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I myself haven't gotten into it, but my family and friends are in a bit of a rave over it right now. In fact, most of my entire town is bustling over the Powerball tickets.
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If it gets high enough I usually just buy a single ticket.
It's enough to let me play the "what would I do if I won" game and do some day dreaming, which for me is honestly the most fun part of playing. I figured if it's "my turn" to win, it will be "my turn" if I buy a single ticket or if I buy 100 tickets.
For $3 I get to have a tiny bit of excitement, have fancy daydreams about being a rich man, and I'm not any more broke than I was before when I don't win.
I think it's funny people rushing to buy today's ticket just because the $1.5 billion prize is so high. You could have won more money than you could ever spend weeks ago, but they weren't interested then. But now the prize is even more money again, they do want to enter!
Howard A Treesong wrote: I think it's funny people rushing to buy today's ticket just because the $1.5 billion prize is so high. You could have won more money than you could ever spend weeks ago, but they weren't interested then. But now the prize is even more money again, they do want to enter!
Mostly because I know I'm not gonna win but entering into a billion+ dollar drawing is enough of a novelty I gave it a go. I didn't win anything but had some fun going to the corner store with some folks to talk about the lottery and what we'd do if we won. Got to make some comments on facebook posts with other folks who were playing. It was stupid little lark and a handful of tickets cost me less than hours pay. I've spent money in far more wasteful ways before.
I buy lottery tickets in the UK fairly regularly for the Thunderball which has a small prize (£500,000 -- actually I could retire on that but would not be able to live in luxury.)
I only buy tickets for the big lotteries when they roll over to a significant amount. That realistically means £10 million for the Lotto and at least £20 million for the Euromillions.
Obviously my chance of winning any lottey is miniscule, but I always think if you're not in you can't win. Anyway, a ticket is only £1 or £2 so it's not like a serious gambling habit.
I was listening to the radio the other day and a community in Florida each house gave $500 for lotto tickets. I guess they bought around 70k in tickets which took the machine 2.5 hours to print all the tickets.
One guy in (I think) Philly was asked on live TV what he would do with it, and without skipping a beat he said "probably buy a lot of cocaine and hookers". For the win.
There has to be a Youtube video of it somewhere. I'll try to find it when I'm not on my tablet.
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If it gets high enough I usually just buy a single ticket.
It's enough to let me play the "what would I do if I won" game and do some day dreaming, which for me is honestly the most fun part of playing. I figured if it's "my turn" to win, it will be "my turn" if I buy a single ticket or if I buy 100 tickets.
For $3 I get to have a tiny bit of excitement, have fancy daydreams about being a rich man, and I'm not any more broke than I was before when I don't win.
You've already said everything for me.
Another winner in Mumford, TN, and somewhere in Florida too.
If I won I was planning to give 1 mil to each family member and friend I care about as leave me alone money, then buy a ginormous RV and disappear. It would have the best cellular-mobile-satellite-ley-line internet connection in the world though, so I can skill get my Dakka on.
Bought a single ticket for the 900, 1.2, and 1.5 drawings.
As said above, powerball is just something silly you buy a ticket for when the pot is mega-high. Your chances of winning are so low, you're basically just paying a voluntary tax.
Anyhow, good luck to the winners. Now come all of the crazy, broke-ass relatives from the woodworks!
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I bought $6 worth of tickets... It was tough the next day breaking the news to my dogs that we did not win. The dogs took the news better then I thought the would.
I was thinking about buying a ticket, I play the power ball sometimes through a lottery agent, but I skipped this one. Frankly I was also a bit scared of what would happen if I did win. The agent seems pretty trustworthy, but 1.5 billion is a lot of money. Even if I did manage to get the ticket off them, I think I'd still need to fly it to America, which is quite a long way to be carrying around 1.5 billion dollars.
EDIT: Actually the agent just sent out an email claiming a player in El Salvador won the $1 million second prize through their site (might even be true?).
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Smacks wrote: I was thinking about buying a ticket, I play the power ball sometimes through a lottery agent, but I skipped this one. Frankly I was also a bit scared of what would happen if I did win. The agent seems pretty trustworthy, but 1.5 billion is a lot of money. Even if I did manage to get the ticket off them, I think I'd still need to fly it to America, which is quite a long way to be carrying around 1.5 billion dollars.
If you win 1.5 billion I'm sure you could flip the bill to charter a private jet.
Chute82 wrote: If you win 1.5 billion I'm sure you could flip the bill to charter a private jet.
As a long time freelancer, I'm extremely conscious of counting chickens before they hatch. So I'd probably still take a budget airline, and maybe treat myself to a taxi at the other end.
The last thing I'd want to do is get there and discover I'd lost the ticket, and couldn't claim the money, and then get billed for a private jet
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Chute82 wrote: If you win 1.5 billion I'm sure you could flip the bill to charter a private jet.
As a long time freelancer, I'm extremely conscious of counting chickens before they hatch. So I'd probably still take a budget airline, and maybe treat myself to a taxi at the other end.
The last thing I'd want to do is get there and discover I'd lost the ticket, and couldn't claim the money, and then get billed for a private jet
Don't stick the ticket in your luggage, could you imagine arriving and finding out your luggage is lost? Some TSA agent going through your luggage and finding the winning ticket and pockets it. Oh the nightmare
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