This poll is to be for like, Western/eastern Canadian lottery Terminals or whatever you have in the states, or you other in the other parts of the world, State run, province run, robot run, Those tickets you buy at the convenience store or Lottery store ( if you have them).

While you can't improve your odds of winning a typical number-draw lottery, you can improve the chances of getting a higher prize _if_ you win. UK National Lottery has given me 2 wins with 4 numbers, on one occasion netting a rather low £24 and on the other occasion £140. It comes down to how many people the prize fund is shared amongst (keeping it simple here, there's also the given number of participants for any draw), since many people use birthdays you can surmise that numbers 1 to 12 are popular picks, and 13 to 31 are also commonly selected. Pick higher numbers if you're a greedy bugger, paid off for my second win

Never played the lottery, never will.

Don't play lottery. The house always wins, I'm not the house.

I won negative values.

Less that I've spent.

I just bought some scratch tickets recently. Spent $20, won $8. Decided to take my $8 and buy more. Guess what? I won my $20 back.

I should have just put in the damn bank to begin with.

I picked one to ten thousand. I've never won a jackpot, however every day I don't spend a dollar on a lottery tickey, is a day I just won a dollar.

>> ^gwiz665:
Don't play lottery. The house always wins, I'm not the house.


Way I see it after playing the UK lottery for 6 months spending £8 a week for 2 lines on Wednesday and Saturday draws, plus the dream number, you're spot on. The gambler inside us tells us "maybe the next draw will be the one", the odds are stacked heavily against us but our minds won't accept the reality.

If someone's got the spare cash and they want to play the lottery then that's fine with me, though I feel sympathy for those who place all their hopes on a few quid they'd be better off spending on something of immediate benefit. Been there, know full well that hopes and dreams rarely pay off and the only real way to survive is to rise up to the challenge of life.

FYI: In the States nearly 70% of all lottery winners are from "quick picks".

The best way to win at a casino is to own one.

Voting for this poll ended with the majority of users voting one to one hundred.

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