$1,850,000

@porwest (78726)
United States
June 27, 2018 6:03pm CST
Every once in a while I write about the Illinois Lottery's small drawing called the Lucky Day Lotto. Essentially it is a lottery drawing that happens twice a day. Once at 12:50 pm, and again at after 9:00 pm. So, if you wanted to play the whole day it would cost you $2. It is also a daily drawing. It typically starts out at $100,000 and works its way up by $50,000 per drawing if no one wins. Normally someone wins before it reaches a couple hundred thousand. But sometimes it reaches a million. This time, for tonight's drawing it is currently at $1,850,000. Of course I have a ticket in hand. After taxes the take home amount is probably somewhere around $1,110,000. That's an amount I can surely live with, even if it would still likely not be enough to retire on. Hey. I am only 45 and I live in the United States. Even that kind of money here is not enough to fully retire if you want to truly live comfortably. Either way. The question is, let's say you did indeed win the lottery. Let's say you won over a million dollars. Would you still play? I would. Why? Why not? Granted, the chances of winning even once is so slim one wonders why play at all. Winning twice would be an even greater feat. Still, the cost to play is so small...I say, why not give yourself every chance and opportunity you possibly can?
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@lovebuglena (42907)
• Staten Island, New York
28 Jun 18
I don't play the lotto much. I play scratch lotto more often as it's more fun. Of course, you can't win as much on that as you can on regular lotto. If I got lucky and won the jackpot I'd definitely play again. Can never have too many millions.
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@porwest (78726)
• United States
4 Jun 21
My wife likes to play the scratch off ones. To me it's just too small beans, even though on average she wins far more on those than I ever win on the big money ones. lol
@lovebuglena (42907)
• Staten Island, New York
4 Jun 21
@porwest I love scratch-offs, though do not play often. You can will millions on those as well. I never have though. My winning were always super low.
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@porwest (78726)
• United States
4 Jun 21
@lovebuglena Yeah, my wife gets $1 or $2. She did get one the other day where she won $10. But we are still in the red overall.
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@dgobucks226 (34196)
30 Jun 18
Well, considering the only luck I usually have is "bad luck" I would stop and quit while I am way ahead. Why give it back?
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@dgobucks226 (34196)
4 Jul 18
@porwest Yes, so often I say why not myself...
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@porwest (78726)
• United States
4 Jul 18
I have about the same luck as you. I sometimes wonder why I bother. It's so cheap to play though.
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@dawnald (85129)
• Shingle Springs, California
23 Jul 20
Starts at 100k and works its way up to 50k? What?
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@porwest (78726)
• United States
18 Apr 22
Works its way up BY $50k if no one wins. In other words it starts at $100,000 and if no one wins it goes to $150,000, and if still no one wins it goes to $200,000 and keeps going up by $50,000 until someone wins.
@JudyEv (323672)
• Rockingham, Australia
28 Jun 18
You have to be in it to win it they say - and I've known of a few cases where people win more than once.
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@JudyEv (323672)
• Rockingham, Australia
2 Jul 18
@porwest Once would do me too.
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@porwest (78726)
• United States
30 Jun 18
Yeah, it does happen from time to time that someone wins more than once. I'd be happy with just the one time.
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@Icydoll (36725)
• India
28 Jun 18
When the cost to play is small.. yes,we can give it a try.
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@porwest (78726)
• United States
18 Apr 22
I always say why not? If I can turn a dollar into much more, why not?
@mlgen1037 (29901)
• Manila, Philippines
28 Jun 18
Hi Jim. You have a point. We will never know though until we try.
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@porwest (78726)
• United States
18 Apr 22
Anything is possible, and as I always say about the lottery, someone has to win it. But you can't win anything if you don't have a ticket in your hand.
@rakski (112993)
• Philippines
28 Jun 18
surely, I will play. You will never know if you will hit the jackpot again, right?
@Namelesss (3368)
• United States
27 Jun 18
I don't know, maybe. I'm an on-again off-again player. Some people think it's foolish but it supports our states pre-k program and I'm all for that. There have been a number of people who have won Big $$ on more than one occassion, even into the millions. Don't seem fair does it?
@andriaperry (116876)
• Anniston, Alabama
27 Jun 18
Slime to none are the chances of winning. Put the $2 a day in the bank, you`ll have $728 at the end of the year. Cha ching you win!
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@porwest (78726)
• United States
30 Jun 18
I wish you weren't right. Although it would actually be $730, and since I know exactly where it would go and how much it would make, I'd actually have $782.14 at the end of the year.