Any lottery/instant games addicts here?

AmazingGracePlayer · #1 08-11-2008, 09:54 PM

Share some of your experiences! I'm getting addicted to buying those instant game scratch card things now days...

Slapp Addict · #2 08-11-2008, 09:57 PM

Slightly. Me and the gf get excited for the new scratch-off's. We are currently playing the Double Bubble ones. Scratch n' sniff FTW!

Bob Clayton · #3 08-12-2008, 08:17 AM

i play em now and then.

fenderhutz · #4 08-12-2008, 08:20 AM

Not addicted, but I do probably throw a buck into powerball every once in a while.

DigMe · #5 08-12-2008, 08:34 AM

Srsly?

bc

Visirale · #6 08-12-2008, 08:44 AM

I'd like to thank you all for helping pay for my college education with your wasted money

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(At least the FL lottery throws A LOT at education, not sure how it is in other states... I get at least $4k a year from that specific state scholarship.)

hbarcat · #7 08-12-2008, 08:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Visirale

I'd like to thank you all for helping pay for my college education with your wasted money

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Ditto.

Never played the lottery and never will. But thanks go out to those who do for funding public education in Illinois.

tplyons · #8 08-12-2008, 10:02 AM

I used to have a system. Buy a $2 or $3 scratch off every time I got in my car and had a seven facing me on the fuzzy dice. For a while I won $75, then $25, then $20, then $25... lost a bunch here and there but in the long run ended up having $100 more than I started with. Those dice were doing something right... up until the day they were stolen.

AmazingGracePlayer · #9 08-12-2008, 10:03 AM

The first time I played lotto I won $7 =]
It's a good start, now I just need to win $7MILLION!

**baba** · #10 08-12-2008, 12:22 PM

Lottery = tax for the mathematically challenged.

gold_member_321 · #11 08-12-2008, 12:36 PM

I play the instant scratch offs a lot.

Mostly the mustang money one and battleship. The most I've won was 500 bucks on the battleship one and I've won 50 on the mustang money one 15 or 20 times.

steve21 · #12 08-12-2008, 12:37 PM

I like the scratcher ones. Decent fun, and if you win a couple times it evens out.

I might buy one today. Maybe if I someone walks in the office and asks me to notarize something, I'll use a bit of my money from that to get some from the 7-11.

I especially will pick one up if the theme is related to 7. Favorite number and all.

hey · #13 08-12-2008, 01:02 PM

I never do the lottery unless Powerball goes over 100 million, in that case I will get one every once in a while. Certainly not addicted though.

*smb · #14 08-12-2008, 01:04 PM

I've never played the lottery or bought scratch-cards or anything. I'm in enough debt.

XtreO · #15 08-12-2008, 01:45 PM

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Originally Posted by baba

Lottery = tax for the mathematically challenged.

Pft. There has to be a winner.

DigMe · #16 08-12-2008, 02:30 PM

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Originally Posted by baba

Lottery = tax for the mathematically challenged.

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Originally Posted by XtreO

Pft. There has to be a winner.

And THAT is what the po folk keep telling themselves as the money goes down the drain!

bc

**baba** · #17 08-12-2008, 02:34 PM

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Originally Posted by XtreO

Pft. There has to be a winner.

Case in point...

Fontaine · #18 08-12-2008, 03:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Scratch Addict

Slightly. Me and the gf get excited for the new scratch-off's. We are currently playing the Double Bubble ones. Scratch n' sniff FTW!

fixed.

steve21 · #19 08-12-2008, 04:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Fontaine

fixed.

gold_member_321 · #20 08-12-2008, 04:44 PM

There is also a trick to knowing when you have a winner.

If there is a purple or a white line between two scratch offs one of them is a winner. That's why I buy many of the same ticket rather than spreading my money out to a few different ones. That's what they want you to do.

You learn so many things when you work at a corner store.