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FL Lottery is trying to build our trust!Reply
After all of this time of not showing the daily game drawings, for the pick 3 pick 4, I don't know what you mean. All they are doing is catching up with technology. The Lottery always has had live televised drawings, just not on their web site! The Pick-3 and Pick-4 are shown on local television every evening just before 8:00. They are just announcing that they are allowing you to download/view them on their web site so you can see the drawings at your convenience. I don'
Dec 29, 2007, 1:02 am - justxploring - Lottery Discussion Forum

Which is the Smarter Bet?Reply
Perhaps you are willing to direct some of these smart investors to Idaho? They're already here. Over the last year on my street alone (2 short blocks) they've bought 4 homes for around $150K to $175K. Then they turn around and rip them down and where 1 home once stood they build 3 or 4 in-fill houses with tiny yards and sell them for $250K - $350K each. They all sold for the asking price except the last lot of 3. Those didn't get finished until Oct. when the bubble had already burst, b
Dec 21, 2007, 1:49 pm - LuckyLilly - Lottery Discussion Forum

Which is the Smarter Bet?Reply
Whether you want to live in the house or can afford to live in it are just one piece in figuring out how much you're really playing for. Even if you were already planning on buying a 400K house, you aren't playing for achnace to win that much, because ypou'll be paying taxes on the value of the house. Other than actually shopping for the house, the most optimistic scenario would be reselling it yourself for its fair value. More likely you'll lose about 20 grand in fees to a real estate agent (th
Dec 21, 2007, 3:37 am - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Which is the Smarter Bet?Reply
The PTB are the ones expecting. Boise's housing market hasn't been hit as hard as some because we're a growing community. New homes are overbuilt here, but sales continue, and they expect the slack to be taken up by spring. If the house ain't worth $400K at the time they transfer it to the winner, then you'd only pay taxes on the actual value. So if you put it on the market and get offers of only $350K then you take the offer and pay taxes on the $350K. Yeah, your profit would be less,
Dec 20, 2007, 6:24 pm - LuckyLilly - Lottery Discussion Forum

Which is the Smarter Bet?Reply
I will never put money on a dream home raffle ticket , ever again. I did in the past and i believe its fixed..........because the people who has won , never did live in the house. They put the house for sale the next day of the win. If i had won, i think i would have live in that dream house. Even if the house was in a different town. We would have move into that dream house. If i did not want to move in , just thinking of reselling it.........i would not buy any tickets. FloridaGi
Dec 19, 2007, 5:08 pm - FloridaGirl - Lottery Discussion Forum

Most lottery players never see big payoffReply
Where does the money come from to pay you 4 or 5%? What is your rate of return if you are paid 4 or 5% nominal return, while actual inflation (loss of purchasing power) is 8%? Here's a hint, it's less than zero. Now, many people buy the big lie about how purchasing the Dow 30 components in some given year and holding on over so many years would return so much percent. This is garbage. When a Dow company falls on hard times, it gets taken out of the index and replaced with a successful c
Dec 17, 2007, 8:34 pm - time*treat - Lottery News

Financial Planner? Here's one...Reply
Want a better idea? Invest that same $10 a week throughout your normal working life (20 years old to 65 years old) in a good growth stock mutual fund, and you will have $1 million. According to my calculator, $520 times 45 = $23,400 so while the odds of turning that into $1 million is less than hitting the Powerball jackpot, they are certainly much higher than wagering $2340 in ten different Millionaire Raffle games or $100 in 234 games. It's easy enough to show had you bought into thi
Oct 5, 2007, 4:51 pm - Stack47 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Hoosier LotteryReply
<>Well the Hpoosier Lottery's new raffle game is flopping big time! They tell you it's the best chance ever to win a MILLION DOLLARS! pffffffffbbbbbbbbbtttttt! <>To date..after more than a month of sales they have only sold approximately 75,000 tickets at $20 each. They have about 10 days to sell 250,000 more tickets. Unless of course the information posted on the Hoosier Lottery website is wrong. Perish the thought! Spin Spin Spin is indeed correct! As my father used to
Aug 9, 2007, 12:30 pm - Uncle Jim - Lottery Discussion Forum

Raffle rules applied to a jackpot gameReply
KY Floyd ...The combinations that wouldn't sell would be the ones that nobody plays simply because of probability. As a group, people don't pick combinations randomly... In essence though, when soemone buys a raffle ticket, aren't they just taking the next number for sale? So it would be the same in this game. I'm not saying it's a good idea, I'm just saying W hat if? If people started seeing a $400,000,000 and beyond jackpot it would stir up a whole lot of interest, and attr
Jul 25, 2007, 6:02 pm - Coin Toss - Lottery Discussion Forum

Lottery Winner's Lucky Day Turns into One Heck of a MessReply
Welcome to the world of news reporting. She definitely didn't buy the ticket during that visit, because it's a raffle game, but there's nothing in the article to suggest she did or didn't buy it there when they were on sale. Perhaps she mentioned where she bought it, perhaps the lottery didn't bother asking, or perhaps they claimed it was a gift. IMHO, the NY lottery has at least one huge flaw in their security procedures for online games. The exact time the ticket is issued is printed on
Jul 24, 2007, 11:50 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News