4 Jan 2014 Super Lotto Draw

[duggee27]

gotta  be in it to win it
so i'm in

[Goose]

Super Lotto Draw? What's the amount of the Lotto...... Peanuts no doubt. In the U S there is some Lotto going where the 'Prize' is over 1/2 BILLION....$585 Million. I think the drawing is tomorrow (Tue- 12-17-13) The odds of winning-258 million to one. Also I heard you'd have better odds of scoring 2 consecutive holes in one or better odds of getting hit by an asteroid. My thoughts? I might bet against 3-2 odds, but not against 258,000,000 to one odds.

[triplewitch]

Oh come on, thirty million dollars is not peanuts.  The odds are against you winning, but somebody will win.  I would get in the draw if I could, it sounds like a fun idea, I've done it in my office when I was working many a time, but I can't make direct deposits to Australian accounts, and there are surely to be tax consequences if I were to receive any part of the winnings, assuming they could be paid out to a foreigner.
Edited to add that I'm not soliciting anyone to suggest a way to overcome these obstacles.

[Triggersmob]

John, anytime you want to buy a ticket, just let me know.
You can transfer money to my Paypal and I will buy a ticket for you.
We don't pay tax on winnings over here, but I'm not sure what happens
about transfering the winnings to the U.S.

Super Lotto Draw? What's the amount of the Lotto...... Peanuts no doubt. In the U S there is some Lotto going where the 'Prize' is over 1/2 BILLION....$585 Million. I think the drawing is tomorrow (Tue- 12-17-13) The odds of winning-258 million to one. Also I heard you'd have better odds of scoring 2 consecutive holes in one or better odds of getting hit by an asteroid. My thoughts? I might bet against 3-2 odds, but not against 258,000,000 to one odds.

Goose, we just had a lotto draw tonight for $70 million. Per head of population that is bigger that your half billion lotto. Only one winner tonight and it wasn't me.

[Goose]

Goose, we just had a lotto draw tonight for $70 million. Per head of population that is bigger that your half billion lotto. Only one winner tonight and it wasn't me.
[/quote]

The big drawing is tonight (Your Wednesday). It's estimated at $586 million. IF one person wins it, they can take an instant payoff of $316 million. Why get involved if the guv'ments (Fed, State, and local) take 46% ($270 Million) of it?

If there is no winner tonight, the next drawing is next Tuesday, Christmas eve, and the estimated winnings is expected to exceed $1 BILLION.......minus the 46% of course. It seems like the phrase of "A fool and his money are soon parted" is true. I'm not against gambling, I bet a buck ($1) or two now and then.

[Robster]

You only have to win 'once'.! :angel:

[Fulvio]

You only have to win 'once'.! :angel:

Remember the guy who won the top prize on a scratchie at Hampton Park a few years ago? TV news crews wanted a re-enactment, so they all trotted down to the agency, he bought another one and scratched it on camera...

And won again! $25,000, IIRC.

[Goose]

You only have to win 'once'.! :angel:

Remember the guy who won the top prize on a scratchie at Hampton Park a few years ago? TV news crews wanted a re-enactment, so they all trotted down to the agency, he bought another one and scratched it on camera...

And won again! $25,000, IIRC.

It's approaching 6:45 PM here (U S) on Tuesday, Dec 17, 2013 and approaching 11:45 AM on Wed, 12-18-2013 in Sydney (and 3:45 AM in Perth) and this lottery hasn't been drawn yet. It's up to $635 Million. The radio claimed that this is a factual statistic.....If you drive 1/2 mile (3 km) to buy a lottery ticket for this this lottery, you have a better chance of dying in an auto accident than winning the lottery.

[Fulvio]

1/2 mile (3 km)

1 mile = 1.609344 kilometres

[Goose]

1/2 mile (3 km)

1 mile = 1.609344 kilometres

WOW, I sure blew that! Thanks for the correction.....I'll pay more attention to my conversions.

[Unicorn]

1 mile = 1.609344 kilometres

Goose .... Fulvio only knows that as it's the depth indicator mark in his money bin!

[Fulvio]

1 mile = 1.609344 kilometres

Goose .... Fulvio only knows that as it's the depth indicator mark in his money bin!

:agreed:

[triplewitch]

Two people had winning tickets in our Mega-Millions lottery:
http://news.yahoo.com/2-winners-636m-mega-millions-drawing-070501967.html
The search is on!

[Triggersmob]

Good luck to them.
I hope they invest it wisely.

[Goldseeker]

Wasn't me...........