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Lottery / Euromillions

I do the thunderball when it’s on , only £1 a go and £500k would be enough for both of us to retire on - get the odd £10 and have been playing on same money for a few months now since winning £71 back in July
 

I do the draws where you have 10 people win a million , think they is one tomorrow

Apart from that I don't bother
 
just bought a ticket for tomorrow night with the 10 millionaires. I have bought the dream of winning for £2.50. If I get an email on Saturday to say I've won then I won't log in to at least Monday. That will mean two days of being a Schrödinger millionaire. I will check Rightmove and decide where I will buy a new house or maybe a flat in Brighton or Manchester and will look at expensive guitars. If I don't win anything then I can recoup the money by not buying a cup of coffee on my morning walk.
 
Don't play with any regularity but will put a fiver in my account now and then. Doesn't got very far like, couple of goes and that's it.
 
Do the euro jackpot twice a week, don't think the UK is involved - equivalent of 4quid for 2 lines each draw - done ok tbf
 
mackem35 said:
I know this has been discussed loads on here but think it must be months since even won a free lucky dip, ie two numbers. Won 1.90 on the Euromillions again months ago but as a ticket is 2.50, winning is total bollocks, still lost 60p. Wish had put the money into something, even premium bonds other than all the works syndicates been in for years.

Watched a video about the start of life on earth, not even the same odds as a hurricane going through an aircraft junkyard and assembling a fully functioning 747, more like a hurricane blowing through a quarry and picking up iron ore etc and building a 747, in other words about the same as winning Euromillions, at least feels that way.

Anybody still do it? Just feels like only way for most of us to do what we want to do, pack in work etc. Should stop but for a split second, that hope on opening my email would be gone, all we buy is hope but reaches a point you think, been done here.
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Are you doing it right? I’ve won the jackpot 4/5 times now. It’s easy once you know the system.
 
If you can win 50-60 mill on the lotto why put the euros on, plus it's cheaper😂
Even if it's lower than that it's still worth winning.
 
A few months ago I got 5 numbers in the euro millions.
The prize was pathetic. It was something like £30 !!
 
My great grandad got 5 numbers and the bonus ball in the second year it was running. I think it only paid 13k. Sickening, but he was happy and went out and bought a new lada.
 
Justvisiting said:
My great grandad got 5 numbers and the bonus ball in the second year it was running. I think it only paid 13k. Sickening, but he was happy and went out and bought a new lada.
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Living the dream. I would definitely stop doing it if say 5 or 6 numbers and won next to nothing. Sure a load of taxi drivers in some big syndicate, 6 numbers and won not a lot.
 
marsey said:
Odds are weird things though and completely baffling. Like your shoelaces getting tangled and cursing it. It's cos there is only one way for them not to be tangled but an infinite number of ways for them to be tangled (in a mathematical sense).

Same with your hurricane analogy. How many different ways are there to rearrange all that junk?

Everything that is possible in a random situation has as much chance of happening as all the other possibilities, so if you drop all of the pieces of a broken glass they have just as much chance of falling and rearranging themselves into a complete glass as they do of any other arrangement of pieces.

With the EuroMillions, though, I think the breakdown of prizes really needs to be looked at as these smaller prizes are utterly pointless.
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Your first point around shoe laces show why odds aren't really weird or baffling. Odds are about the likely hood of that outcome happening. So while your numbers on the lottery have just as much chance of appearing as any other combination, you only have one outcome where your combination comes up, against all the outcomes where your combination doesn't come up.

However, the lottery isn't totally random with physics in play of gravity of ball drop, spin of machine and balls hitting surfaces and other balls. With different sets of balls and machines. Believe the balls are always dropped in the same order, so low numbers in the machine first and high numbers last. All that and more (where the ball collector is, and frequency and method of ball collecting) will have elements of likelihood that will mean certain ball behaviours and movement patterns will be more frequent than others, ultimately resulting in not every single lottery combination having an equal chance of occurring in any given draw.
 
mackem35 said:
I know this has been discussed loads on here but think it must be months since even won a free lucky dip, ie two numbers. Won 1.90 on the Euromillions again months ago but as a ticket is 2.50, winning is total bollocks, still lost 60p. Wish had put the money into something, even premium bonds other than all the works syndicates been in for years.

Watched a video about the start of life on earth, not even the same odds as a hurricane going through an aircraft junkyard and assembling a fully functioning 747, more like a hurricane blowing through a quarry and picking up iron ore etc and building a 747, in other words about the same as winning Euromillions, at least feels that way.

Anybody still do it? Just feels like only way for most of us to do what we want to do, pack in work etc. Should stop but for a split second, that hope on opening my email would be gone, all we buy is hope but reaches a point you think, been done here.
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Never done the lottery for years. Total waste of time.
 
Goat Eyes said:
I don’t think winning a huge jackpot would bring anything to your life TBF Jeff.

From what you post on here, you already have it all, and more.

You make the rest of us feel shit.
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No, you are wrong, I don’t have it all and you are in control of your feelings.

If you feel negatively about something that is a choice you have made.

You can see something on here you need to actively think negative thoughts.

That’s not good.

Look at this please and try to follow some of this guidance. I wish you well.

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Nookie Bear said:
I do the thunderball when it’s on , only £1 a go and £500k would be enough for both of us to retire on - get the odd £10 and have been playing on same money for a few months now since winning £71 back in July
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Aye the thunderball now and again is all I do as well.
 
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