Some math for lottery, and making moolah in general.

[GordonJ]

Ten dollars a day to play a lottery game. How much would you spend to make 100 dollars? Here is where it gets interesting, and I refer to one of my oldest money making concepts:

Circulation beats storage every day of the week.

This just came from one of my banks today:

It pays to invest.
If you took just $100 a month and started investing it, here’s what your investment would look like over time.**
In 12 months
$1,238

**Assuming the S&P 500’s historical rate of return of 7%.
Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

Now interesting enough this bank, SoFi, shows they pay .046 if you lock the money down for a year. So, a 1200 dollar investment all at once will give you

55.20 in interest.

BANKS, YECCH, YIKES and too big to fail, eh?

Anyhow, I know I am doing much better with my lottery than I can with stuffing any money for a long period into a bank.

So, to win 100, I will spend 400 (win 500)...but most of the time, if played with small amounts, of ten per day, I will lose most of the time...the secret is to roll over any money not played until you can place a larger play.

Ten bux a day, five days= 50, or what I may do is play a wheel for 9 dollars and 9 numbers for 5 days (45) in the hope of winning the 500. But if the charts say otherwise, something feels like it is right, then maybe toss all that 300 for the month into 30 wheels, that cover all the numbers equally.

I like the MATH part of lottery, but know there is LUCK, whatever that is, and I mix in some magic (active imagination via divination{scrying, dice, cards} and automatic writing, along with dream interpretation)...

Wheels are keys to my winnings so far, and although Moby Dick has escaped me, I've still managed to harpoon enough to keep my lottery horse fed, on their dimes for a good while to go.

Lottery. Math, luck and magic. OR if your prefer, stick it safely into your bank's CD offer and let THEM make the money off or you.

Gordon

[Glenn]

Thanks Gordon,

Out of $20 bucks I had 3 Winners.

$1
$1
$2

At a Restaurant I Tipped The 4 Cooks with 3 Proven Winners. And 1 loser.
(You can Scratch The Bar Code to Tell The Winners. Nobody notices)

Yelling and Screaming in the Kitchen.

The Cooks had THREE WINNERS and one loser.

So I Won Too.

A - I got more food than normal

B - I got Extra Ice Cream

C - Three waitresses waited on me at my table

D - The Cook who won 2 bucks came out to Say THANKS.

I asked the manager.

She said in her Memory ONLY ONE Person
has ever tipped the cooks in the YEars
she has worked at the Restaurant.

So.

Instead of The Motto - "You Gotta Play to Win"

REALITY is

"You Gotta Give LOTTO TICKETS Away to The Cooks To Win."

Thanks,
Glenn

[Millard Grubb]

I appreciate the precise information on your tipping the chefs.

Looking at the numbers, you spent 20 bucks to get 3 winning lottery tickets.

You got the thanks from one of the cooks.

You got more food.

You got more ice cream.

Now, from a monetary standpoint, it looks like you got SOME benefit, but was the extra food and ice cream worth the $20? I wouldn't think so.

HOWEVER, I am assuming you had someone with you and this extra attention impressed them. I am also assuming that effort caused people nearby to want to talk with you to find out what was going on. Am I right?

Bottom line.... How much benefit did you get from the $20 you spent? Or is this something you won't find out until later?