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Tucker Black

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Mar 31, 2026, 2:26 am

Quote: Originally posted by GiveFive on Mar 30, 2026
This might not amount to a hill of beans to anyone but FWIW.....

The Pennsylvania Millionaire Raffle winning numbers were generated by a Random Number Generator. I would think that'll be the case with the upcoming Florida Lottery's raffle as well.

Makes no difference to me. G5

Imagine a ball draw machine with 500,000 balls in it. It would be gigantic and really expensive to buy. Lol
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Mar 31, 2026, 8:46 am

Quote: Originally posted by Tucker Black on Mar 31, 2026
Imagine a ball draw machine with 500,000 balls in it. It would be gigantic and really expensive to buy. Lol

You're obviously too young to recall the days of hundreds of thousands (a million maybe?) paper lottery tickets inside of a spinning 7 foot tall wire mesh drum with a trap door in it.

The drawing was held in a theater in front of a live audience, the drum sitting up there spinning on the stage.

The drum stopped spinning, a pretty young lady opened the trap door and stuck her arm in the trap door as deep as it would go. She'd swish her arm around for 10 or 15 seconds and pulled out the big winner. She handed the ticket to an emcee who read the ticket number out loud.

It was all on TV for the world to see, the audience sitting in their seats wildly cheering. The big winner was never in the audience....

If the fix was in, nobody could see it happen. But back then, just like today, nobody cared about that. G5

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Mar 31, 2026, 9:59 am

Quote: Originally posted by GiveFive on Mar 31, 2026
You're obviously too young to recall the days of hundreds of thousands (a million maybe?) paper lottery tickets inside of a spinning 7 foot tall wire mesh drum with a trap door in it.

The drawing was held in a theater in front of a live audience, the drum sitting up there spinning on the stage.

The drum stopped spinning, a pretty young lady opened the trap door and stuck her arm in the trap door as deep as it would go. She'd swish her arm around for 10 or 15 seconds and pulled out the big winner. She handed the ticket to an emcee who read the ticket number out loud.

It was all on TV for the world to see, the audience sitting in their seats wildly cheering. The big winner was never in the audience....

If the fix was in, nobody could see it happen. But back then, just like today, nobody cared about that. G5

Interesting! Thanks for sharing.
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Mar 31, 2026, 10:19 am

Quote: Originally posted by Tucker Black on Mar 31, 2026
Interesting! Thanks for sharing.

You're welcome. That expensive and gigantic draw machine ain't all that far fetched as it would seem, is it not???

I think I'm kind of fortunate to have lived during the times that I've made my life's journey. I saw (on film) a Presidential assassination, the first man walk on the Moon, and many other historical firsts.

The thing that sucks about that is I'm now an old fool!!

I haven't got a clue what I'd do with the money I'd receive for a jackpot win. It's all pretty much a been there, done that for me. But one thing I do know is I sure as Hell wouldn't give a dime of it to anybody other than my family! Even then they'll have to wait a while til they see it. Think I'll scare 'em a little bit by giving a big chunk of it to charity. Crazy old curmudgeons like like me like to do that shirt. Dunno why. We just do. G5

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Mar 31, 2026, 10:29 am

Quote: Originally posted by GiveFive on Mar 31, 2026
You're welcome. That expensive and gigantic draw machine ain't all that far fetched as it would seem, is it not???

I think I'm kind of fortunate to have lived during the times that I've made my life's journey. I saw (on film) a Presidential assassination, the first man walk on the Moon, and many other historical firsts.

The thing that sucks about that is I'm now an old fool!!

I haven't got a clue what I'd do with the money I'd receive for a jackpot win. It's all pretty much a been there, done that for me. But one thing I do know is I sure as Hell wouldn't give a dime of it to anybody other than my family! Even then they'll have to wait a while til they see it. Think I'll scare 'em a little bit by giving a big chunk of it to charity. Crazy old curmudgeons like like me like to do that shirt. Dunno why. We just do. G5

By the way, that "big winner" who The Looker pulled his ticket outta the drum?? He won 50 grand. But in the 1960's that was huge money. G5

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Sum Buddy

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Mar 31, 2026, 3:54 pm

Bought a ticket today around noon in the 117,000 range. Looking at Winterbird's sales data chart (thanks WB!) it seems reasonable to estimate 4,000 more sales today, to put the total sales for interim draw 1 at around 121,000.

So if this estimate is close to actual sales, then it looks like odds of winning one of the 2,498 prizes in interim draw #1 would be 1:48. Odds on both the $100,000 and $10,000 prize tiers would be 1:40,333. $5,000 is 1:24,200 $1,000 is 1: 10,083 $500 is 1:537 $100 is 1:53.

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Mar 31, 2026, 6:15 pm

Against my better judgement,,,,,,,,

I was in Publix late this aftrenoon, and I just couldn't resist the temptation to.................... (especially when I saw that twenty dollar bill in my wallet that wasn't earmarked for anything! Actually I realized that it was what was left of my March Lottery budget funds so I figured what the Hell!)

A Fool and his money you're scoffing at me????? Sheeeeee-yit! I say!

That 121,000 tickets sold for draw #1 guesstimate of Sum Buddy's aint all that bad either. Matter of fact it's pretty durn good, if ya ask me. G5

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Mar 31, 2026, 6:54 pm

The only good thing to come out of Florida was Tom Petty.

If it didn't have so many black hearted people, it would be a beautiful place.
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Mar 31, 2026, 7:25 pm

Quote: Originally posted by Tucker Black on Mar 31, 2026
Imagine a ball draw machine with 500,000 balls in it. It would be gigantic and really expensive to buy. Lol

You realize that there are between 1 and 10 million asteroids orbiting near earth?
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Mar 31, 2026, 7:54 pm

What are the odds, Tucker Black?
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Mar 31, 2026, 9:40 pm

121,7xx ticket number purchased at 9:30 pm, so we are probably looking at about 122,000 or so sold for the first round.
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Reporting that I am thoroughly screwed, because I won $100 but I don't have rent money. This was like my last shot at making rent. I didn't have crazy dreams, was just hoping for the 5k prize. 🫠

(What I spent on this would not have been enough to cover rent. And I'm $20 up with the $100 win.)
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Apr 2, 2026, 11:09 am

Did anyone fair out with a decent win this run? I didn't purchase a ticket at all. Hopefully in April I can.
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Apr 2, 2026, 1:19 pm

Quote: Originally posted by MsBee18 on Apr 2, 2026
Did anyone fair out with a decent win this run? I didn't purchase a ticket at all. Hopefully in April I can.

ZIP!!!!

But that's OK. I hate the thought of maybe winning $100,000 and the knowing that I'm very likely out of the running for a million bucks! G5

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Apr 2, 2026, 2:08 pm

Quote: Originally posted by GiveFive on Apr 2, 2026
ZIP!!!!

But that's OK. I hate the thought of maybe winning $100,000 and the knowing that I'm very likely out of the running for a million bucks! G5

If ya ask me, there's a 'hidden danger' with these raffles.

What if one of the million dollar winning ticket numbers is 678123 and my ticket number is 678122 or 678124???? Don't wanna know what that feels like. But somebody is gonna get to find out what that feels like. G5

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