What's the biggest prize you ever won?

mikemac1

Could lotto, raffle, anything realy.

I won an iPod on a Today FM competition where you had to phone in to guess the voice which I did. They said it was an iPod, it was actually some cheap Chinese version Ah well, it worked fine for years and years.

I also won a hamper at a work Christmas party. Present to the parents sorted

That's it realy, never got anything much off the lotto, our lotto syndicate has gone through 6 years of failure.


Are you lucky and win lots and lots of prizes?

Mr_Muffin

A double chocolate chip cookie.

The Domonator

Unemployment.

obriendj

mikemac1 wrote: »

Could lotto, raffle, anything realy.

I won an iPod on a Today FM competition where you had to phone in to guess the voice which I did. They said it was an iPod, it was actually some cheap Chinese version Ah well, it worked fine for years and years.

I also won a hamper at a work Christmas party. Present to the parents sorted

That's it realy, never got anything much off the lotto, our lotto syndicate has gone through 6 years of failure.


Are you lucky and win lots and lots of prizes?

Seriously? thats poor form!!!

I won a day trip to Mosney once. 1988 i think.
Also got into a draw to win a car. It was down to 10 people and everyone has a key to try in the door. I was 6th person to try their key so at that stage i suppose I has a 1 in 5 chance. Didnt work

Fuhrer

A fine set of Newbridge Silverware

looksee

Some people win lots of things, I don't win anything. Must be some sort of a lucky gene. Or maybe they do competitions and I don't. (I did win a couple of 75s on Prize bonds, but you tend to win within the first year of investing a reasonable amount anyway)

helimachoptor

£1000 punts back when i was about 12, 3 weeks before xmas. Bought myself my first and only pair of air max

clintondaly

A Toyota Yaris in a work draw.
Tickets were 100 Euro,we bought 1 between 10 of us,won the car sold it for 11,000 Euro,kept a 1,000 Euro each and put the leftover 1,000 behind the bar at the local pub and invited our work colleagues out to a free night

deadybai

won 49 euro on a slot machine when I was about 13. Put 15 cent into a machine that my friend who had been on it all day, gave up on. BEST DAY EVER!

Miguel_Sanchez

I won a Discman off Scratch Saturday when I was eleven.

Oh and three grand in a film competition this year.

Wichita Lineman

Colour TV off 2fm. Lasted for years!

The Backwards Man

A bottle of Malibu.

Miss Lizzie Jones

$15,000.00

allibastor

Won an Xbox 360 when they were new out.

Gave it to my bro for his 21st

Calibos

Run family newsagents. Play minimum in most lotto draws.

Have gotten 5 numbers in the main draw twice and lotto plus 1 draw. 1300 punts, €1000 & €300 respectively. The older punts win was from my own ticket that I bought purposely. The 2 euro denominated wins were mistake tickets. Ie. they weren't what the customer asked for, the customer didn't opt to take them anyway, I put them to the side to sell on to someone else, forgot, had to buy them myself at the end of the night.

Ie I'm more lucky with mistake tickets then my own tickets.

Nowadays, when I make a mistake, I tell them my story and 9 times out of 10 they buy the mistake ticket as well as what they asked for.

Result!!

Grayson

return flights to new York. I never got to use them though.

Grayson

I'm surprised some soppy sod hasn't said "My Missus"

osarusan

My missus, on yahoo auctions.

messrs

Return flight tickets to Belfast (never used them) tickets to the premier (well the irish version) of a movie, won tickets to a private screening with the script (about 100 ppl & media so not so private) & won €500 in a draw in the MetroHerald, that's about it over the last 35 years!!

This Fat Girl Runs

I once won €80 at work doing a derby draw. My horse won even though he wasn't tipped to win. That was a nice surprise!

Other than that, I might win a free scratch card now and then doing the All Cash.

chakotha

€300 from the Christmas card raffle in my local.

MRnotlob606

600 hundred pound wife.

brightkane

Know nadda about horse racing. Bloke on today fm tipped eroras encore in Grand National a few years back . Had 60 quid on me. Put 30 each way on him. He came in at 66/1.

€2,500.00

Matta Harri

A bale of briquettes in a Christmas draw in the local pub.

Also €100 worth of AI straws in a GAA club draw. Very useful!

I usually win nothing.

sbsquarepants

A mazda 323 - didn't drive at the time and couldn't afford the nearly £4,000 to insure the bastard, so I sold it and got a Nissan sunny plus insurance. Happy days:D

Candy_Girl

I've won lots of small prizes like weekend breaks, runners, beauty products ect but nothing worth getting too excited about.

cletus van damme

hard to choose between

12e on euromillion or 3 CDs on the metal show on 2fm when i was 14.

