After finding out that Bill Gates is the richest man in the world I decided that the only way an average man could become that wealthy is by winning the state lottery.

After sifting thorugh a number of articles about what happens to an average winner- a good percentage of them go broke, commit suicide or end up in jail for not paying taxes- I found a couple of lottery software, free downloads, of course, and started investing this phenomena of winning the state lottery.

The mathematics of it is enough to make you want to quit, but after sorting it out, the hot numbers cold numbers,the sum and the prime numbers,etc, I figured out enough to make a couple of predictions. Those predictions cost me $30 a week, playing $10 tickets on the Wisconsin Powerball.

Well, to keep the story short, I got the powerball number right 3 times and won $9. I am not sure if I want to play it ever again but I find it quite addictive, the possibilities of winning millions of dollars,no matter what anyone says, and I was hooked.

I found a couple of lottery forums where people discuss playing the lottery and a couple of posts where some people actually won the big jackpot using the software. And there are many different kinds of software.

In retrospect, I wouldn't encourage anyone to gamble,and it's probably something that most people consider trivial unless it made headlines. Well, all I can say is dollar's a dollar.