Lottery - has anyone ever won?

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With the impending £150m coming my way on Friday, I wondered if anyone has every won anything?

I used to run my works euromillions syndicate about 7 years ago now - there were 13 of us in it and we got all 5 main numbers. We scooped just over £61,500 to share between us. I had to go to Camelot and get a cheque and some bubbly/champagne glasses etc. The only sickening part is that 1 lucky star would have meant the prize was around £1.5m to share.

Oh well.
 
I have had 4 + 1 twice on the euro's. got about 100/150 quid each time. was sickening to think i got 5 out of 7 and the winner one week of these won 113m!
 
Small stuff, £60 or so once but usually under £20. I seem to win just enough to keep me interested but not enough to break even. I play online and the fun there is getting an email on a Saturday morning saying I have won and that I should log on to see how much. Big tension at that stage I can tell you. What I don't know is how big a win you would need to have where I would be asked to ring rather than just logging in. Imagine checking your account and seeing £140m in it without any warning.
 
I guy I used to work with bought 2 tickets for the normal lottery years ago when it first started. He picked 6 random numbers for each ticket, purely random, (12 numbers in total and all different). He had 3 of the winning numbers on one ticket and the other 3 winning numbers on his other ticket and won a total of £10.

When I was in the navy a syndicate of 13 at our unit had all 6 numbers and walked away with a six figure sum each. That didn't include me though.
 
Lord Tyrion said:
Small stuff, £60 or so once but usually under £20. I seem to win just enough to keep me interested but not enough to break even. I play online and the fun there is getting an email on a Saturday morning saying I have won and that I should log on to see how much. Big tension at that stage I can tell you. What I don't know is how big a win you would need to have where I would be asked to ring rather than just logging in. Imagine checking your account and seeing £140m in it without any warning.
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Anything over £50,000 is the answer..... they wont pay online for anything bigger, you have to go to them with ID etc.
 
Done it fairly religiously since the start and I think I've had 4 numbers twice!

It is certainly (as my mate used to describe it) ......a "tax on the stupid"!! But that said, you have to be in to win etc. I will continue, though the recent price hike makes me lean towards the Euromillions......except I do the same numbers every week so am loathed to stop Lotto just in case.
 
I've only ever won the odd tenner.

If you want to be really sickened... there is an app to show you historically if your numbers have ever come up. You put in your regular numbers, and it tells you when they came up since the 1st lottery draw.

Could be gut wrenching to know a few months before you started playing they all came up and would have made you millions...
 
I run a 4 man syndicate and from the start of the year won about £80 a couple of times. We just plough the money back in each time until we win something significant - which will probably never happen.
 
Nothing quite like waking up to the email "Good news about your ticket" to get you resigning from your job, contacting the nearest Aston Martin garage (they still stock DB5s right) and signing up with the most exclusive estate agent you can find, before realising that the £2.70 you've just won isn't quite going to cover it all!

The most I've had was £60 and I had to share that with 8 others!
 
A guy who worked for me won £1.2m just after the lottery first started. Nice guy who tried to return to work, but the lads on the shop floor made his life miserable. They thought he was stopping someone more deserving getting a job.. He left after about 6 months and bought his wife the Estate Agency where she worked....
 
In the first few weeks of the lottery in the 90s, sat at home and watched the lottery draw as they pulled the numbers (just a straight 6 in those days), and I had the first number, second number, third number, fourth number. Started to get pretty interested now, but sadly didn't have either of the last 2. Still, got £150 or so.

As for the tax on the stupid, I think that is a bit unfair. The odds of winning a 6 number random draw with one line is still 14-odd million to 1, and the returns for your money are poor value, but if the stake is money you won't miss, it can still be worth the buzz and fun of the small gamble for the albeit rather unlikely chance of life changing returns.
 
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Ethan said:
In the first few weeks of the lottery in the 90s, sat at home and watched the lottery draw as they pulled the numbers (just a straight 6 in those days), and I had the first number, second number, third number, fourth number. Started to get pretty interested now, but sadly didn't have either of the last 2. Still, got £150 or so.

As for the tax on the stupid, I think that is a bit unfair. The odds of winning a 6 number random draw with one line is still 14-odd million to 1, and the returns for your money are poor value, but if the stake is money you won't miss, it can still be worth the buzz and fun of the small gamble for the albeit rather unlikely chance of life changing returns.
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I sat and watched as my first 5 numbers were drawn in a row, sadly that was it £1500.00. One more number would have paid out 8 million or with the bonus ball eighty thousand, which would have almost cleared my wife's visa bill .:rofl:
 
Worked in a convenience shop for a few months and served a guy who won a Weds jackpot. Unfortunately that nght 9 others also won so he only got c.250k

An acquaintance of my dads won about 2.5 many moons ago but after a few bad decisions has little if anything left.
 
I get a regular £2.80 for a £10 stake- result....misery.


@Dufferman, whats that app called, sounds fun
 
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