# My office pool won the lottery!!!!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 31, 2012, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-office-pool-won-the-lottery/617384 "2012-03-31T13:59:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-office-pool-won-the-lottery/617384/1 "2012-03-31T13:59:44Z")
We won $5 between 20 of us. Woohoo! (Okay, we actually came out -$95.) ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-office-pool-won-the-lottery/617384/2 "2012-03-31T14:31:15Z")
I really hate people who win the lottery and say how much it won’t change their life and that they’ll still keep working. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-office-pool-won-the-lottery/617384/3 "2012-03-31T14:35:37Z")
I’m going to take my [del]$4.75 loss[/del] 25 cent winnings and retire! Woohoo! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-office-pool-won-the-lottery/617384/4 "2012-03-31T14:39:20Z")
You greedy schmuck! What about helping out your family and friends? ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-office-pool-won-the-lottery/617384/5 "2012-03-31T14:47:53Z")
They can buy their own tickets. Whatever happened to personal responsibility? Woohoo! ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-office-pool-won-the-lottery/617384/6 "2012-03-31T14:52:53Z")
I won a whopping $3 for 1 number plus the power ball. So I’m only $2 in the hole for this transaction. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![OldnCrinkly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e7dd6/32.png) [@OldnCrinkly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldnCrinkly)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-office-pool-won-the-lottery/617384/7 "2012-03-31T14:57:34Z")
I won 10 bucks!! FCM, I’m pretty sure all I had was the powerball on that one, so you may have won more than you think! I bought 10 dollars worth for myself, but then I bought another 2 for a neighbor who was not able to get out and play her number, so I guess I’m still out 2 bucks. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-office-pool-won-the-lottery/617384/8 "2012-03-31T14:57:56Z")
I’m going to suggest we use the $5 for 5 more tickets. That makes more sense to me than giving everyone a quarter. Oh… Woohoo! ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-office-pool-won-the-lottery/617384/9 "2012-03-31T15:02:03Z")
There goes your retirement plan. Woohoo! ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-office-pool-won-the-lottery/617384/10 "2012-03-31T15:03:27Z")
> [@OldnCrinkly](#): > > I won 10 bucks!! FCM, I’m pretty sure all I had was the powerball on that one, so you may have won more than you think! I bought 10 dollars worth for myself, but then I bought another 2 for a neighbor who was not able to get out and play her number, so I guess I’m still out 2 bucks. We’re talking about Mega Millions. A MegaBall by itself pays only $2. [http://www.megamillions.com/howto/](http://www.megamillions.com/howto/) Woohoo! ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-office-pool-won-the-lottery/617384/11 "2012-03-31T15:10:46Z")
I have the MegaBall plus one more number - 23 twice, to be specific. I think I have one number on one other ticket, and the other 3 tickets have nothing. I didn’t want all that money anyway - too many headaches… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-office-pool-won-the-lottery/617384/12 "2012-03-31T16:09:10Z")
I hit all the numbers…spread across 13 tickets, though. Plus side is, that means I won $2 for getting the MegaBall, so I’m only $11 in the hole.