that's what cracks me up. Once I read the actual odds on a ticket I gave up buying but I get the spending a buck or two and dreaming what you'd do with the money. But the two things I don't get are people going so much crazier over 600 million than just 100 million. Like 100 million wouldn't be a lot. Like you'd hear people whispering "that's the poor guy that only won 7 million dollars" And the other thing I don't get is spending all the money you can gather to buy more tickets. Do some people think that an 80 in 175,711,536 chance is really that much better than a 1 in 175,711,536 chance? At work for a time they'd do the pitching in a dollar and buying tickets. I thought it was fun enough (at least a dollars worth of entertainment all talking about what they'd do) when it was only a couple times a year. But then they started doing it all the time and wanted to do 5 dollars then 10 because buying more tickets was so much better odds.....
I agree, our state lotto is 12 million, and people were commenting today in the news how they won't play unless its some crazy number, so greed and stupidity runs amok. I would be happy with winning 50k, or even just 25k.........
I guess it might be people looking for different things from winning. Those that think it will bring happiness and those, like me, that think it would just help reduce stress about money and job security.
