The Lottery

By Will Veda

The lottery began centuries ago when the kingdom’s peasants drew lots to see who would give up their offspring for slavery or sacrifices to the gods—so the story goes.  Nearly every state in the good old U. S. of A. has some sort of “money-winning” lottery and they all have one thing in common.  Long shot.  Dreams of hitting millions of dollars swim around in nearly everyone’s head, mine included even though I only play the Mega Millions when it is over $50 million and for just two bucks at a time.  That’s why I’m still in the workingman’s class. 

For Super-Mega-Power-Gargantuan Lotteries, you must play: 4-8-15-16-23- (bonus) 42. 

These numbers have never LOST. 

The worst kind of lottery is the silly scratch-off tickets.  Even though a friend of mine won $150,000 playing scratch-offs, I think over a span of twenty years, he wagered $150,001 to achieve this windfall.  Don’t waste your money. 

If you do happen to win a coupla bucks, please scrape off the grey goop covering the validation numbers to ease the pain that the poor schmuck (me) goes through cashing out these things for you so that you can blow your winnings or the usual another free ticket on more scratch-offs. 

09/09/05