How much do people spend on the lottery?

[Thin White Duke]

I've been playing various National Lottery games for nigh on 20 years. Sometimes I'll go for weeks, perhaps months without putting anything on.

The most I've spent in one week was probably about £15 across various games (Lotto, Thunderball etc..)

It's got me wondering, has there ever been a study on how much most jackpot winners have spent on the winning stake? How much money on average are they putting on and across which games?

For example it could be that the last 100 main Lotto jackpot winners put an average of 5 lines (£10) per draw on.

Are the big winners putting a decent wedge of money on each draw?

[anonymous-user]

Zero now
I did regular numbers weekly, until they changed to 59 balls years ago, which vastly reduced the odds.
Until that point I was up on the deal as had a £1500 win once..
Luckily haven’t missed out since! Can check history here:-
https://www.lotterysearch.org/

Edited by anonymous-user on Saturday 3rd September 20:28

[BoRED S2upid]

Hardly anything I probably spend £10 a week on gambling in general not always the lottery. A wealthy uncle must spend £250 a month just on the lottery he has had some big wins never the jackpot but he does ok.

[Pit Pony]

I've spent £8 over the years on the lottery.
I'm £2 up

[Pit Pony]

I've spent £8 over the years on the lottery.
I'm £2 up

[languagetimothy]

A couple of lines here and there but not every time. I always go for lucky dip so it’s not the one draw where my numbers come up and I didn’t do it. When it gets a big pot maybe a few more lines.

Many years ago in the lotto I got five numbers.. good eh? Well no, £1600 not life changing. Six balls then was about 3.5 million dammit all.

I also take part in the PH syndicate.

[Edible Roadkill]

Next to nothing nowadays.

Prefer to chuck a few quid gamble at some of the winna car competitions.

More realistic odds of ever winning something.

[pork911]

Every winner of every lottery bought one ticket which turned out to be a winner, how many other tickets they bought and anything else outside of buying the winning ticket is irrelevant

[BobToc]

£2 a time whenever the euromillions goes above £100m.

[Simpo Two]

I spent £5 on the lottery about a year after it started (after a vivid dream in which I won £4M).

Lost the lot, never went back. It's a ruddy lottery I tell ya.

[jules_s]

pork911 said:

Every winner of every lottery bought one ticket which turned out to be a winner, how many other tickets they bought and anything else outside of buying the winning ticket is irrelevant

True

All I can say is I've played it twice a week for 2+ years and i haven't won a bean

I only continue because of the above...

[Funk]

I chuck a fiver on a big Euromillions jackpot but never play any other games or anything regularly.

[FishAndChips]

BobToc said:

£2 a time whenever the euromillions goes above £100m.

So not for a while then, Euromillions increased the cost of a ticket from £2 to £2.50 in September 2016.

I play 10 lines every draw over 100m. Otherwise nothing. And won nothing (to shout about).

[redrabbit]

Every so often I dabble in one of those sites that tell you what you'd have won if you'd played with the same numbers every week since the lottery started. Worth a look, for anyone who needs convincing that the odds of a big win are anything other than vanishingly small. I've never generated an individual weekly win greater than about £100 over the 30-odd year history, despite trying several dozen combinations.

[gotoPzero]

Only the PH one. So thats not that often so prob £30 a year ish?

[Audemars]

I only play when the Lotto is at the must win stage or the Euromillions in over £100m.

I will then play £100 each time for each game.

Have won nothing substantial in my life.

[AndyAudi]

Audemars said:

I only play when the Lotto is at the must win stage or the Euromillions in over £100m.

I will then play £100 each time for each game.

Have won nothing substantial in my life.

I’m similar but only £20 a time

Used to be in a works syndicate years back (there were 21of us) we won with 5 numbers on a crap week (low numbers with more folks playing birthdays or something) think it wasn’t the length of £500 we all got £20 back & rest left in the kitty. Quite a few of us pulled out after that thinking it was as close as we’d get!

Funny but noticed the jackpot on offer for Saturday’s I think it was, & it was a fraction of what it used to be back in the day.

Quite sad how addiction can get hold of some folk, see same bloke in our town spending a fortune on lottery tickets & scratch cards often

[Terminator X]

Tax on fools. Zero.

TX.

[Jawls]

I spend a tenner a month. Friday’s euromillions each week.

If there is a work syndicate (only happens when Euros get above say, £120m) I’ll do that too, just because I don’t want to be the only one in the office if numbers come in haha!

Back in the day I used to work in a corner shop. Some people would put what 21 year old me thought were crazy amounts of money into the lottery. Like £20 a week or more.

[ARHarh]

I did the lottery for the first 3 months after it started, not done it since. Never been in a bookies, always refuse sweep stakes etc. Guess I don't gamble much.