Anybody won one of those car lotteries?

[ch37]

SimonTheSailor said:

Yes but what you should be doing is picking the pixel where you think the judges are going to place it. (But then there are a few judges - so they take the average)

Indeed, spot the ball has been a 'game of skill', avoiding lottery regs for many, many years.

In the Internet age I can't really see what else BOTB could do that would remove a significant percentage of people who enter. Questions (even tricky ones) can be gamed in seconds online

One site very briefly ran with a tricky sentence composition question (which seemed to work as intended!) but the anger online, from people used to 'what is the capital of England?' type questions on sites that don't need to actually ask one, seemed to cause one hell of a stir and very few entries.

[ThomW]

Must say I’m tempted by the Grail Watch Club one tonight.

It’s £50/ticket, but max is 999 and it’s a £35k Rolex.

That’s pretty good odds, but would probably be better off dropping £50 on one of the car ones.

[GhostWKD]

cadmunkey said:

Will you regret winning it and get rid of it again? Good luck!

If I somehow win again it'll be a keeper for sure Even if I go crazy between now and comp end though this outcome is unlikely

[cadmunkey]

GhostWKD said:

If I somehow win again it'll be a keeper for sure Even if I go crazy between now and comp end though this outcome is unlikely

Haha don't blame you. I think everyone has let a car go in their past that they regret.

[Yellowfez]

BTCC_racer said:

I only play Revs and DCG now I generally stopped playing with 7days since they went to 99p - although If they stick a GT3 or GT4 on i'll buy 1 ticket lol.

Edited by BTCC_racer on Saturday 11th March 14:31

GT4 live!

[Level 7 Boss]

Entered in a comp for a giulia quadrifoglio at The Car Competition, was going to buy a few more tickets and the website has been down. I think the draw supposed to be today at 8pm. Really poor.

[BTCC_racer]

Yellowfez said:

BTCC_racer said:

I only play Revs and DCG now I generally stopped playing with 7days since they went to 99p - although If they stick a GT3 or GT4 on i'll buy 1 ticket lol.

Edited by BTCC_racer on Saturday 11th March 14:31

GT4 live!

Ufff - two tickets bought!

[carinaman]

"I am on a f***ing plane"

[Yellowfez]

So is this really 1 in 4? Or am I missing something

[carinaman]

Isn't it like Soccer and the World Cup? You've got to pre-qualify to get through to the Tournament and then if you get through to the semi-finals winning £1K you then have a one in four chance of winning the car.

People are black or orange. The successful person is orange and the unsuccessful people are black. I am thinking KTM spare parts packaging and Tango. And flags be they attached to car windows or not. How many Williams are going to spend how many Bills?

How about pink winners and blue losers? Losers would be blue.

[ch37]

Yellowfez said:

So is this really 1 in 4? Or am I missing something

I can't find this on their site but there is an awful lot of detail missing before you can have a bash at working out the odds.

How many tickets in each of those pools at the start? Presumably a lot less in the £19.99 one than the 49p one, but the graphic doesn't make that clear.

[cadmunkey]

Yellowfez said:

So is this really 1 in 4? Or am I missing something

What an awful way to run a draw.

[shtu]

Yellowfez said:

So is this really 1 in 4? Or am I missing something

The diagram makes a lot more sense if turned upside down.

The "main draw" is from 4x £1000 winners - how many are in each of the 4 "pools" is the key info not on there.

[ch37]

£20 for a Focus would be a pretty decent low odds draw on any of the conventional sites, why would you choose to do this instead?!

It just obscures the odds (and of course, kills postal entries, presumably they'd stick you in the 49p pot).

Another scummy tactic, becoming common now. As cost of living bites further some of the sites struggling are really going to push the boundaries (or worse).

[Jonny8v]

I see JZM have just posted a Purple GT3, PDK, Black wheels, Stripe which looks like the DCG prize.

So good on him for taking the car and banking the extra cash!

[Downward]

cadmunkey said:

SpanishTony said:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/motors/21521391/crashed-m...

Too immature for a car with that kind of power unfortunately.

How much must the insurance be ?

[Stevil]

Jonny8v said:

I see JZM have just posted a Purple GT3, PDK, Black wheels, Stripe which looks like the DCG prize.

So good on him for taking the car and banking the extra cash!

I think I'd have kept it a bit longer than a week myself, but who knows what trouble he might have had insuring it, garaging it etc. Plus it sounded like his other half was pushing him to take the money and close to £200k is a life changing amount for most.

Still, if it were me I'd have had one hell of a spring/summer in it, even if that had meant widening my garage opening to get the bugger in.

[Horsey McHorseface]

7DP giving FREE entry into winning a 500 ticket entry (for ONE lucky person), into tonights GLC63S draw. No app nonsense, all online. Drawn 7pm.

https://7daysperformance.co.uk/product/win-max-ent...

Edited by Horsey McHorseface on Wednesday 15th March 18:02

[Its Just Adz]

Stevil said:

I think I'd have kept it a bit longer than a week myself, but who knows what trouble he might have had insuring it, garaging it etc. Plus it sounded like his other half was pushing him to take the money and close to £200k is a life changing amount for most.

Still, if it were me I'd have had one hell of a spring/summer in it, even if that had meant widening my garage opening to get the bugger in.

I said the same, would have ran it for a memorable summer then sold it, but something more sensible like a M2 Comp.

[TheJimi]

Stevil said:

Jonny8v said:

I see JZM have just posted a Purple GT3, PDK, Black wheels, Stripe which looks like the DCG prize.

So good on him for taking the car and banking the extra cash!

I think I'd have kept it a bit longer than a week myself, but who knows what trouble he might have had insuring it, garaging it etc. Plus it sounded like his other half was pushing him to take the money and close to £200k is a life changing amount for most.

Still, if it were me I'd have had one hell of a spring/summer in it, even if that had meant widening my garage opening to get the bugger in.

If he's anything like me, the thing would cause me more hassle than it's worth. I've got nowhere to put it!