# Do 95% of all lotto winners go broke?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [October 27, 2005, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-95-of-all-lotto-winners-go-broke/328124 "2005-10-27T05:13:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2005, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-95-of-all-lotto-winners-go-broke/328124/101 "2005-11-01T19:48:53Z")

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A lot of people fantasize about winning the lottery. Some of them fantasize to some considerable depth. I wonder how they fare after actually winning? Do they follow their plan or not?

Very few of my extended family have made the effort to keep in contact so if I were to win the lottery my response to requests for financial assistance would be _robust_. Similarly, I have very few friends, and a public lottery win would likely ensue a deluge of people I’ve known wanting to ‘renew their friendship’. F\*\*\* right off. That said, my nephew would find me an extremely doting uncle - though he’d likely not know better.

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