I matched 2 numbers so I won $1...

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team Mully & Hanley
team Meatpants

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You never miss your wealth, till your well went dry
Seem like only yesterday, you were here smiling
Now you gone away, but I know you in a better place
No traces of you, what can I do?
Alone and confused

No, I now need that to play little lotto again

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team Mully & Hanley
team Meatpants

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You never miss your wealth, till your well went dry
Seem like only yesterday, you were here smiling
Now you gone away, but I know you in a better place
No traces of you, what can I do?
Alone and confused

3 out of 5. Oh well, $10 on a $2 investment. Meh, I do enjoy the few hours before the drawing thinking what it would be like to win. Then it's back to the reality of being a loser

Just imagine being someone who won that jackpot, thinking you've won over a million dollars, only to find out you'll get only a fifth of it.

I'm not discounting $225,000, but it'd have to be a bit of a let down to find out "your" jackpot just got reduced by 4/5.

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With 575,757* possible combinations of winning numbers, that's a helluva thing that 5 random** number generators chose the same 5 numbers on 5 separate occasions. Not a tinfoil-hat point, mind you; just something that struck me as notable.

(*-it's either that figure or 3,262,623; going with the smaller number so as not to risk over-representing the odds)

(**-afaik, there is currently no true computerized 'random' number generator; electronic slots come close, but not 100% random)

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Ok...as long as you didn't buy Keystone.

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http://www.cockeyed.com/citizen/poker/l ... tor100.php

lotto simulator

"you'll never win"

I freakin just hit all 5 numbers !!!! 4th try. Didnt win jack shit. what the ?????

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And this. What the hell???


By JIM SALTER, Associated Press Writer Jim Salter, Associated Press Writer – Tue Sep 28, 6:27 pm ET
ST. LOUIS – The odds against winning $1 million in the Lottery: Astronomical. How about doing it twice?

It happened to a man from Bonne Terre, Mo., Missouri Lottery officials said Tuesday. Ernest Pullen, 57, won $1 million with a "100 Million Dollar Blockbuster" Scratchers ticket in June. And this month, he won $2 million with a "Mega MONOPOLY" Scratchers ticket.

Pullen, a retired military man who was working at the help desk for a telecommunications company before retiring after the first lottery win, said he considers himself to be a "lucky guy."

You think?

John Wells of the Missouri Lottery said the chances of winning $1 million in the "$100 Million Dollar Blockbuster" game are 1 in 2.28 million. The odds of winning $2 million in "Mega MONOPOLY" are about the same.

The chances of winning both?

Because they're independent games, it is impossible to calculate the odds, Wells said.

"But it's a pretty amazing coincidence," he said. "We've had players win big multiple prizes before, but this is the first person to ever win a second million-dollar prize in the history of the Missouri Lottery."

Pullen bought the most recent winning ticket on Sept. 17 at Miller's Quick Shop in Bonne Terre, a community in the Old Lead Belt region of eastern Missouri, about 60 miles southwest of St. Louis. He opted to take the cash payment instead of the annuity for both wins. He received $700,000 for the June winner and will get about $1.3 million for the September winner - both before taxes.

Pullen recalled a dream six years ago in which he won a lot of money. Even after the $1 million win in June, he didn't feel like the dream was complete.

He does now.

"All the numbers I dreamed about, and all my lucky numbers, were on the card," Pullen said.

Pullen plans to use the money to fix up his new house, which needs a new lakeside wall.

As for the Lottery, he figures he's about used up his luck, though he still might play the big jackpots on Powerball and Mega Millions.

"My wife said she's winning the next time," Pullen said.

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I'm not a statistician, but I'm pretty sure you can calculate the odds of winning both.

Elmhurst Steve, would you mind crunching the numbers for me?

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Bump.

Isn't the jackpot big again?

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You never miss your wealth, till your well went dry
Seem like only yesterday, you were here smiling
Now you gone away, but I know you in a better place
No traces of you, what can I do?
Alone and confused

Ever seen those "The Lottery Ruined Me" TV shows? lol

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“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

Most of those people don't understand that you have to pay taxes on the winnings.

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way