He Beat the Lottery
March 3rd, 2018 at 12:37:35 PM
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due to this:
"What intrigued Jerry was the game’s unusual gimmick, known as a roll-down: If nobody won the jackpot for a while, and the jackpot climbed above $5 million, there was a roll-down, which meant that on the next drawing, as long as there was no six-number winner, the jackpot cash flowed to the lesser tiers of winners, like water spilling over from the highest basin in a fountain to lower basins."
http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/lotto-winners/
"What intrigued Jerry was the game’s unusual gimmick, known as a roll-down: If nobody won the jackpot for a while, and the jackpot climbed above $5 million, there was a roll-down, which meant that on the next drawing, as long as there was no six-number winner, the jackpot cash flowed to the lesser tiers of winners, like water spilling over from the highest basin in a fountain to lower basins."
http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/lotto-winners/
Please don't feed the trolls
March 3rd, 2018 at 2:47:09 PM
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article waaaaaaaaaaaaay too long for me.Quote: lilredroosterdue to this:
"What intrigued Jerry was the game’s unusual gimmick, known as a roll-down: If nobody won the jackpot for a while, and the jackpot climbed above $5 million, there was a roll-down, which meant that on the next drawing, as long as there was no six-number winner, the jackpot cash flowed to the lesser tiers of winners, like water spilling over from the highest basin in a fountain to lower basins."
http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/lotto-winners/
cliffs?
Craps is paradise (Pair of dice).
Lets hear it for the SpeedCount Mathletes :)
March 3rd, 2018 at 3:21:49 PM
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This showed up yesterday on my google feed. Good read... I can't imagine buying and lugging that many tickets.
March 5th, 2018 at 5:30:19 PM
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Quote: 100xOddsarticle waaaaaaaaaaaaay too long for me.
cliffs?
I just finished reading. It's worth the read. They were advantage players. A nice story.
March 5th, 2018 at 6:15:30 PM
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Here is another interesting-ish article related to lotteries.... Turns out some people don't like variance in their income. How about that...
http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/05/news/companies/united-airlines-lottery/index.html
http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/05/news/companies/united-airlines-lottery/index.html
March 5th, 2018 at 7:13:30 PM
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This was an excellent read, very enjoyable.
You can shear a sheep a hundred times, but you can skin it only once. — Amarillo Slim Preston
March 6th, 2018 at 8:14:55 AM
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Quote: prozemaHere is another interesting-ish article related to lotteries.... Turns out some people don't like variance in their income. How about that...
http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/05/news/companies/united-airlines-lottery/index.html
WTF! Is management that out of touch with people. This might be OK if it was on top of your normal bonus but no one in the right mind would be like yeah ill just give my bonus for a long shot of a bigger one.
