Lottery Fever. What are your range of thoughts in response to Lucky Winners?

[carlfebz2]

About 15 years ago my then gf (now wife) bought a Euromillions ticket. The jackpot was €85,000,000 if I recall correctly. To win the Euromillions jackpot you need to get all 5 numbers correct and the 2 stars. Any way to cut a long story short we got 4 numbers and 2 stars.

I was looking at the numbers on our ticket, frantically checking the numbers online, thinking we’d won something big. Turns out it’s a lot more important to get 5 numbers regardless of how many stars you get. We got 4 out of the 5 numbers and 2 stars. We won approx €4,000 which is nice obviously but not life changing. If we had got 5 numbers & 0 stars or 5 numbers and 1 star it was six figures.

Funnily enough my gf picked the number 24 (which was the 1 incorrect number) and the number we needed to win €85,000,000 was 23. I don’t think I’ll ever forget this experience sadly.

That was 1 digit close and this is really something that you cant really be able to forget for the rest of your life specially if its an opportunity that you could really be able to changed up your entire life
considering that this one talks about multi millions. You would really be having thought that you have won something big even just hitting that 4 digits and 2 starts. So far in my lottery experience
i havent been able into a situation on hitting up almost hit kind of condition. So far out of 6 digit combinations i do able to hit up 3/6 so far on which i have been betting for several months
and ended up on having realizations that this might not for me. Yes, its no sense that you are expecting on hitting it right away but im really that too skeptical
on the money or funds that you've been using for a long time which it would be better that you should really be making use on other possible things but well its just a peanut
amount and this is why people wont really be bothering much.

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[YOSHIE]

In the United states and in some other countries around the world, lotteries are a big deal. They constitute a major part in shaping their cultural and economic atmosphere. Of course they are also operated legally.

Not only in the US, if you talk about lottery gambling, I can guarantee that almost all countries in the world have lottery fever, In my country, the money spent on lottery gambling is estimated to reach US$ 1.5 billion per year. Just imagine the enthusiasm of people who want to win many times over in lottery gambling.

For example what happened in Singapore.
Singaporean wins nearly $6 million jackpot with $1 lottery ticket.

In Singapore the lottery is opened four times a day with predetermined opening times, morning, afternoon, evening twice, this is a sign that public interest in the lottery is very large, compared to other types of gambling, meaning we can know more about how much total assets come into the lottery. on lottery gambling sites.

Apart from that, many people think that lotteries are not too risky because they are not the same as slots, after placing the numbers you are done, just wait for the numbers we have placed to be correct or not, if you are lucky you take the money, that's simple.

[Yaunfitda]

• my time is near
• it can't happen to me
• I wish I could win, even if it meant lower jackpots
• Indifferent

Of course as a gambler, we still believed that even if the odds are stack against us, we could win that big jackpot one day. And as you can see, there are people who bet on lottery with the same thought as everyone, to have that windfall, so why not try your luck? You will just win if you don't believed in yourself that you can win it. And with that, from time to time, I will go and buy ticket or if by chance there is one in a gas station, then I will take that risk as you don't know what is instore for you. Maybe you got lucky with one scratch and get $100k, or a pick six that turns out to be the winning number.

[ethereumhunter]

That's what people will feels when they see the lottery success stories. They will still buy the lottery ticket as they wants to be the next winners. They will not see that still difficult because they believe that someday, they will be the winner with winning much money like them. That's dangerous for them because they will not stops until they can wins even if they must used more money to buy the ticket lottery. Their dreams to be the winners is so strong and that makes them to allocates some more money to buy the tickets. Yes, seeing the news about the lottery winners can makes their emotion becomes higher and they will dreams to be the top by winning the lottery. It's a life changer when they can wins from the lottery because we talks about much money that people can't imagine.

[Juse14]

This is completely a game based on luck, and we never know when luck will strike. Moreover, this is a type of gambling where the chances of winning are very small. I've been playing this type of gambling for quite a long time, even for half a year. But luck never came, and what I bet on, it was all in vain. I ran out of patience waiting for luck, it was really boring, placing and buying lottery continuously, but never getting a win.

