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Not just another day at work
Today at work , my co-worker was looking through the scratched tickets as she was dusting up the mess left by a huge crowd of people. She found a $3.00 winner on the table and brought it to the counter for me to cash in. We split what is found in the basket.. (Last week I carried tickets home and found $34 total to split with her) After I laid her half on the counter, I heard her gasp my name, I turned to find her in front of the terminal. She was pale. I went and took the ticket from her
Jan 6, 2008, 5:56 pm - tntea - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

NC pre-test drawingsReply
I also wrote to the Florida Lottery, but mainly because I've been playing Lotto for a long time. I got a reply, but no explanation of how they are conducted. The email said Dear Nancy, We are sorry you disapprove of the pre-tests we conduct for the Florida Lotto. (or something very similar) That was it. I originally asked if by beginning pre-tests, that meant for years the results weren't fair accurate. I remember when NH began the sweepstakes and I doubt if they had all these pre
Dec 31, 2007, 3:52 pm - justxploring - Lottery Discussion Forum

Matrix change: Powerball to get much harder to win?Reply
Considering the payout is less than half, yes that's pathetic. Consider the following players: In Canada and Europe if the jackpot is listed as $30M you get a check for that amount. It's value is the same as the listed jackpot prize. In Megamillions the prize listed as $30M means it's cash prize is $18M and after tax is around $12M. That last number is the actual value the prize has. In Powerball the prize listed as $30M. It's cash value is 14.7M and after tax is around $10M. Assuming n
Dec 31, 2007, 3:15 pm - dvdiva - Jackpot Games Forum

Most lottery players never see big payoffReply
Stocks = a return on your money, an 8% return on a security is 8% of what you invested, the investment still being there!, or you sell and get the original invstment and the 8% back. Playing $1,000 a year and cashing winning tickets for $100, let's say, does in no way, shape, or form, mean you had a 10% return, it means you blew $900. Big difference. Lotto = a return as a portion of your money, and that's all folks, the original money went to the lotto. And the examples given in this t
Dec 18, 2007, 10:44 am - Coin Toss - Lottery News

If you won the lottery, would you leave dodge or...Reply
Actually I'm not, but doing a little planning to protect yourself is required when you have money. Even David Edwards moved to a gated community to get some peace. Not that it did him much good. In the Infantry, in combat. we'd never set up out in the open. You'd be a target right away. With the lottery winners, it's sort of the same thing. They all take steps to protect their families and such. All designed to make them less of a target. Redskin Sean Taylor didn't win the lottery, b
Dec 11, 2007, 2:24 pm - fastball 9 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Should tax payers be paid back after a winReply
The question implies that the taxpayers would see a cent of this returned money. It should never have been taken to begin with. An involuntary fee, tax, or whatever-new-name-it's-given is not assistance, it's theft. It's theft if I steal your grandchild's new bicycle and give it to some kid down the street who N E E D S it more. It's theft if the gov't takes your money in the form of higher property taxes, converts (ahem ... conversion) it into a welfare check, and gives the check to someo
Dec 8, 2007, 1:15 pm - time*treat - Lottery Discussion Forum

Wanting Lots of StuffReply
I've never been fond of jewelry, no matter how expensive. I haven't worn earrings once in at least 25 years, and no ring other than a wedding band in my lifetime, so one can be sure I wouldn't be spending a lottery jackpot on flashy jewelry. I already live in a nice (not lavish) home on water and plan to sell it to move into something smaller, not because I need the extra money I could free up from the equity as much as that I hate having to deal with the upkeep and the housecleaning of this l
Nov 27, 2007, 3:54 pm - Uff Da! - Lottery Discussion Forum

If you won the lottery, would you leave dodge or...Reply
That's one of those questions that sound simple until you think about it. Since actually winning the lottery would result in an instant influx of cash, something most of us have never had in such quantity, we'd have to change how we think about living. Your going to have to think about security for you and yours, access to you and your residence, taxes, etc. With money not being the prime consideration, you'd have to get smart real quick on many things. How do you build a house? How d
Nov 19, 2007, 2:11 pm - fastball 9 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Tennessee Lottery oversight meeting delayedReply
I wish more of the stores in TN would do this. There are a lot of people who have no idea of what is going on with the lottery because they are not regular players. They just here about some friend of a friend who won such and such amount of money on the lottery and just want to try their luck. The thing is that friend of a friend who had won that money isn't playing the lottery like they used to because they know what has happened with it. I still go to the store to play my $2.00 Powerball play
Nov 12, 2007, 2:00 am - KyMystikal - Lottery News

Hope, Optimism or Stupidity?Reply
I have to CHIME IN ON THIS ONE...... I haven't had any more luck with the Lottery than I have had with the Social Security that is withdrawn from my pay check every week.....that I will probably never see again....... Hope, Optimism or Plain Stupidity ?????? I'd rather have the fun of trying to beat the system ...... Best of LUCK to us all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oct 29, 2007, 12:10 am - we;reallwinners - Lottery Discussion Forum