i didn't win the lottery last night....

**sabrelvssammy** · 03-05-2009, 08:50 AM

so i didn't win AGAIN...

what's the biggest prize any of you have won playing (either scratch-off or tickets).... mine has been so measly that i can't even remember anything worth telling you about.... hope some of you have done better than me....(now granted i hardly play either...could that be part of the problem) ??????

**mombottoo** · 03-05-2009, 09:00 AM

When I bought scratch offs the biggest prize I won was $100, but one week I had 4-$50 winners. My dh plays scratch offs, & he won $100 Tuesday night on a ticket he bought on our way to the casino. On the pick your number tickets, years ago I won $1500...but, I rarely play the lottery anymore...would rather save my blow money for the casino

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Sorry you didn't win...winning would have been awesome.

**Missy** · 03-05-2009, 09:29 AM

not a winner here either with powerball. darnit. You always hear of those groups of coworkers or neighbors winning. We should have a pool too, lol. Sigh. Off to squeezing blood from turnips in my banking accounts again, lol.

**mom2bobsarah** · 03-05-2009, 09:37 AM

We didn't win either darn it. But, the winners were in my county. Would have been nice, oh the things I coulkd do with $215 million!

**Lady_V** · 03-05-2009, 10:02 AM

The one and only time I played the lottery -- It was a Friday in July... I was 18, just moved out of my parents house in to my own apartment and wrote a check to the landlord that I didn't know would bounce come Monday morning (deposited my paycheck, didn't know it needed time to clear) had 50 cents left to my name and bought a daily numbers game.

Later that night I went to where I worked (to scavage some food from the kitchen

) and I asked one of the residents what the numbers were that night (I think she had a secret life as a bookie before moving in to the rest home, she had every lottery number in notebooks)...

At first it didn't sink in, then I jumped up and she told me to zip my lip because if the owner of the rest home (who was secretly dubbed Queen of Mean) found out, she would find some reason to get rid of me because she liked to think she has control of us underlings. They were MY numbers! 5772

I ran back to the corner store I bought the ticket at, tried to cash it but they said it was too much and I would have to go to the lottery office on Monday. By now I was annoyed because I thought the clerk was just brushing me off because I told him I wasn't interested in doing the funky monkey with him

I don't remember getting much sleep that weekend and I was at the lottery office bright and early to collect my money.

Ran BACK to the bank, cashed the lottery check, ran to the landlord with cash in hand and begged for the check back... telling him I lost my checkbook and had to close the account (hey, beats telling him he could ride the bouncing check down the street). Then I bought some things my very empty studio apartment needed... like a dish, microwave, shower curtain... and the start of my stockpile

Oh, my winnings? $1800... not bad for a broke, starving kid

**Greebo** · 03-05-2009, 10:03 AM

I used to play for fun. I've never won enough to make up for what I've spent.

Lotteries are a tax on people who are bad at math.

(But I still play sometimes, for a lark - out of my entertainment blow money)

I prefer Blackjack though.

**monkeywrangler71** · 03-05-2009, 10:23 AM

I won $80 on the Pro-Line (sports betting), plus another $40 on the Over-Under one weekend betting on a real long shot football game. That's about $100 more than I've spent on gambling in my entire lifetime, so I'm way ahead.

**coup** · 03-05-2009, 11:41 AM

I bought a Mega Millions ticket (okay, 5 tickets) this week for my chance at $217 million. I was a winner! A $2 Winner that is!

My biggest win was back in college......I won $500 on a dollar scratch off ticket! It was truly exciting!

**Sassyclass** · 03-05-2009, 11:48 AM

The most I've ever won is $100, but my fiance's brother hit the KICKER for $100,000.00 back in Aug. of 2007.

Cat

**onencgirl** · 03-05-2009, 12:01 PM

I won $50 one time. Must be why I don't play the lottery anymore. lol

**rainbowgc** · 03-05-2009, 12:33 PM

When we win it is usually just enough $5 to buy more tickets LOL

**lisaflex** · 03-05-2009, 07:52 PM

in the past 2 yrs - i have hit $500 on a $1 scatch off! i go in spurts...some 50 or 100 and then just 1 or 5......

**dschipman** · 03-05-2009, 09:40 PM

I have never won much to mention on tickets, but my brother won $500 on a pull ticket when his girlfriend and I drug him to play bingo with us once. Now the casino, I took someone over there to cash a check, I was just standing around waiting for her, dug into my purse for 75 cents, popped it into the machine and RAN out of there with $675. LOL

**Thevail** · 03-06-2009, 01:21 AM

I've never won more than $10 on lotto..but I still buy them, in our state the money goes into the education fund so I don't mind too much.

Besides..$1 for a whole week of daydreams..much cheaper than even a second hand book.

**hollyhill** · 03-06-2009, 01:42 AM

I don't buy lottery tickets.... I just can't afford to. DH sometimes buys into the lottery pool at work though, but they just recycle the small winnings back into the pool to buy more tickets...
But it was nice to hear that you know someone who won $100,000! That would be amazing!