Lottery Tickets

[follyfancier]

do many of you buy lottery tickets even if you are short of money, I have been talking to someone who I know is not very well off but they spend at least £10 a week on tickets or those cards without much success and I have been trying to persuade them that it would be better to just save the money that they would be spending until they have £100.00 and then buy a premium bond ,I know it is not possible to win such huge amounts but at least you have not lost the money you can get it back again if you need it.

[Buenchico]

Do I still buy lottery tickets when I'm really short of money?
Yes I do!

I've got a degree in maths (with a specialism in statistics) so I don't need anyone to explain the sums to me, but £2 a week allows me to dream!

[ChuckFickens]

I very rarely buy them (a level in pure and applied maths)

Worrying that the stat person does buy them ;)

[Buenchico]

The stats person also knows that buying one 2 tickets per week should get back around a couple of tenners per year. It was therefore frustrating when I realised that I'd gone over three and a half years (where I should have expected around 7 tenners) without a single win. Then I missed buying just one ticket last October and ....guess what?
(At least it was only a tenner I missed out on. It would have been far worse if it had been the jackpot!)

;-)

[ChuckFickens]

Not as annoying as one of the few times I did buy a ticket a few years back and got 5 numbers!..... annoying because one of the 5 numbers was the bonus ball so isn't counted unless you get 6 numbers!... if it had been 5 "normal" numbers that week It would have been about 200K.... 4 numbers plus the bonus ball got me £70

my heart raced for a little while that day!

[MASS1961]

I buy 2 on Saturday and 2 on Wednesday simply because I know my numbers and have done the same since the lottery started ( before lucky dip was introduced) I rarely chance any more. Occasionally win £10. I never buy the scratch cards.

[Buenchico]

>>>my heart raced for a little while that day!

On the very first National Lottery draw my friend watched and saw that the first number drawn was on her ticket. So was the second. And the third. And the fourth. Regrettably the last two numbers didn't match but I bet her heart was racing that night. (Ever since then she seems to assume that she's being cheated if she doesn't get a least a tenner once per month, based upon a stake of just £1 per week!).

Another friend's mother got 5 numbers plus the bonus ball, which enabled her to give her car to her teenage grandson, together with a course of driving lessons. That saved me a lot of hassle because I'd promised to teach him to drive!

[ELVIS68]

I'm in a syndicate at work and its £10 per month, so far we've only won tenners and get back about £30/£40 each every Xmas

We've also got a Celebrity Death Club which costs 50p per week for each celeb we choose, Ive won more on that than I have on the lottery

[Buenchico]

>>>We've also got a Celebrity Death Club

I couldn't resist googling 'Celebrity Death Club' and I came up with this:
http://www.deathlist.net/
I wonder if people listed there know about it and, if so, what they think about it!

[ELVIS68]

Chris, the latest big payout was on Clive Dunn, £460, the next payout was Bill Tarmey £35

Mine was the biggest so far, Robin Gibb, £640

[VHG]

Some people buy a ticket then dont bother to check it, or lose it before checking it, or check it wrongly

64 million "lost".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-20603182

[follyfancier]

so you don,t think of it as wasting money even if you spend more than you win

[dickythecook]

Just read the posts here and checked the euro numbers and I am a bona fide winner. All that money for just £2 (£1.50) if you discount the millionaire raffle. Now I have to think long and hard what I will do with my 310 pennies profit from this game.

[robert551069]

The odds of winning the jackpot are 13 million to one!

[Henry's Wife]

But it could be you!!!.....

[sandyRoe]

I had the first 4 numbers on the very first draw, too. £67 was what I won. I can't see anyone expecting to win. It's buying a chance to daydream.