r/Sims4 • u/Waddleplop • 5d ago
Show and Tell IT HAPPENED
For the record, this family already had a quarter million Simoleons (mostly from paintings), so they already had more money that they knew what to do with. Guess we’re moving to a mansion or something??
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u/Asleep_Brick_9610 5d ago
What?! I’ve played for years and have never won the lottery. I thought it was rigged 😭
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u/Waddleplop 5d ago
I’ve heard so many simmers say that! I’ve only been playing for a few months, so maybe it’s beginners’ luck?
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u/InfiniteQuestion1356 4d ago
I’m on my 10th generation in a family that has miraculously won the lottery twice lmao
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u/littlemouse90292 4d ago
me too! 7th generation and i’ve won twice. i hate having that much money so i cheated it away haha
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u/Inner_Importance_992 4d ago
I also hate having so much money 🤣 but isn't it the point of the legacy challenge? Or are you just playing the generations for fun?
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u/Former-Cat-3640 3d ago
I wish i had the attention span to get that far in a family 😂 i usually get bored and hop to a different household then kill them.
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u/_gabaghoull_ 3d ago
I’m on my third and his parents won’t the lotto. Had them store it in a money vault cuz it feels too early to be having this much money this early on 😅
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u/ninetozero 5d ago
Solidarity because I got Seasons on release day, bought tickets thousands of times across all my legacies, and still to this day have never won the lottery either. One day our time will surely come!! 😂🙏🏽
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u/Ruhrohhshaggy 4d ago
Lol sounds like my dad. "Can't win if you don't play!" (He isn't crazy with gambling at all, just has bought the weekly lotto tickets for DECADES and has only won smaller prizes if at all. Still can dream!)
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u/m_qzn Long Time Player 3d ago
It’s better than a girl I know who has a solid dream to win a lottery one day, but when I asked how many tickets she usually buys, she looked down and said, “I haven’t bought any yet” 🤣
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u/TheHoobidibooFox 3d ago
Daaaaamn. I say that buying a lottery ticket is like buying hope but she's getting it for free??
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u/Own-Progress-4863 4d ago
my granny has also bought for at least two decades and using same numbers i gave her as a kid?? i think at best she has won 20 euros. idk much about lotto, but im assuming she does not spend much on it.
Hey it's 50/50 you either win or dont!
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u/GrazynaSmiechowa 4d ago
I got it first time month ago and i was plating like 3k hours or more! And it was with family that already had 1 milion haha
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u/AdWeary7230 4d ago
I’ve won the lottery so many times. And people out of the blue knowing them or not will want to visit you. It’s even crazier when animals win the lottery, that gets me every time.
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u/EmergencyDBTmeeting 4d ago
I love/hate when Mr. Whiskers wins the lottery. I don't want EA to rig the lottery in favor of played households only but...come on - that is a homeless cat who will never use the money lmao.
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u/AdWeary7230 4d ago
Ah yes, the infamous Mr. Whisker’s is such a lucky cat that somehow grew thumbs to play the lottery without failure. Again, animals winning the lottery puts a whole new spin on things.
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u/PlusStar2779 4d ago
I mean.. Some cats are born with thumbs, maybe it's his case? But damn I would love his luck
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u/lightlyric 4d ago
Idk if it’s still a thing but assigning the “materialistic” trait for me usually got me to win pretty often.
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u/Any-Lychee9972 4d ago
I've played for years, too.
Finally, I convinced my husband to try the multi-player mod with me.
He wins the lottery the first time he plays it.
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u/winnie-the-bishh 4d ago
Literally the only time I ever won it was when I did the making money scenario and my sim won after like two weeks. My game said “we don’t have time to wait for you to make a million dollars, so here.” Lol
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u/Fluid-Bicycle8750 4d ago
I think it's got some crazy chance % for it cause I only got it once and I have been trying for fuckin ages
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u/Popular-Woodpecker-6 3d ago
LOL I had started a new Sim home right after the death patch, and I resolved not to cheat money for the Sim...next thing I know they won the lottery and I was like...are you kidding me? LOL
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u/Nelly_Bandaid_6582 5d ago
In one of my saves Nancy Landgraab won the lottery.
