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How many on here do the Euromillions?

Shergar6

Just checked my Euromillions ticket and had one number.... :mad:

I know a couple of people who have won small amounts on it but since the changes came in a while back i can go weeks without having any numbers at all. I know if you're not in you can't win and all that but to rarely ever even have one number is annoying.

Actually, last week i got the two bonus numbers which of course got me fck all!

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murpho999

Deleted User wrote: »

People know they almost certainly won't win.. But we know that someone eventually does. And a lot of us just pay the few euro for a daydream.

If that's funny, then so be it.

Yes, but on the other hand there are plenty out there who do all the draws each week and are obsessed with it and are throwing their money away. Often cases it's people who can't really afford it.

They could do better things with their money; even shares would be a better bet.

[Deleted User]

My general rule is I only do the lotto if it's over €10 million and euro millions if it's over €100 mil. I probably haven't done the euromillions in months. I used to do it regularly enough about 5 years ago when there would be a few jackpots €160 million plus a year. Imagine being able spend like €20 million on houses, cars, luxury holidays, clothes, some watches, give €20 million to family to set them up and still have €120 million left to live off the interest, a million a year comfortably without eating into the winnings... it's worth paying a few euro to be entitled to dream of that for a few hours!

[Deleted User]

Basically, dreaming with "If.. I will.." is a lot nicer than "If.. I would..".

2011

Harry Palmr wrote: »

No one would leave over 10m in a ditch

Incorrect.
A few people would and have done so, Pablo Escobar would be one example.

Knock yourself out and keep buying tickets, but don't be surprised when you don't win. I have better things to do with my money!

sbsquarepants

murpho999 wrote: »

Yes, but on the other hand there are plenty out there who do all the draws each week and are obsessed with it and are throwing their money away. Often cases it's people who can't really afford it.

They could do better things with their money; even shares would be a better bet.

I think you're missing the point.
It's gambling, not investing. People do it to be magically lifted from their mundane existence and catapulted into the kind of life only dot.com gazzilionaires and rockstars can dream of. Not to help put the kids through college!

I won a one 6th share of €8500 on it once - one number away from a 6th share of 30 odd million - would have been nice.
Still, I got a nice sofa with my winnings!

bucketybuck

I don't actually understand why people do the ordinary lotto instead of just doing the Euromillions, the odds of winning either is pretty much negligible so why not go for the one with the bigger payout?

sbsquarepants

2forjoy wrote: »

an employee in paddy powers told me that quikpick is best

Being an entirely random lottery - any set of numbers has the exact same chance of being drawn as any other set. 1,2,3,4,5 plus lucky stars 6,7 only seems less likely, statistically it's absolutely identical to any other set of numbers.
Quick picks, birthdays, lucky numbers - makes absolutely zero difference.

SEPT 23 1989

I have won more on the Euromilions than the Lotto

the Lotto has gone to the dogs since the Canadians took over

osarusan

Perhaps this is the week my secret lottery-winning strategy will finally pay off.

[Deleted User]

bucketybuck wrote: »

I don't actually understand why people do the ordinary lotto instead of just doing the Euromillions, the odds of winning either is pretty much negligible so why not go for the one with the bigger payout?

I know right. It's basically just a 50/50. Either you win or you don't.

sbsquarepants wrote: »

Being an entirely random lottery - any set of numbers has the exact same chance of being drawn as any other set. 1,2,3,4,5 plus lucky stars 6,7 only seems less likely, statistically it's absolutely identical to any other set of numbers.
Quick picks, birthdays, lucky numbers - makes absolutely zero difference.

It's not the same chance as winning alone though because of people using dates. And a quick pick means no regrets if your numbers come up when you didn't buy them.

Doing 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 or even the week before's numbers means that if you win, you get to split it with a load of people.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1214143/Bulgaria-lottery-picks-numbers-consecutive-weeks-Who-needs-Derren-Brown.html

bucketybuck

sbsquarepants wrote: »

Being an entirely random lottery - any set of numbers has the exact same chance of being drawn as any other set. 1,2,3,4,5 plus lucky stars 6,7 only seems less likely, statistically it's absolutely identical to any other set of numbers.
Quick picks, birthdays, lucky numbers - makes absolutely zero difference.

Is the difference not that if you pick 123456 and win, that you would have to split your winnings with the thousands of other people who also pick 123456?

Hell of a sickener to win a 125,000,000/1 bet and find out you had to split it with thousands of people!

sbsquarepants

That is a consideration alright - sequences tend to be played by more people so if yours does happen to come up you would likely get a smaller share, but the actual odds of any set of numbers coming up in the first place is identical.

That being said I'd rather be one of the 1000 people moaning about having to share the jackpot than one of the millions who got nothing!

Galway_Old_Man

No, just the regular lotto. I'm well aware of the odds and don't spend much on it, nor am I religious about it.

To be honest when you know a few people who've won, and others who've had significant returns it does tend to quell that mathematical part of your brain

The way I look at it is roughly a tenner a month with a lot of daydreams of "what if?" I could lump all that on a nag at 5/2 but it's just not the same.

ohnonotgmail

sbsquarepants wrote: »

Being an entirely random lottery - any set of numbers has the exact same chance of being drawn as any other set. 1,2,3,4,5 plus lucky stars 6,7 only seems less likely, statistically it's absolutely identical to any other set of numbers.
Quick picks, birthdays, lucky numbers - makes absolutely zero difference.

the reasoning is that if you a set of number in a pattern like your example there you are more likely to have to share any winnings as other people have the same idea. It makes no difference to the probability of winning as you say.

gramar

I don't get why people only do it when it gets to 90 or 100m. Is 25m not worth doing it for?

diomed

My last probability correct answer was in secondary school 48 years ago.

