![]() There’s the big huge prize if you get all six numbers, but in a lot of cases there’s a smaller prize if you get 3, 4, 5 numbers. So when you do the lottery, right, you do mega millions do other stuff like that. It would fall down, so to speak, into the lower brackets. ![]() But with Winfall, if it reached a certain level, I think it was like $5 million, the jackpot would be filtered down. It can’t even get into a billion dollars. But if the jackpot was not claimed by winner… Like with Powerball and Mega Millions, the jackpot can grow and grow and grow. So what would happen is that with Winfall, it was a standard lottery where it had a jackpot that would grow over time. It was from a Michigan game called Winfall. They were a retired Michigan couple, and they ended up making $26 million from lottery games. But there was a case, I think it was in Michigan, where a couple discovered a loophole. I think Powerball had something, what, like 80 million to one odds? Yeah, that’s just not going to happen. If it has a smaller number of combinations of four or five numbers, that drastically limits the odds versus trying to match six numbers or six numbers and a Powerball or something like that. How can you possibly beat the lottery? It’s random, right? Well, in some cases you can, based on the particular system of the lottery. So let’s talk though about how to fix the lottery. But even there have probably been hundreds if not thousands of people who have won lottery prizes.Īnd so they’ve done studies on this, and the lotto curse is greatly overrated. ![]() But think about it, especially if you factor in wins that are 1000, 5,000, $10,000, not like the big mega millions wins. Oh, look how bad their life turned out.Īnd that can prejudice you to think, oh, that’s everybody who wins the lottery. If you were to go online and read the stories of people who were the victims of the lottery curse, now you’ll find lists of maybe 10 or 20 people, victims of the lottery curse. I remember reading a study a while back saying that while this does happen to some people, the majority of people who win lottery prizes say that they have a positive feeling about life, that they’re better off now that they’ve won the lottery versus not. But it is sort of an urban legend to say that that’s a general rule for lottery winners. There’s some people who win the lottery that it’s really bad for them because they couldn’t handle that kind of money. The problem is their ability to spend it wisely. If you’re bad with money, you could give someone all the money in the world and they’re still going to waste it, right? The problem isn’t the lack of money. They get addicted to drugs, and it is just awful.Īnd that does happen to some people who win the lottery, especially people who’ve never had a lot of money or are bad with money. They end up becoming bankrupt, they end up being murdered or victims of crime, or they lose everything. You’ve probably heard about that, right? That people who win the lottery, it’s the worst thing that ever happened to them. Now, we could do an entire other episode just on the, so-called Curse of the Lottery. But on Friday we talk about whatever I want to talk about.Īnd today I want to talk about beating the lottery. Mondays and Wednesdays, we talk apologetics and theology, how to explain and defend the Catholic faith. I’m your host, Catholic Answers apologist, Trent Horn. ![]() What if you could beat the lottery? That’s what we’re going to talk about today here on the Council of Trent podcast. Wouldn’t it be nice to win the lottery? Just have most or all of your financial problems go away? Well, it’s not going to happen, right? People just don’t win the lottery. Welcome to the Council of Trent podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.
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