Powerball

[mac5155]

it looks like .07 cents is the average ROI

[Letang Is The Truth]

ha you losers. i am at .09

[columbia]

ha you losers. i am at .09

You'd be very rich on Wall Street, if you could crank out an additional 2% return over the competition.

[ExPatriatePen]

ha you losers. i am at .09

You'd be very rich on Wall Street, if you could crank out an additional 2% return over the competition.

.09 is a 28% increase over .07

Isn't it?

[JS©]

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Money Spent   Money Won   Profit / Loss   Return on $
$8,320   $524   $-7,796   $0.06

not good

slightly better with the power play

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Money Spent   Money Won   Profit / Loss   Return on $
$12,480   $1,586   $-10,894   $0.13

[columbia]

ha you losers. i am at .09

You'd be very rich on Wall Street, if you could crank out an additional 2% return over the competition.

.09 is a 28% increase over .07

Isn't it?

It depends on whether you are viewing it in the relative or the absolute.

[BigMcK]

I took total posts on this board, divided by number of users, added 2013 calendar days up to today and now have the numbers that I am using for the draw.

WINNER!

[JS©]

with the numbers 1-2-3-4-5 and the powerball 6

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   Match   Prize   Odds   Winning Tickets   Win Frequency
      $12   1 in 55   103   1 in 50
      $12   1 in 111   56   1 in 92
      $14   1 in 706   7   1 in 742
      $14   1 in 360   14   1 in 371
      [b]$200   1 in 12,245   1   1 in 5,200[/b] <---3 + powerball, it hit once.
      $200   1 in 19,088   0   0
      $40,000   1 in 648,976   0   0
      $2,000,000   1 in 5,153,633   0   0
      $278,300,000   1 in 175,223,510   0   0
Money Spent   Money Won   Profit / Loss   Return on $
$15,600   $2,402   $-13,198   $0.15

[ExPatriatePen]

ha you losers. i am at .09

You'd be very rich on Wall Street, if you could crank out an additional 2% return over the competition.

.09 is a 28% increase over .07

Isn't it?

It depends on whether you are viewing it in the relative or the absolute.

If I'm getting compensated by how much I can out perform my 'peer group', then I'm using the higher number! (That's what you're calling the 'relative' number, right?)

[Letang Is The Truth]

ha you losers. i am at .09

You'd be very rich on Wall Street, if you could crank out an additional 2% return over the competition.

.09 is a 28% increase over .07

Isn't it?

It depends on whether you are viewing it in the relative or the absolute.

well if its a percentage, its 28% increase...

[shafnutz05]

The last time my wife and I played the Powerball, we matched three numbers and the powerball. I should note that this is the last time the Jackpot was remotely this big. The odds of even getting what we got was 1 in 12,500 or so. While I know that to match one or two more numbers would have required vastly greater odds, I sometimes think about how I was two numbers away from being set for life.

[mac5155]

My aunt matched 4 and the "special" ball (?) for the mega millions one and won $1,000 I think.

[mac5155]

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Money Spent   Money Won   Profit / Loss   Return on $
$411,436   $1,030,977   $619,541   $2.51

sup

[JS©]

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Money Spent   Money Won   Profit / Loss   Return on $
$411,436   $1,030,977   $619,541   $2.51

sup

when you figure out how to live to be 1400 years old, let the rest of us know

[mac5155]

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Money Spent   Money Won   Profit / Loss   Return on $
$411,436   $1,030,977   $619,541   $2.51

sup

when you figure out how to live to be 1400 years old, let the rest of us know

Gimme $411,436 and I'll let you know

[JS©]

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Money Spent   Money Won   Profit / Loss   Return on $
$411,436   $1,030,977   $619,541   $2.51

sup

when you figure out how to live to be 1400 years old, let the rest of us know

Gimme $411,436 and I'll let you know

hold on, let me hit this powerball first. 450 years of plays and I still haven't made it past four balls.

[mac5155]

TWSS?

[JS©]

TWSS?

For $411,436 I would say there's a good chance that she did....or at least would.

[Sam's Drunk Dog]

Powerball at $500 million now.

[JS©]

Powerball at $500 million now.

I'm gonna guess it will be close to $550-570m by the time it goes off.

[Letang Is The Truth]

Do bummed that I got suckered in to buying a ticket. I just didn't want everyone that works for me to win then quit so I needed to hedge my bet a little

[Froggy]

im gonna put $20 down i guess. if i won, i'd just get really weird for a while. i don't think i could mentally handle being ultra wealthy. i'd do strange things like pay my friends to fist fight each other

[ExPatriatePen]

Do bummed that I got suckered in to buying a ticket. I just didn't want everyone that works for me to win then quit so I needed to hedge my bet a little

Years ago, back when I was the CIO for Lenders Service (up in RIDC West), I had a rule for the programmers and operations people that worked for me, if they pooled their money and played as a group, they had to include me. No way was I going to be the only one left behind when there was a mass resignation.

[Godric]

im gonna put $20 down i guess. if i won, i'd just get really weird for a while. i don't think i could mentally handle being ultra wealthy. i'd do strange things like pay my friends to fist fight each other

Yeah. Its funny 500 million is a crap ton of money but it kinda doesn't even close to people like the koch brother's 50 billion

[Froggy]

im gonna put $20 down i guess. if i won, i'd just get really weird for a while. i don't think i could mentally handle being ultra wealthy. i'd do strange things like pay my friends to fist fight each other

Yeah. Its funny 500 million is a crap ton of money but it kinda doesn't even close to people like the koch brother's 50 billion

Yeah but they are burdened with responsibility and self restraint.