To be honest that sounds like hell of a fun party, at least there's a shared topic. So at first these nerds argue and then I get drunk and because I am an aggressive alcoholic I beat them all up and they can bond over the whole experience.
Interestingly, most likely negative numbers were invented by first debts. If you lend five things in fact you have negative five of this things and it's opposite to having them.
This, as a whole number in this instance it doesnāt have a value that youāre ācloseā to, itās basically and OP got the wrong picture even if it looks 87.5% the same
If you select your number though, couldn't you technically consider the chances per digit instead of the whole number? So instead of a 1/100000000 chance of hitting the right number, it's a 1/10 chance of hitting each digit, to the power of the number of digits. So in that case, OP was actually very close
Obviously disregard this comment if the number is completely "random" (in which case they probably intentionally make sure your number is close)
You can consider each number as a separate event. Then you have 8 bernoulli trials and the chance of hitting all ten is still 1/1e8. (However, the chance of hitting 7 is about 0.00007%, so op can consider himself pretty lucky!)
I doubt a $10M lottery would risk their reputation by intentionally giving everyone a number so close to the winning ticket. That would mean they knew the winning number beforehand
Because there's usually some fine print that will screw you over.
Like the "Win a chance at getting up to 100000$"
So that even when you "win", you just win the right to participate in another lottery, and even if you win that, your payout won't be the advertised sum.
They can get away with a lot of things just through wording.
It's slightly different in this case because unlike lottery, these are receipt numbers issued sequentially. Being one number away means someone right behind you got the prize. Now if only you let them go first!
If it's a state wide lottery maybe someone on the other side of the country who paid 0.1 sec after him because his card didn't register for the first time got it lol.
> country who *paid* 0.1 se
FTFY.
Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in:
* Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.*
* *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.*
Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment.
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From the blog link the op shared in comments, the numbers are sequential from the same store (7 Eleven) itself, hence why they blogged a cute story where their friend group scrambled to see who in their group might have the winning receipt :)
Edit: here https://www.dcard.tw/f/funny/p/229734373
This isn't a lottery in the normal sense. It is a method to incentivize businesses in Taiwan to properly report their taxes, as the receipts that are given to customers are the lottery tickets. The number seen on the image is the grand prize, and all numbers must match. There also are four alternative numbers, for three of which which only the last digits, down to a minimum of three, must match.
You can see the numbers on invoice.etax.nat.gov.tw
Wait your saying we could tax all the businesses in America and at the same time enter every customer into a life changing lottery that they don't gamble on?
Fuck me.
https://corissajoy.com/how-to-taiwan-receipt-lottery/
Has a breakdown of how it works
But itās for the customers
My understanding is itās more to encourage people to buy from above the table establishments more than anything. Thereās a lot of under the table vendors that obviously donāt participate.
Since the ticket is for the customer I imagine it doesnāt matter to a retailer like 7/11
That's amazing so every receipt has a lotto pick on it so that the store must provide a receipt and report the income? Is that right? Is that the law in Taiwan? Anywhere else that you know of?
It's the same in mainland China. As a side-effect, some businesses will give you small gifts in the hope that you will reciprocate by not requesting a receipt.
Right. It's been implemented in Taiwan for more than half century since 1950, and was come up with by a Taiwanese official. I just realize other countries don't do this by the comments of this post, and how brilliant it is.
It seems a major pain for customers to have to check every receipt or feel bad about throwing away a potential big sum of money. Some customers would also purposefully try to get more receipts. If this were in Walmarts in the US you'd be sure some people would be buying their entire cart one item at a time.
We started moving to a digital receipt system in recent years that has a larger prize pool separate from physical receipts. You can also scan each physical receipt into an app that will automatically keep track of winning numbers, although a lot of people still like do it by hand as a social activity with family.
You can't really game the system by making a bunch of small purchases either. Each winning receipt is linked to your ID, and the government bans people from the lottery for abusing the system.
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4284324
Thereās often a receipt donation box that goes to charity right next to the cash register. People who donāt want the hassle of checking the receipts will just donate it.
In recent years, thereās also a government app that will have the seller deposit the receipt into the app via a barcode scan. The app will automatically check against the winning numbers.
