The Lottery Experiment August
A quick recap (if you didn't read the two previous blogs) after years of people telling me how much they win when they gamble, and never talk about how much they lose, I wondered what the actual numbers wold be. I decided to do an experiment, every week I would buy a lottery scratch ticket and keep track of how much I spent compared to what I won. At the end of the year I would calculate the final plus or minus total. So far I spent $33, won $55, found a $30 ticket, got a $5 tip from someone on a winning streak, and I won two tickets worth $5, which means I had to get a second ticket instead of cash, both second tickets were losers. After two months I was up $57 dollars. I've also entered 8 tickets in the second chance drawings. In June I was up $69 so in July I lost $17. At first I stuck to the rules and bought one ticket a week however in July I went outside the basic rules and started acting like a real gambler. I bought tickets based on how the numbers lined up or becaus...