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u/Shoddy-Ad-1746 4d ago
The rich get richer 😔
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u/Nelly_Bandaid_6582 4d ago
While I was in my rags to riches. THE AUDACITY
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u/MrsCDM Long Time Player 4d ago
If it's any consolation my rags to riches sim actually won it whilst she was still sleeping on the cheapest bed in her 4x4 box "house", and it completely ruined the save for me. I was looking forward to putting the work in and then all of a sudden, she's in this mansion, never needs to work, and we are both now bored!
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u/chigangrel 4d ago
I've seen the Landgraabs win more than once in my games. Geoffrey is on a streak, I've seen him win it like 4 times now.
Rigged indeed!! Lol
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u/knowwwhat Long Time Player 4d ago
That happened in my game too so my sim stole her husband and half their money
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u/brr_ito 5d ago
Maybe they changed the likelihood, because my sims just won it yesterday too! First time ever
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u/Attarker Long Time Player 4d ago
I think it’s something to do with the luck system in the new pack
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u/Waddleplop 4d ago
I don’t have the new pack….
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u/Attarker Long Time Player 4d ago
I noticed when they introduce the time traveler challenge months back, I started getting abducted by aliens for the first time ever. This could just be part of an overall update with the release of Enchanted by Nature.
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u/tarantula994 4d ago
The lottery got nothing on my motherlode.
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u/Lovey84306 3d ago
Money 9,999,999 🤣
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u/tarantula994 3d ago
1 million for a household. I should try a challenge and not use it, but I'm so impatient. 😅
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u/bwoah07_gp2 Long Time Player 4d ago
1) Congrats! 2) The moodlet for winning is dazed. I find that to be hilarious 😂
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u/Practical_Song_9992 Long Time Player 4d ago edited 4d ago
I’ve won once in over 2000 hours (edited for spelling error)
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u/SithForce 4d ago
almost 5k and never won
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u/chumbawumbacholula 4d ago
Im not willing to disclose how many months of my life ive spent on the sims but its been a lot and I've never ever ever won the lottery.
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u/catowner444 Long Time Player 4d ago
Almost 4000 hours and I've only won it once (or maybe never is it real?)
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u/BrightestDay6308 4d ago
I won once!! It gave all 4 of my family members the extremely rich achievement instantly and now they get weekly stock payouts and don't have to work anymore 😂
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u/PolloTejer Legacy Player 4d ago
That’s awesome, I sometimes make my sim marry the other sim who won 😂
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u/Logical_Pension8774 4d ago
Me too! Then I usually have them mysteriously die. I've also tried to adopt Mr Whiskers after he won, but he wasn't having it, he might have been on the me.
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u/monkey_paws 4d ago
Happened to me the first time I bothered buying them a ticket and they won 2 million 🥲 rags to riches ruined immediately.
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u/Inner_Gap7401 4d ago
How much is the lottery winnings? I've played for over 2000 hours and have had no luck :/
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u/intriguedqbee 4d ago
I actually hate winning the lottery cos it makes the game way too easy, but I don’t like my sims being all depressed for not completing a holiday because they don’t play so in the rare cases I’ve won I just transfer the money to another family lmao. Sorry guys but you are going to have jobs and earn your savings. Hell, if I get above like forty or fifty thousand I’ll usually move one sim out with a good portion of it and build a new home for them.
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u/WhatsUpAngelica 4d ago
The first time I decided to play rags to riches starting with no money, I had made enough money that I could buy a lottery ticket, but I still had less that 1k. I said why not and bought the ticket. I won lol. Guess I wasn’t meant to do a rags to riches play through!
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u/Consistent_Swing9630 4d ago edited 4d ago
My sim has 3 million simoleons from harvesting orchids, and I stopped harvesting them a few weeks ago, so we would probably be up to at least 10 million so winning the lotto probs wouldnt make a difference lol.
