My daughter posted a website to me yesterday. It was a Powerball simulator. I ran the simulation for 50 years, spent $10,500 and got a return of $924, less than ten percent of what I spent. Your mileage may vary, but the best I could do was hit three of the white balls ten times. I got the Powerball right 140 times. Woo hoo!
But the argument is, no matter how many times someone tells you that the definition of a lottery is a tax on a person who is bad at math, that someone has to win. And that would be correct, but a lot of people are not. There was a 16% chance that the Powerball could have rolled over again to this weekend, that's how many numbers had not been drawn yet. And, someone did finally win. The Powerball actually had three winners this week, one in Florida, one in Tennessee and one near me, about ten miles away in Chino Hills, CA. Someone is very wealthy down here in California. I hope it's an unmarried woman. Then everyone will be able to call her Miss Fortune.
