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This Euromillion malarkey needs to stop. Last week it was some 180 zillion or something. Took a few tkts and result... Zilch. I think I have a better chance scoring an ace rather than winning something meaningful. To date, my best win has been something like £15.
I am pretty sure a lot of people spend money on buying the lottery week in and week out. Chances of winning anything useful is minimal and the outcome is no better than a payday loan.

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G1BB0 said:
http://www.playlotto.org.uk/lottery/uklottery_odds.html

and as a little anecdote

If you're getting a ticket for the Saturday draw, be sure to buy it on the Friday or the Saturday. That's because if you buy it on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday you are actually more likely to have died by Saturday evening than you are to win the jackpot!
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Those odds are the odds of randomly selected certain permutations of numbers, but they are not quite the same as your chance of winning (or more precisely how much you win). Some numbers are much more popular, so if you have those in your chosen numbers, and all of them come up, you will likely divide your pot with more people.

The best strategy might be to choose unpopular numbers or unlikely number sequences. A winning line with 6 sequential numbers is just as likely as any other.
 
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I'm sure I've read before that the most played sequence of numbers is 1 2 3 4 5 6.
For that reason I'd never choose them.
 
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most i have won is £256. had 5 out of 7 on the euro twice too!! i was told i was ungrateful for moaning that i was 5/7 and only got a few hundred when that was the draw the irish woman won £120mil for 2 more numbers than me!

IMHO the smaller prizes need to be bigger and the jackpot smaller.
 
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I don't play it. When the original lottery came out I had a line a week but then they added another type and then another and scratch cards etc etc. I used to have the same numbers every week so it was either use them on each type of lottery or quit - I quit!
 
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vkurup said:
This Euromillion malarkey needs to stop. Last week it was some 180 zillion or something. Took a few tkts and result... Zilch. I think I have a better chance scoring an ace rather than winning something meaningful. To date, my best win has been something like £15.
I am pretty sure a lot of people spend money on buying the lottery week in and week out. Chances of winning anything useful is minimal and the outcome is no better than a payday loan.

<rant over>
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What was said by opponents of the lottery at the outset. The poorest, more desperate and addicted will spend a far greater % of their 'income' on the lottery and the vast majority will win zilch.

And still we have football clubs and others accepting sponsorship from the slimey leech, greedy, immoral pay-day lenders who prey on the weaknesses of the same sector of the population.
 
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SwingsitlikeHogan said:
And still we have football clubs and others accepting sponsorship from the slimey leech, greedy, immoral pay-day lenders who prey on the weaknesses of the same sector of the population.
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I see Wonga have paid their sponsorship money early to allow Hearts a bit of leeway.

I'm with the football players who refuse to wear the shirts of these horrible companies. If they were trading on street corners they would be hounded [hang on they are trading on street corners]
Bookmakers open to 10pm, Money Lenders and Pawnbrokers are all we seem to see on our high streets now, however did that happen. Don't remember that under Old Labour.
 
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Doon frae Troon said:
I see Wonga have paid their sponsorship money early to allow Hearts a bit of leeway.

I'm with the football players who refuse to wear the shirts of these horrible companies. If they were trading on street corners they would be hounded [hang on they are trading on street corners]
Bookmakers open to 10pm, Money Lenders and Pawnbrokers are all we seem to see on our high streets now, however did that happen. Don't remember that under Old Labour.
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Absolutely - and the bookies move to be inbetween the pubs and the cash machines. With the pawnbrokers pretending to be something other than a pawnbroker. Cashconverters; cash for stuff; we cash your cheque here (and take our commission) etc. They really are the pits and the sign of a increasingly divided society - though not one that has yet disintegrated it is going that way where those with money are feted and mollycoddled - whilst the really poor are shoved into the hands of the sharks. Ah well.
 
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