$1.6B!Maaaaaan, I would totally do another, but I am traveling all this next week .
Yea, I played it last Tuesday, 1st time, I was LOL'ing when I saw the numbers, 1-70 on the main pick and then 1-20 on the powerball pick. There's a reason 300 million+ tickets were sold and God knows how many were bought Friday as well and yet not one got the prize. Not even worth the $2 IMO.I think wawa still has an any size coffee for $1 promo going. That's a better use of a dollar, and almost equal chances of becoming rich afterward.
I didn't even know Mega had gone up to $2. It's still worth it for me to buy one ticket when the jackpot is $1.6 billion. I'll be making the $2 donation.Yea, I played it last Tuesday, 1st time, I was LOL'ing when I saw the numbers, 1-70 on the main pick and then 1-20 on the powerball pick. There's a reason 300 million+ tickets were sold and God knows how many were bought Friday as well and yet not one got the prize. Not even worth the $2 IMO.
I didn't even know Mega had gone up to $2. It's still worth it for me to buy one ticket when the jackpot is $1.6 billion. I'll be making the $2 donation.
It’s an inefficient method of collecting taxes but people seem to really like it.Just think about it this way....if there weren't so many suckers, it would not be 1.6B. That is a LOT of wasted cash.
WOW....Those lines are HUGE!, I could not imagine spending hours and hours waiting to try 300 million to 1 odds. People see that massive jackpot and dismiss any notion of the simple math as to how it got so big.Long line in Primm . . on California side of Nevada state line south of Las Vegas (no Nevada state lottery) . . Google aerial.
Always puzzling why so many are willing to wait HOURS in line at Primm, when there are other options.
I won't, for tuesday's drawing I had 5 tickets, got one number on 2 tickets, that's IT.I didn't even know Mega had gone up to $2. It's still worth it for me to buy one ticket when the jackpot is $1.6 billion. I'll be making the $2 donation.
I could go be that guy in line I suppose. Since I've never bought a ticket, I would have to stand at the counter asking how the whole thing works and have the cashier walk me through the entire process. I can already sense the anger growing behind me as someone's ice cream melts.
technically, yes, I think. (I was wrong on the number for megamillions though--I think it is still 265,000,000? something like that). But that all depends if each individual ticket is its own unique number, of course. You're not going to systematically create your own numbers to insure that with such a buy-in, so you are just hoping that quick pick does it for you.
for 100 tickets, you'd have essentially no chance of duplicates. 1,000,000 tickets, you probably have a couple of duplicates using quick pick. But hey--what if you duplicate the jackpot numbers?
There was some story, years ago, about a very large buy-in--FL, I think--where dozens and dozens of people did try to buy up nearly every combination in one of the big state lottos. It kinda works if the jackpot is high enough....but then what happens, as did to those morons, Ms Gotschweiller buying her first ever lotto ticket on her way from the hairdressers also hit the jackpot, so now she gets half of the pool and those other saps are now on the hook for at least 10s of thousands each.
You can go online and see how any lotto game is played.I could go be that guy in line I suppose. Since I've never bought a ticket, I would have to stand at the counter asking how the whole thing works and have the cashier walk me through the entire process. I can already sense the anger growing behind me as someone's ice cream melts.
That's crazy. The government is going to laugh all the way to the bank when they get most of it. Either way the millions that the winner is going to get is going to be more than enough to be set for life.
I didn't even know Mega had gone up to $2. It's still worth it for me to buy one ticket when the jackpot is $1.6 billion. I'll be making the $2 donation.
I have a better idea. Decrease taxes, and decrease spending so you don't have to take advantage of the dumber members of society to keep your shit running. Everyone wins a little bit. Not as exciting as showing big numbers on the idiotbox to get the dummies worked up, but it's fair and equitable.
They did half the plan. You also have to cut spending. That means all spending, including the military. There needs to be a better way to fund government. Not the bullshit we have now where agencies piss away money so they get as much if not more the next year. Not sure how to do it atm. I'm not paid to think of such things, and no one gives a shit about my ideas anyway, but it could be done. Cut out the waste, and we might be able to do something crazy like give people healthcare.Oh, but we did just decrease taxes for the people that tend to buy lotto tickets....oh, but it's really a very expensive loan that the drafters of the bill calculated to cost about 20x more than what those poor suckers are "saving" now...Oh? say it ain't so....Oh wait, those same people don't exactly realize that/don't care/don't really live their lives in such a way where such long-term thinking (e.g.: 3 years or more) factors into their planning?
I mean, I get what you're saying, I really do. But I think this model (lotto) could actually work if it were actually public, and not run under the guise of being public, but really being a private money-grubbing conservative wet dream. If it were designed to actually distribute cash/wealth and not hoard it for ever-larger grabs.
Shit, I've ruined the thread.
Your killing my buzz. I was screwing up to buying a ticket.I’d expect the jackpot to reach $1.8B. I’ll donate $6 to the cause.
Probabilistically, it is highly likely there will be not just one winning ticket, but 2 or 3 on Tuesday night.