i just know im going to win!

embee

Just saw an ad on the telly...

"This weekends Lotto Jackpot is heading for 7 million euros".

Blitzkrieger

I've been hearing ads on the radio here at work all freaking day!

"Rolling, rolling, rolling........"

CHANGE THE ****ING TUNE! It was annoying 2 years ago and every ****ing time there's a rollover............

The Muppet

As you would all be more than happy with 5 million and the jackpot is actually 7 Million if any of you win can I have the additional 2 million ?

I promise to buy boards their badly needed new server out of my share.

The Muppet

embee wrote:

I am willing to bet my life that lisa.c didn't win.

Does anyone know if it actually has been won?

Or are we looking at a 6 million jackpot on Saturday.

My uncle won 2 .5 million on it a good few years ago now and it braught him nothing but trouble. So much so that I never do it now. I,m happy enough struggling along from pay day to pay day TBH.

lisa.c

well the feeling is once again upon me... i just know ill win tonite.
did my numbers yesterday and have been praying since.
please wish me luck any one who does ill give ye a few quid on monday when i cash in.
i wont wish any of ye luck as there is no point as im going to win it.

just thinking in the real world now... wouldnt it be really funny if i did actually win it..

impr0v

The Muppet wrote:

My uncle won 2 .5 million on it a good few years ago now and it braught him nothing but trouble. So much so that I never do it now. I,m happy enough struggling along from pay day to pay day TBH.

The Muppet wrote:

As you would all be more than happy with 5 million and the jackpot is actually 7 Million if any of you win can I have the additional 2 million ?

I don't know about you, but I'm having a slight difficulty reconciling the above two statements...

Care to tell us about the trouble it brought him? Is it anything more severe than problems with the fuel injector on his new speedboat?

The Muppet

impr0v wrote:

I don't know about you, but I'm having a slight difficulty reconciling the above two statements...

Care to tell us about the trouble it brought him? Is it anything more severe than problems with the fuel injector on his new speedboat?

The first post was in jest the second one is serious. I will decline the offer to discuss his private affairs in detail but they are well known in his local community. I would not consider Problems with his speedboat if he had one as being serious.

Calibos

The Muppet wrote:

The first post was in jest the second one is serious. I will decline the offer to discuss his private affairs in detail but they are well known in his local community. I would not consider Problems with his speedboat if he had one as being serious.

That local community wouldn't be stepaside would it??

The Muppet

Calibos wrote:

That local community wouldn't be stepaside would it??

No It's down south. I think there are many such stories concerning Lotto winners I think some people just can not cope with the problems suddenly having access to large sums of money brings.

Blitzkrieger

Apart from not rushing out and spending it and dealing with greedy relatives/friends, I can't imagine what problems you'd have tbh. Personally I couldn't see any problems if I won it......apart from the non-money related ones I already have of course.

Blisterman

Can you remain anonymus if you won it?

aphex™

Blisterman wrote:

Can you remain anonymus if you won it?

eh It's a half hour since the draw? If you're asking that now- we know its u!

GET HIM!!!!!! HE HAS OUR CA$H!!!

But seriously, yeah. You can.

But newspapers have their ways of finding out. A close aquaintance could tell the papers if u don't bribe them enough.

Miguel_Sanchez

I won! I won!

Well - 3 and the bonus.

Better than a kick in the head.

embee

NO JACKPOT WINNER

Heading for well over 7.5 million this Wednesday.

aphex™

embee wrote:

NO JACKPOT WINNER

Heading for well over 7.5 million this Wednesday.

It always says that before they put up the small prizes and the numbers of people who have won them. I think it'll take ages for them to really find out if anyone won, because of the amount of tickets sold. Might be another hour or 2.

woosaysdan

there was one winner according to the site and it wasnt me

Pigman II

I bought €18 worth tkts and I won ....... €18 (3+bonus)!

Based on this result I plan to spend several million on tkts for the next draw and am confident of getting the jackpot.

Winters

Actual odds in winning are around 5.5million to 1.

Havent bought a ticket since its been getting bigger and bigger. Maybe nobody will win it until I buy a ticket. Might buy a ticket soon.

Blisterman

If you bought all the tickets you could make a profit now. As long as noone else wins.

daveirl

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lisa.c

one lucky prick won it in dublin.... bet its some big hob nob with loads of money anyway... miserable git!

sure tis ok!! there's always next week!

flogen

yeah.... €7 million, all to one person (probably, although it might be a syndicate).

Imagine what you could do with €7 million (/me looks to the sky in a daze).

I'd be happy enough if it was someone who could do with money, but if it is an already rich person, they should take the money off them and re-do the lotto!

flogen

Blisterman

daveirl wrote:

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But if it's 5 million to one, then if the jackpots 7 million, you would, since buying all the tickets would cost €5 million

daveirl

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Calibos

The reason why the famous syndicate pulled it off a few years ago even though they didn't manage to buy all possible combinations in time was that...

A. There were only 36 numbers back then meaning the odds where 'only' 2 million to 1 or something. (Thats why the lotto increased the numbers to 42 to make it more expensive to buy all possible combinations)

B. There was a 'special' on for the particular draw in question where match 4's got IR£100. This meant that with all the match 4's they would undoubtably get, they would cover most if not all of there losses, should they have to share the jackpot with anyone. Ordinarily the risk was too great to buy all possible combo's when someone else might share the jackpot meaning your share would not cover your outlay. All those match 4 £100's covered for this eventuality.

They pulled it off too and had the only winning ticket......Bastids!! :D

Blisterman

I remember a thread like this, where there was a link to a site which said how much profit you would make if you bought all the tickets to the UK lotto.

honeymonster

The odds in getting 7 numbers out of a possible of 42 is 42C7 (i think) which is 1 in 26,978,328 so best a luck in buying all the lotto tickets

BaZmO*

honeymonster wrote:

The odds in getting 7 numbers out of a possible of 42 is 42C7 (i think) which is 1 in 26,978,328 so best a luck in buying all the lotto tickets

Nope!

The odds getting 6 numbers in a LOTTO draw that has 42 numbers is 5,245,786-1

You calculate this by multiplying (42 x 41 x 40 x 39 x 38 x 37) and then dividing your answer by the total of (1 x 2 x 3 x 4 x 5 x 6)

Now considering that for your €1.50 you get 2 panels/lines the odds for anybody winning the Lotto in Ireland is 2,622,893-1


B.

lisa.c

its actually 2 euro min to play thats for two panels and if you include the plus the min is 3 euro....

Pugwash

I was watching a program on the BBC about the lottery over there. At one point in tha show they talked of the odds of winning. 14million to 1 was the odds quoted.

To really put that in prespective, they went to a bookies who gave them the same odds on elvis, flying a UFO and crashing into the lochness monster.

Remember.....It could be you