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Anonymous
July 27, 2019
Question

What Will You Do When You Win The Lottery?

Okay, let's assume that you've won £100m on the Euromillions or US Lottery. What will you do with the cash?

I'd do the following:

1) Find a horse the next day that's 100/1 and stick my £100m on the nose to win

2) With my £10bn I'll do the following:

  • Buy a load of property (a house in the country, a house by the seaside, a house in London and a house in Ireland)
  • Buy 100 Bitcoins
  • Buy a horsie and name him Giggsy
  • Buy a few racehorses
  • Invest around £1bn in VR developers (or maybe £1m if I don't decide to make that bet above), and pay someone to finish my game for me :D
  • Forget about my friends and family cos they're all bloody gold-diggers, same with all of you lot too :D
  • Give a fair bit to cancer research and diabetes research, £1bn each (or £1m if I don't make that bet)

Now some of you may think I've lost my marbles with number 1) above but think about it. You've won the lottery at odds of around 15,000,000/1. Your luck is running, so odds of 100/1 is NOTHING.

I should have a good amount left over (depending on how good or bad my racehorses are) and I'll just live on the interest and treat myself to something nice every now and then.

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    Pixie40
    Pixie40
    Honored Contributor
    August 24, 2020
    I might not, but realize that others will. So I felt the need to point out how flawed the logic is for those people.

    That said, I really do have a plan for if I ever win big in the lottery. And that plan is "sit on the money for a year, live the rest of my life off the interest". Of course to have any chance, even a slim one, of needing this plan I would have to do something I don't do. Namely I'd have to buy lotto tickets.
    Lo, a quest! I seek the threads of my future in the seeds of the past.
    bigmike20vt
    Honored Contributor
    August 24, 2020
    100 million.
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    Buy a property and open a gaming arcade club like the one in Manchester and Leeds covering all generations of arcade as well as consoles, home computers and vr.
    With so much money I would pay a couple of people to do the nitty gritty.
    It would not need to make a profit just hopefully cover itself

    I would pay out of my own pocket to employ some developers to work on elite dangerous and do what I want them to do. Not sure how much money I would have to bribe FD with for that.
    Other than that become an international man of leisure.
    Since having a child I really miss 2 holidays a year at least one abroad....... This year was our one year to go big on holidays since we had a child. It's the last year before the lad goes to school so we got them really cheap (in school term time)....  Then covid hit and we had 4 holidays cancelled 

    Obviously I would also sort out some close family and friends.
    Fiat Coupe, gone. 350Z gone. Dirty nappies, no sleep & practical transport incoming. Thank goodness for VR :)
    bigmike20vt
    Honored Contributor
    August 24, 2020

    snowdog said:



    How about go on your separate island in the Pacific Ocean?



    I'm gonna buy Richard Branson's one, he was begging for money the other week so I'll get a good deal on it. ???



    Be careful iirc it is soon going to return back to the sea.
    Fiat Coupe, gone. 350Z gone. Dirty nappies, no sleep & practical transport incoming. Thank goodness for VR :)
    TheGreenYoutube
    Up and Coming
    August 29, 2020
    Save half, spend half. Would still work tho
    Anonymous
    August 30, 2020
    If you're living in Europe get your money on. It's an estimated £139m jackpot on Tuesday. ????
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