And even though there are several people who managed to win the bet, for me I have lost respect and am no longer interested in buying lottery tickets. Because of what I have experienced for half a year, this is more than enough to prove that buying lottery tickets will only waste the money we have for nothing. Even though the price is quite cheap, if you calculate it in total, I have lost quite a lot from this bet.

[Ruttoshi]

Maybe I was hopeful to win a lottery ticket far back in time not now. Maybe I have become more knowledgeable and wiser to know such winning is not for everybody so I have to treat it with some unseriousness and don't keep my hope on it

In my jurisdiction, there has also been allegation of manipulation of the numbers that will become the winning numbers for the jackpot. Although this has not been proven but it is making the customers have some doubts in their mind.

I have not tried out any lottery game, because people that get those lottery tickets ends up not winning. I have only tried out the American visa lottery, but still I didn't win it. So I believe that lottery isn't my thing.

A friend of mine was lucky to hit the jackpot, and he invested the money into a business. He is doing well now and is successful. I believe that we all have our various time for us to be lucky, and not it is not compulsory that our luck most come from gamble.

[Stepstowealth]

I have observed that there is a U.S., lottery fever from looking at regular headlines about lucky winners. Recent examples include:

- A Virginia woman who became a two-time lottery millionaire after winning $1 million.
- Another Virginian who won a $3 million Mega Millions jackpot with a ticket purchased just weeks earlier.
- A California resident who claimed a $1 billion Powerball prize, one of the largest jackpots in history.
- A man who won $2.6 million on a scratch-off ticket gifted to him by his father.
- A woman who quit her job after scratching off a $90,000 lottery windfall.

If you are reading this and you actively participate in lotteries as an regular player, these kind of lottery success stories can evoke a lot of emotions and responses. Which of these range of thoughts and feelings do you experience;

• my time is near
• it can't happen to me
• I wish I could win, even if it meant lower jackpots
• Indifferent

News Headline source - https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/lottery/2024/04/04/kentucky-lottery-winner-scratch-off/73206551007/
Wikipedia source - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotteries_in_the_United_States

It is quite fortunate that many of these success stories of lottery winners happen more in the United States than elsewhere. It could be easier to win a lottery there seeing it is a place where dreams easily come true, where it's easier to buy the tickets and because of the advancement and progress the country has made.

As for the thoughts, it couldn't be any different than those one has during betting. While for me, it will always be a wish to win, I sometimes do feel indifferent about the results and go with the flow so as not to get emotionally stressed from the thoughts of how it should be.

[Slow death]

my time is near

This is the thought of those people who have been buying lottery tickets for many years but have never won anything, so every time they think about giving up and then see some news about a winner, then they get renewed hope, and that's why people Lottery companies market to lottery winners so that other people keep buying lots of tickets thinking that they too can one day win a lot of money like the person they are seeing being presented by the lottery company as the winner of a big prize. lottery companies use the darkness inside people's hearts to keep them buying lottery tickets

it can't happen to me

This is the thinking of people who work to have money, they know that to earn money they need to work hard and that this luck of winning money in the lottery is not something that happens to many people, so they are wasting money on buying tickets while They could use the money to buy something more useful and something that these people think about. and in my opinion they are right. lottery and the kind of thing I prefer to stay away from

I wish I could win, even if it meant lower jackpots

This is the behavior of a desperate person, who has a serious financial problem and is not seeing a solution, so that person starts thinking about these types of things, but the problem with this thinking is that this person will spend money on buying tickets. lottery instead of taking that money and focusing on solving his problem. People often don't realize the power of saving money.

[ChiBitCTy]

We certainly do have some big lottery payouts here in the United States.  What I tend to think when I see those payouts is either the person that got lucky and won didn't really even need the money and others are people whom tend to be a bit poor, or not well off and end up blowing through the money like it's nothing.  The reason being is they tend to not have good money management skills. 

