I would like to have a small island to my own, that's about it...then invest the rest.
I'm not that greedy. I only want one Gulfstream 650 and one mega-yacht and no more than 100 sports cars.
I'm not that greedy. I only want one Gulfstream 650 and one mega-yacht and no more than 100 sports cars.
Anyone know if there is an app that'll scan the tickets and just dump them to a spreadsheet?
Well I paid my $4 stupid tax. Was not willing to commit more than that.
Adobe Acrobat can convert scanned PDF's into excel documents, I'm not sure how much additional editing would be required for all the extra junk on the tickets.
I jumped into an office pool. It'd be hilarious if our office won and nobody showed up to work. The business would collapse
I'm not that greedy. I only want one Gulfstream 650 and one mega-yacht and no more than 100 sports cars.
ore than 1,200 members of the Facebook group, Plainview Moms, formed a buying pool for Powerball tickets. On Jan. 12, 2016, the residents shared their hopes that one of their 6,000 games will be Wednesday's big winner.
In all, 1,200 people have joined the pool, contributing $10 a piece. Kusinitz says she and other organizers have purchased around 6,000 games. They’re posting pictures of the tickets to a Facebook group, so that players can help check numbers and verify winnings.
Facebook group pools together to buy tickets.
Facebook group pools together to buy tickets.
Adobe Acrobat can convert scanned PDF's into excel documents, I'm not sure how much additional editing would be required for all the extra junk on the tickets.
That may be more of a PITA then just having people enter them manually like we had done. IF any of them pop more then 2, i'll manually verify too.
Dammit, I got tied up at work and just checked the link at 12:08 Central. Deadline was 12. Figures! My fault I suppose.
Good luck everyone!
Not bad, but I don't know if i'd trust facebook rando's, haha.
How'd they collect the money too btw?
But Bruce Torff, a professor at Hofstra University who teaches statistics, said the pool still faces pretty stiff odds. With one ticket, the chances of winning the grand prize are about one in 292 million. With 6,000 tickets, Torff said, each pool participant has raised their odds to just one in 49,000. Though it wouldn’t be the first time a pool from Long Island bucked the odds. In 2011, 20 employees at a Costco in Melville split a $201.9 million Powerball jackpot.
Earlier this week, the New York State Gaming Commission issued tips for people participating in lottery pools. Kusinitz and company followed some of the guidelines, like appointing a group leader to collect and account for the money. But they didn’t heed the commission’s suggestion to limit pools to 10 players or fewer, as the New York Lottery will only issue a maximum of 10 checks in the case of a group winner.
The commission also recommends a winning pool either forms a trust or limited liability corporation and lists each player as a member.
Final tally - 87, or $870 worth of tickets.
Dammit, I got tied up at work and just checked the link at 12:08 Central. Deadline was 12. Figures! My fault I suppose.
Good luck everyone!
i would imagine they all meet up. in plainview.
update 1-13-2016 12:15P
SnipeMasterJ13 snuck in at the last second, 88. I feel better with an even amount of people!
Screw the 1 in 292,000,000 odds of Powerball. I was reading about the lottery in Spain recently. The total available money for that was 2.2 billion around Christmas. Now the payout for the top prize is "only" 4 million, but the odds of winning it are 1 in 100,000. There is also 10,000 other ways to win substantial amounts of money.
http://www.christmaslottery.co/spanish-lotto-prizes.html
I'd play it.
To avoid any extra headaches, what you could do is, after scanning, then manually cut out everything but the actual numbers. Then let the OCR run and it could be rather successful. Never tried before, however.
I feel like OneNote on Windows (desktop, not UWA aka universal app version) can do OCR on images as well, which could be easier to take images of each ticket and let it run the OCR. I was looking into it on the Mac version I've got right in front of me but that is a much lighter version, more similar to the UWA version than the classic desktop version.
If OneNote still does OCR, I believe it makes the original image searchable, so even if formatting is crazy you still have the actual text over the image itself. You could then copy/paste the numbers only into a spreadsheet.
Screw the 1 in 292,000,000 odds of Powerball. I was reading about the lottery in Spain recently. The total available money for that was 2.2 billion around Christmas. Now the payout for the top prize is "only" 4 million, but the odds of winning it are 1 in 100,000. There is also 10,000 other ways to win substantial amounts of money.
http://www.christmaslottery.co/spanish-lotto-prizes.html
I'd play it.