70 percent of tickets sold are quick picks Wanna guess the percentage of winning tickets that are quick picks
http://www.usamega.com/mega-millions-jackpot.asp $359M cash option That's $257M in cold hard cash in Indiana. earning 3% interest nets you $7M/year in earnings. Everything in life would be met by
if it makes you feel any better, it will probably be some elderly person a year or three away from death.
I'd look at as a job paying me $15 mil a year. You'd still be banking 10-12 of that even if you were spending like a Saudi Prince.
You could put 50 mil into safe as fuck, long term, tax free bonds and just live off the interest payments.
If you did take the lump sum; People would be coming out of the woodwork. "Bro, remember in 8th grade you said if you or I ever won the lottery we'd give each other $5 mil" I'd be like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30YW3wgRvyI
Kid knocks on door (somehow got past my guards).... Random fucking kid: Hello Sir Stinky P1nky (I would have myself knighted at this point), I play baseball for the Local HS Tigers and we're offering these discount cards for $25. you get discounts at a bunch of shitty places and you'll probably lose the card within a week, will you buy one to support our team and keep us off the mean streets of StinkyP1nkyville? SP: LOL GIVE ME 300 OF THOSE MOTHERFUCKERS In the background..Ted Dibiase's entrance music is playing...MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY
Yeah, but you could blow $47 million right away (or try) then put the leftover $200,000,000 in the bank in some low risk bonds at 5% and make $10,000,000 a year for the rest of your life instead of it stopping in 26 years.
Yeah, not saying I would put everything in, just saying you could. I would spread it out through many different bonds and some low risk stock.
I disagree. Leaving millions and millions and millions of $$ on the table is "going wrong" I'd agree that either way you'll have a fuck load of money. Just you'll have much more in 1 scenario vs the other.
I couldn't imagine a greater feeling then looking at 6 random #s and know you never have to work another day in your life.
I am glad you shared your story. Know what the PB was Friday night? 20. You think the same PB is gonna hit twice in a row? I don't. What are the odds on that? But to go further with my point, I am a skeptic of nearly everything to varying degrees (I think most of you all know that by now), and I would not be shocked with SO much money involved if they found a way to scheme the system a little bit. I bet they made $100 million just yesterday alone off quick picks. And I bet they will make more than that on Friday.
I have thought about that, but I would want to know how many times I can "pass down" the payment. Say if I died in two years and then the person I willed it to died, could they pass it to someone in my family? That would be my worry. But like others have said, get $250 million and get it in 3% bonds and make $7 million a year.
Yeah, whatever. Show me a PB drawing where the same PB number has come back twice in a row. I know each drawing is seperate and the previous has no bearing on the current, but it would be hard to do.
How many times does Shu have to be shown his theories are wrong before he'll shut the fuck up? What are the odds on that?
6/14/2011 09,10,20,51,53 24 4x 6/17/2011 12,29,46,47,51 24 4x 9/9/2011 07,12,19,23,31 45 4x 9/13/2011 22,31,43,48,56 45 There's a couple for ya.
Would be a lot of this ^ sans the swim suits. And I just have this feeling that I could win the thing but somehow get killed in a freak accident on my way to cash in the ticket. Or on the way back from cashing in the ticket before I ever got to make a purchase with it.
Thanks for that. You proved it happens more often than I thought. However, and again, I know each and every drawing is separate and unique unto itself, but the odds that that will happen on any two consecutive drawings seem high. There have been far more instances of a different number popping up in consecutive drawings than the same number popping up.
God damn it. If I flip a coin & it lands heads 4 times in a row, the universe doesn't magically shift and make the odds any different than 50/50 the next time a flip the coin for it to come out tails.