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I only started doing the lottery a couple of years ago and do the same numbers each week. The wife puts it on for me every Saturday morning at Asda. Unfortunately we have never won anything, not even 3 numbers, my wife puts it down to the fact that I pick "stupid" numbers that will never come up. Today without telling me she decided to do two lucky dips instead....... and guess what!!! OK I've not missed a fortune but at least it would have been a win. Bluddy wimin!
 
You should get dinner out of that at least, one in 14 million chance of winning and you just missed yours! :lol:
 
1,2,3,4,5,6 will only bring you a tiny windfall – even if all the numbers come up. That is because about 10,000 people choose that option each week, according to Dr Simon Cox of Southampton University.
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^ These are stupid lottery numbers!
 
Doing the same numbers every week is the silly part - Sod's law states that if you miss a draw for ant reason, that'll be the time the numbers come up! Lucky dips or home picked random numbers are the way to go if you do the lottery.
 
I remember when the lottery first came in, I did it every week without fail. I started off by doing £5, as the months went by I started adding a couple of quid, as I kept saying to myself, if only that number had been on the next line, and this had of been with that number etc. I started adding another line, so much so, I ended up paying £20 for lottery for years. One week I got four numbers and I was so excited, I was planning to buy all sorts with the winning. I got about £50, I never bothered with the lottery since !
 
The odds on the normal lotto are poor. The Euromillions for the basic prizes are much better. Odds for the higher prizes are astronomical.

I'm not sure they're genuinely random any more as there would have been another case of a lottery win split between lots of people as there was in the early days. One weekend I think the jackpot was split between a 100 or something silly. That's never been repeated with anything similar. No more than a couple of people win any jackpot. Of course I suppose it may be partly due to fewer people bothering with lotto since Euromillions appeared. Not winning 12 to 100 million is more alluring than not winning a couple of million shared between 2 or 3 others...
 
srichards said:
The odds on the normal lotto are poor.....
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Speaking of odds, it's the way it's all worked out. I did have a spell of buying scratch cards as the lottery said they were pretty good odds. I did get a lot of £1 ( wins as they would call it ) but most were losses. It did my head in when the shop said oh have you got a winner? I would always say, No Just getting My Money Back, as it cost me £1 in the first place! NO WIN But the Lottery call it a Win, and just imagine if you have thousands upon thousands, those £1 return of a £1 stake will be classed wrongly as a win ! I think that was very misleading!
 
When the lottery first came out we decided not to stick to the same numbers, as we new we would end up blaming each other if we didn't get a ticket at any time and our numbers came up.
 
I'm in pocket on the lottery at the moment - more won than staked.

In the early days of the lottery my first try won £10; my second attempt didn't win, so I stopped. Currently £8 in profit:)
 
Nod said:
Doing the same numbers every week is the silly part - Sod's law states that if you miss a draw for ant reason, that'll be the time the numbers come up! Lucky dips or home picked random numbers are the way to go if you do the lottery.
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munch said:
When the lottery first came out we decided not to stick to the same numbers, as we new we would end up blaming each other if we didn't get a ticket at any time and our numbers came up.
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Absolutely. That's definitely the second best approach to the lottery.

(The best approach is not to play.)
 
We won about £100 on the first 2 draws - £10 on the first then £90 or so. Both weeks we had done a fiver's worth of random numbers. Carried on doing a fiver a week until the pot ran dry and haven't paid the ?#@* tax since.
 
ah that week when 133 people one the jackpot. Iwas a student and bought £1 worth of random picked numbers (by me.)

4 numbers... great £80 or so I thought... nope £16.
 
Always played the same numbers in a couple of syndicates at work. Most years we would end up to £20 each down, but we did have a couple of good years where we had a "sizeable win" meaning we all were a couple of grand better off so we probably broke even over the years. Since starting my new job back in August, I have just played the lottery on my own. A couple of lines on both Lotto and Euro lottery days. I play the same numbers each time on lotto and have a set of numbers to play each time on the euro. I get one or two wins a month on the euro and had several wins on the lotto before it went up to £2. I always play online and put it on for a fortnight at a time. One time I accidentally played the same lotto numbers twice for the same period, one line came up with 4 numbers, so I won £50 instead of £25. I've won not far off £400 since August.
 
the other tip (apart from not playing...) is to pick higher numbers, that increases the chance the prize will be split between many people.
 
StewartR said:
(The best approach is not to play.)
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I think these people may disagree with you ;)

http://www.camelotgroup.co.uk/news/uk-national-lottery-news/winners/

But yes, 99.98% of the population would be financially better off if they didn't participate.

There is a 0.0018020832% chance of you winning £1,500 or over each time you play.

What's unfortunate is a lot of people that play it (something which is even more evident with scratch cards) can't really afford to.

On the flipside, the money that doesn't go into winnings or administration really does help a lot of communities through grants etc.
 
Nod said:
haven't paid the ?#@* tax since.
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tax
taks/
noun
  1. 1.
    a compulsory contribution to state revenue, levied by the government on workers' income and business profits, or added to the cost of some goods, services, and transactions.


But like yeh, apart from the above, it's totally a tax ;)
 
Rapscallion said:
the other tip (apart from not playing...) is to pick higher numbers, that increases the chance the prize will be split between many people.
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don't you wan't to decrease the chance of the prize being split tho :lol:

best bet is definitely not to play - if you want a flutter premium bonds are distinctly the way to go, because you don't lose your stake - if someone who does the lottery once every week since in launched in 1994 had put that money into premium bonds instead they'd now have £1040 in bonds , plus any wins they'd had in that time. Someone who puts a fiver a week (which is far from uncommon) would have a minimum of £5200 !
 
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