Millionaire Raffle

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!

oneilla · 01-01-2019 12:30am

lawred2 wrote: »

I'm not sure the results are available

just says draw in progress for me

Same for me. Unless you have to make an account to check it then idk.

NoeldeBournaix · 01-01-2019 12:32am

Results up now.

lawred2 · 01-01-2019 12:35am

ticket in the bin

_Kaiser_ · 01-01-2019 12:35am

Nothing.. Oh well

dxhound2005 · 01-01-2019 12:36am

They sold about 439,000 tickets.

[Deleted User] · 01-01-2019 12:36am

Bin with mine

Weepsie · 01-01-2019 12:38am

Not me. Knew I should've bought a bottle of whiskey instead

sonic85 · 01-01-2019 12:40am

Thought the results aren't normally out till the next day?

NoeldeBournaix · 01-01-2019 12:41am

dxhound2005 wrote: »

They sold about 439,000 tickets.

Big increase on last year when the only sold 360000. Hopefully someone on here will win something.

racso1975 · 01-01-2019 12:42am

I'd say a huge amount goes unclaimed as people get them for Xmas presents and forget about them. Sure last year's winning ticket was not even collected

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