National Lottery

[DavidRyder]

Apologies if this has already been covered.

I have been doing the Lotto since day one, but am now stopping after they introduced 10 new numbers. They say 'more winners', that includes the ones that get 2 numbers and a free go next time (which will prob end with 0 or 1 number).

Pretty disgusted in this TBH.

So I am now going to either buy Premium Bonds or do the Health Lotto (although ISA is the sensible option).

Fairly sure I'm not the only one jumping ship on the Nat Lotto...

 

[Albumen]

I loved the way they sold their new look lotto. "YOU CAN CHOOSE FROM MORE NUMBERS!!", as if that was a good thing. Still, it's a mugs betting competition so many will still fall for it.
Now £2 for a £5 mill win at 1 in 45 million.

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

More chance to win 1 million now, which should be a decent enough prize for most participants.

 

[fat old seagull]

Should have left it as it was....£1 a go. Got greedy doubled the price with all but the 3 numbers actually paying less than previously. Nowhere could I find any record of whether that move slashed investment. Leaving me to consider they caught a cold but won't own up. Now bizarrely they think that giving us a free ticket for 2 numbers will somehow rectify that ! Plonkers.

 

[GOM]

Yep, stopping this now. Even stopping the 'bonus ball' at work.

 

[8ace]

 

[studio150]

But how many people will be pulled in given that the jackpot will be won on less occasions so that the roll over jackpot gets higher and higher. As with the Euromillions when that gets high, more people buy tickets regardless of the very long odds.

No doubt while expecting people to buy tickets less regularly this is compensated for the extra tickets on a high rollover.

 

[Man of Harveys]

I never really bothered with the lottery ever since I read somewhere that you should always buy your ticket in the morning, because statistically you had a better chance of dying during the course of that day than of winning the jackpot.

 

[Megazone]

why don't you just guess all the football results on Saturday with just a pound?

You'd still win over a million.

 

[Trevor]

It was never supposed to be a shrewd financial investment though. It's a tiny bit of hope in an otherwise desperate existence. Or a tax on the stupid.

 

[Gazwag]

Don't do the health lotto, it doesn't help local hospices, a pound is better spent playing their local lotteries - ok you won't win a fortune but you will stand a better chance of wining something

 

[TWOCHOICEStom]

Yup, my old man jumped ship after this too. Couldn't believe how many adverts for it there were all over the papers! They must be pretty desperate!

 

[smeg]

HaHa, Choose from more numbers

I loved the way they sold their new look lotto. "YOU CAN CHOOSE FROM MORE NUMBERS!!", as if that was a good thing. Still, it's a mugs betting competition so many will still fall for it.
Now £2 for a £5 mill win at 1 in 45 million.

 

[gregbrighton]

Don't forget the Seagulls lottery!

 

[Justice]

If you play 4 games a week your better off taking your £416 and playing one number on roulette £14,976 not to be sniffed at with much lower odds. I believe you don't get much more for 5 and the bonus now anyway

 

[The Andy Naylor Fan Club]

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What's Les Dawson got to do with it

 

[BensGrandad]

Why cant uk residents on holiday abroad not be able to use a uk bank account to take part on line. I win my stake money back 3 out of 4 weeks on Euro millions usually about £5.25. One day !!

 

[Wrong-Direction]

You gotta be in it to win it

 

[Prince Monolulu]

First week it was launched, 3 of us playing pool in the pub agreed any winnings would be split and shook on it. Last ticket I bought that was, hope they're still buying theirs though.

 

[Binney on acid]

Statistically there's more chance of Liam Bridcutt scoring a league goal for his team.