[Yatsan]

Not fond of lotteries however, it is not a hidden fact that there are people who dies without even winning anything from lottery and it is all because of luck and fate. Happy for those who won but if they will be compiled, of course the number would seem to be big and will make lottery promising. However, keep in mind that they won on different dates and that simply means there is really a huge difference in ratio between people who won and people who keeps on losing. Perhaps 1:10m of bettors as an estimate, now, would it still be promising just because people who experienced winning shared their words which are not even representative to the majority.

i am not against such gambling activity but at least lt us be realistic. There will never be something as success in gambling through consistency and persistence.

[stomachgrowls]

Not fond of lotteries however, it is not a hidden fact that there are people who dies without even winning anything from lottery and it is all because of luck and fate. Happy for those who won but if they will be compiled, of course the number would seem to be big and will make lottery promising. However, keep in mind that they won on different dates and that simply means there is really a huge difference in ratio between people who won and people who keeps on losing. Perhaps 1:10m of bettors as an estimate, now, would it still be promising just because people who experienced winning shared their words which are not even representative to the majority.

i am not against such gambling activity but at least lt us be realistic. There will never be something as success in gambling through consistency and persistence.

It could really be ended up on a lifetime kind of betting into it.Just like on my neighborhood on which its been long years that he do constantly going into those lottery outlet on making out such bet on which
hes really hoping that he would really be able to hit up the jackpot and would really be able to make himself that a millionaire and would changed up his life entirely on the money that he could won.
Everyone wishes to be a winner and this is why we do see jackpot prize pool is really that too fast on becoming big just because people are really that desperate on trying out to make out bets and
thinking up on being winners.

So far i havent made myself that constantly betting on lotteries. I do only make up some bets on the time that i do remember but im not really that seriously pouring up some funds
on buying tons of lottery tickets on which we know the odds of winning the game is really just that close to impossible. So better thinking up realistically
rather than on making yourself that delusional.

[Queentoshi]

• I wish I could win, even if it meant lower jackpots

Winning will surely be a good feeling after not winning in the few times I have tried the lottery, my wish is that I could be the lucky person someday that is in the headline for winning even if the money is not as big as what these other people have gotten, but just something okay to act on any of my business plans. Hearing people win is always motivative, and since lotteries are not as regular as the everyday gambling, there is a lower chance that you get addicted to it even if you decide to play the lottery occasionally when there is one.

[acroman08]

Which of these range of thoughts and feelings do you experience;

• my time is near
• it can't happen to me

• I wish I could win, even if it meant lower jackpots

• Indifferent

Pretty sure all of us feels this way in someways, I mean the reason why we bet on lotteries is to try our luck and hope to win even if it is not the jackpot.

Isn't stupid for the woman to quit her job? I know that $90,000 is really big for most people including myself, but she live in United States where the average annual salary is $50K, such amount is only 2 years annual salaries. $90K will really make she happy, but it's not something that can change her life.

Normally yeah, $90k is not big enough to quit job but she could have other reason why she did it. a lot of jobs can be toxic and perhaps the winning she got gave her the boost to look for another job without worrying much about money.

[Rabata]

I love gambling but I'm against the lottery you mentioned. Because I don't believe now that I will win the lottery. Because if luck favored me then I will win otherwise there is no chance of winning. I never thought I would win the lottery. This is unlikely to happen now as I try to avoid lottery games. If I ever win the lottery, I will never worry that I will win the lottery. Lottery winners are definitely the luckiest people. There are many people who believe in lotteries and buy lotteries regularly but not all will win and it is not possible to win if some don't try.

[Baofeng]

I love gambling but I'm against the lottery you mentioned. Because I don't believe now that I will win the lottery. Because if luck favored me then I will win otherwise there is no chance of winning. I never thought I would win the lottery. This is unlikely to happen now as I try to avoid lottery games. If I ever win the lottery, I will never worry that I will win the lottery. Lottery winners are definitely the luckiest people. There are many people who believe in lotteries and buy lotteries regularly but not all will win and it is not possible to win if some don't try.

If you believed that you are not going to win, then you will not simply as that.
Even here in our country, there is a lotto fever, although lately there was a bit of controversy here in the Philippines and I think majority of you know this issue already as it has been discussed here many times.

Regardless though, winning lottery is a life changer and that's why it a craze everywhere not just in the US. So for me, why not embrace uncertainty that most of us gamblers love? Who knows, we could be the next big lottery winners in our country.

