spellcheckman's Blog

Ok, so Virginia (the state of) sells about 80 million dollars of scratch off tickets for which the prize has already been claimed.  A lawyer get wind of it and wants Virginia to give back the money.  To who I don't know.  And the money has been spent (very quickly) so they won't do it.  

Further investigation of other states reveals that this happens all the time. 

The lawyer says that selling a ticket with no chance to win is different from buying a ticket with a slim chance to win. 

The state of Virginia says, "no" the players knew that the chances of winning are slim.

The dumbing of America is almost complete.

Doug Arnold, U of Minnesota Match chair says the chances of winning powerball are 146,107,462 to 1.

If you went to Dallas, say 500 miles away, and passed a Full Chiefs stadium,80,000 people at every mile marker and knew that one person had the winning ticket along the way,  you would have to make about 2 round trips to find that winning ticket before you passed 146 million people.