The Lottery Experiment September
A Dilemma First, I'm not going to do a recap of why I'm doing the lottery experiment, if you want to find out go back and read the previous blogs. Now on to my problem. When I let things get out of hand I reined it back in by coming up with the Tip Jar, I only bought tickets with the money people left behind either accidentally or on purpose. (Powerball purchases were separate since there was already a set of rules in place before I started the experiment). Anyhow things worked well until the $200 came along. I'm going to skip the long story but the money is legitimate and I waited 60 full days before I claimed it. Anyhow it technically falls into the Tip Jar and ruins the whole point of controlling the amount I spend on tickets. Right now I could buy one of every game available and have cash left over. So what to do? I decided to set up an Alternative Tip Jar and the $200 would go into that, the money would go towards Powerball tickets and for buying tickets that I kn...