Lottery is a bit crap

[SilverSpur]

Making the assumption that most people that play 5 numbers from the 7 x table would probably have played all 6 numbers from the 7 x table.....

Then if the draw had been all divisible by 7 and the numbers were 7, 14, 21, 28, 35, 42
I'm guessing at least 4000 of today's 4082 five number winners would have played this combo,
The jackpot would have been £7200 each. That would have been bloody funny.

[robinessex]

On the 14th January 1995, the jackpot of £16,293,830 was shared between 133 winners. The numbers were 7 17 23 32 38 42 B 48

[SilverSpur]

robinessex said:

On the 14th January 1995, the jackpot of £16,293,830 was shared between 133 winners. The numbers were 7 17 23 32 38 42 B 48

Yep, Camelot explained this by showing the pattern on the playing slip, which as laid out at the time, was in the form of a cross or something similar. Said it could never happen again.... !

[romeogolf]

I can't imagine wanting to go public with a lottery win, but then I imagine the Camelot PR team can be mightily persuasive to someone who is still in a state of shock.

While I don't actually buy lottery tickets, I can't imagine why you'd buy them if you "just want to carry on as usual". Surely it would because you dream of winning big and enjoying a luxury lifestyle afterwards?

Why spend £1 every week for goodness knows how many years to go and buy a Skoda for your golf clubs?!

[robinessex]

romeogolf said:

I can't imagine wanting to go public with a lottery win, but then I imagine the Camelot PR team can be mightily persuasive to someone who is still in a state of shock.

While I don't actually buy lottery tickets, I can't imagine why you'd buy them if you "just want to carry on as usual". Surely it would because you dream of winning big and enjoying a luxury lifestyle afterwards?

Why spend £1 every week for goodness knows how many years to go and buy a Skoda for your golf clubs?!

Never underestimate the stupidity of some of the population. One £10m winner took his family on a caravan holiday to Wales as a treat !!!!

[Sheepshanks]

robinessex said:

romeogolf said:

I can't imagine wanting to go public with a lottery win, but then I imagine the Camelot PR team can be mightily persuasive to someone who is still in a state of shock.

While I don't actually buy lottery tickets, I can't imagine why you'd buy them if you "just want to carry on as usual". Surely it would because you dream of winning big and enjoying a luxury lifestyle afterwards?

Why spend £1 every week for goodness knows how many years to go and buy a Skoda for your golf clubs?!

Never underestimate the stupidity of some of the population. One £10m winner took his family on a caravan holiday to Wales as a treat !!!!

I think, while many people like a moan, most people are basically pretty happy with their lives, and comfortable with what they know.

What would make them even happier is a bit of extra financial security. Going back some years, it always sticks in my mind that my dad dreamed of winning £10K on the pools.

[LeighW]

Just checked my emails and saw the 'news about your ticket' message. Luckily, I had matched 4 numbers and not 5!

[SilverSpur]

LeighW said:

Just checked my emails and saw the 'news about your ticket' message. Luckily, I had matched 4 numbers and not 5!

Ha!


When those 135 people won the jackpot prize and only got 80k each, the 5+ bonus winners won significantly more...!

[A44RON]

Here in NZ, the standard Lotto only costs the equivalent of 30p per line, 6 numbers 1 - 40, but the jackpot is 'only' equivalent of £450,000

Odds of 1 in 3.8 million, or for about £3 odds of 1 in 380,000. Cost-to-odds-to-jackpot ratio I think that's not bad at all when compared to Thunderball etc

I don't drink alcohol or smoke cigarettes, so I'm quite happy to chuck £6 a week at Lotto... why not. Even a paltry sum of £450,000 is more than enough for a Jag F-type R and mortgage-free.

The Lotto Powerball here is 60p per line, odds of 1 in 38 million and an average jackpot of about £8 million. It starts at c£2.5 million and is capped at £20 million which filters down to 5b + bonus ball.

[creampuff]

Sheepshanks said:

I think, while many people like a moan, most people are basically pretty happy with their lives, and comfortable with what they know.

What would make them even happier is a bit of extra financial security. Going back some years, it always sticks in my mind that my dad dreamed of winning £10K on the pools.

I'm happy with my life, but I'd be happier if my house was 5 times as big and I had 3 of them.

[anonymous-user]

I think the lotto are taking the piss. It is clear even thou they make 50% only when I big win is there they make a lot more than mudane jackpots.
They should put it back to 25% reduce stupid jackpot and offer more to charities.