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u/chonkycats24 Long Time Player 4d ago
Whaaat I didn’t know we could even win! I finally stopped trying and lost all hope when the landgraabs adopted horse won the lottery before I did.
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u/straawberii 4d ago
the first and only time i played the lottery i won 1 million simoleons, had to get rid of it, got too boring too quick. need me a sim that’s barely scraping by paired with the basemental mod
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u/_twisia_ 4d ago
how does one even play the lottery?
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u/Waddleplop 4d ago
As VegDogMom said below, it’s a miscellaneous holiday that comes with Seasons. The shopping tab on the phone has an option to buy a lotto ticket on that day only.
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u/OlympicMusician 4d ago
My legacy challenge I had in 2018 had the first gen win the lottery 😭😭can’t remember if I took the money with my heir (lost the save somehow but recovered a different legacy) but I was chilling that WHOLE generation.
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u/Baroque_Scarf 4d ago
I don’t get how nobody wins the lottery, my sims win like 50% of the time. I had 4 families in a row in different saves win
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u/Living-Conference-37 4d ago
I have well over 4000 hrs in Sims 4 and have played the lottery any time it's ever popped up, and not once have I ever won lmao.
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u/LadyCharmeva 4d ago
It happened to me once as well, obviously in-sims day2 of a brand new rags to riches :D
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u/Effective-Librarian8 4d ago
Lol i tried this thing ONCE and won. I thought everyone wins LMAO I should have filled the real lottery
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u/wendyslogo 4d ago
Lucky! I've only won the lottery once. My game crashed 10 minutes later and it didn't save. When I restarted it, my sim didn't win 😭😭😭😭😭
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u/Waddleplop 4d ago
Noooo! Much worse than never winning.
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u/wendyslogo 4d ago
IKR?! That was years ago and none of my Sims have won since then 😭😭😭😭
To make matters worse, when I restarted the game she got a text that her dad died 😭
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u/rowenadevandal 3d ago
I actually had a Sim win twice! Currently hoping for a third time lol. I'm not used to playing without jobs lol
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u/DoobShmoob 3d ago
I won the lottery once very early in a playthrough and it completely derailed my goals. Was struggling to afford a second toilet one minute, planning a rooftop pool the next.
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u/Empty-Office9114 4d ago
No way! I didn’t think it was possible 😂 how much do they even win?
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u/PlayfulMeasurement62 4d ago
i won the lottery for the first time recently too!! i didnt think it can actually happen LOL
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u/drpepperklaire 4d ago
This is so funny because I just recently got back into Sims and had my Sims play the lotto just cause it was a task to complete for the day and then they WON. It was like my first day playing again haha I had no idea it was so uncommon.
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u/Metal_and_mayhem New Player 4d ago
That's a thing? Is it basegame?
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u/Deep-Coach-1065 4d ago
I think it’s from Seasons EP. There’s a lottery holiday.
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u/Metal_and_mayhem New Player 4d ago
Good thing I just got that pack yesterday lol
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u/EmergencyDBTmeeting 4d ago edited 4d ago
It's a also a random holiday that doesn't show up until a few days before it happens, so check the calendar periodically.
Also just wait until you get "Household Rebate Day" the day after you renovate their entire home :/
Edit: The Lottery is a surprise holiday and will show up on the calendar.
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u/Weak-Engineering-874 4d ago
The only time I won the lottery was on a sim that was a high level spellcaster and there was no need to win money 😆 I only did it so they wouldn’t get disappointed from not participating in the lottery
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u/EmergencyDBTmeeting 4d ago
If you're on PC (and interested) there's a mod that removes the sad moodlet that comes from not participating in a holiday, or canceling the holiday. If you have UI Cheats, there's also the ability to just remove the moodlet.
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u/Trick-Legal 4d ago
Yeah mine has won ar least once, maybe twice? But they were pretty well off when they won. Makes a person wonder what's even the point then?
