Book: As Luck Would Have It

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pumpi76 — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 19:03:40 GMT

if the lottery could fool people into believe the guy had won a smaller prize, what else could they do? Makes you wonder...

...If you think about it, the stock market and taxes are a form of lottery...

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Coin Toss — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 05:28:21 GMT

I got this book from our library, so before I return it let me add a few more things from the lottery chapter (Chapter one):

The jackpot was $363 million, he was one winner of two. He had played $98 worth of quick picks, and was not a regular player. He didn;t even know what a quick pick was, he called it something else. The clerk asked him cash option or annuity and origianlly he said annuity.

The first check he appeared with on TV was for $!50,000, at his request, so people wouldn't kno... [ More ]

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RJOh — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 01:31:52 GMT

Winning the second prize in the BigGame(MegaMillions) is not that common so it's unlikely that the jackpot winner and a second prize winner would be from the same area so it would be hard for the state to fool anyone with such a trick.

Coin Toss, I remembered the Michigan winner because it was well covered in the news and in fact he took a trip with his family to New York to appear on all three network morning shows. He appeared in an interview played on Toledo Channel 11 News in which he sa... [ More ]

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lottolaughs — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 00:39:46 GMT

I've seen this book at the bookstore but never thought to look in it. You've got me kind of curious, I think I'll take a look now. Thanks,Coin Toss! I didn't know they let people do that, fool the people into believing someone won a smaller prize. But isn't the cat out of the bag now that they wrote it in the book? ha.

Book: As Luck Would Have It

Coin Toss — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 00:25:55 GMT

I seriously recommend this book - it's by the author of The Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook, Joshua Piven.

The first chapter is about the guy who was one of two winners of The Big Game jackpot of $363 million in 2000.

This is about what he experienced, not what you should do , but what he did do and found out he had to do.

There was something mentioned I've never even seen posted here-to protect his family's privacy the lottery commission (Michigan) agreed to present him with a... [ More ]