Postcode Lottery

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Gwylan

Well-known member

Jul 5, 2003

31,365

Uffern

• Sep 1, 2016

• #21

My son can't understand why I don't do the lottery. I pointed out Adam Smith's wise words on the subject. "In order to have a better chance for some of the great prizes, some people purchase several tickets, and others, small share in a still greater number. There is not, however, a more certain proposition in mathematics than that the more tickets you adventure upon, the more likely you are to be a loser. Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer you approach to this certainty."

 

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Billy the Fish

Technocrat

Oct 18, 2005

17,512

Haywards Heath

• Sep 1, 2016

• #22

Whitechapel said:

That was my dads logic when it came to competitions in newspapers and magazines. He'd enter every single one because that way you're more likely to win something you want.

In a 4-5 year spell he won holidays to Barbados & Prague, a weekend break to Madrid, ticket to movie screenings, a TV, seats in a box at Brighton and Goodwood races as well as at a couple of other sporting events etc etc as well as bundles and bundles of random shite that was looked at once so it can pay off.

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I've got a friend who does that, she's won a couple of holidays and various bits and bobs. I they won a brand new gas barbecue this summer.

 

FatSuperman

Well-known member

Feb 25, 2016

2,830

• Sep 1, 2016

• #23

Scampi said:

When i buy a lottery ticket I think of it as buying the dream. On the odd occasion a couple of quid allows my flights of fancy to take wing add daydreams of houses on the beach and lavish gifts to loved ones fill my quiet moments. I get my monies worth. And then I check my numbers and go back to reality until a few weeks or months later when i next tempt fate.

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In all seriousness, this is what I do as well. I only ever play the lottery (whichever one) when the jackpot is obscene. I'm not going to win anyway so I may as well not win a huge sum, very infrequently. HOWEVER, and I doubt I'm alone in this, whenever I do the lottery some part of me is actually surprised when I don't win. On the odd occasion I get that email saying to check my account I always think 'Ah yes, I knew I was going to win'. Then I log on.

What is this £3.30 crap!?

 

crodonilson

He/Him

Jan 17, 2005

13,561

Lyme Regis

• Oct 6, 2020

• #24

Congratulations to this couple from Nottinghamshire who won a cool £200k

 

bluenitsuj

Listen to me!!!

Feb 26, 2011

4,383

Willingdon

• Oct 6, 2020

• #25

crodonilson said:

Congratulations to this couple from Nottinghamshire who won a cool £200k



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She is certainly enjoying whatever it is he is doing to her

 

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giveusfalmerplease

Well-known member

Sep 21, 2006

1,990

Not quite a million miles from Brighton

• Oct 6, 2020

• #26

I know someone who did the postcode lottery, later moved house and changed her postcode and then her old Street won 30k each only 3 months after she moved. That's one danger with this particular littery

 

Psychobilly freakout

HellBilly

Feb 23, 2009

23,120

Brighton factually.....

• Oct 6, 2020

• #27

giveusfalmerplease said:

I know someone who did the postcode lottery, later moved house and changed her postcode and then her old Street won 30k each only 3 months after she moved. That's one danger with this particular littery

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Ah, you don't have to live in the postcode, so she should have kept it and then added a new one...

never change your numbers and all that bollox

 

crodonilson

He/Him

Jan 17, 2005

13,561

Lyme Regis

• Oct 6, 2020

• #28

bluenitsuj said:

She is certainly enjoying whatever it is he is doing to her

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Wouldn't you be happy if you won a cool £200k?

 

Cheshire Cat

The most curious thing..

Nov 4, 2006

11,470

Sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off...

• Oct 6, 2020

• #29

https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/osprey-cam/

Supported by postcode lottery. I don't play it, but the webcam this year was fab.

 

Paulie Gualtieri

Bada Bing

NSC Patron

May 8, 2018

9,367

• Oct 6, 2020

• #30

bluenitsuj said:

She is certainly enjoying whatever it is he is doing to her

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He’s just pushed her down the stairs


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Gabbafella

Well-known member

Aug 22, 2012

4,729

• Oct 6, 2020

• #31

bluenitsuj said:

She is certainly enjoying whatever it is he is doing to her

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He's just pushing her stool in.

 

crodonilson

He/Him

Jan 17, 2005

13,561

Lyme Regis

• Oct 7, 2020

• #32

crodonilson said:

Congratulations to this couple from Nottinghamshire who won a cool £200k



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They're spending the money on a holiday and a new shed.

 

BNthree

Plastic JCL

Sep 14, 2016

10,985

WeHo

• Oct 7, 2020

• #33

We were going to sign up for the postcode lottery and while on the website looked up previous winning postcodes. Turns out our street had won 3 weeks before. Decided not to as the chances of it coming up again must be tiny.

 

Dick Swiveller

Well-known member

Sep 9, 2011

9,173

• Oct 7, 2020

• #34

BNthree said:

We were going to sign up for the postcode lottery and while on the website looked up previous winning postcodes. Turns out our street had won 3 weeks before. Decided not to as the chances of it coming up again must be tiny.

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Exactly the same as they were before. Previous results do not affect future lotteries.