So, the back story. A long time ago (over 20 years ago), my sister-in-law had a dream. In that dream, a cat told her the winning numbers for the next state lottery. She woke up and wrote the numbers down, but never bought a ticket. It turns out that those numbers were the winning ones for that week. Everyone in my wife’s family (14 siblings total) knows this story, and Mrs. AG swears that it’s true.
So, it turns out that two nights ago, the same SiL had a dream where she saw my wife winning the lottery by buying 4 Quick Picks tickets. She never has this type of dream, so given the circumstances of the last lottery dream, she’s taking this very seriously. So seriously, that she’s been sleepless for the last couple of nights and she finally recruited every family member to call or e-mail us to tell us about it and try to persuade us to buy the tickets.
Our major state lottery is on Sat & Wed., and even though we rarely buy tickets (probably a $2 total investment annually), my wife did indeed buy 4 Quick Pix yesterday.
Now, of course, my wife is skeptical–especially since there wasn’t a cat involved in this particular dream ;), but I just wanted to publicize it for the record here at the Dope. Just in case, uh, you know…
Well, this will be fun and freaky if she does win. Of course you’re going to have to “out” your real life selves in order to provide a cite. Out of idle curiosity, if she does win, what would the jackpot be?
Here’s to hoping you win. Maybe you could make a small donation to the boards to buy some more hamsters, I believe the ones we have now are getting pretty old and tired. But seriously, I wish you luck.
Homer: Marge I have some very exciting news. I think that we may win…THE LOTTERY!
Marge: But homer we neve–
Homer: Now I know your excited but calm down. Go get all your money.
Homer: Hehehe…ive got so many tickets i cant loose
Marge: Homer, you know the odds of winning the lottery are exactly three hundred and sixty thousand to one.
Homer: Correction… three hundred and sixty thousand to FIFTY!
I have no idea–when I buy a lottery ticket (semi-annually), I always use the same #s. But I haven’t seen my wife’s tix so I don’t know what they are.
Actually, upon looking at the CA lottery website, there are two different multi-million $ jackpots (and a zillion other daily and “scratcher” permutations, apparently). While the Super Lotto jackpot is tonight (that’s the one I’m aware of since it’s the oldest here in the state), there’s also apparently a Mega Million drawing, which was last night. It sounds like she bought a MM ticket (“Oh, it was $100million something” according to her), so we might already be winners! :eek: :dubious:
I see the website shows that last night’s drawing yielded zero Mega winners, but there are several other levels of winners if you guess 5 (or fewer) of the 6 numbers correctly. So maybe she won $3 (1 right + the mega), which leaves us only a buck in the whole (I’m guessing; don’t know if the Mega ticket costs more).
The drawing was last night and she bought the ticket right under the wire, so she read off the four different combinations of numbers to me as I was cross-checking on the website, and the best she got was 1 out of 6 on one of the tix, but that’s not enough to earn anything (unless it’s the “Mega”, which it wasn’t).
So it’s confirmed–lottery predictions are unreliable unless the come from a cat.
When I lived in London, the ex and I bought a lottery ticket every week with “our” numbers (birthday-related numbers, etc.). We separated years ago and I moved back, but stay in touch, and he still bought the same ticket, though not as regularly.
Earlier this year, the numbers hit. $6m, as I recall, or something like that. Plus, it’s tax-free in the UK.
He hadn’t bought the ticket that week. He was a little disappointed.
The best way to increase your chances of winning the lottery it seems, is to buy your ticket, not look at the numbers, stick the ticket in an old coat and throw it in the loft, then forget about it until the week your claim would run out. One thing you don’t do, is watch the draw live whilst looking at your numbers; whatever chances you had, surely they’ve got to be lessened if you are sat there waiting for them to be called?
:dubious:
:mad: 