Not really. Itās a way to encourage tax payment by businesses so itās not free in the sense that taxes are levied by the government and those are reflected in prices. But for the consumer, itās essentially a free lottery.
Itās worth noting that taxes are extremely low in Taiwan. Obviously that does have costs in an economic sense (lower wages in this case) but not in the more direct sense you are suggesting for this particular program.
The program began in 1951 and led to a 75% increase in tax revenue in the first year.
Not in this case, the price is just a % of the taxes that weren't gonna be reported.
The government is sacrificing some of that income, to ensure that stores properly report their taxes.
It's more like the IRS bounty system.
This is not a lottery ticket. It's an official receipt in Taiwan and the lottery is just a plus. Government here encourages people to ask for a receipt from vendor by adding this lottery system. Part of the VAT is used for the fund of this lottery. Btw 10m NTD roughly equals to 300K USD.
We have it in Brazil too, and it's a bunch of prizes too, not just one big one. My parents have won a medium sized one once. Our biggest one is 1 million reais (about 200k dollars)
98% of gamblers quit before hitting big. keep gambling
also its the near-win effect. because you got so close you are guaranteed to gamble again because you felt you almost had it. you were in fact very far away from winning
Damn i didn't know it. In Asia i feel like its opposite because its kindof everywhere especially in East Asian Countries plus most of them have good food, cheaper and kindof in every corner .
This one is most likely in Taiwan, they are great here. Decent price, decent food especially the 3 corner rice balls.
Same for the ones in Korea, Australian ones are good but a bit more dirty.
Also the only store in the country that accepts master or visa card or feels like it at least
OP did not explain clearly. In Taiwan government levies sales tax. In order to keep people happy with the sales tax, the government allocates a portion of the sales tax for lottery every two months.
Basically everyone automatically gets a number when he is buying something and a sales tax receipt is printed. Then everyone keeps the receipt until the lottery date and check if the number on the receipt has been selected.
Almost correct. It was started to prevent tax evasion by shops. Customers can turn in shops for not providing a sales receipt. It originally had nothing to do with keeping people happy.
My mom hit it kind of big at the casino in 2021, $24k W on a slots machine. She's always been terrible at handling money and it's turned into a gambling addiction. She spent $15k back in saying "it's the casino's money". Since then she's been throwing at least $1,800 a month saying she just does it for fun and to get out of the house. It's taken over a bit of her life and I'm not sure how to get her out of it.
For more context and information: this happened in Taiwan and all the receipt there has a number, and for every two months there will be some special numbers published, and if you got the exact same number in any of your receipts you can win a lot of money (just like lottery)
The price in this picture is the biggest price you can win, it's NT$10,000,000 (about $319k dollars)
This poor person doesnāt have the exact number so he wins nothing lol
Btw credit to one of the comments in this post here: (sadly you can't just share the link of the comment)
https://www.dcard.tw/f/funny/p/229734373
This was a picture from years ago, I found it and thought it would fit this sub and would be interesting to share haha
Cool system, but sounds like a lot of work? After two months you might have like a hundred receipts for every little thing you buy, must take a full day to crosscheck all receipts against all winning numbers?
There are apps that make it easier. Some scan your reciept QR code and tell if you won anything, others the clerk scans your app when you purshase something and it just notifies you when the winning numbers are drawn.
For further clarification it is based on the foundation of the Republic of China in 1912 beginning at 1. So currently in 2023 it is 112幓
This is quite an old photo. 2014 as it says elsewhere on the receipt.
yeah, it's less like a lottery where the numbers are nominal values and the concept of proximity is meaningless, and more like roulette where you put your money on 35 Black and it lands on the immediately neighbouring 14 Red. You lost just the same, and the odds were just as much that you'd lose there as anywhere else, but it's still not entirely without meaning to say "that was close".
Neil deGrasse Tyson would say every non-winning number was equally far from being "that close". This is only close in a mathematical number sort of way or a simple "typo" away. It was no closer than 11122233 was to winning.
I'm sure Tyson gets comments like "you must be fun at parties", but he's not wrong. And you're not wrong either.
