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I have had the same message. Only ever matched 4 numbers online. Small prizes…
71mph in a 60mph,please send £100 to averagespeedcameras.com.
Mine came in a gold envelope.
£1k dropped into my bank at the same time.
We dropped it onto flights to that there Canada land just before this odd virus from China broke cover globally...
You win some, you loose some.
🙁
Nowt - most I've ever won was £90 but that was about 5 years ago.
I won £109 last week - was expecting the usual £5 or so when logging in to check (why can't they just tell me what I have won in the email!)
That is the most I have won since doing the lottery every single week from the very first day so money well spent
Seems I won £6.50 last week and £2.60 last night. So £5 on for Saturday’s draw.
I simply can’t bring myself to gamble so I’ve never done the lottery. Makes me feel like a winner every week.
I like to think of it as Schrödinger's lottery ticket.
Until I log in it could be £100,000,000 or a free go.
Only by logging in do I cause it to become* an actual value.
* I'm sort of vaguely aware this is not "how it works", but "just for fun"...
Most I've won is £80 a couple of years back.
Those 4 words make your brain do strange things like thinking whether you can afford a supercar or a twix.....
I'm the same as J-R, won £10 in the first couple of weeks of the lottery being a thing and never did it again - decided being part of the 1% that was up on it makes me kind of a big deal! 🙂
I used to check my numbers to see if I would have won but felt that was asking for trouble lol
decided being part of the 1% that was up on it makes me kind of a big deal!
My dad did the same, won £1500 or so one week in the first year, then gradually lost interest, so he’s still up.
Oh, and remember when like 100 odd people won the jackpot one week a few years ago? One was a friends grandad, mixed emotions apparently, he won about £100k, but the jackpot figure was £16million…
£2.70 last week. I quite like the "Schrodinger's lottery win" feeling where you are aware you've won but not how much. Even if t's almost always disappointing. For a little frisson of excitement, I do make sure that I check the results to see if there's a UK winner before logging into my account. quickly followed by the depressing realisation that it wasn't me.
I like to think that my continual support for good causes is the real win.
I also think that i personally funded at least one of our gold medals at London 2012.
Never had a ticket. Ever.
That makes me about £1500 up on most people 😎.
(It COULD be you... but almost certainly will not be)
The sense of entitlement for not entering is worth billions.
I should clarify, seems ‘a few years ago’ was 1995 😳
My grandmother bought a ticket and then died. It won £1000. (Don't think it was related)
I very occasionally buy a lucky dip in a shop. Don't understand people who always use the same numbers, what if they came up one week when you hadn't bought a ticket? Aargh
Used to do the National Lottery weekly and barely won anything so stopped about 6 years ago and started doing the Postcode Lottery instead. Since doing that I've won at least my monthly stake several times, which I'm happy with.
Very occasionally do the Euro Millions when it's a silly high amount and usually cover my costs or come out slightly in profit but never won big on any of them.
(It COULD be you… but almost certainly will not be)
But if you don't buy a ticket, it would be an absolute certainty that it's not you.
But if you don’t buy a ticket, it would be an absolute certainty that it’s not you.
That's pretty much the same odds as if you do.
My ticket this week resulted in a 'your train is cancelled due to drivers refusing overtime' message in the station on Monday morning.
Fkcu. I don't travel now , I didn't want to go to Birmingham, I didn't want to spend £106 on a day return to sit in a filthy, shitty hovel Cross ****ry call a train. Hey ho...
I don't do the lottery. Too many vices already to add gambling into the mix... (pious mode off...🙃).
What are the odda on @ossify buying some tickets after "that roofing quote" landed?
Coincidentally my last win was £106 a couple of weeks back.
But yes it's usually £2.60 or a lucky dip.
started doing the Postcode Lottery instead. Since doing that I’ve won at least my monthly stake several times, which I’m happy with.
There was a discussion about the Postcode Lottery in our office last night. The two people who do it admitted that they'd never won anything. Obviously, you're hoovering it all up. 😀
There was a discussion about the Postcode Lottery in our office last night. The two people who do it admitted that they’d never won anything.
I am partly paid by them each month as we are recipients of a grant.
They are also the people I won £1k from, and multiple £10 and book prizes.
I am a fan - they are a deeply ethical company. You cannot gamble - you buy an entry but have to wait for the next round, they train all their staff to spot gambling, and before your entry is accepted they call to check you can afford to play.
