PH Euro Lottery syndicate one-off: let's do this!

[dmitsi]

Can I vote we chuck Benjj out of the syndicate? He's ruining lottery day for me! Take your reality elsewhere. I think when we win you should give all your winnings to charity for not being a true believer.

[KTF]

dmitsi said:

Can I vote we chuck Benjj out of the syndicate? He's ruining lottery day for me! Take your reality elsewhere. I think when we win you should give all your winnings to charity for not being a true believer.

[LordGrover]

Best of British, chaps!

[dmitsi]

KTF said:

dmitsi said:

Can I vote we chuck Benjj out of the syndicate? He's ruining lottery day for me! Take your reality elsewhere. I think when we win you should give all your winnings to charity for not being a true believer.

I know a very deserving charity. The dmitsi benevolent petroleum fund.

[giblet]

Stop being such a whinging old fart and start posting pics of the flash metal you will buy once we win the jackpot tonight.

[Mr Trophy]

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/f...

[dmitsi]

Fair enough. I'll have one of these to start.
http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/s...

[spud989]

benjj said:

I was just having one of my realistic moments when I thought, "ok, perhaps not the jackpot but maybe we'll get one of the big prizes..."

Then I worked it out using the lottery's own average payout calculator.

If we get the second best prize, 5 balls plus one of the two start balls or whatever, we each get...... wait for it..... £1953 each.

Guess we'd better win the fking jackpot.

I've worked out the prizes down the board too. Makes pretty depressing reading. I'm not really a lottery man but thought there would be a far more even spread:

5+2 = jackpot
5+1 - £1953 each
5+0 - £33 each
4+2 - £22 each
4+1 - £1 each
4+0 - £0.48 each
3+2 - £0.29 each
3+1 - £0.06 each
2+2 - £0.09 each
3+0 - £0.05 each
1+2 - £0.04 each
2+1 - £0.03 each
2+0 - £0.01 each

Alright, Robert Killjoy-Silk! Don't know about you, but I can think of plenty of things to spend £1,953 on over the next week. Remap and an exhaust, for a start!

Daston said:

Yey Spud,

Did you say you have emailed everyone that is in? It's just that I have not yet received one and worried I may miss out on my prize money.....would be a shame to have wasted that 40 min I spent specing my 458 Speciale

Big thumbs up for organising this!!

Cheers

Dave

Thought about the best way to do this, whilst preserving anonymity (well, mostly). Using this that I found online:

 =IF(ISERROR(FIND(" ",A1)),LEFT(A1,1),TRIM(LEFT(A1,1)&MID(A1,FIND(" ",A1&" ")+1,1)&MID(A1,FIND(" ",SUBSTITUTE(A1&" "," ","~",1))+1,1))) 

I stripped the real names from the Paypal CSV file to initials. If you combine that with the email time you sent me (column B), then you should be able to figure out that you're definitely included or not.

Of course, I've blanked out transaction numbers/stuff to do with my account. You'll see the 298 withdrawal to my account at the top - I had £6 already in my lottery account, hence using my £2 and adding the £4 bonus for the group.

Here it is - http://www.filedropper.com/euroinfo
(busybodies will also notice the I column adds to 300.27. You can thank the guy on the other page for his eCheque payment for that!)


Hope this satisfies everyone.

(I was also thinking that, if we do this again, then we should only pay out prizes of £10 and above - five times the entry - and just keep rolling the money until it was gone or until we'd won something worth more than 5x the original investment. Thoughts on this?)

[benjj]

giblet said:

Stop being such a whinging old fart and start posting pics of the flash metal you will buy once we win the jackpot tonight.

You're right. I apologise.

Shall we go halves on this if we hit it rich?

[giblet]

benjj said:

You're right. I apologise.

Shall we go halves on this if we hit it rich?

Only if you agree to turn it into some crazy rally car.

[dmitsi]

benjj said:

You're right. I apologise.

Shall we go halves on this if we hit it rich?

It's a bit showy, who do you think you are, Gulzar?

[benjj]

I'm just doing reverse psyops on the lottery gods. We'll win now, you'll see.

God I want a gold Proton Logan.

[KTF]

Something for the track day: http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/n...

Something to drive home in afterwards: http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/m...

With a bit of haggling I might have half a mil left for the fuel bills.

Edited by KTF on Friday 24th October 14:46

[Zoobeef]

150 chances to win the instant millionaires thing too. That just over £6.6k each.

[LordGrover]

Kewl. That increases it to 0.0000012%

[spud989]

Zoobeef said:

150 chances to win the instant millionaires thing too. That just over £6.6k each.

That becomes better at Christmas and other promotional times - they sometimes do 25/50. Think they did 100 1m prizes once?

[tfin]

LordGrover said:

Kewl. That increases it to 0.0000012%

I like those odds!

[sparkypups]

benjj said:

I'm just doing reverse psyops on the lottery gods. We'll win now, you'll see.

God I want a gold Proton Logan.

when the numbers come in you must promise to buy one now to appease the gods

[OzzyR1]

spud989 said:

Zoobeef said:

150 chances to win the instant millionaires thing too. That just over £6.6k each.

That becomes better at Christmas and other promotional times - they sometimes do 25/50. Think they did 100 1m prizes once?

Someone on here won the millionaire raffle when they did the 100 prizes thing iirc.

[callmedave]

I see this as a pretty dead cert on making your money back,

How many tickets are likely to get 2+1 or 3+1? enough of those could be a tenner each?

One ticket gets lucky and you could see over £100 ea.


Regardless of tonight's outcome (best of luck by the way!) im in for the next syndicate!