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

Michigan Millionaire Raffle

I haven't mentioned this yet, but a week or so ago Michigan has announced the sale of their Millionaire Raffle to start March 12, 2007. What is the Millionaire Raffle? Well they started it back in November 2006 where only 500,000 tickets were sold and a drawing was made to where:

5 people won a Million
10 people won $100,000
700 won $1,000

Quoting www.michigan.gov/lottery

"Citing the overwhelming response to the first raffle, Lottery Commissioner Gary Peters said the March game will offer 600,000 tickets at $20 each. The increased number of tickets for sale in the second Millionaire Raffle gives players a chance at more prizes. This raffle will feature six $1 million prizes, 12, $100,000 prizes, and 900, prizes of $1,000 each. Overall odds for winning a raffle prize are 1:654."

Wahoo!! That's all that came out of my mouth when I first heard that. The March game will begin the 12th and for all of you looking for the best odds around, this is the game to play. With a steep $20 ticket price, it's well worth the chance for a million dollars. Will your good buddy Cliff be playing this raffle? You know it! In fact, I'll be "investing" in 5 tickets making my overall odds of winning

$1,000,000 - 1:20,000
$100,000 - 1:10,000
$1,000 - 1:133
Winning anything: 130.8

I love those odds. A small investment of only $100. Will I be crazy enough to do it? You know what I think I just might be crazy enough to do it and i'll let all of you know how much I wind up making on this venture!!!


Total Spent to date on Michigan Mega Millions: $9
Total Won to date on Michigan Mega Millions: $0
Total Profit to date on Michigan Mega Millions: $-9

Total Spent on Scratch and Wins: $5
Total Won on Scratch and Wins: $5
Total Profit on Scratch and Wins: $0