02 Nov 2012, 9:16 pm
As my late father once put it, "For a dollar, you buy a dream."
The odds of winning are extremely low, but spending a couple bucks on a ticket instead of a candy bar is inconsequential... with tiny odds of a life-changing event.
Of course any odds are better than the ZERO chance when you don't play. 
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03 Nov 2012, 2:05 am
Trying the Daily Game w/the numbers is the best game, I think. 
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23 Dec 2012, 7:15 pm
I love that lottery song I came up above.
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18 Jan 2013, 9:23 pm
As I said in another thread, I won $10 w/a $1 scratch ticket today. Amazing stuff.
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19 Jan 2013, 7:44 am
Species5618 has a point about the utility value of money, but I'm not at all convinced that the expected return of playing the lottery is ever positive, even in utility terms. It's hard to say, subjectively, whether $1,000,000 has 1,000,000x the utility of $1 or 500,000x or 2,000,000x, but the law of diminishing marginal utility is on mutley's side here.
Besides, many of the people who win serious money (millions) in lotteries end up worse-off than they were before. So it may indeed be a "life-changing event" for them, just not in the direction they expected.
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19 Jan 2013, 1:16 pm
Could you provide some examples?
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23 Apr 2013, 8:00 pm
^ Me too.
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22 May 2013, 10:08 pm
Sometimes, I play bingo, and I did one something; $25.
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01 Jul 2013, 8:43 pm
Jeez, I haven't won anything from the lottery in a while....... but I still love it.
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27 Jan 2014, 9:52 pm
Since I first wrote this, I actually won $109 from $10 worth of scratch tickets last Christmas. Yay, me.
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