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If I win, I would immediately put on my old clothes & sweaters with a lot of holes on them already.
All 300 had received an email from the head of the Danish state-run lottery company, Danske Spil, congratulating them on the astronomical sums they had won, Danske Spil spokesman Thomas Roersig said.
"Three hundred of our lottery players who won the lottery, the Keno, received a message saying they had won a sum in the billions. And they never won that amount ... We are of course very sorry. We have now written to them to inform them of the sum that they really won," Mr Roersig said.
One of the winners, Flemming Dahl, "was a billionaire for an-hour-and-a-half" on Wednesday after receiving an email informing him he had won 28 billion kroner (some $3.8 billion), the Nordjyske newspaper website reported.
That's true, for a single drawing. Things get interesting if the jackpot rolls over for several weeks running. There have been documented cases of syndicates attempting to purchase every possible combination of numbers to guarantee winning a jackpot which is, say, 3 times the total stake. Their risk, of course, is that there are 4 or more winning tickets that week, but that's offset somewhat by the fact that they will also win all of the minor prizes too. See for example here.
W2R, you are not even going to move without bothering to sell your existing home? Don't you still want to move? Anywhere in the US (not the world since you do not care to travel) that you want?
Today is DW's last day of w*rk.
Even though she's in the office pool, she already feels she has "won" ...
When I was with megacorp, a few times when the grand prize got this big, I would organize a pool. Nearly everyone in the department bought in, including the department manager.
Quite a few told me that they would not count on winning, but just to hedge the risk that in the remotest chance that we won, they would not be left behind at work, sitting lonely among vacant cubicles. Of course, the department manager would have the most to fear.
If I won a half billion dollar jackpot, I'd sooner just give the house away than deal with trying to maintain it, rent it out or sell it.That sounds like a nightmare to me. In my opinion all it would do is give me the extra hassles and worry of taking care of two homes instead of one. I could hire someone to see that my house here was rented or taken care of, but then one has to deal with an employee or employees in a distant location reporting all the time.That would interfere iwth my tranquility and would not improve my quality of life.
ziggy29 said:If I won a half billion dollar jackpot, I'd sooner just give the house away than deal with trying to maintain it, rent it out or sell it.
ziggy29 said:If I won a half billion dollar jackpot, I'd sooner just give the house away than deal with trying to maintain it, rent it out or sell it.
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I guess my biggest problem with it is that the marketing seems to be aimed at many of the people who can least afford to buy lottery tickets. Sure, they may throw in a quiet "play responsibly" in there, just as alcohol ads do, but they still seem to going after those who can least afford to be buying tens of dollars of tickets a week.State Lottery Headquarters: Home of the Optional Tax
I don't care what you guys say. If someone is staring a lottery pool at work, there is NO WAY I will not join!
If you won mega millions, how would you spend it? Get your car tuned up? Get some nice clothes?? No, seriously, if you were gifted with mega millions, what kind of non-profit organizations do you think you would start? (I am talking a few hundred million dollars here.) It doesn't have to be "wo*k"; you can just get someone to start it for you, but what would you start?
That's a pretty funny story. I get e-mails claiming to be from the head of a dozen different national lotteries every week, saying that I've won. A case of life imitating spam (or scam).Last week the Danish lotto told 300 people they had each won $3.8B. That is serious money and they are lucky no one died from surprise.