$1,000,000,000.00

[Cypress Sun]

 

One thousand million. For $2.00, I'll take a chance.

[Blackwater 53393]

Spent $20.00!  Schoolmarm had a previous ticket worth $10.00 and we threw another ten bucks in with it!

[Widder, SASS #59054]

Buy 2 tickets with the same numbers and win twice as much.

 

..........Widder

 

[Badlands Bob #61228]

I wish to thank all of you lottery ticket buyers for helping to put both of my kids through college.  It didn't pay everything but it paid a lot.  I've never bought a lottery ticket but I consider myself a winner.

[Duffield, SASS #23454]

6 minutes ago, Badlands Bob #61228 said:

I wish to thank all of you lottery ticket buyers for helping to put both of my kids through college.  It didn't pay everything but it paid a lot.  I've never bought a lottery ticket but I consider myself a winner.

And I consider myself a  willing donor to the education of every child the lottery helps. If I  win anything  that's a  bonus for me.

[Dantankerous]

That'll buy some primers!

[Pat Riot]

If I won that money…

 

I don’t know why I even bother fantasizing about it. I never win. Hell, I am lucky to get a free ticket once in a while. But, I keep buying them. I figure it goes to a good cause. 25% of it, anyway. 

[Okie Sawbones, SASS #77381]

Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat villa.

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

 

 

 

   ..... does one get a refund on tickets that don't win ?  

[Eyesa Horg]

I believe you can deduct the cost from winnings.

[Rye Miles #13621]

I forgot but still got an hour before the drawing. Will I get up and go 5 minutes down the road to try a couple tickets???

Nah…,.

[twelve mile REB]

The best entertainment $2 can buy.  Dreaming of what you could do.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

Almost half that if you take it all at once, and half that after taxes.

[Anvil Al #59168]

You all don't waste your time of money.

 

I have the winning numbers.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

2 hours ago, Anvil Al #59168 said:

You all don't waste your time of money.

 

I have the winning numbers.

Thanks for the tip.

[Rye Miles #13621]

No winner!!

[John Kloehr]

Bought 2 tickets. Got one number right.

 

For even more entertainment value, the day after someone wins, go buy a ticket with the winning numbers and ask someone to double-check them against the winning numbers.

 

See how long it takes for someone to notice the ticket is not for the right date.

[Rye Miles #13621]

There was 3 million dollar winners here in Ohio. They got 5 numbers but no Powerball!

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

23 minutes ago, John Kloehr said:

Bought 2 tickets. Got one number right.

 

For even more entertainment value, the day after someone wins, go buy a ticket with the winning numbers and ask someone to double-check them against the winning numbers.

 

See how long it takes for someone to notice the ticket is not for the right date.

Around here a scanner checks it, no confusion ever.

[Cypress Sun]

1 hour ago, John Kloehr said:

Bought 2 tickets. Got one number right.

 

For even more entertainment value, the day after someone wins, go buy a ticket with the winning numbers and ask someone to double-check them against the winning numbers.

 

See how long it takes for someone to notice the ticket is not for the right date.

 

My ex did that to me once. Gotta admit, she had me for a few seconds. 

 

There is fake scratch off tickets for sale. Every one of them is a winner in the $30K - $50K range. I gave three of them out once as "door prizes" at a cowboy match. One figured it out before scratching off the ticket. One scratched the ticket revealing a $50,000 fake prize and quietly stuck it in his wallet with no facial expression at all.  The other scratched his revealing a $30K fake prize. He became very animated and excited...until I suggested that he read the back. He was disappointed by thought it was funny. He said he'd get me back...he did, a year later.

[Big Sage, SASS #49891 Life]

Gotta buy a ticket to win....I have NEVER bought a lottery ticket, so I won't win for sure. 

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

13 minutes ago, Big Sage, SASS #49891 Life said:

Gotta buy a ticket to win....I have NEVER bought a lottery ticket, so I won't win for sure. 

But, but that makes you a winner!

[Oak Ridge Regulator]

18 hours ago, Eyesa Horg said:

I believe you can deduct the cost from winnings

If your right about that and I got lucky enough to win you can sure as hell bet I would rub the IRS’s nose in it by taking that 2$ Deductible !!!

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

2 hours ago, Big Sage, SASS #49891 Life said:

Gotta buy a ticket to win....I have NEVER bought a lottery ticket, so I won't win for sure. 

Yeah there was a guy in Mass who won a lottery prize and “rented” a huge pile of losing tickets to offset the winnings.  How do I know about it? He got caught.

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

Is this anything like the fella whose mule up and died on him so he raffled the mule.

The winner complained that the mule was dead so the fella gave the winner a refund for the one winning ticket .........   

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

On 10/31/2022 at 3:04 PM, Widder, SASS #59054 said:

Buy 2 tickets with the same numbers and win twice as much.

 

..........Widder

 

Hahaha

[Dirty Dan Dawkins]

First thing I’d do is fix that leaky valve cover gasket on my pickup

[Dirty Dan Dawkins]

Good cause? I wonder sometimes.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

About that “good cause”.

 

before they used the lotteries, the states and cities funded education out of taxes. Now they say “let the lotteries do it “ and waste the funds elsewhere.

 

[Rye Miles #13621]

2 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

About that “good cause”.

 

before they used the lotteries, the states and cities funded education out of taxes. Now they say “let the lotteries do it “ and waste the funds elsewhere.

 

In Ohio and I’m sure other states as well the lottery funds about 8.5% of the educational budget. 

[Cypress Sun]

3 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

About that “good cause”.

 

before they used the lotteries, the states and cities funded education out of taxes. Now they say “let the lotteries do it “ and waste the funds elsewhere.

 

 

35 minutes ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:

In Ohio and I’m sure other states as well the lottery funds about 8.5% of the educational budget. 

 

In Florida, the lotteries started out as a "supplement" for education. Now it's basically the only thing funding education.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

Tonight’s Jackpot estimated as $1,200,000,000.

 

 

[Rye Miles #13621]

6 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

Tonight’s Jackpot estimated as $1,200,000,000.

 

 

Too many zeros just say 1.2 billion!

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

6 minutes ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:

Too many zeros just say 1.2 billion!

Well, I could have said “enough to buy one quarter of NY Yankees.”

[Cypress Sun]

1.2 billion dollars in $100 bills would weigh about 26,400 lbs. I would have to start working out to lug all that money around.