Lottery..........

[everylittle]

Why am I obsessed with doing the lottery every saturday? Do it online now and wake every Sunday hoping for an email saying that I've won copious amounts............anyone won a significant amount???

[dot.hawkes]

the most i have ever won on the Lotto was �450 back in january 2004, the first thing I did was book a holiday to cancun.

[Redbel]

�123 about 8 years ago

[dot.hawkes]

how long did it take u to blow that lot Bez? lol

[Redbel]

lol...... Dot not long bought a couple of bottles of voddy and a meal...

[dot.hawkes]

if you spent a pound a week on the lottery from when it started back in 1995 did u actually end up getting your money back? nope, my sums are rubbish but I bet u didn't

[funkymoped]

�77 for all my troubles ! i sat and watched the numbers drop (was gonna say watched the balls drop !) and was sure id`e got all "7" ! i had in fact got 4 and the bonus. still living the dream...............

[Buenchico]

When the lottery first started I didn't bother with it for a few months. Then I put a couple of quid on. Result: 2 lines,
no matching numbers. The following week ('cos it was only on Saturday at that time), I put another couple of quid on. Result: 2 lines, no matching numbers. Thereafter, I put between �1 and �3 on each week. Results: Every week, 1 to 3 lines, no matching numbers. Eventually, after spending a total of �42 I managed to get just one number on one line. (I felt quite jubilant!).

These days, I just spend �1 every Wednesday and Saturday, with the same set of numbers. Yes, I've had the odd tenner but the last one was about 4 years ago!

I don't seem to be the luckiest person inthe world but I've got a friend who thinks she's unlucky if she doesn't get a 4-number payout several times a year! (On the very first lottery draw, the first 4 numbers drawn matched those on her ticket. She seems to get similar results once every month or two!).

At least someone else's good fortune has helped me though. For many years I'd told a young friend that I'd pay for his driving lessons as soon as he was 17. (I also intended to give him my elderly car, although I never told him that). Just before his 17th birthday, his grandmother got 5 balls plus the bonus ball on the lottery. She quickly decided to buy a new car and give her old one, together with a full course of driving lessons, to my young friend. So perhaps the lottery hasn't been so unkind to me after all :-)

Chris

[vehelpfulguy]

everylittle, lets look at the odds of you winning the main lottery.

Suppose someone blew up 14 MILLION ballons and put them inside a football stadium.

Inside ONE of the ballons was your name.

They then said you could go inside the stadium and pick ONE ballon to see if it had your name in it.

Not much chance you would pick the one with your name in it is there.

Well that is the same odds as you wining the lottery.

14 milion to 1.

And no matter how many weeks you do the lottery it still says the same odds, 14 million to 1.

I know you can argue someone has to win it, and indeed they do, but the chances of it being you are very slim.

Do the lottery, but just dont get too obsessed with it.

[Ward-Minter]

I have worked the odds out to be 2.32 million to one using the theory of non-repetive chance.

i.e the lottery has never had an order to its win.

For example the odds of the numbers being 1 2 3 4 5 6 are actually the same as random numbers. However, you can dismiss all straight lines 2 3 4 5 6 7, 3 4 5 6 7 8 etc etc in all permatations, i.e 2 6 4 1 3 5 or 47 48 45 44 49 46 etc etc.

Also dismiss patterns like 5 10 15 20 25 30 and 4 8 12 16 20 24 etc etc etc.

Also dismiss all odd numbers together and all even numbers together (4 percent probability)

Also dismiss randon numbers in order of high or low, ie. 1,7,17,23,29,41 or 49, 23, 22, 10, 9, 3, falling in order of sequence.

Yes the odds are the same but IT NEVER HAPPENS.

2.32 million to 1 (for jackpot only) still using non-repetitive chance theory is still fairly impossible though

[Solarjunkie]

I bought one ticket, then realised that one a week would be around �50 a year I never used to spend on such things.

So instead of lining Camelot's pockets I decided to support my local school. I bought tickets for their 100 Club and won �50!! (no lose situation, all the money not given as prizes goes to the school).

[RogerMellie]

been playing it for years and won only a tenner, but hoping for the biggie! A guy who used to work at my company won �3.6million last year - much to my amusement he phoned in sick on the Monday with "personal problems!" - It wouldn't be my definition of a problem! Needless to say, he isn't working any more.....