Lottery Fever. What are your range of thoughts in response to Lucky Winners?

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Quote from: alastantiger on April 09, 2024, 03:22:06 AM

In the United states and in some other countries around the world, lotteries are a big deal. They constitute a major part in shaping their cultural and economic atmosphere. Of course they are also operated legally. Wikipedia says that Americans spent $5 billion on various lotteries in 2017 and $77.7 billion in 2018.

I have observed that there is a U.S., lottery fever from looking at regular headlines about lucky winners. Recent examples include:

- A Virginia woman who became a two-time lottery millionaire after winning $1 million.
- Another Virginian who won a $3 million Mega Millions jackpot with a ticket purchased just weeks earlier.
- A California resident who claimed a $1 billion Powerball prize, one of the largest jackpots in history.
- A man who won $2.6 million on a scratch-off ticket gifted to him by his father.
- A woman who quit her job after scratching off a $90,000 lottery windfall.

If you are reading this and you actively participate in lotteries as an regular player, these kind of lottery success stories can evoke a lot of emotions and responses. Which of these range of thoughts and feelings do you experience;

my time is near
it can't happen to me
I wish I could win, even if it meant lower jackpots
Indifferent

News Headline source - https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/lottery/2024/04/04/kentucky-lottery-winner-scratch-off/73206551007/
Wikipedia source - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotteries_in_the_United_States

I feel indifferent and completely unphased when I come across people winning the lottery because I know that it's just about luck and not everyone can get lucky with it, the worst mistake you can make is trying to start playing because you heard stories of people that win, firstly this is going to come with a high level of obsession and addiction, all you will think about is trying to hit the jackpot like others, lottery wins are unexpected you can never go for it and win successfully it's just going to happen whenever you are lucky

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Quote from: lovesmayfamilis on September 12, 2024, 08:03:52 AM

I often see different lotteries held in our city; you only need to buy a ticket, and according to the promises of the organizers, you will win something valuable. But I have never seen people who would win such lotteries by accident; I still tend to think that all lotteries are money thrown to the wind. It is quite possible to win small prizes, but large sums, according to my observations, are won by those who organize such lotteries.

I never trust these offline national lotteries and the reason is that i never seen any person whom i know have won these lotteries. Yes a lot of people will buy these lotteries (because the entry fee is too low) and there will be people who are declared winner of these lotteries but i still do not trust them.

I feel that the result of these lotteries are manipulated too, meaning either the winners declare are their near and dear ones or the result are bogus, and the winners of lotteries are fake and do not exists in real.

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Quote from: Kelward on September 12, 2024, 05:18:03 AM

People are looking for easy ways to make money everywhere and one of the ways that comes to mind is through lottery. You can't stand a chance if you don't perticipate so that is the reason why the number of lottery players keeps increasing to get a chance at winning. News of lottery wins travels fast and people will hear it and become encouraged to try their luck too, in the end it's only very few among the multitude of tickets that will win. There are too many lotto shops and kiosks in many cities in my country and the numbers of bettors keeps increasing. People shouldn't put all their hopes to get rich from anything that is related to gambling because it takes luck to win not their skills and efforts.

It is what many people want to make money. They will use the easy way to make money but that will not guarantees them to make money if they use gambling especially using lottery to make money. They maybe not understand that buying and winning from the lottery is not easy because they must have luck.

They still buying lottery as they hear and read some people can win from lottery. They don't realizes how long those people waits for their turn to win so they still buying the lottery. They must knows that they better not to spend too much money to buy the lottery.

After all, they should use the other ways to make money and not rely on any gambling games. That can only make them lose their money and have more problem after they end their gambling activity.

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Quote from: alastantiger on April 09, 2024, 03:22:06 AM

In the United states and in some other countries around the world, lotteries are a big deal. They constitute a major part in shaping their cultural and economic atmosphere. Of course they are also operated legally. Wikipedia says that Americans spent $5 billion on various lotteries in 2017 and $77.7 billion in 2018.

I have observed that there is a U.S., lottery fever from looking at regular headlines about lucky winners. Recent examples include:

- A Virginia woman who became a two-time lottery millionaire after winning $1 million.
- Another Virginian who won a $3 million Mega Millions jackpot with a ticket purchased just weeks earlier.
- A California resident who claimed a $1 billion Powerball prize, one of the largest jackpots in history.
- A man who won $2.6 million on a scratch-off ticket gifted to him by his father.
- A woman who quit her job after scratching off a $90,000 lottery windfall.