Is it (50/5)*(49/4)*(48/3)*(47/2)*(46/1)*(12/2)*(11/1) = 139,838,160?
[50 regular numbers (pick 5); 12 bonus numbers (pick 2)]

Sabre0001

gramar wrote: »

I don't get why people only do it when it gets to 90 or 100m. Is 25m not worth doing it for?

I was thinking that - as I cashed in a €12 winning ticket - but I'm one of those people. Tend to only buy a ticket when it's in the news headlines (or the mother messages me to tell me to buy a ticket)

Winterlong

I am a sucker for these threads. Just bought myself a euromillions ticket for friday's draw.

diomed

Nine participating countries

France.......81...23.1%
Spain.........78...22.3%
UK.............63...18.0%
Portugal......61...17.4%
Belgium.......27....7.7%
Switzerland..15...4.3%
Austria........14...4.0%
Ireland..........9...2.6%
Luxembourg...2...0.6%
Total..........350...100%

Portugal are very lucky.

BattleCorp

sbsquarepants wrote: »

Being an entirely random lottery - any set of numbers has the exact same chance of being drawn as any other set. 1,2,3,4,5 plus lucky stars 6,7 only seems less likely, statistically it's absolutely identical to any other set of numbers.
Quick picks, birthdays, lucky numbers - makes absolutely zero difference.

Actually birthday numbers do make a difference.

Well, they don't make a difference if you were born between the 32nd and 50th of the month.

Otherwise though, they do make a difference.

If you only play birthdays, you are ruling out a hell of a lot of numbers from your pick seeing as you will be restricted to 1 to 31. So if any number higher than 31 gets picked out, that's the main prize gone for you.

bucketybuck

BattleCorp wrote: »

If you only play birthdays, you are ruling out a hell of a lot of numbers from your pick seeing as you will be restricted to 1 to 31. So if any number higher than 31 gets picked out, that's the main prize gone for you.

It still doesn't change your chances of actually winning one little bit. Any 6 numbers is as likely as any other 6.

BattleCorp

bucketybuck wrote: »

It still doesn't change your chances of actually winning one little bit. Any 6 numbers is as likely as any other 6.

Of course it does.

Any six numbers are as likely to come out as any other six numbers when you are playing with the same amount of numbers.

You are only playing with 31 numbers if you do birthdays. You are playing with 50 numbers if you do it randomly through a quickpick.

Your chances in the birthday number scenario are very much reduced.

diomed

sbsquarepants wrote: »

Being an entirely random lottery - any set of numbers has the exact same chance of being drawn as any other set. 1,2,3,4,5 plus lucky stars 6,7 only seems less likely, statistically it's absolutely identical to any other set of numbers.
Quick picks, birthdays, lucky numbers - makes absolutely zero difference.

If you do those numbers and they come up you will be sharing the jackpot with hundreds who do those numbers thinking nobody will ever think of these.

diomed

BattleCorp wrote: »

If you only play birthdays, you are ruling out a hell of a lot of numbers from your pick seeing as you will be restricted to 1 to 31. So if any number higher than 31 gets picked out, that's the main prize gone for you.

Yes. If you play birthdays and house numbers you will be with the millions of others who do that. Low numbers are overpicked.

Steve F

Shergar6 wrote: »

Yeah true. Jesus, could you imagine

Whenever i read of lottery wins that haven't been collected i start getting paranoid it's me and i just haven't checked my numbers correctly. A couple of weeks ago there was a story of 250k not being picked up yet and it was getting to the end of the 90 days - wonder if it was.

If you do it on line it automatically tell you if you have won and how much

Steve F

Harry Palmr wrote: »

No one would leave over 10m in a ditch

I did

28064212

bucketybuck wrote: »

It still doesn't change your chances of actually winning one little bit. Any 6 numbers is as likely as any other 6.

BattleCorp wrote: »

Of course it does.

It really, really doesn't. It might affect the likelihood of sharing a jackpot if you do win, but 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 has an identical probability of being pulled out as (for example) 1, 7, 14, 21, 28, 35, 42, even though in the first set "you are only playing with 7 numbers"

Steve F

Deleted User wrote: »

My general rule is I only do the lotto if it's over €10 million and euro millions if it's over €100 mil. I probably haven't done the euromillions in months. I used to do it regularly enough about 5 years ago when there would be a few jackpots €160 million plus a year. Imagine being able spend like €20 million on houses, cars, luxury holidays, clothes, some watches, give €20 million to family to set them up and still have €120 million left to live off the interest, a million a year comfortably without eating into the winnings... it's worth paying a few euro to be entitled to dream of that for a few hours!

....and a Charity? (Me)

BraveDonut

I used to do the work syndicate (which was a complete pain in the hole trying to get money off people).

Between us we played about €40 every Tuesday and Friday.
Checking the numbers for about a year and a half showed me that it pays out very little - even for the small prizes.

Now I have decided that I don't want to win the Euromillions - I don't want to be that rich.

I'd settle for the Irish lotto and just retire

BattleCorp

28064212 wrote: »

It really, really doesn't. It might affect the likelihood of sharing a jackpot if you do win, but 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 has an identical probability of being pulled out as (for example) 1, 7, 14, 21, 28, 35, 42, even though in the first set "you are only playing with 7 numbers"

Well, if you do birthdays, then you won't have 35 or 42 in your selection. So in that instance, if those numbers were picked out, then the chances of someone using birthday numbers aren't the same.

The chances of 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 are the same as any 7 numbers up to 31 when you do birthdays.

But if you do that, you have no chance of getting 32,33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50.

Maybe I'm just thick but I can't see how they are the same.

The draw is made up from 50 numbers. How can excluding a whole pile of them not change the odds of you winning.