Will Michigan ditch the Super Raffle?

So I’m sitting here after spending 40 bucks on the Raffle….when will the next raffle come out? I’m curious how it will work out since it rotates Millionaire Raffle then Super Raffle. Will Michigan finally ditch the Super Raffle?
The reason I’m thinking this is that not only did it have very bad sale records, but they had to extend the drawing date an extra week plus because of low sales. For 50 bucks a ticket, I’m not sure whether or not that’d be a great idea to do. Will I buy a ticket buy a ticket? Of course, I always buy the latest and greatest ticket available! I have been lacking in scratch and win tickets, or should I say, Scratch and Lose tickets because there is no hope like there is with the mega millions and the like. You buy it, you get it, you lose. All within a few seconds.

Winning Numbers

June 27, 2008

Daily 3
Midday - 821
Evening - 812

Daily 4
Midday - 4140
Evening - 6949

Fantasy 5 - 07 12 22 33 34

Mega Millions - 08 14 22 39 50 44

A Saturday of Luck? Not really

Just having a new born baby I thought I’d have some luck in playing the lottery. Well I played the Classic, Mega and the Daily 3 with a day off the numbers since the lady didn’t hear me well. I’m thinking that’s what caused the unluckiness, but neither of the numbers showed up. I’m still crossing my fingers for tomorrows supposed Raffle draw though. I have two tickets just dying to win!

Two of my latest projects I been tinkering with is playing every single possible combination of the daily 3 over the course of 1000 days. A long daunting project that is not only time consuming but will be more of a better way to put a book together me thinks. What happened to the Project Lottery Life book? Well of course there was dead time in between posts here and there and nobody bought into the idea. I will however be putting together the blog posts of that year and making an e book out of them when I get a chance.

The next project I’ve been working on as of late is playing the Fantasy 5 for a month straight everyday to see the odds on that, something like the original Project Lottery Life with the Mega Millions except I’ll do better book keeping.

Why wasn’t there a big event on me doing that project? Well every time I got a ticket I wrote down the numbers, however I didn’t keep the ticket and it just turned out not feeling right since I really didn’t have any concrete proof that I played it every time. However I will be making a post on the results of it shortly.

June 21st, Winning Numbers

Daily 3
Midday - 749
Evening - 636

Daily 4
Midday - 2396
Evening - 6326

Fantasy 5 - 08 13 16 24 39

Classic Lotto - 07 10 19 23 32 44

A new beginning coming

With the Raffle drawing around the corner on Monday a thought came to mind. If bought far apart, could one person possibly win 2 of the million dollar prizes? The odds for it happening are so far and out there it’s about as likely as winning the actual mega millions. However, I bought my tickets so far apart that it seems that I may have a chance. A very very slim chance, but a chance nonetheless. Will I win? Odds are against me, I’ve bought tickets far apart before and won absolutely NOTHING. I’ve also had people email me as well as comment on this blog saying they played the actual odds of winning and STILL won nothing. That right there just kinda cheese me off, since the odds aren’t there and are of course wrong. But its the closest way to determined what actually can be won. I’m hoping for at least 100 bucks after laying down 38 bucks for the tickets. If I win anything more then that, I’ll be on cloud 9.

June 18th Winning Numbers

Classic Lotto - 11 17 25 36 42 13

June 20th, Winning Numbers

Daily 3
Midday - 912
Evening - 451

Daily 4
Midday - 5053
Evening - 7478

Fantasy 5 - 02 05 17 26 37

Mega Millions - 11 17 25 36 42 + Mega Ball 13

New Blog Logo

This place finally got an upgrade with it’s own personal logo!

The good man himself Cliff Nowicki over at www.cliffnowicki.com created a personal logo to by pass all the plain jane stuff that we have right now. Sound familiar? Well it’s me of course, and I felt that this place needed a quick something to distinguish itself. I’ve had it sitting around for months before I realized that it was finally time to put it up on the site.

I’ve also been trying some other money making ideas, but have yet to figure it out with all that stuff. I’ll be making a book/dvd page and go through the amazon area and hopefully if your into buying lottery stuff you can do it through there and I can get a little commission on that. I’ll announce that as soon as it becomes available so you can get your hands on some cool lottery stuff that you may not have known.

