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Q: Are there lottery games in China?
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Are they govt sponsored, or privately done?
12 years 21 weeks ago in Arts & Entertainment - Chengdu
Yes there are I've seen them in Beijing! The girl on the street was trying to sell me some. I saw people gathering around to buy lottery tickets. I don't think the jackpot is that much if your thinking of playing.
Mama buys lotto tix all the time! They say the proceeds (profit) goes to help poor folks over here. I bet it ends up in some corrupt party guys pocket. What do ya all think?
mattaya:
If it does it's probably millions of kuai and not dollars. Just like the t.v. show games here. You can only win like the most 400 dollars. In the states you could win millions of dollars on a game show. It's no different from the lottery. Some old guy in my state won the lottery! He got all the numbers right and hit the SUPER JACKPOT! He banked 50 million dollars after taxes and took the fast money and did not want to wait around to get a little bit more. But yeah in my state a guy won 50 million dollars. Here you can pass for 1 million kuai and probably not even that!!!!
HugAPanda:
matt, Your story sounds like it came from something you "read" on the internet. Fake, fixed, contrived, disingenuous. Maybe you pulled it from some cheezy 80s' novel? If you were really from the states... you would have a better concept of lotteries in the US.MillionS of USD has never been won on a US game show. As far as I know the most ever won on a game show in the US is UNDER 2mil (Who Wants to be a Millionaire) The average now is about $2,000 to 4,000. Your writing is at about an 8th grade level with dictionary/thesaurus and reference articles used to make an attempt to improve. Stop faking. Deal?
mattaya:
I guess you've never heard of Jeopardy. Are you from the states? You never heard of "MR. Jeopardy"?I He was the guy that had a string of wins. And yes Jeopardy is considered a game show I believe it usually comes on the same time as wheel of fortune. I believe "Mr Jeopardy" also goes by the name of Jennnigs. He's an engineer.
HugAPanda:
Ahh yes, I did forget about Ken Jennings, just over 3 mil, I believe. But that still isn't the norm. And you still sound like a fake Mr. Non-Native-English-Speaker. Did you look up those words I used especially for you yet? They'll help with your vocab skills.
DaBen:
I guess I've been living under a rock.... I know Ken Jennings, but who the hell calls him Mr. Jeopardy?