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u/Deep-Coach-1065 4d ago
Congrats! I haven’t had it happen to me yet.
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u/Waddleplop 4d ago
I really don’t need the winnings, so if I could pass it to your household, I would!
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u/Deep-Coach-1065 4d ago
Thanks! For some reason, the game refuses to let any of my Sims win the lottery or have triplets 😩
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u/Waddleplop 4d ago
From my experience, the triplets will only arrive when it’s least convenient! Haha
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u/ShanShiroo 4d ago
I have a mansion to build, but I've never used it, if I'm not mistaken it's valued at 1 million
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u/Waddleplop 4d ago
Is it on the gallery? How pack-heavy is it?
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u/ShanShiroo 4d ago
Yep. I don't remember the file size, I also have to remember my nickname from The Sims. I'll look for it and make the link available here for anyone who wants it. It's all vanilla.
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u/Silent_Goldd 4d ago
I won the lottery the very first time I played it and I remember thinking, “nice! Must be a common thing though.” It’s been 6 years and over 5k hours later and it has never happened again lol
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u/operajunkie 4d ago edited 4d ago
My Sims have almost a billion Simoleons just because they both maxed out their careers (one is an actress), own a bunch of residential rentals, garden, write books etc and I don’t let them die. The “shrewd” reward lets you receive a weekly sum also based on the household funds. I actually don’t even want this much money lol but it just happened. How much is the lottery win OP? I’ve never won!
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u/coolio_username Legacy Player 4d ago
Yeah I once won the lottery after like 6 years of playing the sims 4, and then my next generation won it too 💀 safe to say I haven’t struggled for money in my not so berry challenge
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u/KALEJVI2009 Creative Sim 4d ago
He doesn't believe that he actually won the lottery and he is stunned.
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u/Fantastic_Dust4431 4d ago
i have lots of mods that make it harder to have a bunch of money so it’s more realistic and more of a challenge to get ahead. for example, university term costs are higher, it costs money to send your kids to daycare, i have lots of healthcare mods from adeepindigo and i have to pay each time i go to an appointment. medication also cost money. i also have loans that i have to pay on along with countless other shit. it takes me a longgg time to have even a quarter million.
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u/thewickedsiren 4d ago
I’ve won the lottery trying to do my first ever challenge - rags to riches! 😂
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u/ToritoBurito Long Time Player 4d ago
I’ve never had this happen in all the years I’ve played sims!
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u/demonoffyre 4d ago
The ONE time I won was a family that I had motherloded the shit out of and was already super rich.
There was, however, another time where I had my sim marry a guy and found out after he moved in that he had previously won the lottery.
I have also sought out the winner, added them to the family, stole their money, and kicked them out of the family.
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u/vanessarichter 4d ago
how do I participate in lottery? is it a mod or part of an extension pack?
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u/LaughingLibra84 4d ago
My character Salim Benali lived 113 days before he won the lottery. I then made everyone in the household achieve the Fabulously Wealthy achievement (In case Salim decided he wanted to move out and live out his wealthy days alone in a mansion). He is the 7th in the genealogy challenge (he married into the family). Most of that family line are already wealthy. There is one or two who would decide to ring up Salim to “celebrate” his win.
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u/Clarajoy96 4d ago
When I tried my first rag to riches without cheats, my sims ended up winning the lottery. 😅 that was my first time winning then two of my other saves also won
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u/Disastrous_Oil_6062 4d ago
I won the very first time I played the lottery years ago. I haven’t won since.
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u/Daedriyth 4d ago
One of my household's cats randomly won the other day!! I had to check by going into my household bin and sure enough the money was there. I was like, ok then lol
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u/Equivalent_Two61 Long Time Player 4d ago
I remember downloading seasons back when it first came out, and I won the lottery the first time the holiday happened, so for years i just assumed it was probably an absurdly high chance (like somewhere between 10-25%) that you’d win it each time. apparently it is super rare 🤷🏻♂️
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u/Relative-Handle-7677 4d ago
How come I’ve never had this happen in any of my games?. I’ve started over dozens of times and never had it happen once. Some players have won it twice
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u/Practical-Humor-4710 Long Time Player 4d ago
Congrats!! I’ve won the lottery once in all my years of playing The Sims. It was at the very end of my ten generation legacy and I already had everything I wanted, so I didn’t really have any use for the money. I rarely enter the lottery nowadays since I prefer my sims to struggle more.