Onto the winning numbers from Saturday June 15, 2008

Daily 3
Midday- 466
Evening- 867

Daily 4
Midday- 8671
Evening - 9241

Classic Lotto - 06 16 18 28 38 42

Fantasy 5 - 07 13 17 33 34

Friday the 13th. Lucky Lotto Day?

The answer to that question is a big fat no. A co-worker suggested today that I buy 13 lottery tickets upon hearing that Friday the 13th is a lucky day for me. As an avid lotto player, I jumped at the chance. I decided to try my luck at a few other tickets as well. What was the total of ticket buyage?
13 x Mega Millions
1 x Classic Lotto
1 x Fantasy 5
1 x Daily 3
1 x Michigan Raffle

I just had to buy a 2nd Raffle ticket with big hopes that my lucky day may pay off. Will it pay off? Only time will tell, but so far the tickets that game out with winning numbers are the mega millions, fantasy 5 and daily 3. A total of 15 bucks spent on those and a grand total of……$3 bucks!! YAY I can make u p for the classic, fantasy and daily. It was worth a shot, the tickets still waiting to be called out is tonights Classic Lotto and the Michigan Raffle. I have a good hope about that raffle ticket. At the end of the day I don’t feel as lucky but really hopeful about that Raffle ticket.

June 13th, Winning Numbers

Daily 3 -
Midday - 500
Evening - 196

Daily 4 -
Midday - 5792
Evening - 3205

Fantasy 5 - 13 14 16 22 32

Mega Millions - 08 09 14 38 44 + Mega Ball 36

More Money

So I checked my Fantasy 5 ticket again today….and I won a dollar!! YAY, I continue to make my money back time after time. Lucky? I think so. Great luck? Not really, I’m happy with winning my money back. Maybe its the trend that I cash in my ticket to buy another one and it NEEDS to win at least 1.

Winning numbers

June 10th, 2008
Mega Millions - 03 05 15 43 51 Mega Ball 11

June 11th, 2008
Classic Lotto 16 20 23 29 37 40
Daily 3 -
Midday - 683
Evening - 658
Daily 4 -
Midday - 7209
Evening - 0642

Fantasy 5 - 04 24 33 37 38

Keno - 03 04 05 10 11 18 20 23 27 29 32 34 36 41 44 50 52 56 63 67 76 77

The NEW Michigan Millionaire Raffle on sale

That’s right folks ! The latest raffle is on sale right now! Whats better then a $20 chance to win a million bucks? Well multiple reasons now! With the new raffle here’s what to expect, straight from www.michigan.gov/lottery

The Lottery’s Millionaire Raffle is back!  A limited number of tickets, only 600,000, will be sold at all Lottery terminals across Michigan beginning May 5, 2008.  Each ticket sold will contain a unique six-digit number from 000001 to 600000.  In a single drawing scheduled for no earlier than June 23, 2008, 6,018 raffle tickets will be randomly selected to win the following great prizes:

Prize	Odds of Winning
6 grand prizes of $1,000,000 each (annuitized over 20 years*)	1:100,000
12 prizes of $100,000 each	1:50,000
2000 prizes of $500 each	1:300
4000 prizes of $100 each	1:150
Overall: 1:100

That’s the just of it! A great chance to win at least a 100 bucks!! Well not a great chance, but hey! The more the merrier. I picked up the discounted ticket for a mere 18 bucks which led way to an unexpected 2 bucks to play towards the classic and mega millions! This thing keeps on giving! OF course I got the fantasy 5 since I had the extra 2 bucks.

GET YOURS NOW!

Finding random un-checked tickets

It’s always a pleasant surprise when your looking around for junk or cleaning up around your desk or closet and find that lottery ticket that you totally forgot to check. Whether it was because you placed it there for later because you bought it way early, or things fell and temporarily buried it. It’s always fun to remember a ticket that COULD be a winner. Usually if yoru like me, you have a system to make sure you didn’t already check the ticket. For me, I cross a diagonal line down the middle for losers, and I put the dollar amount down I won for the tickets that I got something. Then there’s the circles of numbers to indicate I got those numbers…which are scattered on losers and winners. But today I found about 4 tickets scattered on my desk that had no markings whatsoever. SCORE!! This means another chance to win!

