BEST OF THE BEST WINNER?......OH THAT'LL BE ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MitchT]

TonyTony said:

I generally play for 1 ticket a time, if there's good discounts I sometimes do 5.

The new winner who won the Aston says on the video he only played the 1 ticket!

I usually play for 1 figuring there's only one right spot! I've come very close a lot of times. Occasionally I play for two if there's a discount on, maybe three if there's a discount and I have some game credit and on one occasion when I had quite a bit of game credit and there was a discount on I played for five. I just see it as a bit of fun and only ever play with what I can afford to lose.

[Shakermaker]

Congratulations to you both!

Having worked at Gatwick since 2003 I have seen the changing nature of BOTB over the years and its great to hear people's winning stories.

I recall back in the day, you used to spend a lot more on a ticket, but they had a specific number of tickets available for each draw - say 3,000 tickets at £80 a go for an Aston Martin or similar, and then maybe 5,000 £30 for a cheaper nice car, a Boxster or similar.

Seems now to be a much bigger number of cheaper tickets, to make people more likely to play, and certainly their stand used to get more trade as the ticket prices came down.

Good work, nice business model. Always fun watching them deliver the cars as well

[TonyTony]

MitchT said:

I usually play for 1 figuring there's only one right spot! I've come very close a lot of times. Occasionally I play for two if there's a discount on, maybe three if there's a discount and I have some game credit and on one occasion when I had quite a bit of game credit and there was a discount on I played for five. I just see it as a bit of fun and only ever play with what I can afford to lose.

Indeed, you can play 100 tickets but if they are all in the complete wrong area you're no better off!! Haha

I seem to come closer to winning the free comps but I think I've got it in the inner red zone and got 100% of my ticket back once.

[jonm01]

Can you imagine how painful it is to get this close to a GT3 and 10K?

[IanCress]

I used to play quite a lot in the days when you could get an extra 40% off through Quidco. Those offers have ended now so tend not to play as much.
A guy at work won a couple of weeks ago and prompted me to start playing again, and give up playing the lottery instead.

[TonyTony]

IanCress said:

I used to play quite a lot in the days when you could get an extra 40% off through Quidco. Those offers have ended now so tend not to play as much.
A guy at work won a couple of weeks ago and prompted me to start playing again, and give up playing the lottery instead.

The guy in Preston?

If I had seen William at the station I would of sh*t myself, I was on for an Aston! haha


^ Yes being that close is painful, did you at least get £200 runner up?

[ZOLLAR]

I wouldn't mind the Range Rover LWB Autobiography (lovely back seats) however I've just decided to have a flutter on the sale item of an M3 and £10,000.

It would be interesting to know the figures on how many play the higher priced tickets and whether you'd be in with a better chance due to less guesses?

[TonyTony]

ZOLLAR said:

I wouldn't mind the Range Rover LWB Autobiography (lovely back seats) however I've just decided to have a flutter on the sale item of an M3 and £10,000.

It would be interesting to know the figures on how many play the higher priced tickets and whether you'd be in with a better chance due to less guesses?

I'm not sure what you mean by less guesses? There is only 1 winner and whatever the winning co-ord's are is the ticket on them or closest to them.

If you want to play for expensive cars you're better off doing 5/10 tickets for the big discounts and mixing it in with cheap ones because it gets discounted as a whole, but then you might end up winning the cheaper car!

[ZOLLAR]

TonyTony said:

ZOLLAR said:

I wouldn't mind the Range Rover LWB Autobiography (lovely back seats) however I've just decided to have a flutter on the sale item of an M3 and £10,000.

It would be interesting to know the figures on how many play the higher priced tickets and whether you'd be in with a better chance due to less guesses?

I'm not sure what you mean by less guesses? There is only 1 winner and whatever the winning co-ord's are is the ticket on them or closest to them.

If you want to play for expensive cars you're better off doing 5/10 tickets for the big discounts and mixing it in with cheap ones because it gets discounted as a whole, but then you might end up winning the cheaper car!

Sorry I should have explained better, the winner is the closest to the point where the judge decides the dot/ball is.
If less people purchased the higher value tickets then it reduces the chance someone gets closer than your guess.

With the options they have the cheaper cars wouldn't be sniffed at it won!

[TonyTony]

ZOLLAR said:

Sorry I should have explained better, the winner is the closest to the point where the judge decides the dot/ball is.
If less people purchased the higher value tickets then it reduces the chance someone gets closer than your guess.

With the options they have the cheaper cars wouldn't be sniffed at it won!

Some people spend ridiculous money on it, people have posted screenshots and they have like 50+ tickets on one go, majority of the winners seem to be UK though. We must be the biggest gamblers.

[jonm01]

TonyTony said:

The guy in Preston?

If I had seen William at the station I would of sh*t myself, I was on for an Aston! haha


^ Yes being that close is painful, did you at least get £200 runner up?

Yes, kept me going for a few weeks. In hindsight, should have probably done them all on one attempt. A guy actually won twice within a month a while back, I'm guessing he did that.

[IanCress]

TonyTony said:

The guy in Preston?

If I had seen William at the station I would of sh*t myself, I was on for an Aston! haha

Yes that's the one, he won a Cayman.

[triggerh4ppy]

congratulations!!

I am not going to mention your parking !!

[Seventy]

This is quite interesting.
I particularly like the MC Stradale winner from Angola!

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=z2AhJGfKw...

Edited by Seventy on Wednesday 17th February 14:53

[TonyTony]

Seventy said:

This is quite interesting.
I particularly like the MC Stradale winner from Angola!

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=z2AhJGfKw...

Edited by Seventy on Wednesday 17th February 14:53

360 Modena in Ghana

[RegMolehusband]

Ooooh that was close. Still, I won £18.

[Andyhb]

So what techniques do you use for selecting your coordinates? I use the two line method from the players eyes, close but no cigar

[TonyTony]

I had 1 ticket and was just off the inner red circle.

I go for the cross section of the eyes. Found some chop sticks in the kitchen to try and line up like they do on the judging. Its easier just doing it by eye though

[craig2003]

Andyhb said:

So what techniques do you use for selecting your coordinates? I use the two line method from the players eyes, close but no cigar

I just went off the eyes, not in to footie either so pure luck really

[RegMolehusband]

Largely off the eye line and how much their perfect hairdos might have been recently disrupted, and whether they're squinting indicating that the ball has very recently or is about to hit their foreheads