Reply #9: I play in a weekly office pool

[dr.strangelove]

About 30 co-workers each give $1 per week and we buy 30 "quick pick" (computer/random numbers) tickets. We have won as much as $5,000. If its a small winning (less than $50) we roll it over into the next week. I consider it a donation to the state school fund, but with my share of the $5,000 (~$175), I think I am up a few bucks ovr the 2 years I have been doing it. I, of course, blew the $175 on martinis and beer for my friends.