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Off-Topic => All of all! => Topic started by: Apex on January 31, 2007, 03:37:09 PM

Title: Winning, against the odds.
Post by: Apex on January 31, 2007, 03:37:09 PM: Have you ever won a contest, raffle or drawing? Have you ever won a game of bingo, or scratched a winning lottery ticket? I'm sure someone in charas has got lady luck on their side.

I won a contest from a forum for a free 2000 point wii card today, it wasn't one of those stupid banners, it was a contest to get members to join their forum, naturally I signed up, got friendly with everyone, and won, for the first time in my life.

What's the most luck based thing someone has ever won?
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Post by: Kinslayer on January 31, 2007, 06:55:30 PM: I got a 2nd position in a school literature contest. Some soccer cups at school also, but only 2nd and 3d positions...

And I don't remember anything else.
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Post by: Djanki on January 31, 2007, 06:55:41 PM: ...

...Nothing....actually, my luck isn't all that great, and if something good happens, something bad'll happen to balance it.

Got a laptop? No internet for a while.

Got Okami? No time to play it.
etc.
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Post by: Daetyrnis on January 31, 2007, 07:05:20 PM: You guys realise that Apex is talking about games of chance, right? Soccer, chess, and writing take skill and very little luck is involved.

Anyways, I win those Bingo Lottery things all the time, but only the amount you pay to buy one. Those are common as they're supposed to get you hooked on their product. A "I keep on winning! *buys another*" kind of thing.
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Post by: MrMister on January 31, 2007, 07:25:06 PM: I've won a subscription to Nintendo Power, and a basketball hoop. From sweepstakes type things.
$200 from an instant lottery ticket.
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Post by: Trevlac on January 31, 2007, 07:46:40 PM: At our Senior Party I was play roullette and I placed everything I had on 27, trying to go out so I could go play something else and the ball landed on 27. The lady working the roullette table had to open a brand new package of higher dinomination chips. Hahah. I ended up winning over $500,000. It was funny because it was fake...and also unfunny for the same reason...

I don't win things...ever. Only times I've ever win something I have to work my ass off to get it.
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Post by: Osmose on January 31, 2007, 07:49:36 PM: I myself haven't won anything too big, but my Mom won $20,000 on a scratch off around 7 years ago, and $5000 on state lottery about two years ago. The $5000 went towards Christmas, bills, and a vacation for her and my father to Key West for a week, but the $20,000, $13,000 after taxes, went almost entirely to bills - that $20,000 saved us, because we were deep in debt back then, almost to the point of living in a motor home.

As for awards earned, I've gotten 1st place in a few programming competitions and various academic commendations and such.
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Post by: MrMister on January 31, 2007, 08:13:05 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Osmose
I myself haven't won anything too big, but my Mom won $20,000 on a scratch off around 7 years ago, and $5000 on state lottery about two years ago. The $5000 went towards Christmas, bills, and a vacation for her and my father to Key West for a week, but the $20,000, $13,000 after taxes, went almost entirely to bills - that $20,000 saved us, because we were deep in debt back then, almost to the point of living in a motor home.

<3. warmin. nice
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Post by: Bluhman on January 31, 2007, 08:16:21 PM: My sister one won 100 dollars in an online survey where a number was randomly chosen. If it was the right number, the person would win 100$. Yep. That's what happened. Never really happened to me at all. I'm not luckeh.
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Post by: Grandy on February 02, 2007, 01:04:09 AM: I aways get something when I go to bingos. Sometimes more than one prize.

Heck, once I got a blender, a coffee machine, and I almost got the bicicle, only for one number.

So, yes, I'm very lucky.
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Post by: oooog on February 02, 2007, 01:44:45 AM: I have never beaten the odds. Odds are there for a reason, and they're always very low odds for me. Most of the things I have won with determination and hard work, never luck. Everything I have won can be rationally explained. Our cross country team pulled off our first win overall in 10 years. This can be explained because we worked harder than the other teams. I buy a scratch and win. I got three almost wins, but no dice. I beat my brother in monopoly, he got tired and started handing me $500 instead of $5. I play 50 matches of bingo in school with 15 students. I won the pity prize, the leftover cookie.

Hooray cookie!
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Post by: Fortet on February 02, 2007, 02:21:24 AM: I have no luck >_>
That's why I decided to stop trying chance games two years ago!
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Post by: Blue_Strife on February 02, 2007, 02:25:38 AM: Back a few years when I still went to art shows at a local camp here, I entered the raffle for a painting, choice from two, both worth 600$. Was surprised when I won one of them, it's still hanging in my bedroom, in fact.

Also, at my college orientation I won some gift certificate to Curry's (An art store here), not to mention I won the bigger prize--a brand new MP3 player which has lasted almost the whole year. ^_^
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Post by: DragonBlaze on February 02, 2007, 04:22:48 AM: I won $4 on a lottery ticket the other day. Other than that, I don't really win anything, I'm just a very unlucky person when it comes to luck... That didn't make any sence did it?
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Post by: darkrune on February 02, 2007, 08:43:03 PM: I won 1,500$ off a large Burger King coke awhile back.

That was more or less awesome.
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Post by: FFL2and3rocks on February 02, 2007, 08:50:39 PM: I won free movie tickets in a cereal box. Can't remember what movie it was for, though.
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Post by: neb87 on February 02, 2007, 09:22:54 PM: I have won 100 bucks in sate lotto, and various crap from ticket drawings, only good thing I got was a dvd player and this was back when dvd players where new.
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Post by: X_marks_the_ed on February 02, 2007, 10:53:20 PM: The best I've ever won is best comeback in my school. No big achievement. Just take everything they use and apply logic to it.

It was some charity thing. You'd pay five dollar entry fee, then just say comebacks to commonly used insults statedby the judges. I won a giant coke mug.
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Post by: Snow_Storm on February 03, 2007, 02:24:50 AM: I got "Student of the Week" in Chemistry, which is amazing since I was almost about to fail the class.