Millionaire Raffle

Andrew00 · 31-12-2018 5:26pm #1

Who’s bought a ticket for this?

Will the draw be shown on TV does anyone know ?

Cockadoodledoo · 31-12-2018 5:29pm

Meeeeeeee!!!

Can’t remember if it’s shown or not. All the numbers will be online anyway for the smaller prizes!

donkeykong5 · 31-12-2018 5:31pm

Cockadoodledoo wrote: »

Meeeeeeee!!!

Can’t remember if it’s shown or not. All the numbers will be online anyway for the smaller prizes!

What about the big prize that I'm gonna win ?

Cockford Ollie · 31-12-2018 5:31pm

Bought one just now for the craic. Looks like just over 400,000 bought if my ticket number is anything to go by.

bri007 · 31-12-2018 5:32pm

Contemplating buying one, been buying one every year but never won anything, not in you can’t win i suppose!

BoroMan32 · 31-12-2018 5:46pm

Received one as a Christmas present, will gladly refund the purchase price to the present giver should I win the top prize.

NoeldeBournaix · 31-12-2018 5:51pm

Andrew00 wrote: »

Who’s bought a ticket for this?

Will the draw be shown on TV does anyone know ?

Bought one Saturday in the 360,000's. Would be interested to see if more sold this year compared to 2017. The draw wont be on TV, its not your typical raffle draw I suppose, and they use 'Specialised electronic random number generator hardware' to determine the results according to their website.

Selection of Winning Tickets

(a) The Draw will be conducted on 31st December 2018, no earlier than 22:00 hours.

(b) At the Christmas Millionaire Raffle 2018 Draw there shall be randomly selected five thousand, five hundred and sixty eight (5,568) entries from all valid Christmas Millionaire Raffle 2018 Tickets purchased for the Game in accordance with these Game Rules and procedures determined by the Company from time to time.

(c) Specialised electronic random number generator hardware will be employed to randomly select the required number of Unique Multiple-Digit Numbers for each division of Prizes in the Christmas Millionaire Raffle 2018 Draw, 31st December 2018.

(d) A Christmas Millionaire Raffle 2018 Ticket can only win one prize in the Christmas Millionaire Raffle 2018 Draw. Once a Winning Ticket has been drawn it is not eligible for any further prizes in that Draw and will be excluded thereafter from the Draw.

(e) At the Christmas Millionaire Raffle 2018 Draw there shall be randomly selected a Unique Multi-Digit Number or a series of Unique Multi-Digit Numbers, as required by the prize structure for the Christmas Millionaire Raffle 2018 Game.

(f) The Winning Ticket Numbers will be published on the Company’s website www.lottery.ie.

Ficheall · 31-12-2018 6:09pm

So total prize money of under 2 million, ticket sales 12.5 million...?
Expected return for your €25 is €9.23

bri007 · 31-12-2018 6:25pm

Just gave in and bought one, into the 420+ now going by my ticket, may sell out this year compared to last year.

Bit of fun, few hundred euro prize be nice to beat the dreaded January blues and the dread of seeing the post man dropping bills in the door instead of pre Christmas Xmas cards!

Mushy · 31-12-2018 6:48pm

So they randomly select an amount to go into the final draw? Wouldn't have bothered my hole getting one if I'd known that. You essentially pay to enter a draw to further enter a draw...ridiculous and I feel like an idiot

Autosport · 31-12-2018 6:51pm

Just bought for myself aswell, I got my father one for Christmas so that's 2 chances in the family

dave699 · 31-12-2018 7:09pm

Forgot they still sold these

Ficheall · 31-12-2018 7:10pm

Mushy wrote: »

So they randomly select an amount to go into the final draw? Wouldn't have bothered my hole getting one if I'd known that. You essentially pay to enter a draw to further enter a draw...ridiculous and I feel like an idiot

It doesn't change any of your odds of winning a prize or the amount you might win. So don't worry, you're not an idiot for the reason you think you are

A Dub in Glasgo · 31-12-2018 7:10pm

My folks sent one over in a Christmas card about 7 years ago, got up on New Years Day with a sore head to check online and we won €1,000 - couldn't believe it. We have been getting one ever since and have not won anything since

Little Less Conversation · 31-12-2018 7:28pm

1 in 90 wins a prize and minimum win is €500. That's not bad at all.

