"Cheri" > wrote in message
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> "Cindy Hamilton" > wrote in message
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>> On Sunday, January 10, 2016 at 10:28:26 PM UTC-5, Cheryl wrote:
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>>> I think I'll buy a few more chances this week since no one won.
>>
>> Mathematically speaking, the difference between buying 1 ticket
>> and 5 tickets is not worth the extra $8.
>>
>> (Of course, mathematically speaking, the ROI on even one ticket is
>> so close to zero that no statistician would consider it worth buying
>> even one.)
>>
>> But if it makes you happy, go ahead and buy more. My husband does.
>>
>> We don't buy tickets very often; just often enough to give our
>> "what I'd do with the money" fantasies a little more immediacy.
>>
>> Cindy Hamilton
>
> Nobody that buys a ticket cares about all the math and statistics, if you
> play you have a chance at a dream, if you don't...

Yep. I bought one. I don't think I ever bought one before. Perhaps many
years ago. One of my friends buys a ticket each week and on occasion I
would go with her and buy something. Never won. Scratch tickets OTOH are
giving me some winners but nothing big. I am getting a few dollars more
than I spend, but only a few.