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Community => Watto's Junk Yard => Topic started by: BigDumbWookiee on February 18, 2004, 03:38 PM
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Well, for the first time ever, last week, on a whim, I decided to play the Hoosier Lottery. I bought $20 worth of tickets. Well today, I went in and had them scanned to see what I won. The cashier handed me four free quick picks. I was pretty psyched, not too shabby winning four free tickets. Well, I started to leave, and she said "Hold on, you have more!", handed me a receipt and $43! :) Not too bad for the only time I've ever played the Hoosier Lottery...
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Not bad Adam... You're 3.6% of the way to that Master Replicas AT-AT now! ;)
I've never won jack off the California lottery, despite usually tossing my hat into the ring when it hits the $50 million mark (since I couldn't live off of any winnings less than that :P).
But I still have plans on winning big, and collecting all the SW loot I could ever dream of, and having a gigantic mansion with more than enough room to display it all! 8)
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I WILL have a MR ATAT! :) And I wont sacrifice my mini busts or my Kubrick. Definately not my Kubricks ;)
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i have wanted to play the lotto for so long, but i cant until i am 18, that totally sucks!! Any of you know what the legal age is to gamble, i get confused on if it is 18 or 21.
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I WILL have a MR AT-AT! :)
So when you get it, will you patiently wait for more vehicles from MR, or will you step up to the plate (again), and go find the beautiful X-Wing and Tie Fighter that Icons put out a number of years ago? Pretty sure they were in that same $1,200ish ballpark...
God, I'd love to add those 3 items to my collection, but I'd also have to find a new wife if I did. I'll have to think about it... :P
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That is a State by State age limit, most places it is 18 but I think places like Nevada its 21
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I thought it was 18, well i dont really know what else to say. I dont want to make this reply short, and have Chris yell at me again so, that is cool. Cant wait to play my first time, hopefully i can win something, heh!
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We have a State Run Lottery Here, Power Ball and Native American Casinos, right now the STate is thinking of opening their own Casino which seriously tick off the Native Americans and in effect break a treaty they signed in the 1990's saying the state won't do that. The state also runs the Horse Track in the Twin Cities which is where they want to put the casino. Revenue would go to fund Sports Stadiums, Roads and Education, I'm for that as long as they only build one and they put it at the same spot as the Horse Track
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I never win stuff like that. You know how you're supposed to get free "I-tunes" with Pepsi? I haven't even won one of those yet. I swear the odds would say I should have one, but nope.
I won a free Twix once, from the Twix website....but it turned out it was a coupon for a Twix ice cream bar. Who the hell wants a Twix ice cream bar?
SO...I have decided that when I come to Indianapolis for C3, I am going to play the lottery there. If BDW can do it, so can I.
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I WILL have a MR AT-AT! :)
So when you get it, will you patiently wait for more vehicles from MR, or will you step up to the plate (again), and go find the beautiful X-Wing and Tie Fighter that Icons put out a number of years ago? Pretty sure they were in that same $1,200ish ballpark...
God, I'd love to add those 3 items to my collection, but I'd also have to find a new wife if I did. I'll have to think about it... :P
Nah, I havent heard enough stories that would truly compel me to buy the Icons ships. They look pretty nice, but Ive heard horror stories about sagging wings, etc. I'll hold out (and save up) for more MR releases.
I'd expect an XWing and TIE Fighter to be fairly high on the list, along with a Millennium Falcon, and the Star Destroyer and Death Star which they've been talking about since the beginning...
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Not sure how your lotteries are with the odds, but ours are miserable. It's ok to throw a couple of bucks in when it gets bigger, but the odds are still so awful.
Stats courses in school prove useful. Learning how to calculate odds helps save a lot of money. Our typically large lottery up here has a one in roughly fourteen million chance of winning it all. Even winning $10 has rather high odds against. One in 42K. Mind you everyone claims to always win $10. Same as going to Vegas and no one loses there. I wonder how they stay in business.
Give me a huge sum of money to start any business I like and I'll start a national lottery. I'll give you back double what you gave me within two years and still be filthy rich.
