The National Lottery

[Over The Hill]

Does it really matter? You are just throwing money in a big hole and getting nothing back apart from a bit of excitement when the numbers are drawn. That is what you are paying for and you choose how much you want to pay for that excitement.

I bought a few when they first came out but was put off by the unwatchable results show.

As it has been going for nearly 20 years I am now £1040 ahead of anyone who buys one ticket a week and has not won.

 

[ianrauk]

In fact, seeing as it's now the same price as the EuroLottery I will change to doing that one instead.

 

[simon the viking]

I stopped playing when they doubled the minimum amount you were allowed to transfer to your online account to a tenner.

I have got round this by transferring (say) £14 using £4 then sending the remaining £10 straight back sometimes the £10 back in would beat the £14 going out

 

[simon the viking]

I Used to do the 2 draws and the £1 per week daily play £12 per month (no euromillions) I suppose I will now spend £16 per month...... With gambling I always remember the golden rule - don't spend what you cant afford.....

 

[colly]

I do a fiver now and again, if I think of it. I think Camelot have misjudged this because a fiver is an easy sum to spend, six quid or four quid not so much so. I wouldn't bung on a tenner in the same way.
I'm sure lots of others won't either.

 

[BigonaBianchi]

Im going to wait until everybody has stopped buy tickets then buy one

 

[Paul99]

Im going to wait until everybody has stopped buy tickets then buy one

This is genius. Your share of the prize fund will be £2. Congratulations.

Edit: actually after they have taken the good causes cut, and their profit you'll probably only get £1!

 

[BigonaBianchi]

This is genius. Your share of the prize fund will be £2. Congratulations.

Edit: actually after they have taken the good causes cut, and their profit you'll probably only get £1!

But i will be a winner

 

[DaveReading]

But i will be a winner

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but your chances of hitting the jackpot are still 14 million or so to 1, regardless of how many other people do or don't enter.

 

[BigonaBianchi]

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but your chances of hitting the jackpot are still 14 million or so to 1, regardless of how many other people do or don't enter.

 

[oldfatfool]

Work is halving the number of lines or switching to one draw a week, don't think they/ we have decided yet.

At home we are switching from 5 lines of lotto on a sat to 2 lines of euro millions.

Branson should have had the lottery in the first place.

 

[Boris Bajic]

I was raging about the lottery when it was introduced. It seemed to me a tax on the stupid and the poor and quite without any wider benefit.

Living as I was in central east London, I queued behind people buying crazy numbers of tickets as I bought my weekend papers.

I realise that some have won, but to my mind the lottery has brought thinly disguised avarice to the respectable top of our society's wish list.

I know people who say they only do the lottery because it goes to charity. There's always the simple alternative of giving to charity.

The Nattonal Lottery is among the sleaziest changes in our society to have come about in my adult life.

Others will disagree.

 

[Jonbek]

When I play I deposit a tenner then withdraw nine straight away, won't be doing it now though the robbing gets! Will probably have the odd go on the Euromillions when the jackpot is 80 million or above.

 

[oldfatfool]

I know people who say they only do the lottery because it goes to charity.

No, I do it because it is the only chance I have of owning a Ferrari, a Lamborghini, a Maserati and a Bugatti in each of the countries in which I wish to own a house that I will visit in my own private yacht.

 

[Boris Bajic]

No, I do it because it is the only chance I have of owning a Ferrari, a Lamborghini, a Maserati and a Bugatti in each of the countries in which I wish to own a house that I will visit in my own private yacht.

This is arrant nonsense!

Do you know how much it costs to build and maintain a garage for four cars?

I really don't think you've thought about this. The yearning for a Maserati is the proof.

I think you're just a secret altruist with a weak cover story.