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• Karen Nathan

  

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  I feel that Lottery should allow say a 500 million Lottery Winner to get 250 Million in a Lump Sum and 250 Million in an Annuity before Taxes and fees(The take home Winning is about 167 Million after Taxes and Fees on a 250 Million win, so $334 Million take home Winnings together, ;) )  I feel this would be the best way....

  "What's your ADDRESS?" May be the CREEPIEST question EVER asked to a Lottery Winner! O.O WTF?

   

  At first, I found the one digit away draws kind of amusing, but now I am PISSED! 15 or 16 times I was off by just one digit in recent times!🤬 No longer find this amusing, it's making me REALLY angry now!🤬
• Speler

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  They might want to publish the estimated net wins instead and the amount before taxes.

  You can worry about the details once that you have the winning ticket.
• Think

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by Karen Nathan on May 15, 2021

  I feel that Lottery should allow say a 500 million Lottery Winner to get 250 Million in a Lump Sum and 250 Million in an Annuity before Taxes and fees(The take home Winning is about 167 Million after Taxes and Fees on a 250 Million win, so $334 Million take home Winnings together, ;) )  I feel this would be the best way....

  There is an option!
  
  Buy two tickets with the same numbers.  Cash one for cash and the other for the annuity.
  
  If there are more than two winning tickets then you get two shares of the pot (2/3,2/4/2/5...etc...)
• Coin Toss

  

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  Good thinking Think!

  Those who run the lotteries love it when players look for consistency in something that's designed not to have any. So many systems, so many theories, so few jackpot winners. 

  

  There is one and only one 'proven' system, and that is to book the action. No matter the game, let the players pick their own losers.
• grwurston

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by Speler on May 15, 2021

  They might want to publish the estimated net wins instead and the amount before taxes.

  You can worry about the details once that you have the winning ticket.

  They do that here. Look under Quick Links, click on  USA MEGA, then Jackpot Analysis.

  

  Before you play there are 2 choices to make. Low sum or high sum and consecutive pair or no consecutive pair. Choose correctly and you go from 120 combos down to 30. Not a bad starting point.
• Speler

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  Quote: Originally posted by grwurston on May 16, 2021

  They do that here. Look under Quick Links, click on  USA MEGA, then Jackpot Analysis.

  All those years that I have been playing and often winning prizes I never worried about jackpots or other people winning the jackpots.
• Karen Nathan

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by Speler on May 16, 2021

  All those years that I have been playing and often winning prizes I never worried about jackpots or other people winning the jackpots.

  There was a Martin Show Episode where Martin Payne won about 2 million before taxes and fees.... He goes crazy, buying a bunch of luxurious items and buying financial gifts for his Friends and Gina, his girlfriend on Credit, awaiting his very big check.. You know where this is headed, right? ;) I'll tell it anyway. ;) At the Press Conference, Gina and Martin find out in Horror that there was a 301 tie with those same numbers and they had to split the Winnings with 299 random People.  Ouch.... :( They only got $50 a week before taxes and fees, although a fan pointed out it was actually supposed to be more like $300 a week... Martin did some numbers crunching and realized even if he returned all of the Luxurious items he bought in credit, they would still be $1,000 in the hole. Gina and Martin both start making crying faces.... LMAO! :D

  "What's your ADDRESS?" May be the CREEPIEST question EVER asked to a Lottery Winner! O.O WTF?

   

  At first, I found the one digit away draws kind of amusing, but now I am PISSED! 15 or 16 times I was off by just one digit in recent times!🤬 No longer find this amusing, it's making me REALLY angry now!🤬