$900,000,000 Mega Millions

[scw2]

I play if friends/co-workers play and the jackpot is huge. I figure the cost is insurance against horrible feels if they win and I'm stuck alone at work after everyone quits.

[awp_101]

It's not the odds, it's the stakes.

Well played...

[scjbash]

That's what we did. Office pool.

[BobM]

My 97 year old grandma called me last night to pick a ticket up for her. She always says she’ll split it with me if she wins.

[LockedBreech]

We are people who need to toss $75 in ammo through a gun to decide it’s reliable. We’re gonna give people shit for tossing five bucks at a fantasy a few times a year?

I’ve spent more on one shitty date with one boring girl than I’ll spend in ten years on lotto tickets, and that little “maybe” spark is a much better time than that date.

Let people enjoy stuff. It’s not dumb if it gives you that little glimmer. That’s worth five bucks every now and again

Remember that the odds of life on earth looking at the necessary conditions are something like 10 to the 46th power (I learned that right here on PF!). Yet here we are.

And as someone noted, this money doesn’t just disappear, it funds public works. It’s like a lil donation.

Is it dumb? Probably. But everything we do is dumb. We are meat sacks on a rock in space.

If anyone here wins the 900mil, I request a Wilson Combat Classic Supergrade for defending you.


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[deputyG23]

I buy one ticket each drawing when the jackpots get astronomical. Like others have said, it is for the "dream generator". I would be tickled sh*tless to win a second prize which is usually six figures. Managing a bucket of money like that, effectively, would be a full time job and then some.

[Shotgun]

Your chances of winning were zero before, they're just zero now with a slightly different jackpot number.

If you guys would save $2 every week for life it'd be a far more effective use than donating it to a pointless cause. If you don't want to save it donating it to me would also be exponentially more rewarding, I can even say "you're a loser" every time you give it to me for that full lottery experience.

Seriously just go buy a couple candy bars or something and reap the caloric reward, lotteries are dumb as hell.

Go somewhere else killjoy. A lottery this large is entertainment. A person can buy a lottery ticket and get more escapism dreaming about the winnings than going to the movies. And, chances are not zero; they are one in a number with a bunch of zeros behind it. Skeptics like to say there is a better chance of being struck by lightening than winning the lottery (and many other like examples). Look at it the other way around. For example, I have a better chance of winning this lottery than being attacked by a grizzly (to bring in another PF thread), there being no grizz in Texas.

Come on you optimists: I have a better chance of winning this lottery than . . .

[NEPAKevin]

Go somewhere else killjoy.
Come on you optimists: I have a better chance of winning this lottery than . . .

...Pocahontas has of getting a tribal revenue check from the Casinos.

[Peally]

Come on you optimists: I have a better chance of winning this lottery than . . .

You still have a far better chance of being attacked by a Grizzly in Texas.

[TGS]

900 mil?

How much of that would you actually pocket as a lump sum?