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- If you hope to win a lottery, don't use a stolen credit card to buy the ticket https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/woman-charged-after-stolen-credit-card-used-to-buy-winning-lotto-ticket-n-l-police-1.4278343 2 comments
- Winning the Mega Millions lottery: How big a jackpot makes ticket-buying rational? http://www.circlemud.org/~jelson/megamillions 3 comments math
- Man Buys Lottery Tickets to Break $100 Bill, Wins $10M http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/weird/man-buys-lottery-tickets-to-break-100-bill-wins-10m-289487081.html 594 comments nottheonion
- I am a statistician and I buy lottery tickets http://simplexify.net/blog/2012/5/6/i-am-a-statistician-and-i-buy-lottery-tickets.html 102 comments math
- I'm going to go buy a lottery ticket https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/4rl8dy/im_going_to_go_buy_a_lottery_ticket/ 50 comments sysadmin
- The U.S. has a lottery problem. But it’s not the people buying tickets. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2017/09/13/the-u-s-has-a-lottery-problem-but-its-not-the-people-buying-tickets/ 61 comments truereddit
- Would you buy a lottery ticket if it was mathematically profitable to do so? https://www.reddit.com/r/investing/comments/7ax71i/would_you_buy_a_lottery_ticket_if_it_was/ 233 comments investing
- Buying lottery tickets vs leveraging capital. https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/7aerxp/buying_lottery_tickets_vs_leveraging_capital/ 16 comments wallstreetbets
- Buy your shitty mu lottery tickets https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/6rd0cv/buy_your_shitty_mu_lottery_tickets/ 30 comments wallstreetbets
- 7700k delid, should I go buy a lottery ticket? https://www.reddit.com/r/intel/comments/6q9kyc/7700k_delid_should_i_go_buy_a_lottery_ticket/ 15 comments intel
- Man falls in pit on way to buy lottery tickets http://www.fox2detroit.com/news/whats-hot/74035541-story 3 comments nottheonion
- GOP Rep: Ban Welfare Recipients From Buying Lottery Tickets http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/2013/01/26/welfare-lottery-ban_n_2552885.html?utm_hp_ref=business 438 comments politics
- Government: "Cryptocurrencies are too risky." Also government: "Buy lottery tickets." https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/7vctu9/government_cryptocurrencies_are_too_risky_also/ 137 comments btc
- Man forgets glasses, mistakenly buys winning lottery ticket http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/06/29/man-forgets-glasses-mistakenly-buys-winning-lottery-ticket/ 16 comments nottheonion
- Man buys winning lottery ticket, seven seconds too late http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/articlenews/story/ctvnews/20081007/lotto_suit_081007/20081007?hub=canada 3 comments reddit.com
- Man wins $1 million after buying lottery ticket using $20 he found in parking lot https://thenewsglobe.net/?p=7832 18 comments upliftingnews
- Woman wanted to buy one NC lottery ticket, but got two — and won the entire jackpot https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article252776798.html 3 comments nottheonion
- What does everyone think about Lottery Token? A simple buy and hold for a lifetime ticket. http://lotterytoken.net 17 comments cryptocurrency
- Monk robbed buying lottery tickets at Philadelphia gas station http://www.cbsnews.com/news/monk-robbed-buying-lottery-tickets-at-philadelphia-gas-station/ 17 comments nottheonion
- Woman steals credit cards, buys winning lottery ticket, gets arrested, police say http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/stolen-credit-cards-winning-lottery-ticket-1.5001728 4 comments nottheonion
- A Canadian teenager has struck the jackpot after buying her first lottery ticket to mark her 18th birthday. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43561379 40 comments worldnews
- After Vasilevski stopped Doughty with 0.6 seconds left in the 3rd Kopitar told Vasilevski to go buy a lottery ticket https://streamable.com/d2iiq 40 comments hockey
- This 13-year-old tried to buy porn, lottery tickets, and a gun. Guess which one he got. http://www.vox.com/2016/6/16/11954662/13-year-olds-can-buy-guns-omg?utm_medium=social&utm_content=ezraklein&utm_source=facebook 193 comments politics
- All I can think of when I hear about everyone buying powerball tickets - Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" (1948) https://sites.middlebury.edu/individualandthesociety/files/2010/09/jackson_lottery.pdf 333 comments books