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THe biggest thing I have won on a Califorina Lottery Ticket was around $25 or so. I don't play that mush unlike my mom who has played ever since the gane came out and she says one day she will win (hopefully she does) ;D.
I did however win $100 on aq scather ticket that cost me $3 while on my lunch break at work. It cost my store a high Lottery coustmer because she got mad that another employee palyed right after she turned in some tickets from the machine. This lady would play the same game until she hit a bnig prize but left when she saw the other person buy a ticket from the game she was playing. Three other people from my work played that game before I did and I was the one who got the winning ticket. :) 8)
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never hit the lottery for more than $5 or $10, and that is usually on the scratch off tickets, but i did pretty well one night done in atlantic city a few years back. played blackjack for a few hours, and after buying dinner, show tickets, and a $300 bar tab for myself and 5 friends, still went home with about $800 of mr. trump's money ;D
but he's gotten that all back - plus interest - in my several trips there since that day... ::)
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I never win stuff like that. You know how you're supposed to get free "I-tunes" with Pepsi? I haven't even won one of those yet. I swear the odds would say I should have one, but nope.
I'm with you on that one Josh.
I'm an almost religious Coca-Cola drinker. However, I'm also a Mac guy. Serious conflict there, until I gave serious thought to the economics of the whole 1 in 3 odds thing.
If I'm going to spend $1+ on a soda and have a one in three chance of getting a free iTune... Well, I'd rather drink a Coke and pony up a buck for a song I want. I know, it's not a free song. But neither were the six Pepsi's I drank last week.
On the other hand, if I had a one in three cahnce at a Segway Human Transport in every Pepsi...
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I never win stuff like that. You know how you're supposed to get free "I-tunes" with Pepsi? I haven't even won one of those yet. I swear the odds would say I should have one, but nope.
Still conflicted here with my love of the idea about free music. I stumbled across this on the web tonight:
How to WIN iTunes from Pepsi (http://www.macmerc.com/news/archives/1270)
(http://files.mobiletracker.net/macmerc/images/itunes/directions.jpg)
It's worth the read. My favorite part was: "Pepsi has stated they believe they will have to pay for about 1/3 of the 100 million songs it's giving away. That means 2/3 of the people that win don't care about iTunes. So I say, let's let them have the unlucky caps. They weren't going to cash them in anyway."
Perhaps our luck is changing!
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That is a State by State age limit, most places it is 18 but I think places like Nevada its 21
Actually (and the only reason I know this is because I just saw it on the Travel Channel) in Nevada the lottery is the only illegal form of gambling - except Boulder City where all gambling is illegal. So yes, technically you need to be 21 to gamble in Nevada, but I would assume if they ever get a state lotto, that 18 will the age.
My wife played Keno one night at a bar and didn't check her ticket before she left. She held on to that ticket until one day she was in a convience store, remembered she had the ticket and decided to check to she if she won some money. She hads the clerk the ticket and he says "Sorry, not a winner" I yelled "Bullsh!t! The read out says she won $100, so give her the money" The rat bastard tried to scam her and would have if she just walked away. Piece of ****.
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You know, I never even thought to try "cheating" and look at the bottles before I buy them. I actually don't drink that much soda, but I wanted to get a free song, so I got a couple. I may try that, but I stopped trying that back when Sprite gave something away, and I couldn't even see that cap by trying that trick. Maybe Pepsi bottles are the right size. :)
Oh, and by the way...this thread (and my greed) has inspired me to play the lottery this week. The Mega Millions (which has the worst odds of just about any lottery) is up to 215 million. With that kind of money, I could buy a segway, an I-tune and still have a couple of bucks left to put in my pocket for a rainy day. :)
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We have a State Run Lottery Here, Power Ball and Native American Casinos, right now the STate is thinking of opening their own Casino which seriously tick off the Native Americans and in effect break a treaty they signed in the 1990's saying the state won't do that.
Not going to be too happy if I move back to the Metrodome still standing, AND an empty Mystic Lake Casino.
