Have you ever noticed that nobody you know has won the lottery?

Question

I bet you can't even trace it down from ten friends, acquaintances, neighbors using I know someone who knows someone who knows someone, etc. Doesn't anyone else find this a little peculiar?

Answer 1

my granny won £1700 lol still not full jacpot but at least she won sumthing

Answer 2

my mother won a split pot of 4 million and it came out to be 1.4 or so after taxes she invested most of it in a high yeild IRA

Answer 3

I know someone that won  Ã‚£176,000. They have turned so nasty and s****. now. I wish I could win!

Answer 4

My best friend's mother won 1/4 mil, so there goes your theory..

Answer 5

my grandmother actually won the lottery in the 80's

Answer 6

That's because the chances of actually winning are like 1 in 100,000,000.  That is like 50 people in the U.S.  Do you know everyone?

Answer 7

I do know someone who won the lotto.  They won a smaller of the big jackpots of $2 million.

Answer 8

too many people and the statistics is that you won't even know anyone who's won anything substantial in your own town.