi-state lottery, and they worsened the odds of winning (to 1 in 292,000,000) and upped the ticket price to $2 back in Oct. And not surprisingly it went about 2 months with no winner.

However, as the pot climbed over 1 billion $U.S. ticket sales spiked. Estimates for last night's drawing were that about 600 million tickets had been sold, so it became more likely there would be multiple winners than no winners.

And sure enough, it looks like there were 3 winning tickets that will split the 1.58 billion (NPV) prize. If each winner were to take the lump sum rather than the annuity, they'd get about 325 million.

And...while there were many great ideas and suggestions, from Drealmer's desire to help others, to travelling the world and learning about other cultures, to a flotilla of ninjas, the winner is...

tinyE with "giant corn dog."

Thanks for playing, everyone!
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tinyE: You're weird, you know that. :P
In fairness, it was probably the best use out of all of the ones we came up with.
Posted January 15, 2016
budejovice gave me a great idea...

When I win, I'll use the money to research and build a time machine so I can go back in time and get that winning lottery ticket to build the time machine. The paradox will probably burn up a few universes, but at least I'll be rich!


:-D
Posted January 15, 2016
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adaliabooks: This is the bit I don't get though... unless it's a different kind of lottery then the ones we have here no one has to win.
If no one picked the right numbers, there would be no winner. It's possible (though not probable I imagine) that a year could go by without a single person winning.. (again, not likely as over here the prize gets bigger the longer it's left un-won and the bigger the prize the more people tempted to play and more chance there is a winning ticket)

Yet people frequently claim that "Someone has to win" is a good reason to play.. in many forms of competition this is the case (like a raffle or draw) but with a lottery it is not..

Don't get me wrong, I occasionally buy a ticket in the hopes of getting lucky, I just fail to understand some people's reasoning for doing so...
Maybe someone doesn't HAVE to win. But I CAN'T win if I don't have a ticket.
Posted January 15, 2016
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paladin181: Maybe someone doesn't HAVE to win. But I CAN'T win if I don't have a ticket.
Yes, this is exactly true, and a far better reason to buy a ticket.

I don't know if the "Someone has to win" thing is some kind of marketing that's been drummed into people but I've always just found it odd when people say it about a lottery when it isn't actually true...

(that wasn't meant as a personal comment or attack against you either, it's just a thing I've never understood when people say it)
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