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when do you usually purchase your lottery tickets

in the morning hours

[ 0 ]

[ 0.0% ]

right before lunch hour

[ 1 ]

[ 5.6% ]

during lunch hour

[ 0 ]

[ 0.0% ]

in the afternoon

[ 2 ]

[ 11.1% ]

coming home from work

[ 1 ]

[ 5.6% ]

in the early evening hours

[ 1 ]

[ 5.6% ]

during the night hours

[ 1 ]

[ 5.6% ]

i do mine at different times

[ 11 ]

[ 61.1% ]

i do mine online

[ 1 ]

[ 5.6% ]

Total valid votes

[ 18 ]

Discarded votes

[ 1 ]

LOTTOMIKE

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Mar 29, 2006, 2:33 pm

when do you buy your lottery tickets?
LOTTOMIKE

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Mar 29, 2006, 2:37 pm

i usually do mine online........
Korean Redneck

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Mar 29, 2006, 2:38 pm

Mega Millions and PB: After $50 mill jackpot. Usually 1/2 hour before the computer is closed.
weshar75

Mcminnville, Oregon
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Mar 29, 2006, 2:53 pm

I buy Lottery tickets when ever I feel like I am going to be lucky that day.-weshar75
Uff Da!

Washington State
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Mar 29, 2006, 2:58 pm

I'm retired so don't have a regular schedule. Therefore, I buy them whenever I go out to get groceries, go to a meeting or whatever, at various times. Some times I miss even when the MM jackpot is over $50 million or the state jackpot over $10 million, as I don't make a special trip just for that.
Blackie

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Norfolk , Va
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Mar 29, 2006, 4:19 pm

I usually buy mine at the last minute for some reason. Always about 1 hour to 30 minutes before the draw which is right about the cut off point. Sometimes I get behind someone that has about 500 numbers on playslips and I have to rush out to another retailer. Some folks cant seem to get it straight what they want to play so they are telling the cashier more numbers without a slip even after their 500 numbers. This is pick 3. Go figure. I better get an earlier start.

Good Luck,
Blackie.
Editgap

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Mar 29, 2006, 5:16 pm

The day before.
RJOh

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Mar 29, 2006, 5:49 pm

I usually buy my tickets within an hour of the drawings unless I am traveling out of state to buy PowerBall tickets. For me, part of the entertainment of playing the lotteries is picking my numbers, so I usually pick several groups of numbers to play and don't usually decide which group to play and make out my cards until an hour before the drawings. If I don't get around to making out cards, I don't play and I'm usually money ahead and it just as entertaining.

* you don't need to buy every combination, just the winning ones *
angelm

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Mar 29, 2006, 7:28 pm

different times
justxploring

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Mar 30, 2006, 3:56 am

Usually at night after dinner. The stores are less crowded after 8. I don't lose power often, but in the summer if we have a potentially bad storm on the way, I will buy tickets in advance for 2 or more plays. I lost power for 3 days after Charley and when Wilma hit, I couldn't buy tickets even a week after the power was restored, because the terminals were still down. I drove a few miles and was able to get them at an Albertson's up the road, but I now add to my hurricane preparedness list "candles, flashlight batteries, canned food, bread, peanut butter, bottled water, cereal bars....and lottery tickets!
DoubleDown

Coastal Georgia
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Mar 30, 2006, 7:17 am

JXP said : "candles, flashlight batteries, canned food, bread, peanut butter, bottled water, cereal bars....and lottery tickets!

Gotta have the ESSENTIALS !!!
You go !!
anonymous77

Seoul
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Mar 30, 2006, 8:07 am

At different times. But, I am usually in a hurry when the jackpot of my interest gets extraordinarily big...usually right after the announcement of jackpot rollover.
calabs

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Mar 30, 2006, 8:33 am

I voted on the way home from work, which is when I purchase a large % of the time. But I also buy online, and on weekends I go when I have the free time. I have three favorite "pit stops" on the way home. Now as soon as they have Cash 5 online, and when Betslips has both a morning AND evening cutoff, I'll be doing more online than at the "green machine"!

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