What would you do if you won the big lottery?

[Y_Diner]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btAbU1sPqIM

 

[VaticanAssassin]

Wonder how I got a ticket....

 

[Dsire4Kinks]

I would open a large breed and "bully" breed dog rescue.

 

[Curmudgeonly]

Who left the gate open to the playgrovnd?

 

[RoryN]

This was funny......when I saw it on social media 7 hours ago.

#dontmakethreadsthatshouldbefacebookpostsinstead

 

[Noor]

Buy a house. Go visit my family and B's. Maybe travel.

 

[Conager]

Buy me a boat, a truck to pull it and a Yeti 110 iced down with some Silver Bullets.

 

[Mello_SixtyNine]

I would move some place that has never seen snow.

 

[Que]

Wonder why I got a ticket....

FYP.

I would wonder too. Since it is statistically nonsensical to buy one. Better to save your $2 a week up for a year and go play blackjack with $104.

 

[Magicscreen2]

Keep a pile and then divide the rest among the 1000s of former students I worked to convince that the lottery was a special tax for people who were particularly bad at math.

 

[MNGuy]

Hire a good accountant, financial adviser, and lawyer.

A trip to someplace warm with white sandy beaches.

Design my dream house with secret passages.

Buy a tank to crush stuff.

Crush stuff

 

[Que]

Keep a pile and then divide the rest among the 1000s of former students I worked to convince that the lottery was a special tax for people who were particularly bad at math.

Ha.

I had a friend convince me that for most people it is a reasonable expenditure as entertainment. The promise of potentially changing your life was worth $2 for the daydreams it evokes.

Buying two tickets though, he points out doubles the expense and does not enhance the above value or improve your odds of winning in a statistically relevant way.

I can't though because in order to enjoy gambling you have to be able to suspend disbelief and, as you point out, maths.

 

[Magicscreen2]

Ha.

I had a friend convince me that for most people it is a reasonable expenditure as entertainment. The promise of potentially changing your life was worth $2 for the daydreams it evokes.

Buying two tickets though, he points out doubles the expense and does not enhance the above value or improve your odds of winning in a statistically relevant way.

I can't though because in order to enjoy gambling you have to be able to suspend disbelief and, as you point out, maths.

I'd bring in 20 copies of the 50K number phone book and have them pick their number, and then calculate the statistical probability of winning. And then once they were impressed, let them know we'd need 19 more piles of 20 phone books to accurately represent the sample (20 million).

My lamer students would spar back with "someone's got to win... it might just be me!" Some folks just never could get the distinction between probability and possibility.

 

[Que]

I'd bring in 20 copies of the 50K number phone book and have them pick their number, and then calculate the statistical probability of winning. And then once they were impressed, let them know we'd need 19 more piles of 20 phone books to accurately represent the sample (20 million).

My lamer students would spar back with "someone's got to win... it might just be me!" Some folks just never could get the distinction between probability and possibility.

Yes. Just because a slim chance is marginally better than no chance doesn't imbue value to the slim chance.

 

[Magicscreen2]

Yes. Just because a slim chance is marginally better than no chance doesn't imbue value to the slim chance.

Undoubtedly they went on to become insurance actuaries.

 

[Que]

Undoubtedly they went on to become insurance actuaries.

I won't bet they didn't. On of the two dumbest, least capable students in any of my advanced mathematics classes is now a full professor of mathematics at a low tier college.

 

[warrior queen]

You do realise, if you never buy a ticket, there is neither the possibility nor the probability that you would win.... right?

 

[lacycheeks]

Go on a cruise and take my time working out my new life

 

[imalickin]

Let's see...

Stupid question.

 

[miles]

Build a house on the coast of Maine.
Build another house on a Caribbean beach.
Build yet another house in the mountains.
Build a house wherever I wanted one.

Hire someone experienced and trustworthy to manage my megabucks.

 

[blushrush]

Get a house and a holiday or two, save some, and the rest I would share it out amongst my family and friends

 

[Jovenes_Latina]

I'd help fund poorly funded group fosterhomes around Seattle....its not like the state is going to

 

[Lancecastor]

I would bump this thread.

 

[Desiretobedesir]

Pay of my student loans, build a small home, put money away. I would splurge and buy an island though

 

[Lord Pmann]

I'd hire Kim Kardashian to give me a blowjob. I know she's for sale. I just wish she looked like she did 5 years ago. Oh well. It's still worth it.

I find the lottery such a waste of money. But, for some, it's a form of entertainment. If that's your thing and you genuinely expect nothing from it, then no worries.