Bought a lottery ticket last night thinking I was going to get rich. Didn't even get one number right. They call it the Education Lottery, didn't make me fill no smarter. How many of you wast you money on this?

Not me...I used to do it on my old job where everybody would pitch in $5.Only when the money pot got really big though... ;D

Lottery..........................A fool's dream.

I buy scratch off tickets, every once and awhile. The only reason they call it the education lottery is so that they can justify gambling to certain groups here in NC, but I will not get started on that subject. :

I play pick 3 once a while, and most I ever got out of it was 50 buck...but I have probably spent like 100 buying tickets...haha

Well let's see.

$3.00 a week is 12.00 a month(15.00 several months). That's a lucky craft lure.

No lotto here.

I probably wasted a total of $20 so far but it's definitely something I don't buy on a regular basis. 

All I have to say is:  thanks for the scholarships!  I'll gladly take your money.

All I have to say is: thanks for the scholarships! I'll gladly take your money.

I'm quite curious exactly how much of that money is really getting used where it's suppose to be for.It's suppose to be going to schools as well....but i hear horror stories of kids that don't even have books in class. So it makes me wonder if that's even true.

PA Cash 5, only when the jackpot is over $500,000.  Best odds of any PA game. Max of $2.00 at a time. I have gotten my "investment" back on occasion.

The lottery is a tax on mathematical ignorance

The lottery is a tax on mathematical ignorance

Yeah but could you imagine winning $100M or so?  8-)

All I have to say is: thanks for the scholarships! I'll gladly take your money.

I'm quite curious exactly how much of that money is really getting used where it's suppose to be for.It's suppose to be going to schools as well....but i hear horror stories of kids that don't even have books in class. So it makes me wonder if that's even true.

AR is using their lottery to revamp the Arkansas Academic Challenge Scholarship.  Before the lottery, there were strict financial limitations on who could receive the help.  Now, I believe almost anyone who applies is eligible, regardless of financial status.  It's a fairly large scholarship, about $5,000 a year.

The sad about the North Carolina Education Lottery is that none of goes to education. The school I go to is still poor as it was before the Education Lottery came around.

The sad about the North Carolina Education Lottery is that none of goes to education. The school I go to is still poor as it was before the Education Lottery came around.

You can't expect a lottery to raise enough money to fix every school in the state. The money does go to education, but most of it is towards new school construction and scholarships:

http://www.nc-educat...y2009_page2.pdf

I did have a have a guy that has fished with us for the past 25 years win a million dollars on a scratch off. He will get like 33,000 for 20 years. I thought he would carry all of us out for a meal, but instead he had his number changed.