What's the most you've ever won?

[janedoe]

I won $50 when I was in high school. I'm not a gambler but I'm currently playing the Monopoly game at a local grocery store and after stocking up on sardines, tuna and salmon for my dogs for a year (that's a lot of food, each one wins four playing pieces and a game ticket), I'm pretty convinced that this was, um, not quite what I hoped it would be. I've won about $20 in cash and a bunch of pretty good coupons as well as a ton of extra tickets but I'm looking at an insane number of playing pieces and nothing significant.

You?

[Labradorks]

When I was 22 I went to Vegas for the first time and learned how to play blackjack on one hour flight down. I ended up winning about $5,000. Paid for the trip (obviously) and then paid off my car. That was the only time I ever played. Then, on my 25th birthday I went to Las Vegas again and won $900 on a slot machine. It was a Saturday night and the money lady (don't know what they are called!) took forever to come and cash me out. When she did, she left my credits in the machine (or I did, I don't know -- I had no idea what I was doing!). Well, we had reservations for dinner and so I decided to hurry through the credits. I kept winning a little here and there and then doubled my bet and what do you know... I won $1,800 about ten minutes later.

When I was about 28 I won a raffle at a charity event for an all expense paid trip for two to Ireland. I'd only bought one $10 ticket.

Let's see... Recently I won a membership to a professional group and saved the company $400. Then, at the same event, I won a $100 gift certificate at a nice restaurant, which I gave to my sister as a wedding present. Turns out the restaurant where the gift certificate was to was where they had their first date. I got serious brownie points for that.

I suppose I've been pretty lucky!

[janedoe]

Nice! Good for you!

[SunDance]

I've never won anything unless you count a couple of $1 or $2 lottery tickets (bought when the pay-out was going to be ridiculously high).

I used to think I was "life" lucky but I'm not even too sure of that anymore.

I did find a $10 bill on the sidewalk once...let's count that.

[smartrock]

I think I won a pair of tickets to see some Spanish guitar group from a local NPR station but aside from that and a few free small fries in the McDonald's Monopoly game, nothing comes to mind. When the Powerball or MegaMillions jackpot is super high I usually buy a few tickets but have never even had 2 correct numbers on a single ticket. Never been to Vegas or Atlantic City, don't buy enough to increase my odds of winning when a purchase is required, don't want my name on any more email lists when the store receipt says if I answer a few questions about my shopping experience I'll be eligible to win $1000. I'll go with SunDance on the "life lucky" concept.

[Jeff]

I think the most I ever won was actually kind of a lucky thing. One year a long time ago I went out Christmas shopping. I didn't have much about $300 for my entire family, mom, sisters, nieces and nephews. It was a really rough year that year. Anyway, I managed to get something for everyone for about $293. I took the other $7 and bought lottery tickets for myself. I won $500.

[doubledip1]

A month's supply of free ice cream sundaes. It was the best.

[sparky]

Years ago I worked with a guy who played the scratch off tickets daily. He hounded me for months to play. I never saw him win anything. One I said ok and bought 3 tickets. The first one won me $10.00, the second one nothing, the third one was a $50.00 winner. He lost his mind! I told him I figured this was probably my queue to stop!

[POPTOP]

Been pretty lucky winner raffles at the yearly lab rescue event. Heck, I buy $20 in tickets and put them all in the 8 or so raffle buckets on the first raffle of the day and have come home with some nice prizes, probably worth about the $20 I spent. That's OK, the money goes to a good cause.

[Jollymolly]

Most I ever won was R3000 about the same in dollars back in the day I only had R5 left put it on 0 on the roulette table and hit 3 times in a row. Never gambled again