[youngsyr]

creampuff said:

Sheepshanks said:

I think, while many people like a moan, most people are basically pretty happy with their lives, and comfortable with what they know.

What would make them even happier is a bit of extra financial security. Going back some years, it always sticks in my mind that my dad dreamed of winning £10K on the pools.

I'm happy with my life, but I'd be happier if my house was 5 times as big and I had 3 of them.

Easy to say that now, but I suspect having 3 massive houses can be a right pain at times - think of the maintenance. I think I'd have one big family home in the UK and then just rent hotels/villas/yachts/etc wherever I wanted to go.

[Borroxs]

Someone just won £26 million.... by getting 5 plus the bonus ball.....


It was a 'roll down' draw.

[SpeckledJim]

Sheepshanks said:

robinessex said:

romeogolf said:

I can't imagine wanting to go public with a lottery win, but then I imagine the Camelot PR team can be mightily persuasive to someone who is still in a state of shock.

While I don't actually buy lottery tickets, I can't imagine why you'd buy them if you "just want to carry on as usual". Surely it would because you dream of winning big and enjoying a luxury lifestyle afterwards?

Why spend £1 every week for goodness knows how many years to go and buy a Skoda for your golf clubs?!

Never underestimate the stupidity of some of the population. One £10m winner took his family on a caravan holiday to Wales as a treat !!!!

I think, while many people like a moan, most people are basically pretty happy with their lives, and comfortable with what they know.

What would make them even happier is a bit of extra financial security. Going back some years, it always sticks in my mind that my dad dreamed of winning £10K on the pools.

I agree. Whilst fantasising about spending £20m is fun, what I would actually do is spend maybe £5m of it securing a nice lifestyle for myself and my family, and dedicate the rest to providing a bit of security for an awful lot of people, including members of my family not yet born.

Surely that is a better plan than a Zonda for each day of the week and a Sunseeker for Sundays.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Borroxs said:

Someone just won £26 million.... by getting 5 plus the bonus ball.....


It was a 'roll down' draw.

Yes, they do that every now and then, and announce it in advance. I would like to see it happen every time the jackpot tops £20m.

[Xaero]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Yes, they do that every now and then, and announce it in advance. I would like to see it happen every time the jackpot tops £20m.

I played the lottery for the last of the year draw for that reason, they seemed to be advertising a £22m cap now, so once it hits that it rolls down 'must be won'. I think it's a great idea as getting 6 numbers is so statistically poor and £22m doesn't come across as a crazy (Euro 180m) win but a really nice one that is much more manageable for winners.

[robinessex]

I'm still thinking £10,000,000 per winner is ok for the Euro. As the fund builds up, just add more winners, not more money for just one lucky person.

[mybrainhurts]

Borroxs said:

Someone just won £26 million.... by getting 5 plus the bonus ball.....


It was a 'roll down' draw.

Can't understand the thinking behind this new policy of hitting the buffers and killing the run at £25m-ish.

I thought the really big jockpots pulled in more ticket sales.

They've not given Branson a part time job, have they? He was in favour of limiting jackpots to values lower tha this.

[Borroxs]

mybrainhurts said:

Borroxs said:

Someone just won £26 million.... by getting 5 plus the bonus ball.....


It was a 'roll down' draw.

Can't understand the thinking behind this new policy of hitting the buffers and killing the run at £25m-ish.

I thought the really big jockpots pulled in more ticket sales.

They've not given Branson a part time job, have they? He was in favour of limiting jackpots to values lower tha this.

It really shows how badly unliked the new prize structure is following the price rise. The once terribly long odds have now become ridiculously long, and people are simply not buying as many tickets. Camelot can deny this all they like but they've further ruined the format.

Two years ago a 10 draw run with no one winning the jackpot would have generated a prize pot of over £50million. Now its half that after ten draws unwon.

People used to win a tenner every now and then, but now its quite rare to win the lowest cash prize, £25. The 'free go' prize of getting two numbers is rightly seen as a con, you don't win anything with that, you just get another losing go.... (well, statistically).

Camelot point out that since the changes far more millionaires have been created. Well, yes, but that's because you give away so little money every week in real prizes from the draw itself.

I think you can get weekly sales figures on line somewhere, would be interesting to see how much damage in sales has been done. Doubling the price whilst at the same time making it massively more difficult to win anything worth winning is a fail.

[mybrainhurts]

Borroxs said:

I think you can get weekly sales figures on line somewhere, would be interesting to see how much damage in sales has been done.

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