If you are reading this and you actively participate in lotteries as an regular player, these kind of lottery success stories can evoke a lot of emotions and responses. Which of these range of thoughts and feelings do you experience;

my time is near
it can't happen to me
I wish I could win, even if it meant lower jackpots
Indifferent

News Headline source - https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/lottery/2024/04/04/kentucky-lottery-winner-scratch-off/73206551007/
Wikipedia source - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotteries_in_the_United_States

I don't take part in lotteries much and whenever I do it is absolutely only for fun.
It's interesting to see the above people winning such huge prices but I am more interested in the after match of it.
What did those people do with the winning amount and how their life changed.

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Quote from: lovesmayfamilis on September 12, 2024, 08:03:52 AM

I often see different lotteries held in our city; you only need to buy a ticket, and according to the promises of the organizers, you will win something valuable. But I have never seen people who would win such lotteries by accident; I still tend to think that all lotteries are money thrown to the wind. It is quite possible to win small prizes, but large sums, according to my observations, are won by those who organize such lotteries.

Also, lotteries are costly, compared to other methods of catching a jackpot. In my country, moment lottery ticket cost starts from 5 EUR, or you pick numbers in card for 5 EUR and wait for a week for a draw. 5 EUR can be busted within seconds, when with same balance gambler can play different games for hours. Usually big wins from such 5 EUR lotteries are 30-50k worth new car or 1-10k fiat. With 5 EUR deposit in online casino, I could get more fun and the prize would be more realistic to get Cheesy

But we know that amount that could be potentially be won up with 5 euros is really that not something will really be in equal on what you can possibly get on betting on lotteries and this what makes them interested on doing so.We can't blame out those people who do really likes on betting on lotteries on which we do know that potential earning is really that big.As for winning then it do simply need up all the luck in the world for you to hit up jackpots.Theres nothing wrong on betting on lotteries as long you are really just that using the amount you can afford to lose then you should really be that finel.

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Quote from: lovesmayfamilis on September 12, 2024, 08:03:52 AM

I often see different lotteries held in our city; you only need to buy a ticket, and according to the promises of the organizers, you will win something valuable. But I have never seen people who would win such lotteries by accident; I still tend to think that all lotteries are money thrown to the wind. It is quite possible to win small prizes, but large sums, according to my observations, are won by those who organize such lotteries.

Also, lotteries are costly, compared to other methods of catching a jackpot. In my country, moment lottery ticket cost starts from 5 EUR, or you pick numbers in card for 5 EUR and wait for a week for a draw. 5 EUR can be busted within seconds, when with same balance gambler can play different games for hours. Usually big wins from such 5 EUR lotteries are 30-50k worth new car or 1-10k fiat. With 5 EUR deposit in online casino, I could get more fun and the prize would be more realistic to get Cheesy

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I often see different lotteries held in our city; you only need to buy a ticket, and according to the promises of the organizers, you will win something valuable. But I have never seen people who would win such lotteries by accident; I still tend to think that all lotteries are money thrown to the wind. It is quite possible to win small prizes, but large sums, according to my observations, are won by those who organize such lotteries.

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Quote from: Kelward on September 12, 2024, 05:18:03 AM

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In my opinion, the lottery is a fairly simple game of chance, which with the constant purchase of lottery tickets gives the gambler hope of winning. Someone buys lottery tickets all his life, but dies with this hope. Some people hit the jackpot by accidentally buying a lottery ticket.

I used to buy lottery tickets too, but I got bored with it, because for two years of playing the lottery I never won good money. And to be honest, I have more fun playing slots than constantly buying lottery tickets and keep hoping.

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Quote from: SmartGold01 on July 10, 2024, 09:31:03 AM

For one to be expectant such person is likely to be a partaker of it be it gambling or lottery when you don't involved yourself with this how do you expect to emerge as winner and even if you anticipated hopefully there would be a expectation that something positive is likely t happened. Most importantly, when you see such news it always boost your feelings and interest to regularly involved yourself with lotteries because you can't tell where your luck could shine and when it's like this one could be ready to give up on everything to enable them have a full concentration on their winning knowing too well that winning is by luck and when the luck is set then such is to be announced as the victorious one especially when the prizes are mind-blowing.

People are looking for easy ways to make money everywhere and one of the ways that comes to mind is through lottery. You can't stand a chance if you don't perticipate so that is the reason why the number of lottery players keeps increasing to get a chance at winning. News of lottery wins travels fast and people will hear it and become encouraged to try their luck too, in the end it's only very few among the multitude of tickets that will win. There are too many lotto shops and kiosks in many cities in my country and the numbers of bettors keeps increasing. People shouldn't put all their hopes to get rich from anything that is related to gambling because it takes luck to win not their skills and efforts.

