Have you ever won the lottery?

Why, yes, every time I come to Fluther, it is the most incredible win of my life.

Yeah, I won £14,000,000 today….

I won $60.00 on a scratch off ticket once.

I can’t win since I don’t play.

I once won $5 from the lottery, but I won $100 once from a bingo game our grocery store was running. Other than that I have won a 50 pound sack of fertilizer that my father had donated to the raffle so I couldn’t keep it, and a free permanent wave. It didn’t work.

My brother’s ex-BIL won big bucks from the Massachusetts State Lottery and ended up having to move out of the state to hide from women who suddenly though he was incredibly attractive. He ended up marrying the real estate agent who found him his house in his new state, and the two of them have decided they are too busy managing their investments and going to the health club to have children, although they are the only ones in our family who could actually afford them. He also never went back to college as he said he would when he won, but he did build a house for his mother and give my ex-SIL a new refrigerator.

A few years ago I won $100 from a scratch-off I got as a joke for my birthday.

I win sometimes on scratch offs. Its a family tradition that we all get them for Christmas, but I’m the only one who consistently wins!

I win every day that I don’t play. Thanks to all of you who do.

My husband an I stopped at a gas station one night while on a road trip. He bought a random ticket and won $50. Then when we stopped again at a different place he bought another and won $100. Not to long after that he played a pick 3 numbers game and won $400… All in one week! It was so weird but fun at the same time. His lucky streak was over after that though lol =)

@CyanoticWasp I’m just supporting the college scholarship system in my state. Giving back. :D

My wife and i went to a casino. this man had been playing this one slot machine for three hours and had won nothing. he finally gave up and left the machine. my wife grabbed my arm and said for me to sit my butt down, that it was time for this machine to hit. she gave me directions to this particular machine, but i somehow went to another slot machine with the same description. i placed a hundred dollar bill in the machine and after losing $32 dollars, i ordered a cup of coffee from the hostess. i said in front of this machine for about five minutes drinking my coffee. i then placed the coffee to the side of my machine and played $3.00 and pulled the crank. i reached down for my cup of coffee and my slot machine made a whirling sound. i looked up and it hit a jackpot. it displayed two 3x a red seven. the lights flashed and the bell starting dinging. the payout hostess came to me and asked if i knew the amount i had won. i told her i thought it was about $800 dollars. she said that i had better look again. i had won 81 times the triple red sevens! she stated that i had just won $9,720.00! not bad for $32 bucks!

I won $100 on a Powerball drawing last year. So far, that’s the most I’ve won.

Yes, I win every week since I was a kid. The secret? I keep the money other people spend on lottery tickets. Seriously, the lottery should only be played occasionally for fun. Like riding a roller coaster to experience the thrill. Lotteries are not a good idea when you’re actually trying to make money. Because long term the winner isn’t you. It’s the ones running the lottery. Get a grasp of the math behind lotteries. It will shock you. It will discourage you.

I once won $300 on a scratch off ticket. I was out of my home state and only bought the ticket on a whim. Then another time I won ten scratch off tickets from a radio call in. (be the tenth caller) I live in Illinois, the radio station was in Missouri. The tickets were from Kentucky. Mom and Dad and I had a pleasant drive that afternoon. I won $20 dollars from those ten tickets in Missouri. (a $3 a $5 and a few free tickets) We went an hour down the road to Kentucky to cash them in. When I scratched those I had won another $10. As I walked up to the payout counter there was another guy at the same time. I let him go first. I won a couple dollars. When cashing in that ticket, HE was getting paid $4000. DANG, if only I were not so polite.

I have a friend that says, “The Lottery is a tax on people that can’t do the math.”
But I still spend three or four dollars a week on it.