We Have a Winner...

Congratulations!!

My lottery in game is mother lode. ?

congrats!
One sim of my own has won, but he was 5 star celeb, so rich already, so blaah...

Mayor is not the winner in my games often, but Rosie, that small dog of Hecking couple , often wins, multimillionaire doggo.

Congrats!

None of my sims has ever won the lottery. I do something like @simgirl1010, but I type in money and number with a lot of zeros after it.??

Yay! I did have a family win the lottery once. They moved to the island on Windenburg and I built them a nice house with a safe in their basement where they kept most of their money.

I have to say, I stopped playing them not long afterwards.

Ay! Congrats! Guess you both fell off your chairs, LOL. I never won that lottery, and it won't help that I normally would switch households after buying those tickets anyway.

How will you spend all that money?

I've had it happen exactly once in all the years I've been playing - and I kept it pretty business as usual.

@simgirl1010 @Ellupelluellu @DaniRose2143 @elanorbreton @Simmerville @WildIrishBanshee @Luna15 Thanks for the congratulations!

@simgirl1010 @DaniRose2143 I confess to having cheated some Simoleons into a household's account, but I've kept it reasonable...mostly. I'll bestow upon them enough to fit a storyline I want. Usually that entails having a particular house. We did have a Sim try to romance an eligible lottery winner, but it didn't work. :D

@Ellupelluellu Rosie Hecking has won our lottery, too! I like the Heckings and I really like Rosie, so if she's the wealthiest Sim in my world, I'm delighted.

@elanorbreton Right now, we're thinking about building Duncan a new house, too. Or, rather, we'll download one from the Gallery. Neither Z or I are good builders. I wish I were, but it would take a lot of time for me to acquire the skill, time I don't often have.

@Simmerville I have a feeling you've been playing Sims 4 longer than I have, so I'm surprised you haven't hit it at least once...especially since you're a rotational player. Z and I did have six of our Sims buy tickets...but that only makes it more likely that one of our Sims will win, not that any particular family will be lucky. We're still thinking about how/if to spend it. The new house is one possibility. Unless we have Duncan totally change his personality, he's not the kind of Sim who would live ostentatiously, surrounding himself with flashy toys. He may take some vacations, donate to charities, and give gifts to his family. Z thinks he should finance her Simself's University education, when it's time. :wink:

@WildIrishBanshee If we keep our Sim's decisions "in character," he'll probably do the same thing: living life much as he's always done, without any further financial concerns. He's a single Young Adult, so maybe he'll look for The One. (He's also single in real life, but he doesn't have a million dollars...that I know of.) :)

@Luna15 We started playing in spring 2021, and this is the first time we've won it. Before then, we had pets, random townies, Nancy Landgraab (who needed it as much as a fish needs a bicycle), and a ghost, among other winners.

Congratulations! My Sims always purchase tickets, but I've only ever seen, like you, Townies/NPCs win. However, I should mention my Sims are all very well-off, too, so for them it's more like giving to charity, if you will.

I would have him keep his job and give him the frugal Trait so he can invest his money to continue to grow it. You never know when he might need a larger house.

As for the neighbor popping by on a whim? News sure travels fast. I wouldn't trust her, either. LOL (Does make me wonder if some long 'lost' cousins will make their way over to your Sims place, too. Now, that would be some fun gameplay.