Lotto..

Bicky

Jackpot 5,617,764 ONE WINNER - WINNING TICKET SOLD IN DUBLIN - THE NATIONAL LOTTERY WISHES YOU A VERY HAPPY CHRISTMAS AND A PEACEFUL AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR.

What a bloody xmas present. There i was thinking i had won
Did anyone prefer the lotto a lot more when it was just six numbers and had no bonus or lotto plus?

Mossy Monk

well tbh if you won you would only need 6 numbers anyway. but the bonus has won me money in the past. long live it!!!!

Lex_Diamonds

Lucky bastard!

oeNeo

My dad won it!

Senor_Fudge

i won it and intend to buy boards and turn it into a russian wives site for all those lonely farmers out there

Capt'n Midnight

I still reckon it's a self assement tax on optimism.

I've also heard of it being a tax on people who aren't good at maths.

But it is a stealth tax - it does not really raise money for charities it just stops the Gov't raising taxes elsewhere to pay..

sionnach

a tax on those who dont understand statistics capt'n

Lex_Diamonds

The guy/gal who won probably didnt understand statistics, and currently they dont give a flying fook about them.

Barry Aldwell

Originally posted by sionnach
a tax on those who dont understand statistics capt'n

"Oh Kent, statistics can be made up to prove anything. 17% of all people know that!"

nlgbbbblth

people who win with quickpicks should get less

no skill involved with a quickpick

Guy:Incognito

and theres loads of skill in randomly picking numbers?

Capt'n Midnight

Actually there is quite a bit of skill in not picking the numbers other people pick (so you are less likely to share the prize) - however, the quickpick has rendered this art obsolete.

Guy:Incognito

not sharing it is irrelevant(spelling) if u dont win because its pure chance as 2 what numbers come up

yossarin

if (and its a big if) you do win though, the last thing you want to share it with others, thus preventing you from getting that second mink lined helicoper.
people are carp at picking random numbers. It'd be interesting to see figures on what numbers people pick most.

I, like most people thought
"Dublin ! I bought my ticket there, and i'm the centre of the universe, so it might be possibly be me !
...
bugger !"

Guy:Incognito

i went more along the lines of, "It was a ticket bought in DUblin, I work in O'Connell Street, I bought my ticket on O'Connell street, O'Connell street is dublin 1, therefore, I won" well thats logic for u (mine anyway) and btw I didnt win.:mad:

Calibos

Statistically speaking the six numbers 1,2,3,4,5,6. are as likely to come out as any other sequence of 6 numbers. It just seems less likely for some reason. Maybe thats why about 5 of our customers pick them every draw, maybe thinking that no one else would want to play such an 'unlikely' sequence and thus they wont have to share. They probably think they are being clever. The thing is though if every lotto agent has a similar number of 1,2,3,4,5,6. clever players then assuming there are 2000 lotto agents in the country (Anyone know how many there are??) then they will be sharing the jackpot with 10000 other people!!! Chances are they would get less than someone with only 5 numbers!! :D

Another thing that amazes me is the amount of people that go mad for a big draw and spend 20 or 30 quid on tickets. Many seem to think that buying 30 lines increases there chances by a factor of 30. ie instead of the odds being 5,000,000 to 1 they are 5,000,000/30==>166,666 to 1. No, you just have 30x5,000,000 to 1 chances. Perhaps some Honours maths Probabilty expert can explain it better and work out the actual reduction in the odds by buying 30 lines. I know the folly of buying more lines to increase your chances but I suppose I am guilty myself. Instead of a €3 QP I do a €4.50 one! But people buying an extra 20 quids worth on a big draw night! Idiots! :rolleyes:

To put it in perspective. The shop gets a commission for selling a winning ticket. €10000 for a maindraw winning ticket, €3000 for a Plus1 and €2000 for a Plus2. So when I wish our customers good luck in the draw, I really mean it, cause if they win our shop gets a few quid! So one way of looking at it is that we have customers buying upto €10,000 a week on our behalf to win us that €10000 commission. €10000 a week for the last 15 years (or however long the lotto has been going) ie €10000x52x15=€7,800,000..........In all that time we have had 1 maindraw winner and one plus1 winner! Tis a mugs game but its worth €3 a draw for the excitement and the dreams. Its not worth €30 a draw no matter how big the jackpot is however! :rolleyes:

Lump

A lot of shops give that bonus (or at least some of it) to the person who sould the ticket. Not statoil, it goes straight into the account of head office.



John

DMC

I read some years ago in an interview with Ray Bates of the National Lottery that there are around 2000 people out there who pick 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. If they come up, they're shagged!

Wife: "We've won! We've won! We've won! We're rich!"

(Later that night)

News: "There was a record 2000 winners of the Lotto jackpot of €1.3m, each winner gets €650. "

Sickener!

Capt'n Midnight

What's worse with 1 2 3 4 5 6 is that there might be less match 5 winners than match 6 ones. So the match 5 people would win more !:rolleyes:

Anyway you are so unlikely to win that's it's a matter of luck - in which case you only need one ticket.