winning the lottery

[alphatmw]

lets pretend you play a 6 number lottery. one of two things can happen:

1. you guess 4/6 numbers and win $10,000
2. you guess 6/6 numbers and win $20,000,000. you wait for a week before you can claim the prize. the day before you go to pick it up, you notice you only guessed 5/6 numbers right, and only win $100,000.

you have the power right now to pick your future. once you pick it, you will have no memory of having made this decision.

which one do you pick?

also, what value would you replace the $100,000 with for you to switch to the other answer? for example, if you said 2 originally, would you say 1 if you only actually won $20,000 or $50,000 instead? if you said 1, would you switch to 2 if you won $500,000 instead? where's the tipping point?

is anyone going to claim that as long as they win $10,001 or more, they would go with 2 no matter what?

[T-God]

I don't like the poll, but I just want to say that when I turned 18 I bought lottery tickets for like the first 10 drawings or so and very much expected to win. It angered me when I did not so I stopped playing.

That's T-God's experience with the lottery.

[kniper]

^----sklansky forum is that way

[NU Star]

F OOT

[popeye18]

Tough question. Id probably go with option 2 just because 90k is a ton of money to me right now.

[alphatmw]

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^----sklansky forum is that way

[/ QUOTE ]oh [censored] this would of been perfect for sklansky forum! damn.

[Ricardo Rivero]

F SKLANSYKY

[nowags]

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Tough question. Id probably go with option 2 just because 90k is a ton of money to me right now.

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QFMFT. Unemployment sucks.

[Jiggymike]

What is this pole about?

[Etric]

Obvious answer is #2 so they can post this in BBV:

Brag: I won 100k in the lottery
Beat: I thought I won 20M up until the day before when I noticed I only got 5/6 right wtf?

and then the next person can post

Beat: You play the lottery

and so on...