- California woman wins $10 million lottery after pressing wrong button on machine while buying a ticket after 'some rude person' bumped into her https://news.yahoo.com/california-woman-wins-10-million-160637711.html 29 comments upliftingnews
- When buying a lottery ticket does ruling out half your available pool of numbers to pick from affect your odds of winning? http://www.powerball.com/powerball/pb_nbr_history.asp?startDate=11%2F24%2F2012&endDate=7%2F4%2F2012 20 comments askscience
- Elderly couple buys 600,000 worth of lottery tickets...I get the math, but how can this be a business model for the lottery organization? http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/08/01/elderly-couple-cheats-lottery-win-millions/ 20 comments math
- 87 Year Old Man Who Broke His Hip While Walking To Buy A Lottery Ticket , Wins Share Of $1 Million Hospital Pool https://www.insighttrending.com/2018/11/87-year-old-man-who-broke-his-hip-while.html 3 comments worldnews
- Mega Millions $540 million: A mathematician explains when it makes sense to buy a lottery ticket. http://www.slate.com/articles/life/do_the_math/2001/08/is_powerball_a_mugs_game.single.html#pagebreak_anchor_2 16 comments math
- one American in five thinks that buying lottery tickets constitutes a sound retirement plan http://www.economist.com/node/16507738 22 comments economy
- Kerala Daily Wager Labourer Wins Rs 12 Crore in Lottery After Buying Ticket on His Way to Get Loan - News18 https://www.news18.com/news/india/kerala-daily-wager-labourer-wins-12-crore-in-lottery-after-buying-ticket-on-his-way-to-get-loan-2498451.html 6 comments india
- [Newton] Ron Rivera on Reid drug tests: ‘If my name came up that many times, I'd buy a lottery ticket’ http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/25582707/ron-rivera-says-eric-reid-play-lottery-due-frequency-random-drug-tests?platform=amp&__twitter_impression=true 281 comments nfl
- Calgary Flames Coach Hartley on Oilers win draft lottery: “Good for them. I buy lottery tickets all the time. … I hope I win. I need it.” https://twitter.com/sunrandysportak/status/589844062762500097 100 comments hockey
- Study uncovers why low-income people buy lottery tickets even though they know better http://www.sciencecodex.com/why_play_a_losing_game_study_uncovers_why_lowincome_people_buy_lottery_tickets 217 comments science
- "95% of Americans are not allowed by law to invest in start-ups. Only ‘accredited investors’ are entitled to do so, but you can buy lottery tickets all you want or go to Las Vegas to gamble." This is why big money doesn't like crypto https://twitter.com/invitreus/status/958453605379473408 212 comments btc
- Can anyone explain the stats behind this? (For a few days every four months, if you buy $500K worth of lottery tickets in Massachusetts, you are virtually guaranteed to make a profit.) http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/07/31/a_lottery_game_with_a_windfall_for_a_knowing_few/ 43 comments math
- Spend 10 Years at a Public Service Job for Student Loan Forgiveness? 99 Percent Won't Get It — “They'd be better off buying lottery tickets,” says House Education Committee chair. https://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/student-debt-forgiveness-public-service-fails-fedloan-education.html 26 comments politics
- Republicans in Missouri suggest forcing the Governor to buy lottery tickets in order to solve state's fiscal woes - is anyone else not surprised that this is what the GOP is coming up with these days? http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2010/02/22/bill-would-have-nixon-play-lottery-fix-budget/ 5 comments politics
- People buy lottery tickets because it improves their mood, study in China suggests -- winning was secondary. In one study, people given lottery tickets reported better moods than those given a small sum of money. 42% of lottery players in study didn't even come back to check if they won. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02699931.2022.2128064?journalCode=pcem20 72 comments science
- On March 11th, 2008, somebody made one of the craziest bets Wall Street has ever seen - $1.7M on options, gambling that shares in Bear Stearns would lose more than half their value in nine days or less. It was "like buying 1.7 million lottery tickets." But what's even crazier is that the bet paid... http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/12697/64824?rs_show_page=0 22 comments business