Powerball hits $450 Million

[stromboli]

The wife decided she wanted to go for a ride. Case closed.

[trdsf]

800 million as the one time payout. Fucking overkill. My kids' kids, and THEIR kids, wouldn't even need Sanders' free community college.

Never thought I'd see a billion dollar lottery in my lifetime, but I suppose there are billions expecting a second coming of their lord & savior in their lifetime, so why not a billion in lottery winnings......

Yeah, but a billion dollar lottery jackpot was at least theoretically possible.

[aitm]

If I win I will give everyone in the world a million dollars......and a math book.

[drunkenshoe]

If I win I will give everyone in the world a million dollars......and a math book.

I just want a little apartment.  2+1. it is around 300-600 K in TL and 197 K in American dollars. Pretty please. *Grins.

[stromboli]

If I win you people will never hear from me again.

[PopeyesPappy]

But Strom, some people on this forum could use a job and somebody has to wipe your ass...

[drunkenshoe]

If I win you people will never hear from me again.

Naah, you'll eventually drop in.

[SGOS]

If I win you people will never hear from me again.

Naah, you'll eventually drop in.

Just to gloat, if nothing else.

[JBCuzISaidSo]

Look, I *have* a job. All I want is a Cadillac, a CTS-V, white, coupe, to get to and from said job. I won't bug you for anything else, I swear.

[Hydra009]

Powerball simulator

I bet $22,000 and got back $2,000.

[SGOS]

I bet $24.000 and won $2,000.  Anybody thinking about spending a wad on Powerball this week should try the simulator for an evening first.  It will get your feet back on the ground before you decide to blow the rent money.

[stromboli]

Long time back when working with engineers, right after Idaho started selling lottery tickets, one of the engineers did some calculations about the odds versus purchase of tickets. And that was when the odds were considerably less than now. Worked out something like buying 100 tickets only incrementally increased your chances of winning, and that there was no conceivable way- other than having information not available to the lay person- that you could dramatically lessen the odds, short of buying thousands of tickets as some groups do.

Was up in Idaho buying my $20 random pick ticket. there was a guy in line in front of me spent $200 on tickets, another that had the lady selling the tickets punch in a bunch of  personal choice numbers, about $200 worth- and stuff like that. This is at the place I bought the tickets, which is a gas station about 15 miles over the border in Preston Idaho. The closest place to Utah, a motor lodge with a gas station, had a line of cars half a mile long and literally no place to park, and I have a handicapped sticker on my car because of my wife's MS.

All told I have probably spent less than $160 on tickets in like 30 years, and the only time I buy them is when we travel and are in a state that sells them. I'm not making any special attempts from now on in any case, but yes I did go guy one. Won't do it again. Too much insanity attached.

[Hakurei Reimu]

Powerball has to have a negative expected outcome or it wouldn't be profitable.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I get the feeling that people who don't play think that the people who do play are using their kids' food money to play.

[Johan]

I get the feeling that people who don't play think that the people who do play are using their kids' food money to play.

Whether they think that or not, one thing is for sure. Lots of people who don't play tend to look down their noses at the people who do. And they also tend to be not at all shy about voicing their opinion of the intelligence level of the people that do play.