What's the most you have won on the lottery

[Night Train]

I won £100 on 4 numbers once.
My numbers also got 5 and a bonus once on the week that I changed my numbers for not having won for ages.

 

[Bman]

£30 total, in about 3 years of playing (1 line per week, same numbers)

 

[TVC]

Nothing, I never gamble.

I went to Leicester races when I was 21, bet on every race like you're supposed to and even though I came out slightly ahead I found the whole experience empty and have never bet or done a lottery since. Even in a raffle I give a donation rather than buy tickets.

I used to smoke heavily, so that I suppose was a bit of a game of chance.

 

[Piemaster]

5 numbers about £2500
But it was part of the ships syndicate so ended up with round £220 (few £10 wins for syndicate as well)
Normally don't buy tickets, but wouldn't want to be the only guy on the boat (literally!) after a big win.

 

[ComedyPilot]

£180 in Feb, £60 in January and another £180 this month

 

[dellzeqq]

I entered the lottery three times in successive weeks

on the first week I won £10
on the second week I won £10
on the third week I met my wife, and fell in love, all in a day

So.....I'm £17 up, and happy with it.

 

[thomas]

I got £32 on the FIRST ever time I played it ...I was only 15 too. Played it since, not won, but still quids in

 

[cheadle hulme]

I've saved over £7000 by not doing it over the years.

 

[rich p]

Sod all but I've only ever bought 3.

An old school chum owed me a bet of £1m from 1966 when we were 12. The b*stard never paid up but sent me a lottery ticket on my 50th with a note saying if I won more than a million I'd owe him the balance.

 

[pes]

My cousin with three others won £1.5 mil. A mouth watering £375 grand each.

Spawny git wouldn't give me the steam off his wee.

 

[gbb]

The most we won just over £100...

I used to run the works Lottery...all the (small) winnings went into a pot and were split at the end of the year. So one year we decided to put the pot onto lucky dips, see if we could increase it some.

So, i went to the local shop and asked...'can you do £253 worth of lucky dips'
'No problem, if you dont mind waiting'

Guess how much we won.....not a freekin bean

 

[Mr Pig]

No surprise to see this kind of post. Especially as it was Greedo's!

It was a perfectly sensible reply. I havn't won anything on the lottery, because I don't play it, and I don't play it because it's dumb! I quote:

"Lotteries have the worse odds against winning than any other type of gambling. This is a significantly worse payout than most casinos, slot machines, office pools, race tracks, and even dishonest bookies.

Lotteries sell the hope of winning huge sums of money at an astronomically high odds against winning. Therefore only people, who do not have much money, are more likely to buy lottery tickets for a better life or to pull themselves out of poverty. Thus, the people who need their hard earned money the most are most likely fooled.

Lotteries take money from people who have the least amount of money and people who least understand their odds of winning, and redistribute the lottery proceeds to pay for public services just like an optional tax for those who can be fooled. Simple put, the lottery is a stupid man’s tax."

The odds of hitting the jackpot in the UK is in fact 1 in 14 million! To put that into perspective:

Odds of Winning lottery: 1 in 14 million
Odds of being killed by falling out of bed: 1 in 2 million
Odds of being killed by lightening: 1 in 2 million
Odds of being killed by freezing: 1 in 3 million

So you're seven-times more likley to die falling out of bed than you are to win the lottery. Or to put it another way, you blink on average ten-million times each year... man this is boring.

But I'm not getting at Gredo. It was a genuine response to the question and genuinly what I think. In fact Gredo's post has inspired me to perhapse post a few questions of my own. Maybe, 'what did you have for your dinner tonight?' ;0)

 

[PaulB]

4 million quid. Thing is, when I went to the shop I'd bought the ticket to claim it, they said they didn't have that much and they could give me half then but I'd have to come back next week for the rest! I told them I wasn't as gormless as I looked and demanded my quid back. No fool me!

 

[dav1d]

The most I have won on the lottery is £10. But I could have won the jackpot and I'm not joking either!!!I wasn't old enough when the lottery first came out (think I was about 14), so I gave my Mum and Dad some numbers to put on, saying they would win!They were going to put them on, but changed their mind and stuck to their usual numbers. They then watched EVERY number I gave them come up!

 

[Hover Fly]

£1200 split between 3. When I worked with the others in a big office, there was a right cocky arrogant git, always boasting about something, so we found out what his numbers were, and we didn't just buy one ticket with his numbers, so he would have to share his jackpot 50/50 if he won, we bought four, so he would have to share 20/80.