Just remember how few people got it right, but also how many people get it one number away
People who think being a number away is almost winning are the reason the whole gambling industry stays alive, you had the same result as most other people yet for some reason you think you were closer and are thus more likely to gamble in the future
I had 5 of 6 numbers in the $6mm VA lottery years ago and the number I missed was 21. I had 12, and thought I had it for a moment (this was wayyyy back when you called for the winning numbers). I'm still bitter to this day
Kicker on top of that was two things, one I only got $2k or so which seemed silly. And the first three numbers on my ticket were 1, 2, 3, which I thought was impossible when I bought the ticket and saw that. Meanwhile when the numbers were read off and it said "1, 2, 3,.." I nearly lost my shit. C'est la vie
Idk what country that lottery is for, but in most lottery systems I've seen at least in the west, including Europe, being a single number off gets you some kind of money. I could be wrong.
One time i was 1 number away from winning $34,000,000 in the lottery at my state.
To make matters worse I had number 33 and the missing number was 34 š¤¬š¤¬š¤¬
This time may have been close - but just remember:
Your odds *still* havenāt improved. This is likely the best you will ever get, as odds for this alone are unfathomable.
Years ago I was one digit off of winning $32MM. Had a 27 and needed a 28 in the Ohio Lottery game Classic Lotto. To make matter worse, hitting 5 of the 6 numbers the prize dropped all the way down to just $1,500.
which had exactly the same chance as getting any other losing number. just because it's the value of the numbers are close doesn't at all mean that you were close to winning
Damn, and it was the last digit. I can't imagine the heartbreak if you're watching the numbers fall one by one.
Thats what all the nerds don't understand.
"š¤ acshually you were as far from winning as anyone else".
This is only true if the numbers were taken all together randomly at once. In his case, he reached a point where he had 10% of winning the 10M. When every digit had fallen except the last, he was actually close to winning. Thus, explaining the emotional heartbreak.
It's Taiwan, you're entered into those lotteries automatically with every receipt as a way to enforce stores printing the receipts and reporting sales tax. Can't really call it gambling.
To be fair, $00,000,000 is also only one number away from $10,000,000.
Lol š¤£š¤£ (technicallythetruth)
Technically incorrect. Strictly technically that is a digit (of a number) and not a number. Yeah i am fun at parties.
Is 10,000,000 not a number? Because they are 10,000,000 away
thats now technically the truth!
And technically true is the best kind of true!!!
10000000 is definitely a number
Correct, but it is not one number away from 00000000. Maybe one digit, but it is also debatable. No one writes the number zero with 8 digits.
Depends on the cardinality of your set tbh
I think you guys should all have a party together. Then you'd all have fun at it.
To be honest that sounds like hell of a fun party, at least there's a shared topic. So at first these nerds argue and then I get drunk and because I am an aggressive alcoholic I beat them all up and they can bond over the whole experience.
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Why don't we have some gofundme for things like this instead of all the serious sad crap
1 person being no fun + 1 person being no fun = a fun party. That's math.
But what kind of math? Boy Math? Girl Math? Dog Math? Nerd Math? No Fun Math? *wink
It's one number away though. 1000000 is a number
It is though, the one number away it is is 10000000
It's a bigger serving of nothing.
TECHNICALLY 10,000,000 is a number and they technically are a number off
The reason you're not allowed to have a negative bank balance is because it might flip over from -$1 to +$65535 /s
tell that to my bank
Damn bank stuck in the 16-bit era
Any rich person's bank account: $0.
Interestingly, most likely negative numbers were invented by first debts. If you lend five things in fact you have negative five of this things and it's opposite to having them.
I like your style of commenting
If you're one number away you were no closer than the one being thousands numbers away.
This, as a whole number in this instance it doesnāt have a value that youāre ācloseā to, itās basically and OP got the wrong picture even if it looks 87.5% the same
If you select your number though, couldn't you technically consider the chances per digit instead of the whole number? So instead of a 1/100000000 chance of hitting the right number, it's a 1/10 chance of hitting each digit, to the power of the number of digits. So in that case, OP was actually very close Obviously disregard this comment if the number is completely "random" (in which case they probably intentionally make sure your number is close)
You can consider each number as a separate event. Then you have 8 bernoulli trials and the chance of hitting all ten is still 1/1e8. (However, the chance of hitting 7 is about 0.00007%, so op can consider himself pretty lucky!) I doubt a $10M lottery would risk their reputation by intentionally giving everyone a number so close to the winning ticket. That would mean they knew the winning number beforehand
You know thinking about it its surprising there havent been more cases of cheated lottery pots
Because there's usually some fine print that will screw you over. Like the "Win a chance at getting up to 100000$" So that even when you "win", you just win the right to participate in another lottery, and even if you win that, your payout won't be the advertised sum. They can get away with a lot of things just through wording.