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I think it is important to know that the things that a player would feel in the context of lottery is probably summed up at your original post. There are some research that lottery winners only get the initial hype but not really getting the lifetime or the long-term Happiness that I think is substantial.

For anyone interested here still below.

https://www.sciencealert.com/how-winning-the-lottery-affects-happiness-according-to-psychology-research

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For one to be expectant such person is likely to be a partaker of it be it gambling or lottery when you don't involved yourself with this how do you expect to emerge as winner and even if you anticipated hopefully there would be a expectation that something positive is likely t happened. Most importantly, when you see such news it always boost your feelings and interest to regularly involved yourself with lotteries because you can't tell where your luck could shine and when it's like this one could be ready to give up on everything to enable them have a full concentration on their winning knowing too well that winning is by luck and when the luck is set then such is to be announced as the victorious one especially when the prizes are mind-blowing.

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Quote from: noormcs5 on July 10, 2024, 04:56:29 AM

The lottery tickets are usually very cheap and hence those who have a lot of money, they don't mind many tickets while even a person who is had to month can buy a single lottery ticket and hope that his luck changes through the lottery and he becomes a lucky winner. The prizes in the lottery are also high so people tend to buy lottery tickets. This is a high-reward and low-risk model, A sort of model where there is not must cost to be the part of the process.

However, people who participate in the lottery should not expect much from them because 99% of the time, they won't win but if they do win even once (especially in the government-owned lotteries), that could be life-changing.

That's what happen to many people because they see with use some money, they can buy many tickets. That will increase their chance to wins so they do that over and over because they still hopes to be the winners in the next rounds. They can waits for months and still buy many tickets because they believe someday they can wins the money or even the jackpot.

They must knows that lottery is based on the luck so if they don't have luck, they will not wins even if they have many tickets. But that will not stops people from buying more and more tickets since they still believe the chance to wins the money. That things can really be a life-changing for them so they will not stops from buying the lottery tickets because they still wants to keeps trying although the chance is not too big for them.

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Quote from: ethereumhunter on May 18, 2024, 04:39:05 AM

But some people still thinks that lottery can be their fast ways to makes money although they must realizes that to wins in the lottery, they must have luck. People buys many tickets and hopes that they can be one of the winners of the lottery and that makes many people still wants to use lottery to wins money. The lucky winners on lottery can gets the jackpots and change their lives because they now have a lot of money from the lottery and they can use it for many things. But playing lottery still one of the gambling games because they risks their money to gets the wins money so that makes many people wants to try their luck in the lottery. If they can realizes that lottery can't gives wins easily to them, they should not buy many tickets because that can risks much money.

The lottery tickets are usually very cheap and hence those who have a lot of money, they don't mind many tickets while even a person who is had to month can buy a single lottery ticket and hope that his luck changes through the lottery and he becomes a lucky winner. The prizes in the lottery are also high so people tend to buy lottery tickets. This is a high-reward and low-risk model, A sort of model where there is not must cost to be the part of the process.

However, people who participate in the lottery should not expect much from them because 99% of the time, they won't win but if they do win even once (especially in the government-owned lotteries), that could be life-changing.

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Quote from: Betwrong on June 11, 2024, 05:22:23 AM

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I have also seen people spending crazy amounts of money on lottery tickets only to win the jackpot. I'm talking about the freebitco.in's lottery which used to have 10 prizes in total and the first prize at that time used to be about 2 Bitcoin or more, they used to announce the results for each week along with the number of tickets each winner had and the amount they won, and in those lists, I used to see people having hundreds of thousands of tickets that used to be worth more than 0.2 Bitcoin at least and their winnings weren't higher than 0.002 BTC or something.

I remember someone's winning the top prize in the freebitco.in's weekly lottery which was around 1 Bitcoin at the time. The guy had just one ticket. Can you imagine that? If you make an hourly freeroll there you get 2 tickets, but he had just one. All of us in their official thread were wondering who's that possible, and finally one guy explained: It meant he got his one ticket from a referral, only this way you can get just one ticket. But, I mean, people with millions of tickets win nothing, or a very small amount, while the guy with just one ticket won the 1st place.

Yeah, and what are the odds of that one player, except that he is very lucky and win with only one ticket. As for me, I'm been unlucky to bet on lotteries but I guess I will continue to do so as who knows, maybe one of this day, I might not win the jackpot, but at least 5 out of 6 numbers, might not be bad. And even here in our country, the lottery fever is very high as it's going to be a life changer to anyone who's going to win. I guess we just have to believed that maybe, one day, lady luck will smile on our side and we could be that lucky winner. But as for crypto lotteries, I don't know, still not a thing for gamblers I guess as we are not sure if it is rigged or provably fair.

