Lotto stories?

[twocik23]

What's the most you have ever won on a scratch off or lotto ticket ?

Just curious to hear your story.... :)

[Capt Quirk]

I won $20 once.

[Robbie Comeau]

$5 CAN.

Robbie

[ozfish]

20 years ago when i was earning only $329 a week, a jackpot lotto came up and I was asked if i wanted to be in it for $10. Idid not have a spare $10 so I declined, my ten mates at work, won $600,000 between them.
Bummer!

[Bromoney]

i think 8 bucks

[ugafan]

a guy i used to work with won $100,000 on a scratch off. before he won he wasn't dating anyone for a long time, but almost immediately after he won he suddenly had a girlfriend. i guess telling someone you won the lottery is a good pickup line. lol.

[RockmanX3]

$50.

Too bad I owed $48 to my friend.

[Jeff Anderson]

I won $15 a few months ago. My grandpa plays weekly and one a few hundred dollars once.

[Doc Bernard]

300 and change. Promptly went out and bought some toys. 300 sure doesn't go very far.

[twocik23]

"20 years ago when i was earning only $329 a week, a jackpot lotto came up and I was asked if i wanted to be in it for $10. Idid not have a spare $10 so I declined, my ten mates at work, won $600,000 between them.
Bummer!"



WOW that does stink !!! Wasn't meant to be... :)

[twocik23]

Keep them coming. Good stuff

[MattinSTL]

I don't remember the exact amount, but a long time ago I picked 2 sets of 6 numbers... inc. the "powerball" and I ended up winning something like $18... but had I reversed 2 numbers... moving one to the pb spot and the pb number over... I'd have got something like $4-5K.

Somebody once said that the lotto is a tax on stupidity. I still give 'em a couple bucks every now and then... but not too often.

[Noel Evans]

I only go in the local lotto when they have a special BIG draw. About 4 months ago I picked up around $350 and change.

[Richard J. Johnson]

I hit the megamillions for $150.00. 2 more numbers would have changed everything.

My father has hit the 4 digit For 10 grand twice. In a 3 year time period. He plays the same number like 5 times.

My grandmom hit for 30 grand back in the 80's. I remeber how happy she was. She bought me a new bike, a go cart, and 5 transformers. I remember it like it was yesterday.

A woman at my job hit a $1000.00
A week for life last week. She still works there. She even has a commercial for the MD lottery.

[ryan brown]

A woman at my job hit a $1000.00
A week for life last week. She still works there. She even has a commercial for the MD lottery.

Man that would be nice. Just the reassurance would set your (mine?) mind at ease...

[Blaine]

In the early 90s I won $2400 when I picked 5 out of 6 numbers. 5 out of 6! I thought I'd get more than that. I didn't get the bonus number :( I pretty much quit after that figuring I probably wouldn't get much closer than that. Since then, I've given about $300 back...I just don't play very often anymore.

[Charli]

I've only played for $1 or $2 every now and again, won nothing. I do know who the guy was who won $35 million in Santa Cruz, he use to roller skate (with the old four wheel skates) up and down that ocean street. He split his share with his sister, what a nice guy.

From what I could tell, he didn't change much, kept roller skating, kept his long hippy hair, got his teeth bleached (lol) but you couldn't tell he was a millionaire.

[Tony B]

As for the scratch off, I maybe won 5 bucks.

My mom (God rest her soul) was the lucky one. She used to enter all sorts of contests and would win a lot of stuff (mostly 2nd,3rd,4th prizes)

She entered a contest for M&M's called Break the Bank. I went with her to New York. There were 11 finalists who got the chance to win $100,000.00, with the least amount you could win was $2500.00 along with various other amounts.

My mom's attitude the whole time was "if all I get is the $2500, I'm fine with that". M&M's provided dinner at Windows On The World in the WTC. We took the tour of the city, and I got the chance to tour NBC studios (not on the regular tour, we stayed at the Milford Plaza, a couple blocks down down)

On the cab ride from NBC, my mom thought to herself, God, I'm satisfied with the $2.500, but if you want me to win the $100k, give me a sign. Right after that she looked up and there was a giant number 6 on a building, she thought, there it is.

We went to the contest at the Midland Marine Bank in Manhattan. There were 11 plastic boxes (banks), each with a giant check inside. Mom was 6th in line to go up and when she broke hers open, she pulled out the $100k check!

Words cannot describe how happy I was that she won it because she had the best attitude about the whole thing and really needed the money. Everyone else was also happy for her. They asked her if she was going to buy a car, a house etc? She told them no, she said she could use a new set of pots and her dryer was acting up.

The leather Pierre Cardin luggage we used on the trip was won a couple months before.

She was lucky for sure, but I was more lucky to have her as my mom.

[twocik23]

Here's a pretty good story.

This was about 16 years ago. My mother and brother were at a hole in the wall coffee/dinner here in Naples, Fl. My mother couldn't make up her mind and was going over the doughnuts they had. Mean while my younger brother wouldn't shut up, he kept screaming "MOM ... MOM... MOM", my mother turns to him and says what is it sean ????

He says I want that one, my mother said "ok hold on just a minute." (my mother would buy him scratch offs for fun). Unlike most kids that like to play with toys, my little brother wanted to make money at the age of 8 and loved to gamble.

Anyway, My brother ask again, then a guy walked up behind my mother and said "hey do you mine if I go since you're still trying to decide". My mother says ok that's fine, well sure thing the guys was listing and bought the ticket my brother wanted.

The guy bought a coffee, sandwich and of course the ticket. Waiting at the bar for his sandwich drinking his togo coffee, he started to scratch the ticket. My brother watching his every move mad at my mother for not getting the ticket.

ALL OF THE SUDDEN, the guy jumps up and down, up and down screaming "I WON, I WON, I WON" Yup the guy won $25,000 bucks and I could only remember my mothers face.... To this day my brother always brings it up...








Another story I have is that my great great grandmother that I never got a chance to meet, won the power ball or something like that in the early 70's. She won $100,000, which back then that probably would have been like winning $500,000. She was a very nice person and donated alot of the money to her church and bought every person on the block brand new furniture sets.