They are part of a global set of lottery companies all owned by one family - and are the third biggest philanthropic givers you have never heard of globally. Over £12bn since they started, and at a significantly great percentage to good causes than National Lottery. They would give away more in the UK but gambling laws (to which National Lottery have exemptions) prevent them. They have good causes they just give to each year without them needing to apply - because they think they are great for some reason and meet their aims.
We have worked with them for over a decade, they are just a pleasure to work with - real humans, really listen, visit projects, look after their grant holders well, ask the grant holders to spend money on doing the work and not reporting every penny. Total opposite of National Lottery to work with (and we have won awards from National Lottery so know what it is like to work with both for over a decade).
I am a fan – they are a deeply ethical company.
Try telling that the Free Postcode Lottery people. The Postcode Lottery started to move into the UK and instantly sent FPL notice to stop using that name as they felt is was too close the Postcode Lottery. Despite the FPL being established years before PL came along and started with the lawyers, they had to cave in as they are a very small concern with no extra money to fight legal battles.
And on that note, https://pickmypostcode.com/ would love to see you. the prizes aren't huge, although you can grow a bonus various ways, and it's all paid for by the site's advertising. Prizes daily, and, as the old name suggests, free to play 🙂
A couple of weeks ago, I got 3 main numbers and 1 Lucky Star on the EuroMillions.
That's gotta be worth a bit, out of a jackpot of £70m+ for 5 numbers and 2 Lucky Stars... 🤞
£6.
Six. Not sixty or six hundred. Six.
Gutted.
tomhoward
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I should clarify, seems ‘a few years ago’ was 1995 😳
Yeah, I got 4 numbers. Went out and got drunk. Took my ticket to the newsagents the next day and got £16. Stopped playing the lottery.
I'm not really drawn to gambling - I can't recall ever putting money in a fruit machine or going into a bookies. So I guess it's no surprise the national lottery (or the postcode one) doesn't appeal - or the scratch card things.
But as an outsider, looking in - it looks so complicated! Different draws on different days, different number of numbers, bonus numbers, other weird ass phrases. Is the draw still on telly? Do you have to buy tickets from a shop or is it online these days? Are the scratch card thing connected to the draw or totally separate? I can't say I'm put off, because I don't seem to be wired to gaf anyway, but I can't be the only one too baffled by the whole thing. Layer upon layer of extra competitions to keep the money coming just invented an impenetrable language unless you were already hooked in. I reckon you have to have started doing it when it started and kept going, or been brought up in a household that did.
I still do 2 Euromillions tickets a week (one for each draw), mostly so I can pretend my pension/retirement is sorted rather than it being a big black hole thanks to crap fund managers :p
My Schrodingers ticket this morning turned out to be a lucky dip.
They always seem to send mine via the app in the middle of the night, resulting in me laying awake deciding what to spend it on (bikes probably).
I'm then forced to sneak downstairs to login and check, risking the wrath of the wife or the danger of waking the kids.
Invariably for £3.20
My grandmother bought a ticket and then died. It won £1000
Isn't it ironic............don't you think?
Biggest win was £100 a few years ago, just kept it in my account and let it pay for my tickets for the next few months. Apart from that one though it's been a steady dribble of Lucky Dips and the odd £5 (or whatever it is now). Have more luck on the Euro Millions where I buy a Lucky Dip for any draw that's over £100m, get the odd ~£3.50 out of it.
I just treat it as a bit of fun while some of it goes to good causes. If I did win big I'd set up a business/charity to work with disadvantaged people, something to keep me occupied and to give others a leg up. Have it set up that I could leave it alone for others to run but no pressure for profits, just breaking even. If I have enough to do that then I can easily live off the interest of the winnings.
My dad did the same, won £1500 or so one week in the first year, then gradually lost interest, so he’s still up.
My mum bought me a ticket for my 18th, won a tenner on it. Bought another, won a tenner again. Did the same for the next draw and again won a tenner! Didn't win anything for the next 8 years though so they got it all back.
Don’t understand people who always use the same numbers, what if they came up one week when you hadn’t bought a ticket? Aargh
Happened to one of my cousins, they forgot to buy a new ticket the week their mum died (this was way back in 2004). They haven't played it since. Actually glad they didn't win though as they are a completely ****less family who all live on maximum benefits, have no morals and are never going to change. They'd have made the Lotto Lout look like a saint if they had actually won the £5.3m that draw.
Closest I came was 4 numbers and the bonus ball.
Obviously in this scenario the bonus ball counts for nothing, so it's just 4 numbers.
