Poll of the Day > ive gambled away millions of dollars in free powerball simulators.

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Like, millions. 20 million, 50 million i dont know.

and ive won a $1 million prize one time, never the jackpot, average ROI was like -85% on the one.

It is not a smart move to play it, though i can see just one ticket for a foot in the door.

http://adamlamers.com/lottery_simulator

if you're buying a bunch of tickets for every drawing, you're more than likely gonna lose a lot of money, but one ticket every now and again when there's a huge pot for that "what if" is fine
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I work at a grocery. The girl up at front was a bigger crank about it than I am. She told me out of the thousand lottery tickets she sold today, she gave out 2 $2 winners.

It bothers me because people piss $20,000 over their life because they don't understand math well enough to know that they should save that instead, and win a lottery of "$10 dollars every day for the rest of your life!"

I had an Uber ride on the way home with a woman who worked 7 days a week 12 hours a day because she was $60,000 in student loan debt, and even worse off with her medical bills, 6 payments behind on her car, and she was going on about how she just needs a winning lottery ticket. Can you tell what country I'm from?

Don't play powerball or super lotto. Play the daily 3.
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The only way to feasibly play this thing is to play the same numbers for like 20-30 years that gives you the highest chance of those numbers coming up. Now this is not some "great strategy" but it's way better than continually switching numbers and/or buying a ton of tickets.
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Yellow posted...

I work at a grocery. The girl up at front was a bigger crank about it than I am. She told me out of the thousand lottery tickets she sold today, she gave out 2 $2 winners.

It bothers me because people piss $20,000 over their life because they don't understand math well enough to know that they should save that instead, and win a lottery of "$10 dollars every day for the rest of your life!"

I had an Uber ride on the way home with a woman who worked 7 days a week 12 hours a day because she was $60,000 in student loan debt, and even worse off with her medical bills, 6 payments behind on her car, and she was going on about how she just needs a winning lottery ticket. Can you tell what country I'm from?

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Yellow posted...

I work at a grocery. The girl up at front was a bigger crank about it than I am. She told me out of the thousand lottery tickets she sold today, she gave out 2 $2 winners.

It bothers me because people piss $20,000 over their life because they don't understand math well enough to know that they should save that instead, and win a lottery of "$10 dollars every day for the rest of your life!"

I had an Uber ride on the way home with a woman who worked 7 days a week 12 hours a day because she was $60,000 in student loan debt, and even worse off with her medical bills, 6 payments behind on her car, and she was going on about how she just needs a winning lottery ticket. Can you tell what country I'm from?

Im guessing the tickets sold were for a Friday draw? Of course people are buying tickets today instead of cashing them in.
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"Honey, I just won $10,000, but I don't feel like going back to cash it in, we'll do it tomorrow"

argonautweakend posted...

Like, millions. 20 million, 50 million i dont know.

and ive won a $1 million prize one time, never the jackpot, average ROI was like -85% on the one.

It is not a smart move to play it, though i can see just one ticket for a foot in the door.

You should have also been using a praying simulator in conjunction.
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Yellow posted...

"Honey, I just won $10,000, but I don't feel like going back to cash it in, we'll do it tomorrow"

uh, because you can't.

anything over $1000 cannot be redeemed in a store.
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I coudl write a program in C to simulate it in like 5 minutes but honestly there is no reason to since simple math will tell you the likely hood of winning...which sucks.

I get the whole idea of just buying a ticket and maybe winning a ton, but again, it would be better if everyone just go ttogether hired someone to take their money run a random number thing and hand out the winnings. Then at least you would get as much out as you put in.....even if your odds would still probably suck.
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What if I told you that the lottery only exist to capture time travelers and when the pot gets really high its because they're after a high value target?
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