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tha_rami
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Posted: 9th Jan 2008 15:09 Edited at: 9th Jan 2008 16:12
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When I checked our newspaper today, nothing really stood out to me, but it's good my father checked after me: we won a postcode based lottery that we've been playing in for years. I was sitting on the couch, and he jumped up while he was on the phone and said to me: "Hey! That's our postcode"!

So, I checked too and he was right. It was a comic moment that will definitely ease our life with the divorce and the lack of money we would've had in the coming years - with $200 - $350 for three people to live on per month due to us buying out the house from my mother.

We've been playing in the lottery for years now, and a ticket costs about €4 ($5), I think. It isn't one of those 'ticket number is on your ticket' lotteries but instead, your postcode is your lotto number. It's really cool that from all those postcodes, ours won a prize this time.

So, it's a happy day. We won exactly €5, which is the equivalent of $7.

Anyone else ever win something big with these things?


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Posted: 9th Jan 2008 15:33
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Quote: "We won exactly €5"


That's not much to talk about

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I'm puzzled, if the ticket costs $3 and thousands of people buy them, you win, and you get $4 back!

What's the odds on these lotteries, seems the odds are in favor of brutal rape even if you win . Shame it's not something substantial, but people who really need the money never win it, tis why I don't bother with lottery stuff.


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The euro is worth more than the dollar. €5 is about $7-8. That's not very much to celebrate over, but whatever makes you happy.

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That sucks that you didn't get much, kind of a cheek really and quite a cruel thing to do 'You won the lottery, congratulations! Here you go, have a few euros, enough to cover the price of next week's ticket.'

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I can't work out if this is a typo, or sarcastic post.
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Shame you didn't win the ones they usually show on tv, is it €12,500 or something like that?

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Well, I think the big prize goes into several millions at times.


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Quote: "We've been playing in the lottery for years now, and a ticket costs about €4 ($5)"


Heard about the stupidity tax?

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Posted: 9th Jan 2008 17:55
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why would anyone play this lottery?

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Posted: 9th Jan 2008 17:56 Edited at: 9th Jan 2008 17:57
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For the prizes above $5: the prizes range from $10 - $25,000. Sometimes massive jackpots of several millions . Things like that .


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If a Price falls on my postal code, I'm lucky... I have exactly 9 other houses with the same one

Anyway, thats not much to win. I know this lottery and most I ever won was about 350$.

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Wow, nice haul

The only thing I ever won was 2nd place in an Xbox competition just by registering my console. They sent me 1 year on
Live, 2 controllers, and 6 or 7 new games. That was pretty sweet.

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I never won anything since that though, Not even a simple competition with drawing on a paper and pretend to be a kid.(They always figure out i'm not a child anymore.)

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Quote: "$10 - $25,000. Sometimes massive jackpots of several millions "


With more emphasis on the $10. That way, customers won't complain that they were mislead. They just got the "minimum" amount, which is actually the maximum amount.

Yet somehow, my cousin is constantly winning the lottery. She usually gets between 5 and 50 pounds. I can count atleast 5 occasions.

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Lol .


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Posted: 9th Jan 2008 20:59 Edited at: 9th Jan 2008 20:59
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Quote: "With more emphasis on the $10. That way, customers won't complain that they were mislead. They just got the "minimum" amount, which is actually the maximum amount.

Yet somehow, my cousin is constantly winning the lottery. She usually gets between 5 and 50 pounds. I can count atleast 5 occasions."


A coworker of mine won an Xbox 360 and 3 different games for it, she won 80,000 off of the lottery twice I think. Call that luck or what

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My late grandad won £77,000 a few years ago - lucky bugger, although he did share some of his winnings
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The state lotto here is at least 6 million a week for the jackpot, but sometimes it rolls over up to 70 million.

I don't play lotto or do scratchoffs though, people say "you can't win if you don't play", and I say, "true, but you can't lose if you don't play either!"

The government says that most of the money goes to schools, must be only the schools their kids attend.

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Posted: 10th Jan 2008 04:16 Edited at: 10th Jan 2008 04:16
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The Iowa lottery starts at 10 million, I think the highest it ever went to was around $320 million...

Before taxes, of course.

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Quote: "I don't play lotto or do scratchoffs though, people say "you can't win if you don't play", and I say, "true, but you can't lose if you don't play either!""


