$640 Million Jackpot

[hollaatmenow]

Did anyone enter in the lottery tonight? It's 640 million, but unfortunately, I didn't win. I mean, imagine what you could do with 640 million dollars... Fuck my life.

But the winning lottery was from Baltimore, Maryland.

[BluPhoenix]

Big Bill Hell's

[retrosmash]

i won the lottery.  me.  fuck all

[rtil]

no

[MarcK]

i hope i get this close one day it would be the best thing

[ZennyPLUS]

I'll never quite understand this country's weird relationship to gambling.

[rtil]

i read an article where a guy was quoted as saying "the jackpot is so high, you'd be crazy not to play", when really it's the opposite that's true. your odds of winning are so astronomically low, you'd be crazy to think you'd ever be the winner - and the hype around buying the tickets is exactly what the lotto wants, because they make an enormous profit off of people buying these things. for this round of megamillions alone they have netted around $1.5bn

[tmk]

no luck with the 640mil but I have won about fifteen free coffees in the last month

[psi43]

i read an article where a guy was quoted as saying "the jackpot is so high, you'd be crazy not to play", when really it's the opposite that's true. your odds of winning are so astronomically low, you'd be crazy to think you'd ever be the winner - and the hype around buying the tickets is exactly what the lotto wants, because they make an enormous profit off of people buying these things. for this round of megamillions alone they have netted around $1.5bn

worst thing about it is that now a shit ton of people are playing, so even if you win, the odds of a couple of other people winning as well is relatively high, which means you would have to split it.


although even devided by 4 or 8 it would still be a ton of money

[rtil]

they have actually said 3 winning tickets were sold, so it will be split 3 ways

[BluPhoenix]

213 million's still a lot tho

[put]

they'll lose it all in a year

[rtil]

i don't think that's possible because the payouts come in waves.. but i have read that people who do suddenly come into massive wealth through lotteries and other means tend to end up miserable for one reason or another. i guess people never really learn that money != happiness

[Necronomitr0n]

i think sometimes you can accept a slightly reduced lump sum rather than monthly payouts

my dad told me the chances of winning this lottery are the same as being struck by lightning and getting mauled by a polar bear in the same day

and as far as i know there's no lightning in the arctic circle so why even bother

[ZennyPLUS]

i think sometimes you can accept a slightly reduced lump sum rather than monthly payouts

my dad told me the chances of winning this lottery are the same as being struck by lightning and getting mauled by a polar bear in the same day

and as far as i know there's no lightning in the arctic circle so why even bother

Lmao, this is true. I know some of those lottos say they donate to education, I wonder how much of it actually goes to education.

[put]

just enough to evade taxes

[Philip K Dick]

aw darn! now how the heck am i gonna pay the rent?

[CVG]

I won 10 bucks from a 1 dollar ticket!

[Greenkitten]

Today I won a t-shirt from Mambo, it was a really famous Australian surf brand in the late 80's and throughout the 90's but now its not so popular.

[CoolDrMoney]

It was some young, single girl from Baltimore county that won at a 7-11. She played 1 ticket. I work at a liquor store that sells lotto tickets and it was just fucking insane. We literally did 25 times the amount of business at lotto than usual. People were spending hundreds. I actually checked the tickets for some lady the next day that spent 50 bucks on em. She didn't win a dime.