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Lotteries have been running for the longest time and the wins highlighted in the original post are nothing compared to the max wins recently reached on US lotteries that have even been above 1 billion USD.

I was actually hoping for lotteries to carry over some interest in the crypto space so we can also join part of the fun. https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/can-online-gambling-compete-with-national-lotteries-5501801
Of course the size of rewards would be much lower than the total in state monopoly lotteries. But still I think crypto needs some lottery action too. It can have other advantages such as proof and higher rtp.

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Members here might not understand the true metric, but the news of lottery winners reaches far beyond the borders and economic bounds.

I have often over heard cab drivers and tuk-tuk drivers waiting on the sides and talking about the daily lottery. The prevalence of lottery fever is indeed high and this is seen from different surveys as well.

Like it or not, humans accept magical thinking over logic a 100 times to 1. Give them a false hope and stroke their ego a bit, they will follow your lines. This is how news from lottery winners keep the trend ongoing.

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Quote from: wiss19 on June 05, 2024, 07:25:02 AM

Quote from: Betwrong on May 28, 2024, 01:48:47 AM

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I have also seen people spending crazy amounts of money on lottery tickets only to win the jackpot. I'm talking about the freebitco.in's lottery which used to have 10 prizes in total and the first prize at that time used to be about 2 Bitcoin or more, they used to announce the results for each week along with the number of tickets each winner had and the amount they won, and in those lists, I used to see people having hundreds of thousands of tickets that used to be worth more than 0.2 Bitcoin at least and their winnings weren't higher than 0.002 BTC or something.

I remember someone's winning the top prize in the freebitco.in's weekly lottery which was around 1 Bitcoin at the time. The guy had just one ticket. Can you imagine that? If you make an hourly freeroll there you get 2 tickets, but he had just one. All of us in their official thread were wondering who's that possible, and finally one guy explained: It meant he got his one ticket from a referral, only this way you can get just one ticket. But, I mean, people with millions of tickets win nothing, or a very small amount, while the guy with just one ticket won the 1st place.

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Quote from: Marykeller on June 05, 2024, 09:39:03 AM

Since lottery wins are mostly done by one being lucky, I don't put much emphasis on it, that I am going to be among the lucky winners someday. That's why if I don't get lucky to win, I will still be cool and act like "nobody bad happened" That's how anything that lies on lucky most ends up as being unlucky mostly.

You don't exactly have luck as your only weapon when it comes to lottery or gambling for that matter because there's ways that you can calculate the probability and the odds and you'd see how you're able to play things out. If you know the most likely numbers to pop out in the lottery, you're probably going to see which numbers that are likely to get shown the most, it just so happens that you can't really calculate really fast when you're playing the lottery. I got to agree with you on that one about brushing it off as if nothing happened, I mean, it's gambling after all and that's just not your day I guess.

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Since lottery wins are mostly done by one being lucky, I don't put much emphasis on it, that I am going to be among the lucky winners someday. That's why if I don't get lucky to win, I will still be cool and act like "nobody bad happened" That's how anything that lies on lucky most ends up as being unlucky mostly.

I have tried lottery wins twice(a long time ago). I didn't put my mind to it because I heard that, millions of people have bought the lottery ticket also. I am not the only one. Hearing that, made me think less and try on the lottery only twice because trying my luck on things that lies on luck, don't favor me

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Quote from: Betwrong on May 28, 2024, 01:48:47 AM

For some people it's not even "over a long period of time". When I was a kid I saw people playing instant lottery in some resort town, and some of them were buying the whole boxes of those tickets, hundreds of tickets in each box. They knew that there was a possibility of winning a car, and for some reason they thought that in a box with hundreds of dollars worth of tickets there will be a ticket winning a car worth of thousands. People act crazy sometimes.

I have also seen people spending crazy amounts of money on lottery tickets only to win the jackpot. I'm talking about the freebitco.in's lottery which used to have 10 prizes in total and the first prize at that time used to be about 2 Bitcoin or more, they used to announce the results for each week along with the number of tickets each winner had and the amount they won, and in those lists, I used to see people having hundreds of thousands of tickets that used to be worth more than 0.2 Bitcoin at least and their winnings weren't higher than 0.002 BTC or something.

So, such people need to understand that it is never about the probability, it's all dependant on one's luck, if you are unlucky, no matter how many tickets you have or how high your winning probability is, someone with luck and way less tickets than you will take the prize away from you.

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