Be a winner, don't play.

The real lottery is your family members dying.

I've speculated to whether this is how they pay the crisis actors.

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Powerball top prize is $758.7 million. That is seriously fucking insane. You know the people have got to be taking money from that prize pool. For all we know Powerball could bring in billions and they just give out a fraction of it. Power fucking ball, so crazy.

Serbian Lottery Scandal - number comes up on the screen before drawn : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNxHoLZ7KQU

I know people who have won millions. It is still a scam, though, for the most part. They have power over when the prize is released. Most times they pick the "winning" numbers from the pile of unsold combinations.

A tax on people who are bad at math.

I went to grade school through high school with someone that won 200+ million. Sadly He gave me none of it lol. He was a good person, my mom worked a cafeteria job with his mom for years. Doubt he was in any kind of position to be hand picked.

And a person down the street from me won 1million on a scratch off 20 or so years ago. Her son was in the air force doing some kind of intelligence work. So maybe that was a pay out... but, I find that unlikely.

Just because you are more likely to be struck by lightening two or three times doesn't mean it's rigged.

I think you're absolutely spot on. Same thing with "sweepstakes", consumers think they might get a chance, but the prizes are only given to people with connections.

also the "sweepstakes" require consumers, often children, to send in their dox and a list of things they like. it's really to get consumer info for advertising purposes.

The people who run the Lottery win. Every fucking time. If you mean that lotteries are very often dishonest and "fixed" I completely agree with you. The money is paid out to relatives and friends of lottery employees and others connected with the lottery operation. Very little reaches the actual players who buy the tickets.

Not really sure what your talking about.

Lotto appears to be a real thing, people do actually win.

The chances of winning are low and if your good with money or not is another thing in itself if you win. Also expect people come out of the woodwork asking for money which includes family and friends even from the past.

One of my neighbors in the 80-90s hit for 5 million dollars, I helped her move into her new house and watched as she blow through in in no time, I don't believe you.