That's the point here. You win by postal code, so if the jackpot goes at your postal code and you don't have a ticket, the whole neighbourhood wins and you're left with nothing. Some painful episodes with a jackpot of 6 million and an old lady just stoppped playing as 'she never won'. You can lose in this one . It's blatant emotional blackmail.


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Posted: 10th Jan 2008 07:13 Edited at: 10th Jan 2008 07:17
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Here in the US, you pay $1 and win millions. And we have Mega Millions... that's gotten up to hundreds of millions in the past. It's only at a lowly $25mil now though . If anyone ever sees 12, 16, 22, 29, and 33, with the megaball 42, and I'm missing from TGC for a while, it's because I bought Dazzag's house and I'm too busy cruising around in my Ferrari to post .

I win a lot at roulette, I don't think you can be a natural at gambling but I'm certainly as lucky as someone can get when I step into a casino. I've developed a system over the years... no, not some crazy algorithmic system, just three simple rules for roulette, and I've won quite a bit of cash doing this.

Rule #1: Keep money in two pockets. You have your "I can spend it" money in one pocket, and your "you're coming home with me" pocket. That way if you lose, you only lose what you plan to lose, and if you win, you don't start dipping into your winnings and end up driving home miserable. It's also important to tell yourself that casino money is casino money... if you walk into a casino and think the money in your pocket is anything less than Monopoly cash, you're destined for hearbreak.

Rule #2: I only play three numbers and I never play outside (if you don't know what I mean by that, you haven't played roulette). My numbers are always 22, 29, and 33. I stick to those three numbers religiously, and I always play all three, every spin, regardless of how much I'm playing. If you play sporatically, with random numbers each spin, you'll find yourself getting ticked off that the number you played before just came up, and you weren't on it. If I'm at a $10 table, I play 3 chips on 22, 3 on 33, and 4 on 29... so I'm winning $105 or $140 for 29 whenever it comes up, or $105 for 22 or 33.

Rule #3: I do what I call pocket leveling. It's really simple: Say the afforementioned 29 hits. I take the $100 in my winnings pocket, and I play the $40 "off the top." So if I'm on a good streak and I'm hitting my numbers a bunch, my winnings pocket is filling with black chips (worth $100 a pop) and I'm not even touching the money I brought with me. I've sat down at Taj Mahal and Turning Stone, hit on the first spin or two, and gone the rest of the night on that initial $10 or $20.

I dunno, probably silly to post, but if you guys ever go to a casino and decide to play roulette, remember what I said here .

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So, Matt, basically you've gone home heartbroke, broke and miserably once, after you didn't go for your three numbers?


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Yeah, the first few times I played roulette when I was 18, I was all over the place lol, trying to follow the dealers' patterns, doing what the rich people were doing thinking I could win with them, utter disaster lol. But after my trial by fire I figured out a fairly easy way to win rather often. Not all of the time of course... if you did that, they'd kick you out lol. But enough that I could take all of my friends out to dinner most trips, if not go home and buy cool stuff. My current drumkit was paid for entirely by Turning Stone Casino & Resort, lol.

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Quote: "Here in the US, you pay $1 and win millions"
Same in the UK really. Except you pay £1 and (extremely unlikely) win £millions. Think there is a few now like the Euromillions draw on top of the normal lotto. Think the average is normally £10-20m jackpot on each every week. Think the highest rollover jackpot was around £85m. Could do with that if I ever played the lotto...

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Well the only thing is you win like 200 million and 150 go to taxes, stupid buggers.

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Hehe we don't have to pay taxes here if we win. We have bi-weekly lotteries that are in the millions.

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My family win on the Premium Bonds all the time. Won 3 x £50($100) last month. It's like the lottery but you get back all the money you spent on tickets if you want it back Odds are 21000 to 1 of a £50 prize or better.

What you are losing is the interest your money would have made in the bank but they recon the average prize is 4% tax free.

They live in hope of winning the million but odds are not good as with any lotto. There is a famous saying that goes something like this, "Lottos are a tax on those too stupid to understand the odds".

The wierd thing is the numbers are picked randomly by a computer called Ernie (Electronic Random Number Indicator Equipment) but I always thought computers couldn't pick true random numbers but they say he gets tested More about Ernie here

I'd rather invest the money in shares or property to protect it from inflation but I guess with the threat of global recession Ernie might look after it a bit better right now.

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Anybody ever win something in a cereal box? Damn... those things are impossible to win with!

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Quote: "Anybody ever win something in a cereal box? Damn... those things are impossible to win with!"

I got a plastic dinosaur.

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