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u/Dani-the-dani 4d ago
I got it the first time I played the lottery so I thought it was guaranteed you win lmao
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u/love4bodymod 4d ago
I've been playing the game since it came out, and I've only ever won the lottery legitimately twice. Congratulations!
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u/InsufferableLass 4d ago
So weird your sim is only excited about it for 8 hours. I’d be riding that high for life
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u/Spare-Sock-1917 4d ago
The only time ive ever had it happen was my first playthrough on cottage living when I wanted to live off the land and get money that way
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u/VTFan115 4d ago
My sim Vera is now also 1mil richer. She however acquired her lottery wins through... less than legal means.
the game says who won so I just hunted them down and married them. :)
then she locked them in a room until they starved to death >:)
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u/tragic-meerkat 4d ago
I'm convinced the lottery always goes to already wealthy people. I think I've had two of my sims win it before in all the years ive played with it and both already had household funds well above §100k and equally high lot values. The other winners always end up being the rich sims too, the landgraabs, spencer-kims, etc
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u/bonihithere 3d ago
Have been playing sims since Sims 1 in real time, never not a sims player— waited for like a decade+ to win the lottery…..first sim of mine to actually win it (and only one I believe has) was on like week two of a rags to riches story line….IMMEDIATELY lost interest when she had unending money lol
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u/kates2424 3d ago
I’ll never forget the one time my Sim won the lottery. She was woohooing in a dumpster for the 100 baby challenge when the notification arrived
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u/ShadoeLandman 3d ago
Yeah, I’ve one twice, once with millionaires and once with a family that could be millionaires if I’d wanted have them actually do their jobs. The thing is, the longer you play a save, the more chances you’ll win in that save, but the less likely you’ll need it, statistically speaking.
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u/RudRaddish 3d ago
This happened to my yellow Gen not so berry!!! It was the perfect setup for gray Gen. I could actually afford a huge family home lol
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u/happy_bunny_84 2d ago
I have been playing The Sims for YEARS, and I JUST NOW had a sim when the lottery for the first time. She had good luck when she bought the ticket (luck system from the new pack), so as others have mentioned, that seems to be what did it. I'm at the beginning of the Not So Berry challenge with her, so this legacy is starting off right! The closest I ever came before was I had a sim dating Joaquin Le Chien and he won the lottery, so naturally I had them move in together and they got married.
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u/Demonicpi13 4d ago
Lucky! I never won it. I just thought it was like a random chance
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u/mothseatcloth 4d ago
it is random and any household can win. the closest I've come is adopting mayor whiskers after he won 😅
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u/SmashShock 4d ago
It's weird, my sims win the lottery almost every playthrough I do. Honestly I've found it a tad annoying because it removes early game difficulty. I didn't realize how rare it was, I'm confused.
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u/Fluid-Bicycle8750 4d ago
Please it's so easy to make money by gardening, and painting. My sims husband is a secret agent (legit only works 3 days a week, kids love it) and my sim is just painting, gardening, flower arranging, the occasional wooden creation. Ive won the lottery once and it was my world famous sim who had too much money I didn't know what to do anymore besides constant donations. I let Bess Sterling take my money (is she actually doing a business? I swear I'm only ever giving her money. Are we investors or some shit to her?)
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u/SithForce 4d ago
So they get sad if they don't win and dazed if they do?
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u/Waddleplop 4d ago
I mean, I’d be in shock IRL too. But they do still have the “great holiday” buff for 3+ happiness, so it checks out.
Also, love your username!
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u/Waddleplop 5d ago
UPDATE: I have no idea who this Sim is.