Lotto Winner..........

[whitesands1]

.... two numbers.  Free Lucky Dip!

This time next week, Rodney!

[Scuzzle]

I actually bought a lucky dip for the first time in about 8 years, needless to say I never even got one number.  Looked weird seeing numbers over 50 come out when I watched the draw.

Nobody is going to believe this but years ago when the lottery had just started there was not a rollover for about a year, you just never got them, a guy I worked with told me his uncle worked for Camelot and that the first rollover was being planned for just before Christmas.  This was about 2 months beforehand.

[Pete]

I saved £10 this weekend by not buying lottery tickets.
If you want to keep your money safe but still have a chance of winning a million every month then try Premium Bonds.

The probability of winning the new lottery is too high now.

Who would want to deal with the tons of begging letters and sad cases knocking on your door if you won big anyhow ?

[mr-dead]

Anyone chancing their luck with the US powerball lottery?

£2 a ticket with a £961,000000 jackpot

Odds of winning are about 26o million to 1 but I grabbed two tickets anyway, you can buy them here :

www.lotoland.co.uk

 

 

[KDave]

I used to play via direct debit, one ticket a week, but stopped about 6 months ago. I think I won £10 in 3 years of playing. I have had no luck with premium bonds either so far, but at least you get return of capital at the end (minus inflation) even if you don't 'win'. The lottery was just a bit of fun until I added it all up and realised I was missing out on a half sovereign a year. 

Now I just play the gold and silver lottery. We are all going to be millionaires when gold and silver go to the moon! 

 

 

[Scuzzle]

I don't actually know how that Camelot gets away with continually being awarded the contract to run the lottery, must be backhanders made somewhere.  When the initial bids were being made Richard Branson offered to run it just taking running costs and nothing else.  Over the years I wonder how many millions more could have gone to good causes if Branson was given the lottery.

First Camelot doubled the price of a ticket so as long as more than 50% of customers give it up they increase profits, now they have added more numbers.  When if first started we did a syndicate at work of 10 lines, after 2 years we never even got a tenner off it so switched to the Irish Lottery where we won £560 in the first week.

[StackemHigh]

I stopped the lottery when the price doubled.  I can't see why anyone would pay such a high price for terrible odds. 

[goldbones]

Only play it when the odds matches the money, in the case of the US powerball the money exceeds the odds , they are actually paying you more than the odds of winning making it a bargain.

So outside massive rollovers it's not worth playing.

[goldbones]

Speaking of the lottery, there's a meme going around that millions thumbed up.

LOL  face palm maths fail!