Since I’m constant on what the jackpots are for every ticket I buy, I know that I didn’t win the big one. However, there are the small pots that could be worth up to $250,000 that I would never know about. Alas, none of these tickets were winners today. I still look back at the times I found tickets laying around that I got money off of and how future one’s could be the big winners. Hopefully in the future, they don’t get misplaced and I’ll know sooner then later.

Why lottery tickets are just as useful as coffee.

I’m still playing and paying the lotto. It’s been getting tougher and tougher losing more and more. Actually not so much losing as it is figuring out what else could of spent instead. But is it really worth it? I still stand on the stance of yes!

Why would I think of this? I’ve been adding all the tickets I’ve played the entire past year and saw all the losing tickets and what I could of spent the money on. I’ll have a more detailed answer to that later, but in the end it’s quite a few bucks that could be spent on a night out or even a night in of fun. Most of you would call me a sucker for spending money wasted. But I’m sure you all know my stance. A lot of you spend money on crap you don’t need as well and you all justify it with a reason as to WHY you need it, and WHY someone else is wasting their money.

For me, I like to spend my extra bucks on lotto tickets and I don’t complain about other people for it. Although I get a lot of comments saying how I  am wasting my money. I always say it’s my money and a chance to win more. Sucker bet? Most think so, but lets analyze some things other people WASTE money on and why it’s sooooo much needed.

Coffee -

Averaging 3 bucks, this cup of caffeine is consumed daily by most. I spend less then 10 bucks a week on tickets, people who drink coffee on the go spend a lot more. Why you ask? Because they like the taste and they need it to stay awake.  Well why not take caffeine pills? If it’s that bad cause it’s to much caffeine,  then you shouldn’t be having coffee. Make a pot at home and if you don’t have time, you not only have money issues, but you also have time management issues and I’m pretty sure your not debt free.

Alcohol-

A six pack is much more entertaining then blowing money on a chance to win more? I disagree here too. If you need drinks to have a good time, then I need lotto tickets to have a good time. I also bet I can get more out of a lottery ticket then drunk. Whens the last time you got in a lotto accident on the highway cause someone was drunk on lotto? Lotto is an addiction, but the odds of it’s addiction is far less risky then beer. Nobody goes out and drives like an asshole on a Saturday night after buying a lottery ticket.

Porn-

OK, this is a touchy subject but there are a few people who waste tons of money on this. This can also fall under strip clubs as well. Money goes in and out within a matter of seconds for a quick high. Get the free stuff online, it’s cheaper. A great porn will keep you happy for a few minutes, a great lotto ticket will keep you happy for a lifetime.

Drugs-

If your on drugs and call the lottery a waste, then your messed up. It’s ok, i’m sure you just can’t count how many numbers are in a lottery ticket let alone where to find a lotto ticket. If you somehow found this website then you need to get high on lotto. It’s your only hope. Winning can either do great and change your life, or …make you go on a drug binge and kill yourself. On second thought, if your on drugs DON’T play the lotto if you dont’ want too.

Going out to eat-

You say you need food to live? Sure you do! But do you really need the steak dinner, rack of ribs, lobster or happy meal to survive? No. You don’t need a lotto ticket to survive either, but if you calling the lotto a waste while eating a 20 dollar dinner saying you NEED to eat to live then your mi-steak-en…..bad pun.  You only need the basic essentials to keep your body healthy and going. I’m sure if you ask a Dr, anything prepared at a micky something or applewhatever or even Redwhatchamacallit, they will not only say it’s unhealthy for you but they’ll advice going to places like that. Lotto wins again! I don’t go out and throw down on a night of 30 dollar lottery tickets…I’m sure it’d be fun, but i don’t.

That’s pretty much what I can thin kof right now. I know everybody has rebuttle’s to everything on this subject on why I’m wrong, but when you think down to common sense then your waste is just as much of a waste as a lottery ticket. It goes down the drain and it could of been better spent on something else. Pay off your bills, student loans and credit card bills. I’m debt free, are you?