An observation from the raffle that just ended ... I finally got around to actually checking my numbers. I had scanned the tickets on Monday but never checked my numbers against the winning list of numbers ... to see how "close" any of my tickets might have been to one of the eight large winning tickets.
None of my tickets were close to any large prize ... however, it seems again that those that bought last minute tickets on Oct 31st ... just hours before the drawing had a shot at several large prizes.
I decided on the last day to buy one last ticket ... so I went to a terminal and at 9:12am I bought my last ticket on Oct 31st.
The number on my ticket was 323979 ... these are the winning tickets for the large prizes.
$1,000,000 Winners
00075238
00116632
00163156
00352625 xxx
$100,000 Winners
00047520
00168200
00340911 xxx
00353216 xxx
You can see that out of the eight tickets ... there were three winning tickets purchased after I bought my ticket at 9:12am ... I marked them with xxx.
So what does it mean? ... really nothing except that from now on I will be buying my tickets on the very last day of every raffle ... and later in the day also.
So you say ... maybe next time there will be no large winning tickets that were bought on the last day. Fine, it could happen but from now I am gambling only on the last day with raffle tickets.
So now I wait till Jan 2nd to buy two tickets ... no more buying a lot of tickets, just two. I pumped enough money into this last raffle and won nothing ... I was thinking (hind sight) I could have bought a $300 book of scratch off tickets and would have won something.
So am I mad? ... probably, but it's gambling ... what I do hope is that I'm a little wiser for the next raffle, only buying two tickets and maybe a book of scratch off tickets.
I will probably still be a loser in the end ... just not a complete loser !
As I said ... just an observation in "hind sight" on my end.
CW