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Hack&Lube · 01-13-2016, 04:22 PM

Man I've been out the loop but I've been hearing chatter all day at work about it. Guess it's too late to buy a single ticket for the heck of it.

www.thelotter.com is down. Any other alternatives?

CaptainCrunch · 01-13-2016, 04:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Teh_Bandwagoner

Honestly the concept of winning the whole jackpot scares me for this very reason. Even at that obscene amount of money, it would be hard to determine how and how much to distribute. Someone is going to hate you, so basically you just have to pick who they will be.

Honestly the simplest would be to just win one of the $50k prizes lol.

http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/11/28/...kiest-winners/

darklord700 · 01-13-2016, 04:39 PM

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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

You suddenly have wealth and start spending it like crazy, and then wake up the next morning and its gone.

It has been reported time and again how many people winning $50M would go broke in two years time.

But I have a hard time imaging people winning a $1B lottery going broke anytime soon. If anything, that guy will probably die from OD before he runs out of money.

DownhillGoat · 01-13-2016, 04:46 PM

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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

I've read some horiffying stories about how destructive winning the lotto can be to a person and their relationships with other people.

I solve that problem by not having relationships with any other people.

If I ever win the lotto max the only people that will know will be CP, and that's after I invite the forum over for a scotch tasting during a game.

CaptainCrunch · 01-13-2016, 04:47 PM

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Originally Posted by darklord700

It has been reported time and again how many people winning $50M would go broke in two years time.

But I have a hard time imaging people winning a $1B lottery going broke anytime soon. If anything, that guy will probably die from OD before he runs out of money.

I was talking to the guys at work about that, and they all said the same thing, that they would take the cash up front which I think is half.

They asked me what I would do, and I told them, if I won the Powerball, nobody that I knew would see me for about 5 years, they'd all get hand written letters from an untraceable address, and a one time wire transfer of a significant gift, with a legal agreement to sign that if they ever ask me for more money, they would have to pay back the original gift.

I would find a charity or two that I liked and donate a fairly significant amount, and publish in the paper that if I re-appear that I won't take calls from any other charity.

Then I would live the next five years completely away from the grid, and have a set annual allowance paid to me through trust.

I would go and work as a farm hand in Manitoba, a crossing guard in New Brunswick. A taxi Driver in Montreal, a house painter in Vancouver, a spit bucket guy for a low ranked heavy weight boxer, and write god awful fiction and poetry and self publish it.

Then after 5 years, when things have cooled off and I've lived away from the principle of the money, I'd go and do un-announced midnight visits to close family members and friends.

Then I'd decide if I wanted to vanish again or not.

That's if I ever won the big lottery prize.

Nufy · 01-13-2016, 04:49 PM

How come nobody has mentioned..

2 girls at one time...

CaptainCrunch · 01-13-2016, 04:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Nufy

How come nobody has mentioned..

2 girls at one time...

Because if you win that much money, you're pretty much sleeping on a mattress made of girls, like Kim Jung Il.

And you can afford to throw out said mattress and replace it with a fresh one every day.

woob · 01-13-2016, 04:56 PM

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Originally Posted by calgarygeologist

Picked up $1200USD worth. Left them down in Sweet Grass for safe keeping. I will send out pictures when I get home. Wait at the border was 20 minutes, wait to get tickets was just over an hour.

So, uh, did you bury them in a coffee can out in a random prairie field? How did you memorize the GPS co-ordinates? Did you break your flip phone in half after?

Nufy · 01-13-2016, 05:00 PM

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Originally Posted by puffnstuff

Well I'm no lawyer, but posting about your intent to defraud someone beforehand probably wont help your case.

Well I would let the courts decide that...

Now...Who wants a unicorn ???

#-3 · 01-13-2016, 05:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Leondros

Interesting article on buying all 292 million combinations of the tickets:

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/...ations/423930/

Would be worth doing if powerball got up to $3B.

Issues include:

- Logistics of getting each combination
- Logistics of checking and signing each ticket
- Risk of not getting the full lotto amount (splitting)

They did mention it but kind of glossed over it. Buying ever combination, you would single handedly raise that jackpot by about $175M.

By my math, a 3 way split would be pretty much break even, because of your own contribution. And a 4 way split would loss you around $165M.

Daradon · 01-13-2016, 06:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Nufy

How come nobody has mentioned..

2 girls at one time...

You can do that even without money.

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So, how many tickets did you guys group buy? And good luck to you!

EDIT: Just saw, 1200 dollars worth, so that's 600 tickets?

Raekwon · 01-13-2016, 06:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Nufy

How come nobody has mentioned..

2 girls at one time...

Duruss · 01-13-2016, 07:09 PM

This is what I get for not checking the forum last night and missing the group buy.

So I'll be the first to ask; If you guys win could I have a million, it would really help the misses and I, plus the jackpot is so big you'd hardly miss it.

darklord700 · 01-13-2016, 07:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Nufy

How come nobody has mentioned..

2 girls at one time...

Because it's overrated and don't ask me how I know.

DownhillGoat · 01-13-2016, 07:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Duruss

This is what I get for not checking the forum last night and missing the group buy.

Wanna go halvies on this week's lottomax? 50 mil and some 1 mil prizes.

Fire of the Phoenix · 01-13-2016, 07:26 PM

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Originally Posted by darklord700

Because it's overrated and don't ask me how I know.

Nice humble brag lol

nfotiu · 01-13-2016, 07:51 PM

Buying the Playboy mansion (with Hef included, and I assume the bunny Harem?) might be a fun way to spend the money, and also ensure you are indeed bankrupt after a year.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/01/11/medi...&iid=obnetwork

CaptainCrunch · 01-13-2016, 07:54 PM

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Originally Posted by darklord700

Because it's overrated and don't ask me how I know.

Yeah, no its not

and I would know

calgarygeologist · 01-13-2016, 07:59 PM

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Originally Posted by woob

So, uh, did you bury them in a coffee can out in a random prairie field? How did you memorize the GPS co-ordinates? Did you break your flip phone in half after?

Buried it in the parking lot actually. The people waiting in line were more than happy to help me dig the hole so that I could bury my tickets.

Actually, I put it in an envelope addressed to myself and left it with Montana Shipping Outlet. I use Montana Shipping Outlet quite often and they have never lost any of my stuff.

JonDuke · 01-13-2016, 08:14 PM

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Originally Posted by calgarygeologist

Actually, I put it in an envelope addressed to myself and left it with Montana Shipping Outlet. I use Montana Shipping Outlet quite often and they have never lost any of my stuff.

Any idea when you'll send out the pics?