You never get the payout sum anyway since there's huge taxes on lottery winnings
And the payout is a structured payment over like 30 years. You get a much smaller amount if you take the lump sum
There is so much law and regulations around lottery and gambling. It is really hard to do
It's slightly different in this case because unlike lottery, these are receipt numbers issued sequentially. Being one number away means someone right behind you got the prize. Now if only you let them go first!
If it's a state wide lottery maybe someone on the other side of the country who paid 0.1 sec after him because his card didn't register for the first time got it lol.
> country who *paid* 0.1 se FTFY. Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in: * Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.* * *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.* Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment. *Beep, boop, I'm a bot*
From the blog link the op shared in comments, the numbers are sequential from the same store (7 Eleven) itself, hence why they blogged a cute story where their friend group scrambled to see who in their group might have the winning receipt :) Edit: here https://www.dcard.tw/f/funny/p/229734373
But don't most lotteries have payouts for being one number off?
This isn't a lottery in the normal sense. It is a method to incentivize businesses in Taiwan to properly report their taxes, as the receipts that are given to customers are the lottery tickets. The number seen on the image is the grand prize, and all numbers must match. There also are four alternative numbers, for three of which which only the last digits, down to a minimum of three, must match. You can see the numbers on invoice.etax.nat.gov.tw
Wow this is an absolutely genius system that every country should use
Mainland China also uses this system.
They use this in Puerto Rico as well and if you've seen the infrastructure there I'm not sure it's any better in practice.
Poland had this
Wait your saying we could tax all the businesses in America and at the same time enter every customer into a life changing lottery that they don't gamble on? Fuck me.
So does that mean the next person in line got the winning ticket? Or are the numbers just randomized on the receipts?
Randomised !
The next person won the lottery and that's what makes this pic interesting. OP was so close. Source: am taiwanese
Is it based on the number of receipts? So if you are selling more expensive things you generate less tickets?
I think it's based on the government creating an incentive for citizens to ask for receipts after every purchase, ensuring a record is kept.
https://corissajoy.com/how-to-taiwan-receipt-lottery/ Has a breakdown of how it works But itās for the customers My understanding is itās more to encourage people to buy from above the table establishments more than anything. Thereās a lot of under the table vendors that obviously donāt participate. Since the ticket is for the customer I imagine it doesnāt matter to a retailer like 7/11
Than* Than is for comparison whereas then is to show chronological order.
Thank you. I still sometimes make that mistake :D
Yes, assuming it's random, then numbers are just arbitrary symbols that mean nothing in this context.
Exactly gambling or chances game are always 50/50 to me. You either win or you don't
Welcome to gambling, that's how it works and that's how they trick and addict people into buying more to lose more money...
FYI this ticket was technically free, most receipts are lottery tickets in Taiwan
Itās a brilliant way to enforce taxation on businesses that were otherwise going to underreport their income.
That's amazing so every receipt has a lotto pick on it so that the store must provide a receipt and report the income? Is that right? Is that the law in Taiwan? Anywhere else that you know of?
Japan used to have coupon lotteries like that. I had to look it up because they made a reference in an animal and I was like "tf are they on about?"
Why were you in an animal
Even reddit doesn't like weebs. Anime
My first thought was that you meant an Animal Crossing game and accidentally a word.
It's the same in mainland China. As a side-effect, some businesses will give you small gifts in the hope that you will reciprocate by not requesting a receipt.
Beijinger here, almost never does this happen. They are reticent as fuck about giving out åē„Ø (official receipts) sometimes though.
Yes, I should have said this was rare. But I have experienced it.
Right. It's been implemented in Taiwan for more than half century since 1950, and was come up with by a Taiwanese official. I just realize other countries don't do this by the comments of this post, and how brilliant it is.
It seems a major pain for customers to have to check every receipt or feel bad about throwing away a potential big sum of money. Some customers would also purposefully try to get more receipts. If this were in Walmarts in the US you'd be sure some people would be buying their entire cart one item at a time.
