The Daily 3

I’m not quite sure what made me want to play the Daily 3, but I figured in my quest to learn more about the Michigan Lottery, I should play all of what I can and see how the results are! The enticing price of winning for only 50 cents I decided I had to try it at least once! I convinced my friend to go halves with me, a Quarter each, but no change availed and we split a $1 ticket. Needless to say, we lost. The expense along with the odds of winning are a lot better! So many options to play and so many ways to win. I’ll be playing every possible way to get more indepth knowledge of the whole thing. To let you readers know the better ways to play! For the lowest wager of 50 cents, I can see this being a new possible addiction or favorite to play.

I didn’t win the Mega Millions but I’m having higher hopes of winning the Michigan Millionaire Raffle! I can smell the million already. If not, I can already see me with a new house for the 100,000 prize. Nothing to fancy, but a great starter house to be out on my own with my g/f and little baby. I do have a few things I was thinking about. It’s the fact that I’m not on a winning streak. I’m $22 in the hole for Mega Millions and won nothing. I spent $41 bucks in scratch and wins and I’ve only won $9. It’s kind of a shot in the foot when you think about it, but I’m starting to think that the big money is in the higher priced tickets. I’ve noticed that I’ve never won anything this year on a $1 ticket to date. I’ve never gone as far as venturing to buy a $20 ticket anytime soon. Even though I’ve spent $140 on 7 $20 Millionaire raffle tickets but not a scratch and win. Maybe one day I’ll have my way and fish out a 20 spot. Not until I get a job though, 20 bucks is a lot to spend on a scratch and win. I can’t afford to be that addicted right now. But my first paycheck, I’ll search one out and see what happens!

Friday, March 23rd, 2007 Winning Numbers
18   21   35   51   53   36
My losing Numbers
07   14   41   45   55   41

March 27th, 2007 Estimated Jackpot $60 Million

Total Spent to date on Michigan Mega Millions: $22
Total Won to date on Michigan Mega Millions: $0
Total Profit to date on Michigan Mega Millions: $-22

Total Spent on Scratch and Wins: $41
Total Won on Scratch and Wins: $9
Total Profit on Scratch and Wins: $-32

Michigan Mega Millions Continues

Like every morning on Wednesday, I tend to stay in bed just a little longer and imagine what I could buy with all the possible money I might have just won the previous night in the Tuesday drawing. This morning was early, rising up at 6:30am to take my girl to the hospital for her appointments. Well it was freezing, as usual this week. The cold didn’t take away my dreams for the possible win. As I was driving I kept imagining driving a nice luxury car that was heated up with heated seats and very roomy. I looked past my freezing ‘03 ion sedan’s coldness, as well as it’s frozen shut hood, and the salty dirt residue on my windshield. Of course I run out of fluid the day prior so I decided to put some in the next day. The next day being yesterday when my hood was frozen shut. So I rocked out with a bottle of windex and an old beach towel in the backseat. A new car. That’s my first priority when I win the lottery. I’m not even going to wait for the check to come in either, I’ll go straight to the dealer explain that I won the lottery and want a car. OK, that wont’ happen, I’ll have to wait until after I get the money to go to the dealer. Who wants to trust and unemployed person to buy some type of luxury car? A Caddy no less.

“Excuse me sir, i’m unemployed, have no money to my name. But I did just win the lottery and I haven’t cashed my check yet. May I buy one of your fine automobiles?”

Ya, it won’t work out that well, so I’ll have to take that one last final road trip with the old Ion up to Lansing…..ah hell, I’ll rock out with a limo to cash in my ticket. With style baby! Wasting money already before I get it, that’s how I’ll start it out.

I didn’t win the lottery, I checked it out today and saw that I had nothing. Notta. Zip. Zilch. Crap. I did however stop by a 7 eleven gas station to buy another mega millions ticket before I found out my misfortune. I also picked up a Cashword Doubler $2 ticket. Using my lucky Nickel that scratched the $5 winner, I scratched it off and found out that I won double what I won off my Mega Millions ticket. Nothing. That puts me in the negatives for scratch and wins. I think I’ll buy scratch and wins in bulk next time. Or at least in my favor. Odds to win were 1 in 4.86. Which means I’d need to purchase 5 tickets for an almost guaranteed chance of winning something. $10 for a chance to win $2. Doesn’t sound so far does it? O well, not that big of a deal I guess. I do still plan on doing an against the odds scratch and win, where I buy the odds, ie. if it’s 1 in 4.86, I round up and buy 5 tickets. I’ll also be trying the theory of spending $20 on a single type of ticket sometime soon as well to see how that goes.

Next big projected pot is 91 million dollars. Holy crap that’s a lot of money! It’s getting up there pretty fast. You gotta love the big pots like this, they just go up faster and faster by people hoping to win that big one.

Shameless Plugs:
- Cadillac’s - go over to www.cadillac.com now to check out the new series caddy’s available.
- My ‘03 Saturn Ion. Still happy it’s running, still happy the gas mileage is low. www.saturn.com to see some nicely priced vehicles with great gas mileage.

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007 Winning Numbers
16 21 35 36 46 38
My losing Numbers
02 13 34 51 56 19

Total Spent to date on Michigan Mega Millions: $10
Total Won to date on Michigan Mega Millions: $0
Total Profit to date on Michigan Mega Millions: $-10

Total Spent on Scratch and Wins: $7
Total Won on Scratch and Wins: $5
Total Profit on Scratch and Wins: $-2