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Lottery / Euromillions
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Redandwhitedust
Striker
National Lottery - a voluntary tax on hope
GTG
Striker
(for the poor)
High Entropy
Midfield
The price of a ticket is the cost of dreaming the big dream.
Don't think I'll ever win but for £2.50 I can dream it might happen and what I would do.
If I didn't buy a ticket then I couldn't even have that dream, so it's worth the money imo.
Don't think I'll ever win but for £2.50 I can dream it might happen and what I would do.
If I didn't buy a ticket then I couldn't even have that dream, so it's worth the money imo.
Redandwhitedust
Striker
Thing is they could reduce the jackpot by half and offer higher prizes lower down and the dream would still be there.
As soon as they increased the number of numbers.... I stopped playing. More chance of discovering a millionaire reletive has left her estate without a will and im the only reletive
High Entropy
Midfield
You're right of course but there's not a thing we can do about changing the rules, so you can not play or play and dream, either is correct but I choose to play and dream.
It's only one line with numbers related to our family. It's like buying a £1 scratchcard instead of £30 worth of scratchcards, its just a small punt at a big prize, nothing serious.
Feed the Monster
Striker
Won £88 million on the Euromillions three years ago but haven’t had as much as a tenner since. Going to stop as I’m just wasting money.
SAFC Wilks
Striker
The amount of times I get an email from them saying “you’ve won a prize” and I start spending millions in my head, only to see the account say I’ve won £2.40 or something shit from the euromillions is ridiculous. 
zebediah
Striker
If you buy two lines you are twice as likely to win, still massive odds mind.
Roadhouse
Winger
The reason they keep the lower prizes so low is because they need people to keep playing. If more people keep winning bigger sums then they stop playing.
Will e
Midfield
Pretty futile would be my word, BUT you never know
.In 2013, I had 5 numbers on the national lottery, won £257 or thereabouts FFS. Having said that I have/would still put it on every so often but I’m pretty skint at the moment so haven’t bothered for a while.
I came across something about the odds for the EuroMillions, just googled again
139’838’160 to 1.
Please correct me if I’m wrong. Say you did the euro, two draws each week, would be those odds halved
69’919’080 -1
Divide that by 52 (years) = 1’344’598
Divide that by 2 the average amount of time to bag the jackpot = 627’299 YEARS (on average) unless I’m calculating wrong, of course you could win next week or you could wait 1’344’598 years
Would be class if someone off here won a decent amount.
JonMc
Striker
Are you sure? If I remember the bidding process, Richard Branson's was aimed more towards more and smaller prizes but that was relegated behind Camelot who pushed the idea that bigger jackpots that would attract more people.
ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK
Winger
Not if you pick the same numbers for both lines
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Pretty futile would be my word, BUT you never know
In 2013, I had 5 numbers on the national lottery, won £257 or thereabouts FFS. Having said that I have/would still put it on every so often but I’m pretty skint at the moment so haven’t bothered for a while.
I came across something about the odds for the EuroMillions, just googled again
139’838’160 to 1.
Please correct me if I’m wrong. Say you did the euro, two draws each week, would be those odds halved
69’919’080 -1
Divide that by 52 (years) = 1’344’598
Divide that by 2 the average amount of time to bag the jackpot = 627’299 YEARS (on average) unless I’m calculating wrong, of course you could win next week or you could wait 1’344’598 years
Would be class if someone off here won a decent amount.
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Smiler
Striker
Perfect reason to make sure you do lucky dips rather than the same numbers week in, week out.
Lass I work with had that happen to her mother in the national lottery, her mother asked her to check the numbers, they had them all, everyone in the room went nuts apart from mam....
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.
Well you can't, that's why
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Bonzo
Striker
I meant our lottery
Smiler
Striker
Can't win 50-60 million on the national lottery
I’ve had £104.20 this week. The best week in nearly 30 yrs of the same numbers
John the Savage
Winger
I got 4 numbers on the Euromillions last month... £6.40 back
Bonzo
Striker
Why