The one number that didn't match anything was 41. Had it been 42, I'd have had 5 numbers and the bonus ball and circa £100k instead of £70
Of course the odds of winning are miniscule. But they asked a Uni Stats Professor if it was worth doing, and he said for a pound as it was in those days... absolutely because the risk to possible reward is so big he thought you'd be daft not to.
Of course the issue comes when you think by buying two tickets you've doubled your chances - which of course you have but from none to still none. Or five....or ten....etc.
A work colleague's 18 year old daughter won on one of the first few weekly draws when it started. 5+bonus, got about £85k. That was enough to buy a house (in the home counties) and have £20k cash as well then, and gave her an amazing start into adulthood. In inflation terms that's about £200k now, but if you went on house plus cash, well into £300's
Don’t understand people who always use the same numbers, what if they came up one week when you hadn’t bought a ticket? Aargh
Not that I played every week or the exact same numbers but in the very early days of the lottery, I bought a ticket one week, won nothing.
If I'd have played those same numbers the following week, I'd have got 5 + bonus.
Most I've won is £140 (twice).
Anyway, tomorrow morning when I've won the £200m jackpot tonight, I'll post on here and ask what you all want.
1,2,3,4,5 &6 have never been drawn in the lottery so I still haven't won🤷♂️
If you read the Daily Mail it would appear that winning the lottery is more of a curse than anything
Most marriages appear to break up, most end up with less money than they started with, or drink / drug habits
So not winning is the way forward
they are a deeply ethical company
They can afford to be.
It appears People's Postcode Lottery keep 27% of ticket sale values for profits and running costs; the National Lottery keep 5% for profit and operating costs.
https://www.national-lottery.co.uk/life-changing/where-the-money-goes
https://www.postcodelottery.co.uk/how-it-works
A very nice family moved in next door to me a couple of years ago after winning £18,000,000. They are lovely and show no signs of drug habits or failing marriage thankfully!
No news kn my ticket for last night, another £3 gone. Oh well it's scratched the itch for now.
Anyway, tomorrow morning when I’ve won the £200m jackpot tonight, I’ll post on here and ask what you all want.
My cunning plan failed due to a slight discrepancy between the numbers that I picked and the ones which dropped out the machine.
I did however get three main numbers which was the princely sum of £8.10.
But a fair way short of £200m.
£4.50 for me
£3.20 that’s me retiring
As an occasional Euro lucky dip buyer Mrs IRC has strange logic. She must have a ticket when the jackpot is huge. As if just winning a couple of million isn't worth the hassle.
My cunning plan failed due to a slight discrepancy between the numbers that I picked and the ones which dropped out the machine.
Someone somewhere is having an unreal weekend, good luck to them.
At least you won something. I think once you accept that the lottery is a tax to fund things the government doesn't want to pay for, with the very slim chance of some sort of return, then any return is welcome.
Well done OP on your windfall, don't spend it all in the one shop.
Someone somewhere is having an unreal weekend, good luck to them.
Winning ticket was bought in Austria apparently.
I'd like to see a national lottery where it was non profit and the maximum you could win was a million pounds, with the odds of winning being something like 4-5 million to one. And if there is no winner that week then the money is split for the folk who matched 5 numbers.
I had this today - woke up to the news about your ticket email. £8.10. Balls.
As much as I wouldn’t complain if I won it, 200 million is a frankly obscene amount of money for one person to win.
5 numbers twice for me years ago. £1711 and £1722 which was nice but could have been so much better!
£30 the other day. Spent it on bottom brackets and other consumables from the CRC sale.
Started playing the euromillions hotpicks, which if you normally get the low number wins seems a better chance of at least getting something more worthwhile. 2 numbers on the regular euro' is about £2.50, but 2 numbers on hotpicks is £100. I've had a host of 1 number, which on regular is nothing, but on hotpicks is a tenner, and a 2 number which was a happy hundred.
I see the £200m was won by someone in Austria. Well done that person, or syndicate or whatever. Hope they didnt have a heartattack after realizing 😆
As much as I wouldn’t complain if I won it, 200 million is a frankly obscene amount of money for one person to win.
Depends what you do with it. There's a LOT of good a person could do with that money and still have plenty to live a very comfortable life with.
I've reinvested some of my £8.10 winnings from last night into a ticket for tonight's draw.
A few months ago I went through a phase of winning a Lucky Dip every draw for about 6 weeks.
I'm obviously on another one of those phases.
The Wednesday draw, I won a Lucky Dip to last night's draw.
And last night I won... another Lucky Dip.