So how much did you spend on Powerball/Mega Million this week?

[kami333]

$11

Same here!

 

[Blain]

So how much did you spend on Powerball/Mega Million this week?

Too much, but evidently it was $2 short of what I should have...

 

[BladeVenom]

$4

 

[Doppel]

$0. Learn Math.

 

[tboo]

$0

 

[BUTCH1]

Yup. If you bought all ~175 million combinations for the powerball you would win. The risk is that someone(s) else would also win and you might not make your money back.

175X2=350 mil to cover every# but like you said, if there are 2-3 winners your screwed, then out of the 375 you won puts you in the 30% tax bracket so there goes about 75 mil right off the top BUT you are (or used to be) allowed to claim gambling losses as a deduction. It was common at the dog track to see people gathering losing tickets off the ground for that reason. Imagine having boxes of tickets and having to go through them to find the winner LOL..

 

[boomhower]

$3, one ticket each/

 

[drum]

$0. I didn't buy any tickets and not planning on buying any this time.

all of this

 

[Engineer]

$2. First $2 of 2013 that I've spent on ANY lottery that I know of (didn't participate in the ATOT lottery this time and not sure when the last one was - which I did get in on once).

Now back to not spending money on the lottery.

Wife spent probably $10 or so over the last few weeks in her employer office pool.

 

[MustISO]

I think I spent about $40 during the run-up to 600 million. Played some in an office pool and some alone.