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mackem35

mackem35

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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.
 

Imagine the feeling though when you randomly look at the app one week, after months of not having it on only to realise your regular numbers came up last week and there was no winner and rolled over from £179m to £190m
 
Goat Eyes said:
Imagine the feeling though when you randomly look at the app one week, after months of not having it on only to realise your regular numbers came up last week and there was no winner and rolled over from £179m to £190m
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always do lucky dip and then you can never have that sinking feeling
 
There was a story where someone’s euromillions numbers came up but they couldn’t buy a ticket as they didn’t have the £2.50 to pay for the direct debit.

Imagine that. Not able to get £50m+ because they couldn’t afford the £2.50 ticket at the time. You’d be absolutely distraught.
 
SAFC Wilks said:
There was a story where someone’s euromillions numbers came up but they couldn’t buy a ticket as they didn’t have the £2.50 to pay for the direct debit.

Imagine that. Not able to get £50m+ because they couldn’t afford the £2.50 ticket at the time. You’d be absolutely distraught.
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Surely if you asked nicely and proved your situation they’d let you have it.
 
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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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.
 
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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It is, I read somewhere that buying multiple lines doesn't increase your chances as the odds are still the same as each line is a separate game.
 
put new machines in round here that wont scan in winning tickets if they crumpled :eek: having to go round find machine that will accept it .
National Lottery is facing claims that its machines have been left riddled with glitches following a
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Exasperated shop owners said they faced declining sales, disgruntled customers and disillusioned staff after operator Allwyn implemented a major technology changeover at the beginning of August.

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“Someone came in and they had a ticket that they thought was a winner. We thought it had already been paid out, but what happens is you put it through the machine and then it just doesn’t do anything. All we get is ‘the circle of death’,”, he said.
 
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I hit a really good patch in August won 5 on set for life on Thursday, 2.70 on euros on Friday, then 10 on Mondays set for life then another 5 on the Thursday set for life. Then a week later another 5 on set for life.

I'm retired now living my best life.
 
Won £30 on Saturdays lotto and £5 last night. Still doesn't go anywhere near the amount I have put on over the years. The most I have ever won is about £120 for 4 numbers.
 
I stopped doing the Lotto / EuroMillions a couple of years ago when I realised I was spending around £50 - £70 a month on tickets and it just felt as if it was getting harder and harder to win anything to justify the cost. I still do the odd lucky dip when the EuroMillions goes over £100 million but that is about it now.
 
young316 said:
I stopped doing the Lotto / EuroMillions a couple of years ago when I realised I was spending around £50 - £70 a month on tickets and it just felt as if it was getting harder and harder to win anything to justify the cost. I still do the odd lucky dip when the EuroMillions goes over £100 million but that is about it now.
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Totally get that thinking...
Who would want to win a paltry 97 million...
 
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