So last week we asked you for stories about weird stuff you've won in

raffles sweepstakes door prizes and as usual, you delivered.

Whenever I got the email that I won, I laughed for like 45 minutes.

Those stories coming up, but first, a question inspired by a roadside encounter.

So a few weeks ago, I was driving to work and see the lottery billboard.

This is John Henry.

It's red, like most things are in Nebraska. Go Huskers. It has the Nebraska Powerball and it's just this ridiculous amount, over 400400 million or something.

It's like what, how can the Nebraska lottery be just so much, right?

Right, like where does all this money come from?

Yeah, and the lottery is everywhere, but I literally know nothing

about it. Well, you're about to

Jonathan Cohen.

I have a microphone in my face.

I'm assuming that's a good sign.

Hi Jonathan.

Hi, how are you?

He's doing a PhD on lottery history. He loves lottery history.

You're telling me that I have a 250 page book about it.

And his lot of work grew out of a childhood love of board games.

That's like why I was interested in state lotteries in the first place.

What's your game? Oh God, this is like the nerdiest thing you could ever hear.

Not like not as bad as Dungeons of Dragons, but like Terra Mystica or these like really complicated three-hour German board games.

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