Time Life Video: "Winning the Lottery" (1998)

With our economy looking like this, you can find great tips on winning the lottery to maximize your winnings!

The economy, inflation, labor market, unemployment, poor job wages, de-dollarization, food waste...it's all adding up to what describes the current state of our country, maybe this world. Many people are doing what ever it takes to survive, and despite that food, too, is becoming expensive, there hasn't been a minute gone by not thinking about trying to breathe. Add to that, mental health is also an on-going issue due to the all the doom and gloom along with an individual's personal struggles. Given that people don't have enough to play and gamble, there's one affordable option left: lottery. Even though winning the lottery is difficult enough, that hasn't, and likely won't, stop players from taking a chance. After all, you never know unless you try, right?

Hosted by actor Bart Hansard, the feature presentation looks like something from those "paid advertisement" programs often aired on TV past midnight. The presentation is rather self-explanatory and very basic, sharing tips on playing the lottery games, saving and budgeting money, and the odds calculated for the games themselves. Along with those, you get to hear insights and stories of those who played and won the lottery, how their lives are, how their lives transformed and added some advice they have for players wanting to win even if it's not the big jackpot. By now, I'm sure many people are familiar with the rules and being smart with their spending when it comes to games of chance (though, sadly, there are those with poor spending habits and gambling addiction).




Throughout the presentation, it's not too much on what to expect other than presenting the available games and tips that many ought to know by now. Some of the tips include not choosing sequential numbers but it's fine choosing the same set of numbers on another week of drawing. Also, there are ways to track the frequency of numbers in which the numbers that appear the most are likely to hit next week, while numbers that show up least aren't likely to show...or may be "overdue" for them to finally hit. (Yeah, even though this video was released back in 1998, companies have sold software that track the trends and frequencies of numbers right from your own computer. I believe there are now apps that do that very thing.) How ever you do it, this presentation has given tips to try and track which numbers are likely to hit along with the usual habit of picking numbers based on your birthday, anniversary dates and so on. While people play differently, there are some tips that may help both the casual and big-time players in trying to maximize their chances, and even if that means not winning the jackpot outright, at least you'll be able to win some money.

Here are the many tips featured on this presentation, though they don't need any further explanation:





Plenty of tips but they all explain themselves as you likely know what they entail. Nevertheless, it's a great reminder to know in the case you get in too deep losing control of your ticket purchases.

One thing that fascinated me about this presentation was featuring lottery groups/organizations banding people together like friends, coworkers and family members to pitch in and play. And yes, I say organizations since they're a bunch of people wanting to invite and gather people wanting to band together and win. However, like online gambling and lottery, joining a group/organization filled with people you don't know does come with a risk. Experts in this video suggest checking the group's legitimacy, honesty when winning, track records, compliance with state laws and so on. If that's too much work and a lot to worry about, you may as well group with your own friends, coworkers and/or family. Still, even though winning the lottery is quite tough, it's likely we may see more people group together to try and win. Then again, given how many people feel about money, the aftermath of winning can be distressing so do this if you know you really trust these people (given how separated and divided people have become, it's a daunting reality). Much like hosting a gathering for board games and video games, grouping together to play the lottery is fun and can increase your chances of winning, but as mentioned earlier do so with those you trust. There's nothing more than witnessing someone spend every penny of your winnings in two seconds, even if that someone is you.

Here are the wonderful people you will see and hear from throughout the presentation:



In addition to the presentation is another twenty minutes of bonus material with more added tips to go with your playing of the lottery. Same ordeal, nothing too much to see and the message, tips and presentation remains the same. I'd say these are more for the hardcore lottery gamers, those who really want to strike it rich and win.






What fascinated me was a Lottery Subscription, where you can pay for a subscription to continuously play the lottery. Given the monthly subscriptions of today, from online video tutorials to streaming services, we can see this being a thing if it's not already. Would any of you pay for a subscription for this?



Not sure if Time Life Video will ever air nor reproduce an updated version of this presentation, but I'd suggest they do so anyway since it may seem that under this economy and poor job growth, people may resort to casino gaming and the lottery to have any kind of chance to win some substantial income. Although personally, I wouldn't recommend relying on gambling if you're short on cash, but for some reason many people do this thinking they'll earn enough at the turn of a card. It's weird but that's how people are, and for that, we recommend producing another updated presentation of this. If actor Bart Hansard isn't busy, have him host the presentation again as this, too, makes great advertisement for lottery magazines and websites. Oh, and if this become reproduced again, I'd love to see and hear the interviews of the jackpot winners from the last few years, especially from the ones who won the billion-dollar jackpots (yes, we know, taxes remove a huge chunk of the jackpot so the winners don't technically win all the billions of dollars).

Overall, not a bad presentation as there are some funny scenes with Bart. Besides that, there aren't much that is too new for the average person but serves as a slight reminder that you might just win a small fortune if you purchase a ticket...as opposed to being pulled over for one.

Kris Caballero

Founder of KCU Network and KCU Plus, Kris has been writing since he managed a personal blog made back in late 2005. Officially back to doing computer programming (software development) and video production, Kris enjoys reading books on Mathematics, Quantum Computing, Philosophy, playing old video/DOS games, digital video archiving, and listening to sports, public radio and classical music.

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