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My favorite line from this is the woman who is upset because she had been promising to take her kids to Disney but couldn't afford it but now she finally could! Until her hopes were crushed.
Maybe if she didn't play the lottery every day she'd have taken them to Disney multiple times by now.
There's a wide, wide range between never played before and plays every day.
And if someone called you and said "hey, there's something weird going on, but everyone who's buying a lottery ticket today is winning!" wouldn't you run out and buy a few?
I buy a lottery ticket maybe twice a year...maybe. It's always an impulse buy, but I'm not by any means a regular player. I'm sure I'm not alone in that once or twice a year impulse, no matter what your assumptions might be.
What a downer to think you won, only to have it snatched away.
Maybe if she didn't play the lottery every day she'd have taken them to Disney multiple times by now.
It costs a $1 to play. Even if she played a few times a week, she would have to save more than just that $1 or $2 a week to be able to afford multiple Disney vacations.
There's a wide, wide range between never played before and plays every day.
And if someone called you and said "hey, there's something weird going on, but everyone who's buying a lottery ticket today is winning!" wouldn't you run out and buy a few?
No I wouldn't because if "everyone" is winning on the lottery, the lottery is broke and something is wrong. This whole thing is nothing more than when a slot machine malfunctions and tries to pay out a crazy amount. I do believe these people should get their money back for the purchased tickets, but nothing else.
There was a lottery, I think it was the one in Maryland, they did their drawing, but afterwards found out that one of the balls had gotten stuck to the side of the container and thus could not have been drawn. So what they did, after fixing the problem, was re-ran the drawing. AND . . . they honored winning tickets from both drawings.
THAT is the way to handle something like this, if you want to maintain the public's confidence in the lottery's integrity.
If South Carolina doesn't want to go that far, they should say that everyone holding the affected tickets can turn them in and get two free tickets to the game of their choice.
I buy a lottery ticket maybe twice a year...maybe. It's always an impulse buy, but I'm not by any means a regular player. I'm sure I'm not alone in that once or twice a year impulse, no matter what your assumptions might be.
Looking back to past winners, these are the people that usually win the big lotteries, those that dont normally play and just picking up a few tickets here and there.
Looking back to past winners, these are the people that usually win the big lotteries, those that dont normally play and just picking up a few tickets here and there.
When the prize gets big, sales explode because infrequent players buy tickets.
Thus, mathematically your stacking the ticket sales towards people that are not regular players.
It would be like if the NFL randomly handed out $1000 to a viewer.
Doing it during the Superbowl instead of a regular season game on a Sunday afternoon would more likely have the "winner" turn out to be someone that doesn't watch frequently.
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