The National Lottery

[Paul99]

[QUOTE 2684135, member: 9609"]I have used the same two lines of numbers every sat since it began. which set of numbers do i drop ?[/quote]
Hopefully the right ones....

 

[oldfatfool]

[quote="Boris Bajic, post: 2684144, member: 20691"

I think you're just a secret altruist with a weak cover story.[/quote]

I was having a go at Hedonism

Though in truth, if I did win serious cash, I would end up owning a greyhound farm

 

[BigonaBianchi]

I take it then that they arnt doubling the prizes as well right?? Greedy theiving money grabbing gits from heeeellllllllllllll

 

[Linford]

Consider it as buying a dream, not a tax on fools and you will realise you only need one ticket per draw

I won £3.20 this morning on the Euro when I checked

 

[ASC1951]

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

Others will disagree.

I won't. It's an outrage - and the worst of it is, that Lottery tickets are overwhelmingly bought by the working classes but grabbed to fund the leisure interests of the middle classes.

 

[User6179]

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.

Not if he buys 14 million tickets

 

[Moon bunny]

Keep doing it people, it pays my wages.

 

[Louch]

no ones forced to buy a ticket. think of what else that was £1 20 years back and what it costs now. seems to have wider prizes, so im happy with increase

 

[Linford]

I won't. It's an outrage - and the worst of it is, that Lottery tickets are overwhelmingly bought by the working classes but grabbed to fund the leisure interests of the middle classes.

Come again ?

 

[London Female]

I don't play the lottery so don't care about the price increase. A couple of months ago a friend of mine gave me a temporary job in the shop she manages to get me by before my new job started. I was shocked by the amount of money some people spend on the lottery, one used to spend £20 on the euro and lotto and then another £20 on scratch cards, one of which cost £10. Even when they had a win, they didn't really win anything because they used it to buy more tickets.

 

[simon the viking]

I don't play the lottery so don't care about the price increase. A couple of months ago a friend of mine gave me a temporary job in the shop she manages to get me by before my new job started. I was shocked by the amount of money some people spend on the lottery, one used to spend £20 on the euro and lotto and then another £20 on scratch cards, one of which cost £10. Even when they had a win, they didn't really win anything because they used it to buy more tickets.

Your're right - a lottery ticket should be used to give a glimmer of hope if you so wish but it should never become an obsession, I do play the lottery and buy the odd scratch card but never more than a line per draw and a £1 scratchcard every now and again but a £10 scratchcard is an obscene product and truly an idiot tax

 

[Over The Hill]

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.....

Well I cannot afford the nearly £3,000 you would now have spent if you have been throwing £12 per month at it since it started 20 years ago!

But I guess I would not say that if you had won.

 

[Spinney]

Nooo. What if your numbers came up for a decentish sum on week 3? You'd be stuck with them for #4 & #5

They'd have exactly the same chance of winning in weeks 4 and 5 as they did on week 3 (or the same as any other numbers you might choose in weeks 4 & 5).

 

[simon the viking]

Well I cannot afford the nearly £3,000 you would now have spent if you have been throwing £12 per month at it since it started 20 years ago!

But I guess I would not say that if you had won.

I could have also saved money by not going out socialising and meals out....... but if you sit in your house not spending money then there is no point doing the lottery as you would not need the money.

I used to only spend £1 per week (not doing wed draw) but got drawn into £1 per week daily play (20 p per day) when it launched 18 months ago...... but yes my new £16 per month is a hefty sum when you see it as monthly amount but I can afford it (I'm not rich.... not even well off, just comfortable) and think why not have a dream If my financial situation changed for the worse I would not go without food to play the lottery.... it would be the first luxury to go.

 

[Davidc]

I usually buy a Euromillions ticket if the jackpot is over £100,000,000. Just avarice, nothing altruistic about it.

I had my biggest win of the year a few weeks back - £5.90.

the odds of winning the Euro are roughly 10 times lower than the Lotto, but as both are so close to zero as to make no difference I still won't be buying Lotto tickets.