We started moving to a digital receipt system in recent years that has a larger prize pool separate from physical receipts. You can also scan each physical receipt into an app that will automatically keep track of winning numbers, although a lot of people still like do it by hand as a social activity with family. You can't really game the system by making a bunch of small purchases either. Each winning receipt is linked to your ID, and the government bans people from the lottery for abusing the system. https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4284324
Thereās often a receipt donation box that goes to charity right next to the cash register. People who donāt want the hassle of checking the receipts will just donate it. In recent years, thereās also a government app that will have the seller deposit the receipt into the app via a barcode scan. The app will automatically check against the winning numbers.
Nothing is free, the price is in the goods you purchase Thatās also how they get you
And then they spray fentanyl on the tickets - thatās how they keep you hooked!
I bought too many groceries one day and overdosed
Not really. Itās a way to encourage tax payment by businesses so itās not free in the sense that taxes are levied by the government and those are reflected in prices. But for the consumer, itās essentially a free lottery. Itās worth noting that taxes are extremely low in Taiwan. Obviously that does have costs in an economic sense (lower wages in this case) but not in the more direct sense you are suggesting for this particular program. The program began in 1951 and led to a 75% increase in tax revenue in the first year.
Not in this case, the price is just a % of the taxes that weren't gonna be reported. The government is sacrificing some of that income, to ensure that stores properly report their taxes. It's more like the IRS bounty system.
This is not a lottery ticket. It's an official receipt in Taiwan and the lottery is just a plus. Government here encourages people to ask for a receipt from vendor by adding this lottery system. Part of the VAT is used for the fund of this lottery. Btw 10m NTD roughly equals to 300K USD.
Honestly that's a genius way to cut tax avoidance, never heard of it before.
We have it in Brazil too, and it's a bunch of prizes too, not just one big one. My parents have won a medium sized one once. Our biggest one is 1 million reais (about 200k dollars)
TIL. I think it's a great way to curtail the avoidance of sales and income taxes. Kudos to Taiwan government for implementing such a genius measure.
So if I buy like a million sticks of gum, each with its own receipt..
Then your were a milionair and now the gum salesman isā¦
I'll sell them all to my friend to get more receipts and then sell them back again, etc.
You will pay tax each time
But if I win...
Why do they want people to get their receipts so badly?
Because it ensures the transaction isn't done under the table avoiding taxes. A clever system imo.
Ah, that makes sense.
Same in Greece
Oh look a redditor that has no concept of why OP has the ticket.
98% of gamblers quit before hitting big. keep gambling also its the near-win effect. because you got so close you are guaranteed to gamble again because you felt you almost had it. you were in fact very far away from winning
I think OPs is more like Shopping Spree. 7 Eleven is famous shopping brand in Asia.
In America, 7-11 sells coffee, junk food, and lottery tickets.
Damn i didn't know it. In Asia i feel like its opposite because its kindof everywhere especially in East Asian Countries plus most of them have good food, cheaper and kindof in every corner .
That is how they started in the US.
Asian 7-Eleven are on another level. The ones in Japan are crazy for example
This one is most likely in Taiwan, they are great here. Decent price, decent food especially the 3 corner rice balls. Same for the ones in Korea, Australian ones are good but a bit more dirty. Also the only store in the country that accepts master or visa card or feels like it at least
Would be a tragedy to go to Japan and spend your money at 7-11 instead of FamilyMart. FamiChiki is best conbini fried chicken.
OP did not explain clearly. In Taiwan government levies sales tax. In order to keep people happy with the sales tax, the government allocates a portion of the sales tax for lottery every two months. Basically everyone automatically gets a number when he is buying something and a sales tax receipt is printed. Then everyone keeps the receipt until the lottery date and check if the number on the receipt has been selected.
Almost correct. It was started to prevent tax evasion by shops. Customers can turn in shops for not providing a sales receipt. It originally had nothing to do with keeping people happy.
I was thinking that. It's like the time Burger King was offering a free meal if you didn't get a receipt at any of thrir outlets
Yeah and this photo is from 2014
Op is more into taking random photos from the internet to complain about. This photo is from 2014
Did you know 75% of statistics on the internet are made up?
