One day someone i knew asked me to buy him a lottery ticket,i did and he won $100.But to be honest,buy a ticket for someone is something i don't like to do,it's like giving your luck away.

Years ago a friend told me "when you buy a ticket to someone you play the same number,so if the person wins you win too". That was a good advice.

Ticket is a bearer bond. Nuf said. The man who takes care of the cemetary where my brother and parents are buried won the lottery and his best friend sued him for half. He pointed out that he hadn't scratched one box on his ticket and it won 2 million. He felt he deserved half for pointing it to the owner. The winner was a very nice man but he lost his friends and people gossiped about him. He said he saved the money for his kids and he is still a very nice person. <-one disappointed friend>

YOU  ARE  1000%  correct  :  I  agree  its   like  giving  away  your  luck  I  get   asked  all  the  time  and  I  wont   do  it  I  would  rather   give  them  the  money   to  play  then   play   others  numbers   or   lottery   for   them......

where   are   you   reading  this  I  never   saw   no   mention   of   200,000.00

2.  I  f  the   one   person  got   you   17 million  and  before  he  bought  the   ticket   he   was  just   average  its  no   wonder   he  got   sued;

I f  it   was   the   other  way   around  it  would  not   be  the   same  Mr/ Ford   would   have   shared  the  money,  ..................!!!!!!!!!1

As soon as I saw the name Shakespeare, I thought of "Double, double toil and trouble."    Ya gotta admit it's funny that the names of the players are Ford and Shakespeare.  The whole thing sounds staged to me.   

Ford or Shakespeare.  Shakespeare or Ford.  Tough choice, eh.

I'll go for Shakespeare on this one:  "Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance."

Ford would probably feel cheated even if he bought the ticket for Shakespeare. A person can only hope to buy a lottery jackpot winning ticket once in a life time and buying it for someone else probably feel like having your one lucky time stolen. Most people avoid buying lottery tickets for others because they don't want to gamble that their one lucky time will come up when they're buying a ticket that's not their own.

Youve clearly got access to a computer and call yourself computerhead so theres a decent chance you can find it yourself  youve got the tools  its just a question of whether or not you can use them

If a friend of mine won and gave me 200K I'd take it and be happy. If someone other than I has to win, let it be a friend and not someone I don't know. I'm sure if I were in a desperate situation and my friend had won (and not lost all of the money) they would help me. Of course that 200K becomes 160K or thereabouts after double taxation. Also it would be a reward in itself if I helped someone else win, even if I got nothing. How much the purchaser helped depends on whether it was QP or manual selection and by which person. QP can involve microsecond-level timing of the exact moment the purchaser said "5 QuickPicks please." and the clerk hit the button on the machine. If it's manual selection then "I could just have played them myelf later, with the same exact result". It is also possible that Mr. Ford bought extra tickets and only gave the losing ones to Shakespeare after seeing the results? "Yeah I bought you 5 quick picks, yours didn't win, but one of my 5 quick picks DID!"

Sorry , this is not good, it looks like snakes on a plane !