Have you ever played the lottery? Do you still do it? (page 2)

trueblue

I was playing the lottery only $1, just when the jack pot got over $1,000,000. I wonder how many other people were using this same tactic, because they raised the lottory ticket to $2 a ticket. Seem to me they raised the price of the ticket so the jack pot would go up quicker then more people will buy tickets when the jack pot is higher.

I don't think it is wrong to play, just be careful of the snares, you don't want to become addicted...

I was one of those people "Oh, I never win anything" so I played a pick five in any combination of numbers and how be if the numbers did not come up in the exact order, so I won $2,600 instead of $5,000, and from then on for a short time I would win something everytime I played (min. $50), had to go accross the river to buy tickets were it was legal and my boss sent me to buy him $100 in tickets, he wanted some of my luck to rub off on him, so I bought my boss his 100 tickets and I bought myself 1 ticket, I won $100 with my 1 ticket and my boss won $0 with his 100 tickets. Oh! my boss was mad, HA! HA!

I then went to Ceasers Palace casino in Las Vegas I was in the win $700 and a day later some shady guy kept trying to get me to give him a ride and they changed dealers on me and got there $700 back from me, it was quite a deal and thought maybe they were going to drag me off in a back room and beat me up if I did not give up the $700, and decided it was about time for me to get the heck out of there, but the place was so big I did not know the way out, so I tenkered around with a couple of one armed bandets until I could find someone with their heads hung low and follow them to the way out...

Amen!

keyser soze

I play the Powerball on occasion. I tell myself it's the last time, but then I'll hit a couple of numbers, and win a few dollars, and it gives me hope again. Almost as if it's taunting me.

Disillusioned Lost-Lamb

I've never bought a lottery ticket and am not much of a gambler, but I don't think it's wrong to do so.

I've been to Vegas quite a few times and have gambled however I do it for recreation and not out of greed. I reason, how many times do you think, realistically, you are going to come out ahead playing those games? So it's all just for fun.

Besides, I figure if the $ociety can gamble with millions of dollars in tax free donations (hedge funds, property, etc.) then a bit of fun and maybe a few bucks here or there to line my pocket can't be all that bad.

ex360shipper

When the powerball gets really big I will buy a ten or twenty dollar ticket. It comes out of my bar money, not my mortgage or anything important funds. It would be nice to tell my manager that he can eat @#$ and that I had more than him in the bank (he is a millionare).

Then I would retire on a private island.

NVR2L8

A few years back while I was a MS I was given a lotto ticket with the purchase of a meal deal at McDonald. I hid the ticket with my gas receipts in the glove box in my car. A few months later as I was doing my car expenses I found the ticket and went on the lotto web site to see if I had won anything...To my surprise I had all the numbers right and the prize was $50,000! Reading the back of the ticket I found out that I would have to go to the lotto prize office to claim a prize of $50k or more and that there would be press interviews and photos...At that point I researched the WT publications to find conflicting information. The older WT article said that it was a conscience matter to accept a prize if no money was spent acquiring the ticket (not gambling if no money was involved). The other WT article stated that regardles of purchasing or not the ticket, the prize money was acquired in an activity displeasing to God and accepting it would be the same as accepting diamonds I knew were stolen...I started thinking to myself that we can accept blood fractions which are acquired through an action (blood donation) that is forbidden by God...so why should act any differently with my winning ticket? So I decided to claim the prize and after reading the French version of the lotto rules I found that they were different allowing to claim prizes up to $50k by mail with a copy of an official document bearing my picture...A few weeks later the cheque arrived by courrier, no questions asked. The funny thing is that my zealous JW wife didn't object at all and we kept the whole thing secret. After I stopped going to the meetings I told our children about our winning...

mrquik

I find playing the lottery alot like praying. You have a hope knowing deep down you're not a winner. Your one dollar admission gives you the daydream you've always wanted. I like the odds better with the lottery though, I know that at least one person will have his prayers answered. (Probably will get a lot of hate mail for this post.)

Blind_Of_Lies

I play every week and I am currently holding the winning ticket for this weeks 290 million dollar jackpot. They havnt drawn yet but im sure ill win. I can only hope that my winning ticket has the numbers 19-14 lined up in them. I would find that almost biblical. I plan on using a small portion of that 290 million dollars to launch a world wide media campaign against the WTBTS of NY INK. I will sink them. How much fun would it be for the headline across the planet to be EX JW Wins 290 Million Dollars....

Have you ever played the lottery? Do you still do it?

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