Stax said:

i wanna play but i don't know how to get started

I throw in a couple bucks when it's really high.

I have a friend that won $100 million.

RodeoSchro said:

No way.

Really?

How did it change his life?

-Odds of winning a single state lottery: 1 in 18 million (my comment--this depends on which lottery you play; 1 in 18 million is pretty good for a lottery; most of the ones I've seen are like 120,000,000 or more to 1)
-Odds of becoming president: 1 in 10,000,000
-Odds of dying from parts falling off an airplane: 1 in 10,000,000
-Odds of dying from contact with hot tap water: 1 in 5,005,564
-Odds you’ll be killed by lightning: 1 in 2,650,000
-Odds that you will die from the collision of an asteroid hitting the earth in the next one hundred years: 1 in 500,000
-Odds of a child being in a fatal automobile accident: 1 in 23,000
-Odds of dying in a car accident: 1 in 18,585
-Odds of being murdered: 1 in 18,000
-Odds of winning an Academy Award: 1 in 11,500
-Odds you will be injured by a toilet this year: 1 in 10,000
-Odds of dying on a bicycle: 1 in 4,472
-Odds of writing a New York Times best seller: 1 in 220

http://www.freemoneyfinan...thing.html

So, you have an almost 4 times greater chance of dying from your cup of coffee than winning the lottery. I have also heard that your chances of being made a saint are like 1 in 5,000,000. Having said this, I still play on occasion when the jackpot gets over $200 million.