We doubt everything now. Subversion complete.

Scientific games called, it's your lunch break.

Also your comparison with office supplies really is nothing alike, you're grabbing at lose straws here.

Ps I've edited my op with the statistics credit to you.

Fixing of games, predetermined numbers, this story right here, disproves that it's not only statistically bad but rigged as well. So yes they are scams.

Yes thanks for the odds listed again. I said that I'm reposting this comment, there is no need for me to edit the context. Does my anti lottery diatribe bother you on some personal level? Are you employed by a state or a gaming board? Regardless of the odds the lottery is a scam and I'm merely presenting my own experience and a short commentary about it. Do you have anything to add or do you want to shill for state lotteries? I do not understand, what you want to hear from me, nor honestly do I care what it is you want to hear. Maybe you just want praise for twice pointing out a single line correction to a Internet stranger because you feel smart?

I posted this in a similar thread last night, reposting here.

Anecdotal lottery is bullshit, scam, rigged, story time.

I sold these fucking scratch tickets and other lottery games for fucking years. People who spend more than 10 bucks a week on these things are assholes and idiots, no exception.

On September 11 2002 the pick three number in CT was 911. There is no way this was random and not rigged, the chances are pretty much impossible for this to happen, I'm no fucking mathematician but the odds must be in the hundreds of millions. I guess the state was feeling generous and in honor of national tragedy gave the lotto scumbag idiots a free gift, as the number was sold out before noon. Yes there are limits to how many of a number the states will sell to make sure they always no matter what come out ahead. Also add in on any major win taking a lump sum payout you will be taxed 50% off the top and another 35% at the end of the year on the remainder.

I remeber one year in the months leading up to Christmas the powerball jackpot grew week by week. What do you know the week of Christmas some lucky asshole woke up to the tune of 300 million.

There is a reason the states and government went after the mob for running numbers just to turn around and run the numbers racket in the form of state lotteries.

Pro tip if you can handle 500$ swings and simple math and a number wheel you can grind out a extra couple hundred dollars a month from these corrupt thieving assholes.

Either way a dollar and a dream is ok, it's nice that a dollar can excite your imagination for a week thinking about your escape from the rat race. That's really all this trash is worth, some mental stimulation with dreams of hookers and bathtubs full of cocaine.

So ya fuck state lotteries, enjoy your idiot tax if you happen to play.

/endrant

Edit : longingfornightmode has a boner for my terrible math in line 7 of this post as he has pointed out in both postings. The odds are 1 in 1000. Heap praise on his superior mathematical analysis, that a simple Google search does indeed list the game odds.

The guy was promoted to head of security in less than 12 years. Must be a shit place to work.

Only lotteries I ever enter are those where the proceeds go to a charity. I figure I won't win but it usually goes to a good cause.

That is why I consider the lottery as a form of rigged taxation for idiots.

I fucking knew it.