[Mahanton]

I love gambling but I'm against the lottery you mentioned. Because I don't believe now that I will win the lottery. Because if luck favored me then I will win otherwise there is no chance of winning. I never thought I would win the lottery. This is unlikely to happen now as I try to avoid lottery games. If I ever win the lottery, I will never worry that I will win the lottery. Lottery winners are definitely the luckiest people. There are many people who believe in lotteries and buy lotteries regularly but not all will win and it is not possible to win if some don't try.

If you believed that you are not going to win, then you will not simply as that.
Even here in our country, there is a lotto fever, although lately there was a bit of controversy here in the Philippines and I think majority of you know this issue already as it has been discussed here many times.

Regardless though, winning lottery is a life changer and that's why it a craze everywhere not just in the US. So for me, why not embrace uncertainty that most of us gamblers love? Who knows, we could be the next big lottery winners in our country.

You would really be able to see those lottery outlets been flocked in by people who would really be tending to make out their bets on which this do simply shows that on everyday there's really that hype or interest on winning up the jackpot and this is why it isnt really that shocking that there's so much interest or showing up that there are tons of people whose really that hoping that they would really be able to change their lives.
Its not really that bad on being positive but having that kind of positivity might really be leading into possible desperation on which it might really be that resulting into that impulsive betting.
Yes, it might not be that much about lottery ticket prices but if you do it on excessive manner then it would really be that still big and it would really be that bad for you.

So make those ticket purchases to be in moderation. Always make use of that extra money of yours for you to be able to make up some those bets on lottery.
Just like on what been said by most people on here that chance on hitting up the jackpot is really that close to impossible.

[CryptoHeadlineNews]

If you are reading this and you actively participate in lotteries as an regular player, these kind of lottery success stories can evoke a lot of emotions and responses. Which of these range of thoughts and feelings do you experience;

• my time is near
• it can't happen to me
• I wish I could win, even if it meant lower jackpots
• Indifferent

The truth of the fact is that inasmuch as none of those lucky winners never knew they were to win the lottery game, but tried their luck and eventually saw themselves winning, likewise is that applicable to others who do not give up, because thou the chances of winning a lottery game is very slim, in most cases, it's always worth it, since it requires just a few bucks, or likewise $1. Hence, when it comes to me, I wish I could win, even if it meant lower rank.

[Webetcoins]

I do not participate in lotteries that much because I know it requires a lot of luck for one to be among the winners who win life-changing amounts of money from lotteries. Lotteries are the most difficult forms of gambling to earn anything from because no matter how much money you spend on lottery tickets, your winning probability will not be that much, and I have seen people having more than a 30% probability and still not winning the highest prize in a lottery.

I wonder how painful it must be to spend thousands of dollars on buying lottery tickets and then winning not even enough to cover the money you have spent on the tickets because you are not lucky enough. So in my opinion, one should never spend a lot of money or lotteries.

[Wapfika]

Funnily enough my gf picked the number 24 (which was the 1 incorrect number) and the number we needed to win €85,000,000 was 23. I don’t think I’ll ever forget this experience sadly.

Can’t imagine the look on her face when she knew that her pick is the only one got weong to have a life changing jackpot. I usually become regretful and gloomy whenever my decision makes our life miserable with my partner.

I’m not familiar with your lottery system that “start”. Is that 2 number or something? What’s the purpose of that aside from the 6 number. It seems that your lottery format is a bit complicated because our lottery style usually only need 6 numbers or below to win the jackpot while the 5 number win is already a life changing amount.

[qwertyup23]

If you are planning on doing the lottery, then expect nothing at all. The chances of you hitting the jackpot are astronomically low that you are better than experiencing all sorts of things than to win the lottery.

If you have spare cash specifically allocated for the lottery, then feel free to do so since the price of tickets are relatively low. But expect nothing when you try the lottery- just do it for the sake of that hope of winning and nothing more than that.

My father has been consistently buying lottery tickets and there was a time that he won 5/6 numbers. He was able to bag at least $5,000 from that but he was never able to repeat this experience.