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    Default Ever play the lottery?

    I started playing every week just for fun. I sometimes win free plays and a few months ago I won 80 bucks. Do you guys ever play the lotto and what's the most you've won?

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    Default Re: Ever play the lottery?

    I play when the jackpot is big enough to be on the news. Then I buy one- and only one- ticket, and pretend that I'm Charlie Bucket who fished out just enough money for the Wonka Bar that held the last Golden Ticket.

    I once won thirty something dollars.

    But if you did hit the big jackpot, what would you do?

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    I'd pay off all my bills and mortgage first. Buy a really nice car. Nothing too fancy, just way better than the rust bucket i have now. I think id be smart with my winnings like investing it.I also think I'd move somewhere far away and start a new life

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    Default Re: Ever play the lottery?

    No i bet football & horse racing - i dont win lottsa $$ but it is a decent amount of extra spending $$.

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    Default Re: Ever play the lottery?

    Yes I have. I call it an investment when I win, a speculation if I lose. The most I've won is $100. But to paraphrase a comedian about Vegas:" I lost $2 in Vegas, and I've spent a million trying to get it back."

    FYI, www.powerball.com, plus the individual state lottery websites list the different ways of winning a payout, how much it is depending on the match, and the odds of winning that certain way.
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    Default Re: Ever play the lottery?

    I play every time I'm in Idaho or Montana.

    I love number draw type games. I usually play the 3 or 5 spot tickets and play special numbers ( the month / day / year I met my partner is what I usually play ).

    I also play Keno when in Nevada . The most I've won is $400 on a $1.25 4 spot quick pick keno ticket while I sitting having dinner !

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    Not mch in IL, they can 'no longer afford' or wht ev the terminology is, they give an IOU for amts won over 600:


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    Default Re: Ever play the lottery?

    Quote Originally Posted by lilylilylily View Post
    I started playing every week just for fun. I sometimes win free plays and a few months ago I won 80 bucks. Do you guys ever play the lotto and what's the most you've won?
    Oh ya, I play lottery all the time. But I barely remember winning anything.
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    Default Re: Ever play the lottery?

    Quote Originally Posted by whirlerz View Post
    Not mch in IL, they can 'no longer afford' or wht ev the terminology is, they give an IOU for amts won over 600:
    What the hell?! An IOU. smh
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    Default Re: Ever play the lottery?

    Most lotteries return about fifty percent of the tickets sold as winnings. So this removes them as a viable investment. They can still be fun, though, if you enjoy throwing your money away for a shiny ticket!

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    Default Re: Ever play the lottery?

    Quote Originally Posted by AmericanFlyer View Post
    Most lotteries return about fifty percent of the tickets sold as winnings. So this removes them as a viable investment. They can still be fun, though, if you enjoy throwing your money away for a shiny ticket!
    Optimist: Yea, that's the 'broke' state of IL for ya! A friend of mine does fairly well on the scratch off tix though! Just in the past yr, he's prob won about 6 x's, roughly around 700.00 total!

    & above^, they're hardly an investement & the odds of winning are astronomical,


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    Default Re: Ever play the lottery?

    I also only play when the jackpot is over 100 million and I have no chance of winning. It is kind of fun and in my state lottery helps provide education so I am dong some good.
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    I played powerball hoping I would win a lifetime supply of weed and dick but I didn't win and discovered some fucker a few miles away won. That was supposed to be mine lol! I went into depression for 2 days.
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    Default Re: Ever play the lottery?

    Whenever I get $1-2 from finding random quarters and other coins, I keep them the glove box of the car and when I am bored while pumping gas I go in and buy a $1 ticket or two. Sometimes I'd just get ice cream instead if I am not feeling too lucky. I never won anything yet.


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    Default Re: Ever play the lottery?

    I play when I have the $. Been trying to have a ticket in every day. You have to be in it to win it. So as much as I sound like a sour pessimist I'm really not. I have quite a bit of optimist in there too.
    Winnings? Nothing significant- so I'm DUE!!!
    I'd love to fix up this house. Be a stay at home pet mom.
    Huge lotto winnings? I'd be a total philanthropist. I actually would like to help people- probably through animals somehow.

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    I think we need to move to puerto rico and buy lotteries. I just learned that in puerto rico, you don't have to pay federal and state tax for the lottery winning. You will take home 100% of the winning. Federal tax is about 39.6%.
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