Here in Arkansas, we started our first lottery last week. I finally got around to buying my first 2 scratch-off tickets today.

I won.

$1.00.

I exchanged my winnings for 1 WHOLE TICKET.

I won nothing on the new ticket.

I LOST.

That's why they call it the idiot tax.

Would have been happier with dollar.

It's more fun going to a casino (and losing all your money there).

my store sells about a grand in scratch offs per day.

D:

(best i've done is $50, and that was counting tickets, guy played 6 $10 tickets, gave up, shift ended a few hours later, bought it)

Fun fact: if you drive 10 miles to buy a powerball ticket, you are 16 times more likely to die enroute in a car crash than win the lottery.

(I saw this in a published book, so take that as you may.)

16 times? That's it?

When Derren Brown was doing his lottery show last month he claimed that a typical man is more likely to die (for any reason) in a given hour than win the lottery. So if you buy a ticket, buy it with less than an hour to go before the draw

(dunno how your powerball works, but our lottery is just 6 balls, numbered 1-48 - there is a bonus ball but he wasn't taking that into account).

Scary stuff

(apparently the odds of outright winning are 1 in 14 million-ish)

My parents won $5,000 on the lottery once. They bought my processor at the time. An AMD Athlon 3300.... its been a while..

No i think you'll find WoW subscription is "tax for idiots"

Lottery is just desperation

if(getThingFlags(source) & 0x8){
  do her}
elseif(getThingFlags(source) & 0x4){
  do other babe}
else{
  do a dude}

At least WoW has the potential to occupy you for longer than 30 seconds. Also, it's not really a tax since you pay it to a private company instead of the government. But yeah, I get your point. And no, I don't play it.