Love that you track how much you spend/win/lose on it!! I wonder how much it would affect others if they did the same too? Or if they’d still keep on playing regardless?

When the CA lottery first came out it was 6 numbers & no mega. The jackpot was smaller (about $3M to start & incrementally increased by about $1M per week. In those days it was held once a week. typical payout was $5 for three numbers, about $40 for four numbers & $1500 if one hit five numbers…all 6 reaped the jackpot. People won regularly in those days though the payouts were smaller & after about 4-5 months when the jackpot hit $20M, there would be lines everywhere at liquor & convenience stores. The good old days.

Now it is hard just getting a mega number though the payout are way larger. It would be nice to see several people split/win those multi-hundred million dollar jackpots as $10M apiece should cover most bases in people’s lives. No need to be greedy or a spendthrift.

% on CA scratchers have also gone down…in 1995, I spent about $1700.00 on scratchers and had an eventual return of $1100.00 for about a 40% loss. Today it’s roughly a 65% loss so I play far less.

Depending on one’s perspective, winning BIG is either a ‘miracle’ (aka God’s plan) or a mathematical anomaly (if one happens to be an atheist).

Both schools of thought continue to play the lotto & scratchers regularly.

Pretty interesting!! Had no idea this was a thing.

On the website, you determine which game your want to play, what your numbers are (they’re fixed throughout the subscription period; you can choose your own or have them automatically generated), how many draws per game, do you want the multi-lier, and how long you want the subscription to run.

I recently discovered that I can have it auto-renew, which is awesome! Can you imagine having your numbers hit only to find out afterwards you forgot to renew? That would be awful! It’s set up to auto-renew every two weeks for $12. If I have winnings in my account, it deducts from that to pay for the renewal.

For the hard-core players, they have an option to set up a maximum daily withdrawal. I can’t imagine being that level of addictive, but I guess it’s a real problem!

An online subscription?! How does that work? Do they randomly send you the numbers via email or actually mail you print tickets?! I’m intrigued!

Yeah it is, haha….

I do agree that one can go overboard, and I don’t win enough to justify spending more! Especially since considering all that money we spent ($300 a year) and we don’t have much to show for it! But it’s entertainment, so we view it as such. And it’s healthier than eating an ice cream cone, ha!

That’s a pretty good return!!

You must have very fun birthdays :)