My biggest ever lottery win !!

Emp_Fab

I've just checked the ticket I bought on Wed and I've won !!

No.... of course I haven't won huge...  what were you thinking ?

But £117 for 3 numbers is my personal best.

What pedal can I buy for that ?

Bellycaster

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tony99

wow that is quite a bit for 3 numbers well done, is this on lotto?

tony99

nice takamine acoustic in the classifieds there, well under your budget

Emp_Fab

Yeah, I was surprised too.  I thought it was supposed to be a tenner.  It says something about 'jackpot rolldown' or something.  They must have changed the rules so if nobody wins the jackpot, it boosts the other prizes.

DefaultM

I once matched 4 numbers on euro millions and got £7.50. Genuinely no idea why it was so little. Just looked up the odds and it's 1 in 13,811.

steveledzep

A number of years ago I got 4 numbers on Lotto and got £74.  I also had the bonus ball but that doesn't do anything with 4 numbers.  If I'd got 5 plus the bonus the prize was £110,000 !!

lysander

What pedals could you have bought with all the other tickets when you didn’t win ? 

tony99

£90 the most I ever had with 4 numbers, about 15 years ago

axisus

I got £10 on the 4th week after the lottery started. Shortly after I went down to buying approx one ticket a year. I knocked that on the head when it went up to £2 and changed the odds of winning the jackpot from15 million to one, to 45 million to one.

beed84

axisus said:

I got £10 on the 4th week after the lottery started. Shortly after I went down to buying approx one ticket a year. I knocked that on the head when it went up to £2 and changed the odds of winning the jackpot from15 million to one, to 45 million to one.

Similar for me. This and not winning put me off too.

boogieman

I was in a lottery syndicate at work when it first started. A couple of weeks in we got 5 numbers up. The newsagents where we’d bought the ticket said it was too large an amount for him to pay out and said we’d need to go to a post office. We were getting pretty excited by that time. Camelot eventually had to sort out the payment. It was £1100, between 12 of us. Thousands of people had won that week.  . 

I’ve not bothered with the lottery in the last 10 years or so. Seeing as how my ex still uses the same numbers and still isn’t rolling in money I reckon I’ve saved a good couple of grand. 

uncledick

I once bought a £1 scratch card and won £2.  Figured I'd never beat those odds again and quit while I was ahead.  A relative of mine won £100 and bought a whole roll of scratch cards - won absolutely nothing  

lovestrat74

I did same numbers for years and only won the mimum twice. Stopped when it doubled. The system mirrors society - very few can be very rich and most others feed off the scraps.

For me the top prize should be 1 million and the rest should be shared out. Who wouldn't want to win a mill but also have the chance to win a few grand with 3 numbers as opposed to a few quid 

munckee

My dad had 5 numbers years ago and won 3 grand. When he claimed he realised my mum had the same numbers as they were family birthdays so they won 6 grand. 

If my birthday had been the 12th rather than the 7th they would have been millionaires. I have had a disproportionate amount of stick for this over the years. 

Keiko

You have no chance of winning the jackpot, but at least some of the money goes to worthwhile causes. The odds of winning the jackpot are so ridiculous it's impossible for the human brain to picture it, that's why people play it, false hope.  Small wins, and news reports of people winning the jackpot make it seem achievable. Statistically the odds are better that Katy Perry will break in to your house and do a poo on your carpet.

breakstuff

My wife's cousin won four and a half million a few years ago. A lot of money in anyones world, but round here, with the cost of living so low, it's a massive amount of money. 

I spoke to him not long after he won, and he reckoned he'd previously had his six usual numbers come up, but he'd forgotten to buy a ticket. I called BS but he was adamant.

boogieman

Keiko said:

You have no chance of winning the jackpot, but at least some of the money goes to worthwhile causes. The odds of winning the jackpot are so ridiculous it's impossible for the human brain to picture it, that's why people play it, false hope.  Small wins, and news reports of people winning the jackpot make it seem achievable. Statistically the odds are better that Katy Perry will break in to your house and do a poo on your carpet.

I remember when it first started, they had a statistician saying that you had a better chance of chucking your pound coin down the toilet and getting it back than winning the jackpot. But for some people I guess there’s always that chance that keeps them investing. My biggest bugbear is people who win and say “it won’t change my life”. Well why the hell not???!! Why bother doing it then? 

tony99

boogieman said:

Keiko said:

You have no chance of winning the jackpot, but at least some of the money goes to worthwhile causes. The odds of winning the jackpot are so ridiculous it's impossible for the human brain to picture it, that's why people play it, false hope.  Small wins, and news reports of people winning the jackpot make it seem achievable. Statistically the odds are better that Katy Perry will break in to your house and do a poo on your carpet.

I remember when it first started, they had a statistician saying that you had a better chance of chucking your pound coin down the toilet and getting it back than winning the jackpot. But for some people I guess there’s always that chance that keeps them investing. My biggest bugbear is people who win and say “it won’t change my life”. Well why the hell not???!! Why bother doing it then? 

I would have no qualms, no qualms about pulling a pound out of the crapper if I dropped it mate, don't you worry bout that

TwoSpellWizard

Emp_Fab said:

Yeah, I was surprised too.  I thought it was supposed to be a tenner.  It says something about 'jackpot rolldown' or something.  They must have changed the rules so if nobody wins the jackpot, it boosts the other prizes.

Yeah if nobody matches all 6 numbers for 5 consecutive draws, then the jackpot is divided between all cash winners on the fifth one. On a normal draw matching 3 wins you £30.

midlifecrisis

Ive won several huge jackpots but i just give it all away, cos im that sort of guy



a liar