Little Less Conversation · 31-12-2018 7:29pm

I never get picked though so this is probably going to be the same.

lawred2 · 31-12-2018 7:32pm

Ficheall wrote: »

So total prize money of under 2 million, ticket sales 12.5 million...?
Expected return for your €25 is €3.88

Sales of 12.5m?

What?

ToddyDoody · 31-12-2018 7:33pm

I like the way the ad still features a grown man in a nappy.

Little Less Conversation · 31-12-2018 7:33pm

ToddyDoody wrote: »

I like the way the ad still features a grown man in a nappy.

That's my brother!

lawred2 · 31-12-2018 7:33pm

Mushy wrote: »

So they randomly select an amount to go into the final draw? Wouldn't have bothered my hole getting one if I'd known that. You essentially pay to enter a draw to further enter a draw...ridiculous and I feel like an idiot

Where did you get that?

ToddyDoody · 31-12-2018 7:34pm

Little Less Conversation wrote: »

That's my brother!

Doing well for himself?

tuisginideach · 31-12-2018 7:35pm

First time ever to be given one - and first time to give one!

Ficheall · 31-12-2018 7:43pm

lawred2 wrote: »

Sales of 12.5m?

What?

500000 tickets at 25e.

Ficheall · 31-12-2018 7:45pm

lawred2 wrote: »

Where did you get that?

How did you pick and choose which of the 20 posts in the thread you read, or was it purely random?

Agent Coulson · 31-12-2018 7:58pm

lawred2 wrote: »

Sales of 12.5m?

What?

€12.5 in ticket sales if all 500k tickets are sold

€4,615,000m in prize money.

Profit for the Canadian pension fund €7,885,000/

stampydmonkey · 31-12-2018 8:07pm

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Profit for the Canadian pension fund €7,885,000/

When and why the hell did we sell off this?

dxhound2005 · 31-12-2018 8:13pm

There will be 5,568 winners and 494,432 losers if all the tickets are sold.

Trigger Happy · 31-12-2018 8:13pm

I can resist everything except temptation.
I bought one.

lawred2 · 31-12-2018 8:14pm

Agent Coulson wrote: »

€12.5 in ticket sales if all 500k tickets are sold

ah ok - was wondering how on earth 12.5m tickets could be sold in Ireland

lawred2 · 31-12-2018 8:17pm

Ficheall wrote: »

How did you pick and choose which of the 20 posts in the thread you read, or was it purely random?

No I read them all - I see no mention in the structure of the draw that there is a draw to get into a draw

Mushy · 31-12-2018 8:22pm

Ficheall wrote: »

It doesn't change any of your odds of winning a prize or the amount you might win. So don't worry, you're not an idiot for the reason you think you are

lawred2 wrote: »

Where did you get that?

I may have severely mis-read this situation. Still an idiot, but feel somewhat better about it now

NoeldeBournaix · 31-12-2018 8:30pm

tuisginideach wrote: »

First time ever to be given one - and first time to give one!

Id say a lot of the raffle tickets are bought as gifts, I gave two as gifts myself this year. Last years winner was Kevin O'Connor the Crewe Alexandra football player who was given the ticket by his uncle for Christmas. The 2016 top prize was never claimed.

salmocab · 31-12-2018 8:33pm

stampydmonkey wrote: »

When and why the hell did we sell off this?

For a children’s hospital

4068ac1elhodqr · 31-12-2018 8:34pm

Little Less Conversation wrote: »

1 in 90 wins a prize and minimum win is €500. That's not bad at all.

It really is (bad).

Cost of ticket is 25e, so that's 2,250 average spend to see a prize from 500 and upwards, more lower prizes are given, than high value prizes obvs. There are more fingers on your hand than there are 6-figure prizes available and less than a dozen of 10k.

Another good year for the average retired math & stats teacher somewhere across in Ontario. Has been a cool winter there, so they'll be glad of the extra heating allowance.

Prefer hotpicks at the bookies for Ire, EU & UK lottos which offer upto 88% of actual odds (higher when using the law of large numbers etc). This MR draw is only about 36.91999999999994% ROI of prizefund's total sales.

jimbobaloobob · 31-12-2018 8:37pm

Agent Coulson wrote: »

€12.5 in ticket sales if all 500k tickets are sold

€4,615,000m in prize money.

