missouri powerball winner comes forward!

Reply #23

Chewie — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 23:45:20 GMT

Whats the rush to claim the money? None really, but if you used the interest, say 10%, to donate to an animal shelter, how many lives of dogs and cats do you think you could save with ($17,000,000 X 10% X 2 months =) $340,000.00? I guess it all depends on the value you place on stray animals. Then again, you could just spend two months thinking of only yourself, and not worrying about the lives of the unfortunate.

Reply #22

CASH Only — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 16:54:51 GMT

If he waited until this week, we would be hearing of a 78-year-old receiving his prize in 30 annual payments, since MO starts the 60-day clock with the drawing, not when the claim is filed.

Reply #21

Rip Snorter — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 12:10:40 GMT

At least we don't have to speculate on how intelligent WE are.Jack

Reply #20

sirbrad — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 05:10:22 GMT

Perhaps they should start including in the winner's stories as to whether or not they simply forgot, or held out to the last minute intentionally. Until then we can only speculate as to how intelligent they are.

Reply #19

Rip Snorter — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 23:38:21 GMT

If they used that time to do a pre-emptive nuclear strike on all the known tanglefoots in the jackpot winner arena it will almost surely pay dividends.On the other hand, we humans have a pesky habit of finding new tanglefoots if there aren't any of the old tried and true ones handy.Hope they enjoy the ride and that the going up is worth whatever coming down's ultimately in the offing.Jack

Reply #18

tntea — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 21:37:42 GMT

I totally agree with you...What would be the rush....Those people who went from rags to riches back to rags, probably camped out on the steps of the door waiting to collect... Discipline ...........Well said..

Reply #17

ryanm — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 21:31:40 GMT

Their strategy will probably pay off, especially since there was another PB jackpot winner since.

Reply #16

Rip Snorter — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 19:28:24 GMT

People who have something they see as shameful to hide sometimes manage to keep their secrets for an awfully long while. The late FBI Director, J. Edgar Hoover's closet gay activities come to mind, along with the Rosenbergs when they were selling US secrets to the USSR. But it has a way of coming out eventually.But these folks appear to be just regular folks who haven't trained themselves in secrecy. Good job of work doing it.Jack

Reply #15

Chewie — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 18:23:43 GMT

No problem, you wouldn't be the first to disagree with me.

Reply #14

Uncle Jim — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 18:14:49 GMT

Well I part company with you on this one Chewie. Remember the old saying:Two people can keep a secret if one of them is dead.Jim

Reply #13

Chewie — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 18:09:12 GMT

Keeping a secret is no big thing, millions of people have proven the capability all their lives. Until the recent decline in morality, keeping a secret was a common act; i.e., D-Day would have resulted in the lose of hundreds of thousand of troops in 2005! Imagine the outcome of the Cival War if the New York Times published secrets of the Union Army as frequently as they do today. There would be a whole race of people wondering what freedom is in 2005. One shouldn't be given credit for keepin... [ More ]

Reply #12

Rip Snorter — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 18:02:00 GMT

You and I are lockstep on this one.Those people come across as a study in clear thinking and self-discipline.Jack

Reply #11

Uncle Jim — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 17:54:42 GMT

Actually, this might be a good indicator of where their collective heads are at. As far as I know in the 2 months prior to claiming their prize no information about the winner leaked out. That tells me these people had discipline. And it sounds to me like they took the time to decide how they were going to divide the winnings (and to who) before they collected it. That tells me they were focused. We might also presume that they used the time to put all their affairs in order before they col... [ More ]

Reply #10

Chewie — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 13:04:57 GMT

Very nice for them. We know how they played, and how much they won. I'd like to know how much interest they lost by waiting almost two month to claim $17M. This has to be an indicator of where their collective heads are. Of course, with $17M, you may not care about all that money being thrown away. Wouldn't have made a nice charity donation though; or a couple of tanks of gas.

Reply #9

sirbrad — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 06:58:02 GMT

Sometimes it seems that the best system is in fact no system. At least about 80% of the time...

Reply #8

rlevins — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 04:05:06 GMT

To me, It does prove that it may not be worth spending time on trying to decide what numbers to play, but at the same time there are endless possibilities when you are trying to model some behavior/patterns in number. To clarify I am not using any prediction method of my own. There are several business modeling forecasting software that are available in market that most of the big companies use for their business analysis and forecasting. I happen to use/have access to one of these which I tri... [ More ]

Reply #7

Rip Snorter — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 03:54:47 GMT

Sounds as though you've proven conclusively that the specific method you were using didn't work. Worth knowing, I suppose.Jack

Reply #6

rlevins — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 03:41:19 GMT

I just want to share few experiments I did recently with numbers. Although I never believed that one (or a system) can predict numbers with a good degree of accuracy but I thought of trying to do so by using one of the few best available business forecasting, modelling prediction software (This software has nothing to do with lottery). It forecasts the results based on historical data. It creates a model by which it predicts the numbers which includes both historical data and future data. I di... [ More ]

Reply #5

sirbrad — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 03:04:03 GMT

What did I tell you about QPs...We rack our brains for days, weeks, months, years at a time analyzing numbers, and watching drawings immediately in anticipation, and ALWAYS someone like this comes along who cashes a ticket in he probably forgot he even had at the last minute. It makes me sick quite frankly.

Reply #4

Rip Snorter — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 02:43:35 GMT

Guy's been sitting on it since November 2. Heck of a case of will power, that one. It would be interesting to be able to sit down over a cup of coffee and talk to this fellow.Jack

Reply #3

pacattack05 — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 22:49:09 GMT

About 40 percent of jackpots are QPs. Knowing that makes me think I'm racking my brain, to find the next correct combo manually for naught.If it's written in the stars, one would need only a single ticket to win. Volume play is however the best trap to set.

Reply #2

dphillips — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 22:42:26 GMT

I love it when the winners report if their numbers were a Quick Pick or their usual numbers. It is also nice (if they remember) to let us know HOW LONG THEY HAVE BEEN PLAYING. Nevertheless, I have been playing since 1998, and I know there are LP enthusiasts who have been playing longer, and I congratulate them for their patience...how did you keep your sanity! Finally, I can't help but remember reading about the woman who played for 15 years and won. Even her daughter had discouraged her, but t... [ More ]

Reply #1

Uncle Jim — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 03:58:55 GMT

I posted remarks in another thread and said that after this much time I didn't think the winner knew he had the winning ticket and didn't think he/she would come forward. Oops! Shows how much I know. Jim

missouri powerball winner comes forward!

wreakshavok777 — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 03:22:15 GMT

A Raytown man and his three grown children are guaranteed to have a Happy New Year after claiming the $36 million jackpot today from the Nov. 2 drawing. Floyd Scheinost, 78, of Raytown, and his three children - Phil Scheinost, 49, of Overland Park, Kan., Andy Scheinost, 44, and Becky Pycior, 52, both of Lee s Summit - will share the jackpot equally. The family plans to take the jackpot s cash amount in one payment, which is approximately $17.2 million - $4.3 million each before taxes. Floyd Sche... [ More ]