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You know, I never even thought to try "cheating" and look at the bottles before I buy them. I actually don't drink that much soda, but I wanted to get a free song, so I got a couple. I may try that, but I stopped trying that back when Sprite gave something away, and I couldn't even see that cap by trying that trick. Maybe Pepsi bottles are the right size. :)
Well, notch me down a level. Or two.
Today, I put the evil 25% Pepsi bottle angle technique to the test. I must have looked pretty odd in the Kmart soda aisle, and I'm certain I drew the suspicion of their loss prevention staff... but 10 bottles later I finally feel a song coming on...
(http://www.clearthinker.net/imagestopost/cap1.jpg)
My Scanning technician finally earned his Imperial credits. Vader was especially pleased. Motti was uncomfortable he didn't bring one to the table.
Best of luck to everyone! Looks more like 1 in 10 than 1 in 3.
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Best of luck to everyone! Looks more like 1 in 10 than 1 in 3.
Either that or two other people already beat you to the store and did the 25 degree trick as well.
Nice Pic by the way.
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Best of luck to everyone! Looks more like 1 in 10 than 1 in 3.
Either that or two other people already beat you to the store and did the 25 degree trick as well.
Nice Pic by the way.
That's funny. Actually, I did consider that another iTunes wrangler had beat me to the cooler... But I don't think so based on the location of the bottle and stuff.
I've been having fun taking pics the last couple of days. It just dawned on me that i have a camera and a place to host them. I put a couple of reviews up here (http://www.jedidefender.com/yabbse/index.php?board=8;action=display;threadid=3737) and here (http://www.jedidefender.com/yabbse/index.php?board=8;action=display;threadid=3753).
A funny by-the-way... I posted the picture above originally with the code unblurrd, then got paraniod some of the people here who are already going to H - E - double hockey sticks would steal my free song before I had a chance to redeem it... But I've taken care of that now. Oh yes.
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I rarely ever play the lottery on my own, but when the jackpot hits $50 million or more, my office will start going in on a lottery pool, until someone eventually claims the grand prize. Well, as usual, we didn't win, and someone else did. So I got to wondering just how much money I've tossed out due to the lottery over the years. Just at my office alone, where it's a $2 entrance fee every few days 'til the jackpot's won, I've probably lost about $300 in the last 6 years. I guess that's not horrible, but it's certainly not wonderful either.
But the thought of my coworkers playing and possibly winning (and retiring) without me, is enough to strike fear into me to play each and every time. So me playing the lottery is more like buying insurance that my coworkers don't get rich without me. Strange reasoning, really...
So, how often do you folks play, and can anyone beat Adam's $43 jackpot?! :P
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We have a State Run Lottery Here, Power Ball and Native American Casinos, right now the STate is thinking of opening their own Casino which seriously tick off the Native Americans and in effect break a treaty they signed in the 1990's saying the state won't do that. The state also runs the Horse Track in the Twin Cities which is where they want to put the casino. Revenue would go to fund Sports Stadiums, Roads and Education, I'm for that as long as they only build one and they put it at the same spot as the Horse Track
Native Americans have got to be Twins/Vikes fans! As of late, it doesn't look like the state run casino is going to make it past the "hope and pray" stages. To have a casino in Canterbury Grounds would be kind of odd, then there's Mystic, Little 6, and then the proposed casino in a 1 mile radius. Surely they can think of another way to build the Twinkies a new playpin.
As for me, I'm at Mystic Lake atleast once a month, even after I swear I wouldn't go back. It's just so hit and miss, and at the same time incredibly addictive. The lure of money..mmmm. Scratch lottery is just as sporatic, just depends on when I'm at Cub. Which is always.
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Glad you bumped this up Cory, as it reminded me that I wanted to point out something that I saw today. Stopped in the local store, and they had a big Star Wars display around the usual lottery area. Turns out that California is having a set of 12 Star Wars scratchers right now, in conjunction with all the ROTS hoopla.
I may just have to pick myself up a set. The question is, do I actually scratch them off, or keep them mint?! :P
Anyone else seen anything like this in their neck of the woods?