There Is More Chance Of....

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....dialling a London number at random and The Queen answering, than there is of matching 6 numbers on the lottery.

My idiot of a brother disagrees. He won a tenner the other night and has invested the £10 on ten more lottery tickets for Wednesday.

I was trying to tell him how bad an investment it was and used the above example to convince him. It didn't work.

I then tried to explain how many tickets available out there opposed his own, even going to the lengths of telling him that one ticket is about 10cm in length and that if you laid down his ten tickets it would be about 1 metre in length, I then explained that there are another 13,983,806 winning combinations that he hasn't got running for him and further explained that if he had to lay down the tickets that he hasn't got, where his ten tickets would travel 1 metre, the 13,983,806 tickets remaining would travel approx 8000 miles, which is from here to Tunisia and back.

Did my examples work? Nope. He has just bought another 5 tickets because he now fancies a trip to Tunisia.
 
"There is more chance of dialling a London number at random and The Queen answering, than there is of matching 6 numbers on the lottery."
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It's a nice way to illustrate your point, but it's virtually certain that there are more than 14 million phone numbers in London, so it wouldn't actually be correct.

Your brother is right to ignore you - what, apart from the lottery, the football pools or the premium bonds will make him a millionaire/

I spend my life looking for value in betting, but I lay out £3 on every lottery draw.

Which is the sillier, your brother's playing up his £10 lottery winnings on ten new tickets or, and I quote,: "I also staked my entire Betfair bank on Prince Charming (I think that was the name of the horse) at Sandown in May and although he was 4/11, I backed him to be placed only @ 1/10 or so for £492, he finished last."

:D
 
I don't play the Lottery, I probably should but never seem to remember to purchase a ticket.
 
The chances of winning I know are minute BUT my friend, whose boyfriend's Grandad won £6 million is now living in his house, has been on the telly (when the cheque was presented) and has had a holiday of a lifetime and has been given a gift of £100k. She is VERY glad her boyfriend's Grandad carried on with the £3 a week he invested on the lottery. B)

Like Brian said, how else can you be a millionaire? It's more of a dream for people, and if I had the choice of buying a pint of beer, or a lottery ticket, I would buy the lottery ticket.... as I don't like beer! :D

Saying that, my brother in law's Mum died at the end of last year, and it turns out that the land she owns alone is worth in excess of £17 million pounds in and around Berkshire, plus the 2 houses, plus the 2 villa's in Spain, so there are other ways to inherit a fortune if your family is stinking rich. :blink:
 
Paul no need to miss it do it on line...............
http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/home/home.do

I do it with a basic £2 which increases if a rollover? I really think its like betting 3 horses (if having a £3 bet on it ) in the same race!! so your betting against the first set of numbers by doing this :rolleyes: .......

but like most people, who would not want to be a millionaire? you have to be in it to win it, so its a goal that 90% of people would love to score............... :P :D
 
The lottery is a must-bet and anyone who dreams of a quick route to early retirement should play.

It's awful value and I used to joke with workmates that I only played if it was a £20m+ rollover as that was the only time it was a value bet.

For £2 (Saturday only - the midweek one really isn't worth it!) you get the chance to dream a little and if you wait a few weeks to check the ticket you can make the dream last a wee bit longer ;)
 
Originally posted by Bar the Bull@Jan 11 2005, 03:38 AM
Why would someone play a a game with an expected return of way less than 80p in the pound?
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I'm pretty sure it's more like 50p in the £.
 
I believe someone fitting this description :ph34r: has been seen hogging a lottery machine in deepest darkest Northern Ireland for the past week and a half snapping up tickets......
 
It's about 55p in the £, but 30p to 35p goes to the charities and good causes - which seem to have been overlooked in the thread.

(And please no comments of the handicapped, black, lesbian single parent family variety)
 
I`ve always been curious as to which good causes receive money.

The impression i get is that it goes/went to the Dome,the Scottish Parliament building and to various canoeists/swimmers/rowers/fuckin tobogganists and there Olympic dreams
 
Originally posted by Euronymous@Jan 11 2005, 11:02 AM
The impression i get is that it goes/went to the Dome,the Scottish Parliament building and to various canoeists/swimmers/rowers/fuckin tobogganists and there Olympic dreams
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I didn't realise any of it had been used to pay for the Scottish Parliament building. I thought I paid for that (and Mo, and Phil......)
 
Ok, I'm about to go eat humble pie.

He just matched 5 numbers on tonight's draw and pocketed £1468.

I'm in shock and can't quite get over the fact he was one number off a life-changing event.

I'm in shock.
 
Someone has got to win so if your not in it you can't win it ? I did a fiver tonight but have not checked them as such as yet ? will sleep on it and hope I have hit the jackpot in the morning :o :D be nice huh............. Be drunk for a month on champers :D :D
 
Only do the 1 ticket for each draw. Having chosen a set of numbers I know the week I stop those numbers will come up.

And Dave G I thought that was very funny.
 
So did I! :lol: :lol: That's hilarious, too, Phil. All your sermonizing and producing of percentages, and he can just go neh, neh, neh, neh for months, oh, maybe YEARS to come! :D
 
I have no idea what he will blow the money on, but fair play to him and everyone who buys a lottery ticket, win or lose.

It is still very difficult to take only being one number off the big one.

He never bets, only buys a lottery ticket and the odd scratchcard. He has no interest in racing or sport for that matter. He is a drummer and is off to London to The Drum Tec in October to begin a full-time course with a view to gaining employment as a professional drummer (he recently passed an audition and assessment to gain entry) and the course will have to be paid by himself, no funding options are available. The course costs about 5 grand and he has already got about 3 saved, so this will no doubt come in very handy towards his fees and ultimately is a step closer towards his dream.

Fair play to him.
 
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