Boubacar Kamara

[Drummond]

We got 5 of the 6 once, got about 2k for it.

Back in the 90's I picked my mum's numbers for two lines. Picked all 6 correct numbers. 4 on one line, 2 on the other and she got about £60. Bollocks

[LeeB]

We got 5 of the 6 once, got about 2k for it.

They should make the prizes less extreme in either direction.  5 out of 6 numbers should get you more than a couple of grand (as nice as that is to get).  Anyway, this discussion doesn't belong here and should go in the Disasi thread instead.

Agreed on both counts, but I think even the 2k was a higher amount than usual for 5.

[Percy McCarthy]

We got 5 of the 6 once, got about 2k for it.

They should make the prizes less extreme in either direction.  5 out of 6 numbers should get you more than a couple of grand (as nice as that is to get).  Anyway, this discussion doesn't belong here and should go in the Disasi thread instead.

Agreed on both counts, but I think even the 2k was a higher amount than usual for 5.

I got 4 numbers on 2 separate occasions. One was £29, the other £219.

[RamboandBruno]

Ive only ever won lucky dips. Dont know whether its me but the lucky dip numbers that i win, always seem bollocks, 5,6, 7, 21…like you bas**rd!!

I also regularly dont look at my Saturday ticket till Tuesday, just in case.

I also once bought a bottle of lucozade from the vending machine at the gym and my £2 came back out with the bottle of pop. I convinced myself it was a sign and invested the £2 on a lucky dip…not one number.

One day Rodders

[edgysatsuma89]

What's up with those numbers?!

[pauliewalnuts]

The thing about the lottery is it is the worst odds versus payout offering there is.

Odds of getting 3 numbers: 97/1.

At £2 a ticket that should be paying you £194.

What does it pay? £25 or something.

So even knowing all that and even having worked in the industry for years, why do I continue to play my numbers every week? Because I feel if I do not, then they will come in, so I have to play.

That’s what is known in the industry as “gambler’s fallacy” and is a massive contributor to the money involved in the industry.

[Brazilian Villain]

I occasionally play Euromillions, just seem to have more luck on it than the national lottery. The most I've won is €48 when I had 4 numbers.

There's a guy in our local village who won just under £500,000 on the Irish lottery in the early 90s. A few years later he was part of a work syndicate that also won the national lottery. Then, about 10 years later my parents were at a dinner dance that was the culmination of a fund raising effort for a local GAA club, and had a draw with a first prize of €10,000. The same fella popped in at the end of the night and bought some tickets for the draw. He won that too, which didn't go down particularly well with those in attendance.

[dave.woodhall]

The thing about the lottery is it is the worst odds versus payout offering there is.

Odds of getting 3 numbers: 97/1.

At £2 a ticket that should be paying you £194.

What does it pay? £25 or something.

So even knowing all that and even having worked in the industry for years, why do I continue to play my numbers every week? Because I feel if I do not, then they will come in, so I have to play.

That’s what is known in the industry as “gambler’s fallacy” and is a massive contributor to the money involved in the industry.

A tax on the poor, the feckless and the hopelessly optimistic.

[LeeB]

I occasionally play Euromillions, just seem to have more luck on it than the national lottery. The most I've won is €48 when I had 4 numbers.

There's a guy in our local village who won just under £500,000 on the Irish lottery in the early 90s. A few years later he was part of a work syndicate that also won the national lottery. Then, about 10 years later my parents were at a dinner dance that was the culmination of a fund raising effort for a local GAA club, and had a draw with a first prize of €10,000. The same fella popped in at the end of the night and bought some tickets for the draw. He won that too, which didn't go down particularly well with those in attendance.

This cheers me somewhat as I got a bit down when we got 5 thinking that was as close as fate was going to let me get.

[Percy McCarthy]

The thing about the lottery is it is the worst odds versus payout offering there is.

Odds of getting 3 numbers: 97/1.

At £2 a ticket that should be paying you £194.

What does it pay? £25 or something.

So even knowing all that and even having worked in the industry for years, why do I continue to play my numbers every week? Because I feel if I do not, then they will come in, so I have to play.

That’s what is known in the industry as “gambler’s fallacy” and is a massive contributor to the money involved in the industry.

That’s why I don’t have set numbers. A bloke at work (whose cushy job I got when he retired), had a set of numbers. The week he didn’t put them on, he would have got 5 + the bonus ball, which paid out £80k that week. Poor old Ken. He was miserable as sin at work from then on, and died three years after retiring.

[Neil Hawkes]

There is a conspiracy theory that if you use random generated choice a selected number gets dropped from the draw, whereas if you use your own chosen numbers this cannot be done as the system didn't generate the numbers in the first place, apparently statistics show that a big win has never been from a random generated choice - interesting concept, probably bollocks as the odds for a win are huge already.
You tube really keeps me up at night!

[Olneythelonely]

There is a conspiracy theory that if you use random generated choice a selected number gets dropped from the draw, whereas if you use your own chosen numbers this cannot be done as the system didn't generate the numbers in the first place, apparently statistics show that a big win has never been from a random generated choice - interesting concept, probably bollocks as the odds for a win are huge already.
You tube really keeps me up at night!

I’m really struggling to understand this. Surely if they dropped a ball from the choice of everyone using a lucky dip, there would be no balls to be drawn?

Edit - Also, last year someone won £58m with a lucky dip on the Euro Millions.

[johnc]

The thing about the lottery is it is the worst odds versus payout offering there is.

Odds of getting 3 numbers: 97/1.

At £2 a ticket that should be paying you £194.

What does it pay? £25 or something.

So even knowing all that and even having worked in the industry for years, why do I continue to play my numbers every week? Because I feel if I do not, then they will come in, so I have to play.

That’s what is known in the industry as “gambler’s fallacy” and is a massive contributor to the money involved in the industry.

A tax on the poor, the feckless and the hopelessly optimistic.

As someone once said”The Lottery run the incredibly risky business of taking a lot of our money off us and giving a little bit back”

[N'ZMAV]

The thing about the lottery is it is the worst odds versus payout offering there is.

Odds of getting 3 numbers: 97/1.

At £2 a ticket that should be paying you £194.

What does it pay? £25 or something.

So even knowing all that and even having worked in the industry for years, why do I continue to play my numbers every week? Because I feel if I do not, then they will come in, so I have to play.

That’s what is known in the industry as “gambler’s fallacy” and is a massive contributor to the money involved in the industry.

A tax on the poor, the feckless and the hopelessly optimistic.

that's me

[Percy McCarthy]

The thing about the lottery is it is the worst odds versus payout offering there is.

Odds of getting 3 numbers: 97/1.

At £2 a ticket that should be paying you £194.

What does it pay? £25 or something.

So even knowing all that and even having worked in the industry for years, why do I continue to play my numbers every week? Because I feel if I do not, then they will come in, so I have to play.

That’s what is known in the industry as “gambler’s fallacy” and is a massive contributor to the money involved in the industry.

A tax on the poor, the feckless and the hopelessly optimistic.

As someone once said”The Lottery run the incredibly risky business of taking a lot of our money off us and giving a little bit back”

It says it all that the Mafia ran it in the US before the government took it over.