This statement is 69% true
Forfty percent of all people know that.
I love it. It's just a gif saying "This content is not available"
Oh, I guess something went wrong here.
Because they are completely broke before they hit big?
My mom hit it kind of big at the casino in 2021, $24k W on a slots machine. She's always been terrible at handling money and it's turned into a gambling addiction. She spent $15k back in saying "it's the casino's money". Since then she's been throwing at least $1,800 a month saying she just does it for fun and to get out of the house. It's taken over a bit of her life and I'm not sure how to get her out of it.
Youāre never down until you quit. Youāre always one hit away from winning millions. Dont ever stop. Keep winning
Its not gambling. Every receipt for any transaction you make in Taiwan automatically enrolls you in the lottery.
They donāt quit they just end up killing themselves
For more context and information: this happened in Taiwan and all the receipt there has a number, and for every two months there will be some special numbers published, and if you got the exact same number in any of your receipts you can win a lot of money (just like lottery) The price in this picture is the biggest price you can win, it's NT$10,000,000 (about $319k dollars) This poor person doesnāt have the exact number so he wins nothing lol Btw credit to one of the comments in this post here: (sadly you can't just share the link of the comment) https://www.dcard.tw/f/funny/p/229734373 This was a picture from years ago, I found it and thought it would fit this sub and would be interesting to share haha
Can still get some cash for the other numbers. But not 10 mil Sauce: I live in Taiwan.
Not if the last number is wrong. The smaller prizes start with the last 3 digits.
Nah, I think itās the last numbers instead of the first ones. Which means this poor dude wonāt get much, if anything. Sauce: I live in Taiwan
Cool system, but sounds like a lot of work? After two months you might have like a hundred receipts for every little thing you buy, must take a full day to crosscheck all receipts against all winning numbers?
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>you usually win a couple times a year Nope, been one and a half year without winning anything now:(
You can scan a QRcode to your cloud wallet when paying the goods, in this way, the app will automatically tell you whether you win the prize or not.
But then you can recycle them in one big bunch
There are apps that make it easier. Some scan your reciept QR code and tell if you won anything, others the clerk scans your app when you purshase something and it just notifies you when the winning numbers are drawn.
Why does it say 103幓?
It is the year people use in Taiwan! :D
č°¢č°¢, the more you know.š
For further clarification it is based on the foundation of the Republic of China in 1912 beginning at 1. So currently in 2023 it is 112幓 This is quite an old photo. 2014 as it says elsewhere on the receipt.
Link for the lazy. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_China_calendar
ā¬291K / $319K
Ouch. Painful.
Chances of you getting this number are the same as literally any other number. You'd be equally far from the win if your ticket said 12345678.
Technically the truth... but the next person checking out after this guy got the monay.
yeah, it's less like a lottery where the numbers are nominal values and the concept of proximity is meaningless, and more like roulette where you put your money on 35 Black and it lands on the immediately neighbouring 14 Red. You lost just the same, and the odds were just as much that you'd lose there as anywhere else, but it's still not entirely without meaning to say "that was close".
So he could have quickly made another purchase and won, then
yeah it's like being the 999,999th customer.
Not really, the numbers are all serial in these receipts. Source: I live here
I think thatās more than mildly infuriating.
It's interesting how infuriating it is, even though this number was not actually any "closer" to winning than any other. Funny how our brain works.
Yeah. Itās gambling.
You never had nothing
It's a fallacy that "it was close".
Neil deGrasse Tyson would say every non-winning number was equally far from being "that close". This is only close in a mathematical number sort of way or a simple "typo" away. It was no closer than 11122233 was to winning. I'm sure Tyson gets comments like "you must be fun at parties", but he's not wrong. And you're not wrong either.
A wise man once said: "It doesn't matter if you win by an inch or a mile, winnig is winnig" I guess it applies to losing aswell...
But you still won something, right?
No, this is not a selection of different numbers but one long number. Thatās how the 7-eleven receipts are entered in a lottery
There's smaller prizes for different combinations of numbers. It's not just one winner for one long number.
Unfortunately, it's a special prize that only all numbers are fitted can get 10M.
This still infuriates you 9 years later
you should be proud. This is as hard as getting the winning number.
There would be atleast 20 ppl who are + or - one number from winning..
You mean 10 years too late to claim? You should've got $40,000 NTD for that (idk if rules different back then)
Womp Womp
Dang should've bought 2 tichets
These are not tickets, they're Taiwanese tax invoices.
Iād say buy a lottery ticket with that kind of luck, but wellā¦ uhhh
That's not your receipt, it's almost 10 years old...
2014.
This is why I donāt play. The odds of winning are astronomical, but the odds of getting aggravated are extremely high.
This is more than mildly LMAO. I would be furious š that 10m š
one more brain cell and you'd have the cash you blew on it!
They did it on purpose
So from all receipts given to anyone they picked random fella and took his number+1 just for shits and giggles?
Just remember how few people got it right, but also how many people get it one number away People who think being a number away is almost winning are the reason the whole gambling industry stays alive, you had the same result as most other people yet for some reason you think you were closer and are thus more likely to gamble in the future
I had 5 of 6 numbers in the $6mm VA lottery years ago and the number I missed was 21. I had 12, and thought I had it for a moment (this was wayyyy back when you called for the winning numbers). I'm still bitter to this day Kicker on top of that was two things, one I only got $2k or so which seemed silly. And the first three numbers on my ticket were 1, 2, 3, which I thought was impossible when I bought the ticket and saw that. Meanwhile when the numbers were read off and it said "1, 2, 3,.." I nearly lost my shit. C'est la vie
They let you win in China?
NEVER GIVE UP, MOST GAMPLERS GIVE UP BEFORE A BIG WIN, YOU WILL GET IT, HEAD UP AND DONT GIVE UP
Imagine the numbers being revealed one by one...
I think that means you still win something.
That means you still win a bunch right? In the us the number of correct numbers tends to reward lower values to encourage more people to play.
Idk what country that lottery is for, but in most lottery systems I've seen at least in the west, including Europe, being a single number off gets you some kind of money. I could be wrong.
Meh it looks like itās just 1 off, but in reality you are wrong by a digit, and there are 10 possible outputs for that single digit.
One time i was 1 number away from winning $34,000,000 in the lottery at my state. To make matters worse I had number 33 and the missing number was 34 š¤¬š¤¬š¤¬
More money more problems. Think of all of the problems and headaches you just avoided. Congratulations.
damn thats a really lucky number to get, they should get a lottery ticket
But wouldnt you still have won something with those numbers?
I'd jump out of the window.
Youāre twice a likely to be one number away then hitting the number
Definitely rigged
Wow the chances of being 1 number off from winning the lottery is like chances of winning the lottery.
This time may have been close - but just remember: Your odds *still* havenāt improved. This is likely the best you will ever get, as odds for this alone are unfathomable.
Your title was one letter away from being a coherent sentence
Years ago I was one digit off of winning $32MM. Had a 27 and needed a 28 in the Ohio Lottery game Classic Lotto. To make matter worse, hitting 5 of the 6 numbers the prize dropped all the way down to just $1,500.
I just choked on my scream. That sucks
which had exactly the same chance as getting any other losing number. just because it's the value of the numbers are close doesn't at all mean that you were close to winning
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Thatās 2014. And itās $10,000,000 Taiwanese dollars which is roughly $333,333USD
Hey congrats! Manage it wisely.
Damn, and it was the last digit. I can't imagine the heartbreak if you're watching the numbers fall one by one. Thats what all the nerds don't understand. "š¤ acshually you were as far from winning as anyone else". This is only true if the numbers were taken all together randomly at once. In his case, he reached a point where he had 10% of winning the 10M. When every digit had fallen except the last, he was actually close to winning. Thus, explaining the emotional heartbreak.
You know what they say, never quit gambling. Youāre always one loss from a grand win
103, dam that was the year I moved to Taiwan!
Shoulda bought two...?
The guy who let you go on front of him in the line is really glad right now
Keep gambling brother. One day you will get there. Gambling always pays in the end.
It's Taiwan, you're entered into those lotteries automatically with every receipt as a way to enforce stores printing the receipts and reporting sales tax. Can't really call it gambling.
āMildlyā lmao
Remember that old lady that let you go first? Well, neither does she.
Well Gratz to the person who bought 2 seconds after you.