Had I bought a ticket, 3 of my numbers would have showed up. But I did not.

(not directly, but within 20 feet of me---close enough to blow me off my feet.)

Well, the real reason I don't play is that being a math geek, I fully understand the probabilities involved, and I work too hard for the money to throw it away. I also regard lotteries as undemocratic, in that they prey on the lower class people who can least afford to be throwing away money, and reward a very few.

For the Family Christmas cards. It gives one pleasure to win a few bucks.

Our lottery in GA has given tuition assistance to over 2 million students since inception. Now technical colleges are included too. I'm fine with that.
"Free will" and all that.

but even with the infinitesimal odds of winning, this person just won.

LOL

It's that simple. You lose. You might as well take those dollar bills out and set a match to them.

Even though I meant that statement as a joke, I will play small amounts in the Lottery in my state because it earmarked all the funds for education, unlike other states that said they would do that and didn't. Anyway, my kids all went to college on the money backed by the lottery and graduated with no debt. If playing once in a while helps others do the same then I'm all for it. Of course you should never gamble with money you're not completely willing to lose.

Mathematically the odds are horrible.

Morally for every winner there are thousands if not millions of disappointed losers.

Just wishful greed.

Anyhow congrats to the winner, and all their new friends.

We arrived at Lake Arrowhead for a camping trip and a bolt of lightning landed about 12 feet away from us as we just got out of the car. The flash and boom were at the same time. Both of us were on the ground but not hurt. Amazing experience. Yes the lotery is a tax on people not good in math same for me I invest my money and don't gamble it.
-Airplane

That's kinda scary!

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This system feeds greed and tax revenue. Spread the wealth.

Furthermore huge jackpots are fomenting class warfare, greed, materialism, and gambling ruins people's financial futures more than they will care to admit. It's almost financial terrorism.

That would be really exciting.
Although I have no idea how you could do it to limit the number of winners.

Only one person matched all the #s with the Powerball. Are you saying keep drawing numbers until 180 winners are chosen? That would take forever!
If that’s not what you mean, then the ONE a player that matched the numbers would still win all 180 10 million dollar prizes.

Or whatever the number would be; it could be half that number with a 20M prize. WOuldnt take terribly long & if it was a TV show it would even be exciting.
But like I said, I have no idea HOW it could be done where MORE than the 180 "winning combos" came up
It just seems like these high amounts could change the lives of SO many more people than the way its done now.
Although we all know people who "Only play when it gets really big", like winning 5M isnt a life changing amount!

WOO PIG SOOIE!

All day Wednesday they had such high hopes of never working again, of being able to sit on the steps of their trailers and smoke name brand cigarettes. But because they each scraped up $20 to get in the pool they'll be out of cigarettes until payday. The horror.

114 people won $50,000 (not bad, but not much)
Over 11,000 won $100 (big whoop)
The next prize level is $7.

They really should spread the wealth a bit more. More winners of $1M, $5M, $10M might attract even more players.

The odds still suck, but somebody is going to win, and you don't win if you don't play, blah blah.

I don’t know if I could give it away quick enough.

Maybe I could be convinced…