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 LotteryI know I’ll win the big lottery jackpot someday. Even though I’ve never bought a ticket. I’ve spent my winnings many times, well, in my imagination. But I know I’m going to win, even in the face of insurmountable odds. And so do the millions of people who buy tickets regularly. But the true believers are the ones that pile in when the odds are at their highest. When the jackpot swells into the tens of millions. When your chances of winning couldn’t be smaller. If you are a regular player wouldn’t you want to avoid the huge jackpots and the huge increase in competition? Would winning 35 million really be that much better than winning 3 or 4 million? I’d be glad to win 500,000 and I assume so would most people.Now I’ll assume the classic Crackpot stance. Some one who is only partially informed about the subject on which he or she is expounding. If you continue reading, you will realize, if you haven’t already, that I don’t know what I’m talking about in terms of the way the lottery works. What I do know is that I’d like to win some money, and I’m pretty sure that both my readers would too. If the pots were smaller more people would win. And more people would know some one who had won. Wouldn’t that be the kind of self perpetuating advertising machine that would drive the lottery ticket sales? Or am I just missing the point? Would more smaller prizes make the administration of the contest prohibitively expensive or unwieldy? Are smaller prizes what the Magic 3, the Fantabulous 4 and the Fantasy 5 are all about? Seventy winners could claim $500,000 out of a 35 million dollar mega jackpot. Now wouldn’t that be more fun? Lisa Smillie |
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