PowerBall, $2/ticket.
Yes, please buy some tickets. My spreadsheet says $39 owed. (38 - 19 for the bet + 20 for 2 more rounds). So if you buy... $60 then we're close to even?
PowerBall
If you win...
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Places with no Powerball.
Nevada's reasons are obvious, although it's funny the one racket for profit that's prohibited there is the numbers game. Mississippi is in the same boat.
Alaska and Hawaii think their populations are too sparse.
That leaves Utah ...
... and Alabama as the outliers. Considering how Mormons keep tithing alive, I can see why they'd tell a lottery to go fuck itself. Alabama is a complete mystery.
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Alabama, Alaska, Hawaii, Mississippi, Nevada and Utah
Nevada's reasons are obvious, although it's funny the one racket for profit that's prohibited there is the numbers game. Mississippi is in the same boat.
Alaska and Hawaii think their populations are too sparse.
That leaves Utah ...
most legislators are Mormons who oppose gambling
... and Alabama as the outliers. Considering how Mormons keep tithing alive, I can see why they'd tell a lottery to go fuck itself. Alabama is a complete mystery.
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Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Alabama is a complete mystery.
I think maybe 10 people in the state of Alabama can count past 20, so that's probably the main reason.
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
About 5% can get up to 21. That is curiously the same number of them that have an extra finger or toe.Leisher wrote:I think maybe 10 people in the state of Alabama can count past 20, so that's probably the main reason.Alabama is a complete mystery.
Hey hey, 3 winners. Not you.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Re: PowerBall
Just tell me what I owe. I'll be afk for a couple days.
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell