We've got a lottery pool together at work.

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7. We did that, too

It started off as a lark for the staff, then the partners decided that if by some cosmic fluke we actually won it could be very lonely at the office. So they all chipped in their $2. Then some genius (that would be me) figured that since we weren't going to hit the big bucks, we should add the extra dollar for the power play and maximize the return on any lines that did hit.

We won $99 on our $150 layout. By mutual consent, we decided to put it into the pool for the firm's charitable outreach: Humane Society, Christmas Family, or similar.

But it was an awful lot of fun for three bucks.