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Wizard
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May 20th, 2016 at 5:46:38 PM permalink
I've been working on and off on my page about the Texas Lottery for three weeks. I'm sure we don't have many lottery players on the forum but I welcome you to visit anyway.

As always I welcome all questions, comments, and especially corrections.

The question for the poll is if you found yourself in Texas, would you play the Lottery (multiple votes allowed)?
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May 20th, 2016 at 6:02:39 PM permalink
Wouldn't waste a dollar
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May 20th, 2016 at 6:08:18 PM permalink
Texas doesn't collect state income tax. If a winner is from another state (or country), do they withhold?
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May 20th, 2016 at 7:13:00 PM permalink
Quote: Ayecarumba

Texas doesn't collect state income tax. If a winner is from another state (or country), do they withhold?



I don't know. My guess is they would not, since it isn't Texas' job to collect taxes for other states and countries.
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May 20th, 2016 at 7:19:54 PM permalink
Quote: Ayecarumba

Texas doesn't collect state income tax. If a winner is from another state (or country), do they withhold?



How many states withhold? Feds yes. states?
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May 21st, 2016 at 6:38:47 AM permalink
Quote: AZDuffman

How many states withhold? Feds yes. states?



Good question. I know it came up in the Powerball thread that for Nevada residents, Arizona will charge a state income tax and California does not, thus a reason to buy tickets in CA rather than AZ. If I find an answer I'll let you know.
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May 21st, 2016 at 8:36:42 AM permalink
Playing the Lotto is like buying your lunch every day instead of making a sandwich or taking leftovers, except that it doesn't taste good.
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May 21st, 2016 at 11:26:46 AM permalink
There are some caveats on some of the games where the top prize is paid as pari-mutuel if there are a certain number of winners or more.

When they first introduced all or nothing, things were going fine for awhile and then I think they realized that if all odd or all even showed up they'd lose a lot of money. They suspended the game and added the pari-mutuel language and re-opened it.

http://www.txlottery.org/export/sites/lottery/Games/All_or_Nothing/index.html

http://www.txlottery.org/export/sites/lottery/Games/Texas_Triple_Chance/index.html
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May 21st, 2016 at 12:13:43 PM permalink
Quote: Texas Lottery Page

The Texas Lottery has an unusual rule that players of games where the grand prize is in the form of an annuity must choose whether to accept the annuity of a lump sum payment at the time of purchase. Why they bother everybody with this question, I have no idea.



Should that 'of' be 'Or' or did I misunderstand that?
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May 21st, 2016 at 1:22:47 PM permalink
Quote: Mooseton

Quote: Texas Lottery Page

The Texas Lottery has an unusual rule that players of games where the grand prize is in the form of an annuity must choose whether to accept the annuity of a lump sum payment at the time of purchase. Why they bother everybody with this question, I have no idea.



Should that 'of' be 'Or' or did I misunderstand that?



"or" is what he meant.
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May 21st, 2016 at 1:50:58 PM permalink
Quote: rsactuary

When they first introduced all or nothing, things were going fine for awhile and then I think they realized that if all odd or all even showed up they'd lose a lot of money. They suspended the game and added the pari-mutuel language and re-opened it.



It would be interesting to read all the times that players beat a lottery drawing.

One famous example is when 110 people got all the white numbers in the Powerball, when on average only 4 do. The reason is the same numbers were printed on lots of fortune cookie messages. More on that: Fortune Cookie Leads to Record Number of Powerball Winners.
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May 21st, 2016 at 2:18:56 PM permalink
Quote: Wizard

It would be interesting to read all the times that players beat a lottery drawing.

One famous example is when 110 people got all the white numbers in the Powerball, when on average only 4 do. The reason is the same numbers were printed on lots of fortune cookie messages. More on that: Fortune Cookie Leads to Record Number of Powerball Winners.


I don't know about other states, but here in michigan on the 3 & 4 digit daily draws, if a certain combination is picked enough times, they actually cut it off and won't let you choose it anymore.
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May 21st, 2016 at 2:38:21 PM permalink
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I don't know about other states, but here in michigan on the 3 & 4 digit daily draws, if a certain combination is picked enough times, they actually cut it off and won't let you choose it anymore.



Interesting, and clever. I remember once in Maryland the player beat the Daily 4 game when the draw was 1-1-2-2 or something like that.
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May 27th, 2016 at 1:42:37 AM permalink
Chances of winning in a lottery is too low compare to casino where chances of winning might be at 35%. I know gambling is a game of luck but in lottery I can it a game of destiny. A destiny to become rich where you wont win a couple of dollars but win thousands to million of dollars.
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May 27th, 2016 at 7:00:54 AM permalink
Quote: Wizard

It would be interesting to read all the times that players beat a lottery drawing.

One famous example is when 110 people got all the white numbers in the Powerball, when on average only 4 do. The reason is the same numbers were printed on lots of fortune cookie messages. More on that: Fortune Cookie Leads to Record Number of Powerball Winners.



I just wasted about 10 minutes searching for a lottery that uses different colored balls and all white ones came up.

I have just realized that I am an idiot and the word "white" should be "right".
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May 27th, 2016 at 7:56:22 AM permalink
Nope it's white.
Powerball.
Apparently 110 players got all the white balls (many from a batch of fortune cookies),
But did not have the correct red Powerball.
'All the correct white balls' still results in a sizeable win, so that drawing would have been a loser for the Lottery company. Or would be if there was also I big winner, or two ;-)
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May 31st, 2016 at 1:23:04 PM permalink
Quote: Wizard

Interesting, and clever. I remember once in Maryland the player beat the Daily 4 game when the draw was 1-1-2-2 or something like that.



Can you clarify this statement please. When you say 'beat the lottery' I think of playing the lottery with an advantage. But the context seems to indicate that many players who were playing at a disadvantage all happened to choose the same winning numbers. Is that correct?
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