The Luck Factor

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BobP — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:48:05 GMT

Not only all that, he was lucky enough to be a student old enough to cash in the winning ticket !!!

BobP

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DC81 — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:35:41 GMT

I wish I was half that lucky, I bet I could buy a million tickets and have none of them be big winners. By big I mean at least $10,000, which would only a drop in the bucket in recovering the million dollars I wasted. I certainly wouldn't get 100 of them to help break even. Then again I'd need more due to taxes, hmm...

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dphillips — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:49:01 GMT

I definitely see luck and fate here because he received one of those free plays in the mail, and since he had never played before, purchasing one ticket with his free play, how damn lucky can he be?

If under different circumstances...let's just say, he was a frequent player...playing x amount of dollars; times x amount of days, weeks, and months...then I would say, its about time he won! Come on..it just doesn't get any better than this: first time player, first time winner.

The Luck Factor

Coin Toss — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:31:33 GMT

One more post from The Lottery Book by Don Catlin.This is from a chapter about luck:In the early 80's I was teaching a course in linear algebra. One of my students hit one of the Massachusetts Lottery's games- I think it was Megabyucks - for around $180,000. Here's the interesting part: In those days the lottery here used to have promotions that included two-for-one plays discounts on scratch tickets, and sometimes free plays. My student had received one of those free plays in the mail. He had n... [ More ]