/biz/ - Business & Finance

Im going to bump because its really slow in here.

Anon you're not very good at math, are you.

how much you make as a caregiver? I live in CA and get 10.50/hr.

>>416072
About the same. I live in AZ

>>416013
the chances of finding someone on this entire website that won a substantial amount in a lottery is lower than finding someone that won the lottery at all which is already pretty much impossible.

good job retard OP. you obviously won the lottery on intelligence.

>>416076
Im not talking millions just in general. People win all the time in small amounts so there is nothing wrong with asking.

>>416080
You didn't really specify.

Though, there's no way to game the smaller ones either. It's not skill based, and their end of things is a black box.

Now maybe if you had exact information on how their printing machines and delivery worked... but that's no doubt a guarded secret.

>>416080
I'll give you the DL since I part of my job is to cash lotto tickets.
First off scratchers will always return more money then tickets.
2nd if you buy tickets play the less played games. Here in Cali we have games like the daily double and daily derby. The trick to these small, daily draw games is to play the same numbers each time and to buy multiple tickets on the same draw of the same numbers. Always pick straight/box as well. I've seen a few people win 12000 untaxed because there were 30 tickets with the same numbers (4 numbers are required to pick btw) each tickets had 400 bucks on it.
Never play mega millions, super lotto or any other big game draws, you will never win.
Hope that helps a bit.

>>416013

My aunt won it twice.

They spent it all on a swimming pool for the kids and later the husband died and she's broke now.

She works as a receptionist now.

You realize if you ever win with that old people money you should claim it anonymously through a trust (get a lawyer) and fuck over those old people wholesale, right?

ITT: shitheads not understanding that OP has paid $0 for his lottery tickets

OP, if you truly want to maximize your chances of winning the lottery, there is only one thing you can do: take more chances.

In order to do this, all you have to do is encourage your wards to spend more money on the lotto... MUCH more money.

Number selection is meaningless. They are selected at random. Any trends suggesting that some numbers occur more frequently is 100% due to chance

>>416699
It's not 100% random for scratch tickets.. some guy "cracked the code" so to speak on local scratchoffs.

It's possible that some scratchoffs are completely random, but they'd need to be able to randomize the order of printing each individual card, every time they do a print run. Hard? Depends on the sort of databases storing their code, how retarded their programmers are (these are government workers, and really.. they don't give a fuck).

Lastly, if the numbers are computer-generated, they're only pseudorandom. In a truly random system, you'd expect the exact same number to happen 2 days in a row, about every 3 years for something that's "Pick 3"; a number 000 through 999, happening daily.

How often do the same 3 numbers happen back-to-back? I doubt it's every 3 years in most areas. That would show that there's some amount of bias in the machine to pick a number sufficiently different, day to day.

At any rate, if someone has datasets of small lotteries, they could try to sift through them. Most likely won't turn up anything, but who knows.

As Warren Buffutt calls it, the lotto is an ignorance tax.

Stay ignorant, plebs.

>>416717
yes, scratch tickets is another thing altogether

but unless you've got a pile of 500 scratched tickets, the loss you'd expect to incur to go out an acquire the tickets (your dataset) would be prohibitive to whatever "edge" you analysis might give you

your best bet would be to break into a 7/11 and steal a box of scratch and wins, scratch them all, and then look for trends
of course, any winners you find wouldn't be activated but still

>>416096
Thanks dude.

>>416013
With scratchers they release the prizes in "batches" so the first tickets out on a new game will have lota of winners but for small amounts, word of mouth makes the new game sell.

But a new scratcher game statistically wont have the big prizes. They wait for the last batch on these (because local news would anounce the big million dollar scratcher ticket and they wouldnt sell anymore)

So with scratchers check your local states lotto webaite to see when each game ends and play them toward the end.

>>416789
The tickets have barcodes dumbass. They know which store has which ticket and which ones were the last legitimately purchased.

They would be worthless paper.

>>417417
nice reading comprehension

>>417417
>I am incapable of reading

>>416737
Oh that little gem came from him? Cool.

Also: It's funny and sad that lotto works like a tax on the poor/stupid, because they're already hurting, they don't need the government fucking them too...

it's actually phenomenal how your seemingly brilliant post
>>417413

was followed up with this shining beacon of stupidity mere minutes later
>>417417

did you suffer a head trauma in the interim, newfriend?

>>417423
>>417424

>take old people's lotto ticket money
>buy lotto tickets
>give old people last week's tickets
>keep current week's tickets for yourself
>repeat every week

>>417453

>being proud of a zero sum outcome

OP it's useless to talk lottery on /biz/ where everyone behave like a smartass dick who don't can't shut his mouth.

2ch has the best lottery forum, the mood there is fun and everyone is passionate about lottery. It's the best lottery forum in this world. There is a popular English lottery forum but the mood there is too serious and unlikeable so I don't go there anymore.

Just go to 2ch lottery forum if you want talk about lottery with other like minded people. Even though I can't buy Japanese lottery (not a Japanese) I still have fun seeing them talking about lottery so passionately.

>>417512
>forum full of retards who think participating in the lottery is a good idea
>good
hehhhh

>>416013
Your odds don't improve significantly if you buy more tickets. Give up the lottery if you can, if you can't, only buy a ticket a week.

>>416072
>>416073
Did... You people go to school for that?
My part time job as whole foods pays me 15 an hour.

>>417502
I don't think you get it.

>>417958
I buy them for older people who just want to live somewhere else before they die. I wouldnt mind free money myself but what I was really asking was what scratchers/tickets are most likely to win.

>>418455
Correction again
With their own money not mine.

>>417423
Oh...yeh i stopped reading after "break into 7-11"

>>417959
It really depends on the physical condition of the people you are working with. Pretty much all you have to do is run groceries and clean the house.

>>416013
>how do i win the lottery?
OP is a fucking retard