lotto...

do you play the lotto

  • aye

    Votes: 15 35.7%

  • nar

    Votes: 12 28.6%

  • sometimes

    Votes: 8 19.0%

  • giz a bar of chocolate...

    Votes: 7 16.7%
  • Total voters
    42
My economics lecturer described it as a "tax on stupidity", the analogy he drew was to being handed a copy of the German national phonebook and being asked to pick six names - the odds of someone else also picking those six names are the same as those of winning the lottery.

Having said that, I do know someone that won the jackpot, supposedly with his first ever ticket so......:shrug:
 
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I'll sometimes chip in at work on the euro millions whatsit and occasionally if I find myself in a newsagent on a saturday night might buy a lucky dip.
 
Play it occasionally, normally when popping into Tesco's express on the way home and rounding the bill up to whatever it is, won a couple of tenners!

Most frustratnig week was having all 6 numbers -1 so if it was 2 I had 1, 36 I had 35 etc...
 
Voted no. Never bought a ticket in my life. Won't buy one until more of the profits are spent on everyday things, and not given to the owners of the company producing the lottery.
 
I'm in 3 syndicates at work and I play a couple of lines a week on the Euro lottery.
On one syndicate we generally get at least a third of our money back by the end of the year, another syndicate we got over £2,000 each last year. As for the euro, I used to get one maybe two wins a year, since Christmas I started playing online and I've had 3 small wins on the Euro.
 
We never really played it untill about 7-8 months ago and now put a quid on every sat and occasionally on the big friday night ones, but never won a penny YET
 
A pound on every Saturday and Wednesday (do it online, in case I forget to buy), ever since it started. Never changed my numbers, and I have won £75 for four numbers once, and approximately 20 wins of £10 for three numbers. Still waiting on the jackpot to retire from work and buy top of range camera gear.
In the early years of the lotto, my neighbour changed their numbers and four weeks after that, their original numbers came up for 5, plus bonus ball. They would have won over £100,000. As a result of that I am terrified to either change my numbers or not buy a ticket.
 
I went for the chocolate option
at least you can eat that :thumbs:
:D
 
Grandslammer said:
Plenty of unclaimed cash gathering dust :bonk::'(
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You're not kidding :nuts:

23 Sep 2009
1435 Lotto
£3,681,197 Jackpot
Constituency of Inverness, Nairn Badenoch and Strathspey
 
Cobra said:
I went for the chocolate option
at least you can eat that :thumbs:
:D
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:plusone:

We used to pay out poor/stupid/greed tax when it first started and actually did OK for the first few weeks - £10 in the first draw then a couple of weeks later, £89. We carried on playing until we had spent all the winnings and didn't win again, so we stopped.
We don't buy scratchcards either. They claim that you have something like a 1 in 10 chance of winning but in fact you have that chance of getting some sort of payout and if it's just £1, that's not really a win, is it? It's just not a loss.
 
My parents played the lottery for the first year or so, always with the same numbers and won a couple of £10s. Then my mother stopped paying the weekly tax on their stupidity ... and lived the next decade in dread of explaining to my father in case those numbers came up :lol:

Better than that was a garage proprietor I knew. His staff ran a weekly syndicate ... so he bought a ticket with the exact same numbers. That way if they thought they were going to win the jackpot and all retire from work ... :banana::clap:
 
Yves Geza said:
... so he bought a ticket with the exact same numbers. That way if they thought they were going to win the jackpot and all retire from work ... :banana::clap:
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:lol::lol::lol:
 
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