KeithM89

Toyota Auris in the credit union car draw a few years back then traded it in the next day against an audi a4.

Straylight

A DVD player at the staff Christmas party when they were only just out, which was pretty cool. And a weekend away in a very nice hotel. Admittedly my wife entered and put my name on the entry, but seeing as I win bugger all I'm claiming it.

Highflyer13

$21000 from a initial $3 investment in a online poker tournament. I was 19 at the time so young and not too wise had a great time with it and blew every cent of it in 3 months. Could do with it nowadays:pac:

CarrickMcJoe

£480 and €2,500 on lotto for 5 numbers. Was one digit out for £820,000.

€27,000,000 on a Spanish lottery, just need to send my bank details !

razorblunt

Entered a Mars competition in Dunnes in the 90s, subbeteo was the first prize, came second and won a gear bag, jersey that was too small (I was a fat kid) and a ball that burst in the first kickaround that evening. The bag lasted an age until the arse burst during a house move.

Entered the 2004 European Championships buster in a place I was working for the same, tenner each, disgusted I drew Greece. Have a soft spot for them since! Didnt win the lot as there were prizes for 2nd and 3rd but it came in handy as I was off on a lads holiday anyway!
Funnily enough I worked all that summer as I changed college courses and universities, was saving up the fees, turned out I didn't have to pay anything, went off an bought my first car with it instead.

Going Strong

looksee wrote: »

Some people win lots of things, I don't win anything. Must be some sort of a lucky gene. Or maybe they do competitions and I don't. (I did win a couple of 75s on Prize bonds, but you tend to win within the first year of investing a reasonable amount anyway)

My mum's sister is one of those perpetual contest winners. Foreign holidays, new car (twice), a new kitchen and God only knows how much free goodies over the years.


Me? The only thing I ever 'won' was a consolation prize for coming dead last in every event at a school sports day back in primary. It was a statue of a gnome that had been dropped, breaking off his little nose, I was informed of this as it was handed to me.

Sleepy

My wife won our honeymoon: a week of skiing in Arinsal thanks to a Radio Nova competition 2 years ago

Kenno90

€1,000 for the most impressive app a few years ago, i made one for my final year project in college and decided to enter it in a competition.

Won the competition and best project (which was also an iPad)

So €1000 and an ipad

I-Shot-Jr

Won a guitar off phantom, a trip to Ibiza off Miller. A few albums here and there from the radio.

Toots

I've won a few things, won the main prize in the school raffle when I was in junior infants - it was a massive hamper nearly the size of me. They had to get one of the 6th class kids to come down and help me carry it off the stage.

I've won a few bob on grand nationals over the years too, my family always puts a small bet on every one. I choose my horses by whichever jockey costume I like best. I think the most I've won was around €200

Then this mothers' day there was a competition on Radio Nova where you could win a voucher for you and your mum to a day spa, and I won one of those, it was awesome!

phasers

Won €1500 in a casino there a few months ago, I put a fiver into a machine and got into some kind of jackpot game. The auld wan on the machine next to me was fuming :pac:

Also won a laptop on one of those stacker arcade machines in Bray about 6 years ago, it was worth about 800 quid at the time

RayCon

A holiday to Cyprus from a Club Orange promotion about 17yrs ago.

mossy50

a dose of the CLAPP

Mesrine65

Harley Davidson Sportster at a motorcycle rally in France 10 years ago.

RoboRat

Syphilis.... all I wanted was a little kiss, now I'm not able to p1ss

Kevin McCloud

Nothing, i wouldn't win an argument.

Spencer Winterbotham

A shot off your auld one down the lane by the local.

Littlekittylou

I won a couple of dance competitions. I got a couple of medals.

But mostly I won being the bestest.

I won a short story competition and got published in a magazine, that was my prize.

I won a couple of medals in my schools sports day. All silver or bronze.

I think our hockey team won a couple of things.

Yeah not much. I guess I am not that competitive :-/

Ruu

€1,000 local blotto win. Smaller things like holiday hampers and some other bits and pieces.

whats newxt

hypocrite of the century award

Crumpets

Won 40 bales of briquettes in a Christmas raffle when I was 5. Great winter it was.

super_furry

A HTC One from their facebook page. Already had one so sold it for €300.

akura

A Nokia something phone from an arcade machine when i was 12 or 13.

Beasty

A week for 2 at Club Med in the Bahamas in a competition in the (London) Times

Also got a 40 inch TV on a low-bid auction for 12 quid or so when they were selling for over 2 grand