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12 Michigan women + 2 men share $12.7M lottery jackpot
Fenton,Mi United States Member #1524 May 12, 2003 3852 Posts Offline |
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None,yet.But when I do I won't be sharing it with a bunch of other folks.The ENTIRE jackpot will be mine! I agree as far as splitting the pot...would never go in a pool myself. If i were ever to win, I would want to share with my family.......... VAL
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me: I may not follow.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus
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Idaho United States Member #56982 November 21, 2007 3231 Posts Offline |
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Anyone who says that buying one ticket gives you the same odds as buying 10 or more is not using common sense. Sure, I agree that only one ticket wins the jackpot, but 10 gives you 10 shots at it. Even better, if everyone pitches in $5, then you've got 50 chances instead of 5. The odds, depending on the game, are still astronomical, but the more tickets you buy, the better your odds, even if the difference seems insignificant.
I'd like to add that if someone here wins $450,000 and doesn't want it because it's not a lot of money, I'll be happy to take that stretch limo for you. I'm sure the thousands of families who are losing their homes would take half. Well said!  "No one remembers the person who almost climbed the mountain, only the person who eventually gets to the top."
ThatScaryChick
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Tralfamadore / Zeta Riticuli Star System United States Member #30849 January 17, 2006 4188 Posts Offline |
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Anyone who says that buying one ticket gives you the same odds as buying 10 or more is not using common sense. Sure, I agree that only one ticket wins the jackpot, but 10 gives you 10 shots at it. Even better, if everyone pitches in $5, then you've got 50 chances instead of 5. The odds, depending on the game, are still astronomical, but the more tickets you buy, the better your odds, even if the difference seems insignificant.
I'd like to add that if someone here wins $450,000 and doesn't want it because it's not a lot of money, I'll be happy to take that stretch limo for you. I'm sure the thousands of families who are losing their homes would take half. Mixed emoptions on the number of tickets.
On the surface that's a very sound and logical argument, but the thing is with lotto we're attempteng to remove 176,000,000 or so grains of sand from the beach, so does it matter if you personally remove one or ten?
As for the $450,000, yeah it's a nice score, but other people's perception of these winners will be, "Hey, you hit a jackpot, you're a millionaire now, gimme some, share the wealth." It's Lotto, not horseshoes or artillery!
Close doesn't count!
I sell everything at a loss but make up for it in volume
- Milo Minderbinder, Catch-22
There are two kinds of jackpot winners...the ones who remained anonymous and the ones that wish they had.
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Massachusetts United States Member #37842 April 14, 2006 126 Posts Offline |
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Anyone who says that buying one ticket gives you the same odds as buying 10 or more is not using common sense. Sure, I agree that only one ticket wins the jackpot, but 10 gives you 10 shots at it. Even better, if everyone pitches in $5, then you've got 50 chances instead of 5. The odds, depending on the game, are still astronomical, but the more tickets you buy, the better your odds, even if the difference seems insignificant.
I'd like to add that if someone here wins $450,000 and doesn't want it because it's not a lot of money, I'll be happy to take that stretch limo for you. I'm sure the thousands of families who are losing their homes would take half. You told it like it is. The more tickets a person buys the higher the probability that one of the tickets will hit.
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United States Member #67556 November 15, 2008 27 Posts Offline |
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a 15 passenger van would do all i need it to do. Get me from point a to point b and back home.
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MI United States Member #55299 August 31, 2007 814 Posts Offline |
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a 15 passenger van would do all i need it to do. Get me from point a to point b and back home.
I think a van for 15 people would pretty much be a bus.
Heh, they should have rode a short bus to Lansing. With odds like 1 in 175,711,536 how can I lose?!
You can't predict random.
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Marquette, MI United States Member #20869 August 20, 2005 289 Posts Offline |
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Piaceri right now with a 30 year annuity it is more like $330,000 per person before taxes.
I wouldn't turn down $330,000. However, if you are going to take 10,000,000 to 1 odds you might as well try for more than that since it would almost certainly be your only big jackpot win ever. I bumped into one of the winners who was in town on a shopping spree.
I asked and it was $346,000 a piece.
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United States Member #61017 April 21, 2008 371 Posts Offline |
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I bumped into one of the winners who was in town on a shopping spree.
I asked and it was $346,000 a piece. SHOPPING SPREE??
sounds like they are off to a good start 
I have my own pool as well...me myself and I.
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