OT Mega Million Lottery 540 plus Million Dollars

[Wbbfan1]

Will you buy any lottery tickets for this weeks drawing which is estimated at over 540 Million Dollars?

 

[Wonkster]

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I'd like to thank the winners for lightening the tax burden on the state they live in as well as at the federal level.

And to all the losers over the last couple of months who worked so hard to get that prize up to a half billion dollars -

Большое вам спасибо!
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[pap49cba]

Just heard on the radio it's now $640M!

 

[meyers7]

I figure $1 or $2 is worth a daydream. (cause I can get a really good daydream out of $250 mil, lump sum after taxes)

 

[cardfan]

I play quick picks (which statically win 70% of the time), and some family numbers, and of course Stanford player numbers.

 

[FairView]

I'd be a lot more handsome with half a billion dollars.

 

[Icebear]

A few years ago during a lottery big prize we discussed what would you do with the winnings. I carry a list with me reminding me of what I would do with my lawyer's phone number.

Here is my current list as I modified it today:

My current list includes in no particular order:
Pre #1/ secure all my parents needs for care and to maintain them at home and pay off mortgage and bills buy a Prius V
1/pay for my nieces and nephews education through PHD.s if that is what they want and reimburse my brothers for their kids education to date
2/establish a charitable trust fund to handle all requests for assistance and serve on its board
3/establish a church mission fund to send members anywhere they want to go as a group annually, members donate their time and skills the fund provides the means
4/pay off the church stained glass restoration fund (only about $20,000 still due)
5/ build 5 Habitat for Humanity houses every year possibly in conjunction with #3
6/establish a "Chair" of something possibly "Witness and Technology" at the seminary, LTS-G where my wife and I graduated
7/purchase the local truck stop and restaurant and put the employees on profit sharing in some manner, the waitresses there work hard and are great folks
8/purchase back the local nursing home and return it to management back a community board to regrow community involvement in the home
9/establish a retreat center for pastors at our synod's church camp providing space for pastors to take short spiritual retreats at no cost
10/ establish a fund eliminating all CPTV fundraising during Women's basketball games
11/ make a large contribution to the new UConn practice facility and discuss with Geno dream scenarios he would have for the team within NCAA guidelines

If we can run it up to 17 trillion I'd even consider paying off the national debt.

Have at it what would you do?

 

[vtcwbuff]

#1. Blow every g-d cent of it before I die. My goal in life has always been to die broke and I'm well on my way. Winning the lottery would only make it a harder.
#2. See #1

 

[Wonkster]

I'd be a lot more handsome with half a billion dollars.

Yeah - aren't women terrible? They just want to spend your hard-earned 1/2 billion dollars on themselves!
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[Wonkster]

I play quick picks (which statically win 70% of the time), and some family numbers, and of course Stanford player numbers.

And your college major is/was ...???
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[semper]

I won't buy a ticket, but IF I did and won, I'd:

1. Endow our program for church musicians
2. Establish a foundation that would train autistic adults to get jobs
3. Work with businesses to make sure that there were jobs throughout the country for autistic adults
4. Establish a foundation for religion and the literary arts, and support young poets, novelists, and playrights in their work, and in helping them get published
5. Endow a foundation to support children's choirs

 

[MilfordHusky]

I'd swallow hard and pay the $480 for a ticket for the WBB gold medal round in London.

Did anyone win??

 

[DaddyChoc]

I'd swallow hard and pay the $480 for a ticket for the WBB gold medal round in London.

Did anyone win??

hopefully you played because the winning ticket was sold in Maryland

 

[Icebear]

I won't buy a ticket, but IF I did and won, I'd:

1. Endow our program for church musicians
2. Establish a foundation that would train autistic adults to get jobs
3. Work with businesses to make sure that there were jobs throughout the country for autistic adults
4. Establish a foundation for religion and the literary arts, and support young poets, novelists, and playrights in their work, and in helping them get published
5. Endow a foundation to support children's choirs

Awesome ideas, semper.

 

[Wbbfan1]

So far they have announced one winner from the State of Maryland. That person(s) life has really changed, will they end up happier then they were before purchasing the winning ticket.

 

[Rayvin56]

If I bought tickets and won I'd use it to hire a crack research team to figure out how to get a camel to fit through the eye of a needle. When that didn't work I'd think of passing the $ burden on to family and others. That's when I'd realize I didn't have the wisdom to properly distribute it all so I'd give it to Icebear...

 

[Icebear]

If I bought tickets and won I'd use it to figure out how to get a camel to fit through the eye of a needle. When that didn't work I'd think of passing the $ burden on to family and others. That's when I'd realize I didn't have the wisdom to properly distribute it all so I'd give it to Icebear...

The problems do make one think of Ecclesiastes. All is vanity.

 

[temery]

So far they have announced one winner from the State of Maryland. That person(s) life has really changed, will they end up happier then they were before purchasing the winning ticket.

Maryland? Crap. I feel like Charlie when he found out the last golden ticket had been found.

 

[Wonkster]

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Two other winning tickets were sold besides the one in Maryland. Both in the Midwest.

 

[MilfordHusky]

hopefully you played because the winning ticket was sold in Maryland

Nope. Virginia.

Did anyone notice that both Maya and Kaleena were part of the winning number? Coincidence?

 

[MilfordHusky]

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Two more winning tickets were sold besides the one in Maryland. Both in the Midwest.

Illinois and Kansas.

 

[Icebear]

There was a scam run one time that was a well organize attempt to dominate the lottery by the numbers. Unfortunately time was factor in the ability to complete the model. If I remember correctly they had, also, failed to account for multiple ticket holders splitting the winnings. I do not think it was this group.

Group Invests $5 Million To Hedge Bets in Lottery

Published: February 25, 1992
There is a dream common among regular lottery players: to wait until the jackpot reaches an astronomical sum and then to buy every possible number, guaranteeing a winner.
Sure, it would cost millions of dollars. But the payoff would be much richer.
In Virginia this month, one investment group came tantalizingly close to cornering the market on all possible combinations of six numbers from 1 to 44. State lottery officials say that the group bought tickets for 5 million of a possible 7 million combinations, at $1 each, in a lottery with a $27 million jackpot. Only a lack of time prevented the group from buying tickets for the remaining 2 million combinations.
While no one has come forward with the one winning ticket in the Feb. 15 lottery, several clues point to the investment group, an Australian syndicate, as the winner. If that is so, the numbers 8, 11, 13, 15, 19 and 20 will yield a prize of $1.3 million a year for 20 years to the group.

 

[meyers7]

Geez can't believe I didn't win.