Profit for the Canadian pension fund €7,885,000/

Nearly certain it's a Canadian teachers pension pot too ehh

Paul_Mc1988 · 31-12-2018 8:37pm

BoroMan32 wrote:

Received one as a Christmas present, will gladly refund the purchase price to the present giver should I win the top prize.

Along with 10k also :P

tupenny · 31-12-2018 8:43pm

Trigger Happy wrote: »

I can resist everything except temptation.
I bought one.

Same! Wouldn't have only for this ****in thread. OP, you just downed your odds!!

Ficheall · 31-12-2018 8:54pm

I think you'd be better off putting your 25e on red on a roulette wheel 16 times in a row - better odds of winning, and more of a return.

tupenny · 31-12-2018 8:59pm

Ficheall wrote: »

I think you'd be better off putting your 25e on red on a roulette wheel 16 times in a row - better odds of winning, and more of a return.

But no I'm gonna be a millionaire

4068ac1elhodqr · 31-12-2018 9:12pm

Ficheall wrote: »

I think you'd be better off putting your 25e on red on a roulette wheel 16 times in a row - better odds of winning, and more of a return.

Bit shorter if it's 90/1 (2,250 spend) is for any prize, to appear on average.

Seeing even x10 reds* in succession are 1 in (2.06)10 i.e. 1 in 1,376.

16 straight reds would be 105,166.04119277813747
The current record is 32 stright red/black (11m/1,c).

* European roulette table (37 pockets, with x1 'null' green), so 2.06.
Worse still for the alternative 'double green' pockets.

Franz Von Peppercorn · 31-12-2018 9:24pm

If you’re not in you can’t win. If you are in you won’t win*

* probably.

Ficheall · 31-12-2018 9:27pm

Yaretzi Purple Backstop wrote: »

Bit shorter if it's 90/1 (2,250 spend) is for any prize, to appear on average.

Seeing even x10 reds* in succession are 1 in (2.06)10 i.e. 1 in 1,376.

16 straight reds would be 105,166.04119277813747
The current record is 32 stright red/black (11m/1,c).

* European roulette table (37 pockets, with x1 'null' green), so 2.06.
Worse still for the alternative 'double green' pockets.

I just meant to get the million. I was just working on an 18/38.

I still reckon the "any prize" is achievable with better odds and a better return in 5+ roulette spins.

Neames · 31-12-2018 9:35pm

I got one.

It'd be nice to win a few Bob for sure

IamtheWalrus · 31-12-2018 9:52pm

Why don’t they tell us when the draw is? The 10 o clock thing seems a bit weird to me.

4068ac1elhodqr · 31-12-2018 10:03pm

Ficheall wrote: »

I just meant to get the million. I was just working on an 18/38.

Can agree that essentially it's pants, everyone chipping in for a big cake, but then someone removes over 63% of said cake all for themselves, leaving the scraps for the public.

Perhaps one of the better ways to aim for a guaranteed 1m prize (for a much smaller outlay of 1.50stg), is via 'euromillion lotto hotpicks'.

It's still low at around 50% (2m/1 for 1m prize), but is a live and televised draw, it's not shared and perhaps availing of +(p) number of 0.5-5% advantage using the loln's.

For better odds still, 3 balls on the main lotto.ie (main draw, 6 balls) which offers 86.33% of actual true odds (pie/cake), when done at bookies. €1 hotpick on 3 balls (from 6) returns €701.

dublinman1990 · 31-12-2018 11:07pm

Time's up on buying your tickets. It's gone past 10pm.

My mam got one recently. It's a once a year thing for her but she never wins anything off it though.

Hopefully we will get something but the result might turn out the same as every other year.

oneilla · 31-12-2018 11:27pm

Received one as a gift. Draw is in progress now according to http://lottery.ie

EletricMan · 31-12-2018 11:58pm

Bought one again this year. Do it online. Just checked and it says better luck next time.

bri007 · 01-01-2019 12:02am

Just checked mine there online and said same thing, better luck next time

ah well......

lawred2 · 01-01-2019 12:02am

EletricMan wrote: »

Bought one again this year. Do it online. Just checked and it says better luck next time.

I'm not sure the results are available

just says draw in progress for me

namloc1980 · 01-01-2019 12:11am

Checked my ticket on the app and it said better luck next time even though no official results out!

Millionaire Raffle

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