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ProfessorF
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:56 pm
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Yes, but still there are winners. All of whom bought a ticket.
For many it's not even the winning that's the fun bit, it is the taking part. Curious as that sounds.
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leeds_manc
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:19 pm
Posts: 5071
Location: Manchester
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Can I have a pound too? You never know I may send you some money back.
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stuartpengs
Occasionally has a life
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:00 pm
Posts: 300
Location: In the night garden.
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So, the chances are I'll be £2 better off tomorrow. I like those odds. 
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AlunD
Site Admin
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:12 am
Posts: 7011
Location: Wiltshire
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When the UK lottery first came out, a group of about 20 of us in the hotel I was working in at the time chipped in to buy tickets each week. After the first month we never actually chipped in again. We won something virtually every week. Never enough to split out but it kept ticking over for several years. 
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KindaWobbly
Occasionally has a life
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:19 pm
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I'm in the office syndicate, not because I think they'll ever win, but as insurance that just in case they do manage to pull off the ridiculously improbable I won't be the only left. 
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jonlumb
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:44 pm
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Location: Exeter
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trigen_killer
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:37 pm
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Location: North Wales UK
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One ticket in Spain has won the entire jackpot. I hope the winning ticket isn't for a large syndicate. Imagine only ending up with 10 million or less each.  _________________My lowest spec operational system- AT desktop case, 200W AT PSU, Jetway TX98B Socket 7, Intel Pentium 75Mhz, 2x16MB EDO RAM, 270MB Quantum Maverick HDD, ATI Rage II+ graphics, Soundblaster 16 CT2230, MS-DOS/Win 3.11 My Flickr
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okenobi
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:59 pm
Posts: 4932
Location: Sestriere, Piemonte, Italia
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Has anyone looked into hotpicks? Or the other games? Wiki has an interesting page on the odds and it seems to me, the way to go is head for a lower jackpot, with better odds. Never played though.
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Agrajag
Has a life
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 8:02 am
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+1 
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cloaked_wolf
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:46 pm
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I don't often buy a lottery ticket. Maybe two or three times a year? The last time was about a month ago. I felt very lucky that day so I decided to put a line in. Then decided to put another four lines. I paid £5 and won £10. My first line was enough so I could have only won £10 for £1 investment.
Anyway, didn't win. Not a single number came up. It had to be someone from spain too.
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Spreadie
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:06 pm
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Location: IoW
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We play lotto-bingo at work.
Each of us chooses six numbers and and pays one pound a week. There are fifty of us.
The numbers are checked against the Wednesday draw, and the first one to clear all six gets the money in the pot. If two or more people win, they split the winnings. (it isn't done on the order of the balls drawn)
On average, the pot is won every seven weeks - £350.
I've won three times in two years, and cleared over £600.
Not a bad return on £100.
Spreadie
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jonlumb
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:44 pm
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Location: Exeter
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Well it turns out that I didn't lose out completely. In the end one of my strips did win £6.10, giving me a net profit of 10p!
Man, think of what I can do with those winnings.
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soddit112
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:12 pm
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Location: Mute City
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thats a whole packet of space invaders!! 
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Agrajag
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leeds_manc
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:19 pm
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Location: Manchester
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They've put the price of Space Raiders up to 20p now.
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