I Got Close To A $12M Lottery Win

[ResidentEvil7Participant 9540]

Right now in Illinois, the lottery jackpots is looking good. So I played $20 on Lotto (you need to match 6 numbers to win the jackpot). Right now the jackpot is $12.25M and I matched 4 out of 6 numbers, no Extra Shot ball. I started getting excited, because I never matched 4 numbers and I thought it was going to be a major prize. It was only a $64 win ($44 profit). If only I got those other 2 numbers, I would of been worth $12M and my life would of changed forever and I would of made my man cave dreams come true. I really can’t complain, because I DID come out a little bit ahead than when I started.

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[The Black ScorpionParticipant 2142]

Lotteries are a tax on the stupid.

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover that it was not fish you were after. - Henry David Thoreau

[SandalsParticipant 4253]

Don’t play Lotto. Lotto is a tax on stupidity.

The two numbers you missed are each another order of magnitude. You weren’t close at all.

Lotto exists because people don’t understand orders of magnitudes, and those who do (as I know you do, because you are smart), put that knowledge on the shelf while you play, just like divorced men put their red pill knowledge on the shelf to get married again.

Let’s look at your lotto ticket:

4 numbers matched: 1 / 10000
5 numbers matched: 1 / 100000
6 numbers matched: 1 / 1000000

10000 is 1 percent of 1000000.

ONE percent.

Would you get on an airplane if you knew it had a NINETY-NINE Percent chance of crashing? Because that’s what you did, even matching four numbers.

You weren’t two numbers close. You were 99% away.

Had you matched three numbers, you would still be 99.9% away.

Had you matched two numbers, you would still be about 99.99% away.

Had you matched one number, you’d still be about 99.999% away.

Matching four numbers is not very different from matching one number. You made no significant headway.

This is why Lotto exists.

If the population of your Lotto’s geographic reach had one more zero, you’d have to match seven numbers (or six numbers, but with A, B, C, and D after 9), and the odds would remain the same… damn near impossible.

Never, ever, EVER play lotto. The time spend playing lotto is definitively more valuable spending time doing anything else. ANYTHING else.

Do you walk around anxious 24/7 because you might get struck by lightening…twice? Because that’s far more likely to happen than winning the lotto… statistically speaking.

You actually have a better shot of being happily married to a women than winning lotto. Just think about that.

Still love you, bro.

[SandalsParticipant 4253]

I just thought of the Monty Hall Problem, which made me think of explaining your lotto scenario from another angle.

Once you matched the four numbers, you had two numbers left to match.

10 x 10

That’s one out of a hundred, which is also, a ONE percent chance of winning.

Same odds, different method of calculation (from the other side)

But think about this – had you matched five numbers, you would still have one number left to match:

10

A ten percent chance of winning on the sixth number. Would you get on an airplane knowing it had a NINETY percent chance of crashing? Your odds are still better being happily married.

Five numbers does beat the lightening scenario, though… But you only matched four.

[MonkParticipant 16975]

It still amazes me how much people spend on the UK National Lottery. It’s literally a licence to print money.

I’ve tried to explain the odds – that they would be better off picking a horse at random out of a horse race than buying a lottery ticket. They just don’t get it – consumed by greed the stupids continue to spend.

Even after it was revealed that money raised was not – as the government claimed, being spent on good causes – they continued. Hollywood glamour is just a ticket away, eh?

Oh, and the UK National Lottery is actually run by the Mob – and that’s official.

I used to know the manager of a bookies. He never bet as he knew it was a mugs game. Having done the math and worked out the odds, what he did do was buy Premium Bonds.

Year on year his numbers came up often enough to always exceed whatever interest he would have earned from a deposit account. He also had a chance of the big win, and unlike ordinary betting, always retained his stake.

[iMickey503Participant 12465]

It keeps people happy. Meh, whats the harm. Could do worse things with your money.

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[bstoffParticipant 4863]

Not close at all.

[AwakenedParticipant 35200]

iMickey503 wrote:

It keeps people happy. Meh, whats the harm. Could do worse things with your money.

Lotteries are Cheap Dreams, because someone still does win.

I KNOW the odds blah, blah, blah, but for a few bucks your average Joe gets a lil escape into the world of “What if?”, and that in itself is worth the price of admission in what can be a gloomy , dark, depressing Matrix.

ResidentEvil7 wrote:

I would of been worth $12M and my life would of changed forever and I would of made my man cave dreams come true.

It’s NOT about how statistically close someone is or not to winning, but more of the possibility of winning, regardless of the odds, that just maybe they will have one chance to go for their “dream” in this “existence” that we call life.

That reminds me, I have to pick up my lottery tickets…..

In a World of Justin Beibers Be a Johnny Cash

[SpiderHerderParticipant 3753]

Like I always say, I win 2$ every time I DON’T play. I’ve been doing it for decades. lol

[SandalsParticipant 4253]

Awakened wrote:

It’s NOT about how statistically close someone is or not to winning, but more of the possibility of winning, regardless of the odds, that just maybe they will have one chance to go for their “dream” in this “existence” that we call life.

Isn’t that why people get married?

Monk wrote:

Having done the math and worked out the odds, what he did do was buy Premium Bonds.

What’s a premium bond. I don’t know anything abuot horse racing.

[MonkParticipant 16975]

Sandals wrote:

What’s a premium bond. I don’t know anything abuot horse racing.

It’s a British thing.

Basically you loan the government money in blocks of £25. Each certificate has a serial number which is then entered into a draw. Prizes range from £25 to £1,000,000.

[SandalsParticipant 4253]

Monk wrote:

Sandals wrote:

What’s a premium bond. I don’t know anything abuot horse racing.

It’s a British thing.
Basically you loan the government money in blocks of £25. Each certificate has a serial number which is then entered into a draw. Prizes range from £25 to £1,000,000.

Isn’t that just Lotto?

[MonkParticipant 16975]

Sandals wrote:

Isn’t that just Lotto?

No. There is a National Lottery, which is quite different.

The key difference is that you are dealing directly with the government and you retain your stake, which can be repaid on demand at any time. It’s a long-term loan to the government, the payoff being a prize draw.

With the National Lottery, you are dealing with a private company and if the number on your one-time ticket doesn’t come up, you lose your stake.

[SandalsParticipant 4253]

Monk wrote:

Sandals wrote:

Isn’t that just Lotto?

No. There is a National Lottery, which is quite different.
The key difference is that you are dealing directly with the government and you retain your stake, which can be repaid on demand at any time. It’s a long-term loan to the government, the payoff being a prize draw.
With the National Lottery, you are dealing with a private company and if the number on your one-time ticket doesn’t come up, you lose your stake.

Interesting. I see then how it’s a bond. I’ll have to look up the prize draw part.

[coolthingy450Participant 1223]

Two days ago a older women at the bar bragged about how she is about three numbers off to win a full house or something. I looked at her with a fake smile and said nice, while she talked to me about her daughter being hooked on drugs while she got away from a abusive ex. This is just borderline sad and stupid. At least the fish and chips was good to eat as a treat.

Actions have consequences and consequences have prices. Cause and effect at work.

[SandalsParticipant 4253]

coolthingy450 wrote:

Two days ago a older women at the bar bragged about how she is about three numbers off to win a full house or something. I looked at her with a fake smile and said nice, while she talked to me about her daughter being hooked on drugs while she got away from a abusive ex. This is just borderline sad and stupid. At least the fish and chips was good to eat as a treat.

More reason why it should be illegal for mothers to have custody. A women should never be around children alone. Women today are freaks, devoid of accountability and responsibility.

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