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Posted on 2/9/15 at 1:17 pm to wickowick
I'm down $57k after playing 300 years. I never play the lottery on my own. When my office plays together, I chip in. I look at it as insurance...I don't want to work here alone if they hit. 
Posted on 2/9/15 at 1:17 pm to wickowick
That's silly. Of all the lottery games, the Powerball is buying a dream - a voluntary tax. For the losers, the return won't be this infinitesimal return on a massive expense, it will be 0% return. For the winners, it won't be 1 win after so many millions of tries - it will be the wildest stroke of luck (and, for most of them, it will not work out nearly as well as they planned).
Just my $0.02 - which I cannot spare because we're playing the Powerball until somebody hits.
Just my $0.02 - which I cannot spare because we're playing the Powerball until somebody hits.
Posted on 2/9/15 at 1:19 pm to wickowick
ill prob buy one just for hell of it....
Posted on 2/9/15 at 1:20 pm to tke857
You can't hit the ball unless you swing the bat.
Im playing
Im playing
Posted on 2/9/15 at 1:25 pm to LSUmajek
I'll play this time around. It's my only chance to ever own something like this.
Posted on 2/9/15 at 1:26 pm to wickowick
Thanks for tricking me into wasting all of my luck on a damn simulator.
Posted on 2/9/15 at 1:27 pm to colorchangintiger
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colorchangintiger
Now you have to buy one. With those numbers
Posted on 2/9/15 at 1:28 pm to colorchangintiger
Yeah, you're done.
Posted on 2/9/15 at 1:33 pm to Walking the Earth
Played it 30,880 times over 297 years. I spent $61760, and won $5293. I won $100 7 times 
Posted on 2/9/15 at 1:45 pm to wickowick
I know one thing for sure; if we win, we'll move to east Texas where we can blend in with people that'd make us look like paupers. That way when I buy my Lambo/Porsche/Jag collection, no one will notice. And that's the way I want it.
Posted on 2/9/15 at 5:21 pm to TechDawg2007
I'm in year 661.4, still going. 
This post was edited on 2/9/15 at 5:22 pm
Posted on 2/9/15 at 5:37 pm to wickowick
Suddenly playing the lottery doesn't seem so fun.
Posted on 2/9/15 at 7:11 pm to shutterspeed
I set two windows on my second monitor and let them run most of the day.
On one, I picked my own numbers and played them for every single ticket. On the other, I did the default quick pick, different every ticket.
Seems like my odds should be the same whether I use the same numbers or different ones every time, but I was never really good at statistics.
After over 16 millennia, the constant numbers yielded more winnings.
Self-picked, constant
Quick pick each ticket
On one, I picked my own numbers and played them for every single ticket. On the other, I did the default quick pick, different every ticket.
Seems like my odds should be the same whether I use the same numbers or different ones every time, but I was never really good at statistics.
After over 16 millennia, the constant numbers yielded more winnings.
Self-picked, constant
Quick pick each ticket
Posted on 2/9/15 at 8:02 pm to ILikeLSUToo
I don't think 1% as many games as there are odds of winning the jackpot is an adequate sample size for that kind of test.
This post was edited on 2/9/15 at 8:03 pm
Posted on 2/9/15 at 8:11 pm to wickowick
I've already got the money spent, I can feel it. this one is a winner
Posted on 2/9/15 at 8:31 pm to cattus
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What I don't understand is why people go nuts when the pot gets big. Is 200M not enough?
This always makes me laugh
"Hey man, you gonna buy a lotto ticket?"
"How much is it?"
"Up to $90 million"
"Nah dude, that's low"
Posted on 2/9/15 at 9:06 pm to ILikeLSUToo
I left mine running overnight, but in year 760 I won my first 10k. I think I had won 100 9 times. There is an office mutiny to exclude me from the wednesday ticket now.
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