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Lotto All Or Nothing - 94 draws so far an no winner

  • 09-01-2010 01:47PM
    #1
    sold
    Closed Accounts Posts: 285 ✭✭sold


    I have been playing the all or nothing lotto since it launched. Its daily and over the last 94 draws there has been not one top winner of the 500K prize (so I spent 188)

    I know the odds a very slim, but after 94 draws not to have 1 winner on the whole country? They should let the jackpot accumulate It would be 47,000,000 today!.... I think they know thw odds are non exisitant of someone winning the 500K. Even the runner up prize of 5000euros is not won every day.

    Looks like the odd are a lot higher than the lotto and the normal lotto is cheaper.


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  • #2
    bleg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,847 ✭✭✭bleg


    sold wrote: »
    I think they know thw odds are non exisitant of someone winning the 500K.



    NO WAI!!!!!!!


  • #3
    trench foot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 50 ✭✭trench foot


    are you serious?


  • #4
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 2,960 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    you need a system


  • #5
    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    Why is the prize money not rolled over?


  • #6
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,594 ✭✭✭bonerm


    What exactly is "nothing"? Is it none of the 6 drawn numbers in your line? I'd imagine that'd be a fairly common occurance.


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  • #7
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    bonerm wrote: »
    What exactly is "nothing"? Is it none of the 6 drawn numbers in your line? I'd imagine that'd be a fairly common occurance.
    It's 12 numbers.


  • #8
    Adelynn Unsightly Spokesman
    Posts: 24,798 ✭✭✭✭ Adelynn Unsightly Spokesman


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055705905


  • #9
    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    bonerm wrote: »
    What exactly is "nothing"? Is it none of the 6 drawn numbers in your line? I'd imagine that'd be a fairly common occurance.
    phasers wrote: »
    It's 12 numbers.

    Form 24. I'd imagine a better chance of winning the regular lotto.


  • #10
    TPD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,813 ✭✭✭TPD


    Would you not have been better off waiting until the game was well established, to see how often the jackpot is won, before playing religiously?


  • #11
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,594 ✭✭✭bonerm


    The Perfect Drug wrote: »
    Would you not have been better off waiting until the game was well established, to see how often the jackpot is won, before playing religiously?

    Some people just love paying their taxes.


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  • #12
    sold
    Closed Accounts Posts: 285 ✭✭sold


    The Perfect Drug wrote: »
    Would you not have been better off waiting until the game was well established, to see how often the jackpot is won, before playing religiously?

    Yes, Hindsight is a great thing. Anyway I have given up, 14 euros a week was a waste of time, I think I would have better odds with euromillions, atleast the jackpot gets acculmulated and divided our when its not won after 3 months.


  • #13
    Jev/N
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,456 ✭✭✭Jev/N


    Better odds at the bookies TBH


  • #14
    pajodublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 993 ✭✭✭pajodublin


    sold wrote: »
    I have been playing the all or nothing lotto since it launched. Its daily and over the last 94 draws there has been not one top winner of the 500K prize (so I spent 188)

    I know the odds a very slim, but after 94 draws not to have 1 winner on the whole country? They should let the jackpot accumulate It would be 47,000,000 today!.... I think they know thw odds are non exisitant of someone winning the 500K. Even the runner up prize of 5000euros is not won every day.

    Looks like the odd are a lot higher than the lotto and the normal lotto is cheaper.

    YOUR WRONG......SIMPLES!!!

    All Or Nothing - Friday 30 October 2009
    Top Prize €500,000
    Winning Numbers
    1 3 5 6 8 9 11 13 18 20 22 23
    Match 12
    Winners 1
    Prize €500,000


  • #15
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,152 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    sold wrote: »
    I have been playing the all or nothing lotto since it launched. Its daily and over the last 94 draws there has been not one top winner of the 500K prize (so I spent 188)

    I know the odds a very slim, but after 94 draws not to have 1 winner on the whole country? They should let the jackpot accumulate It would be 47,000,000 today!.... I think they know thw odds are non exisitant of someone winning the 500K. Even the runner up prize of 5000euros is not won every day.

    Looks like the odd are a lot higher than the lotto and the normal lotto is cheaper.

    The game is called "All or Nothing", so what did you expect ?

    Re the jackpot accumulating, this is something I have a serious problem with. Why should one person win millions ? Better all round to have a weekly winner of a decent, life-changing amount (pay off your mortgage and buy a car and go on holiday, and come back comfortable for the rest of your life) rather than give a fortune to someone who only played it because it hit a couple of million and they're greedy fvcks.....


  • #16
    sold
    Closed Accounts Posts: 285 ✭✭sold


    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    The game is called "All or Nothing", so what did you expect ?

    Re the jackpot accumulating, this is something I have a serious problem with. Why should one person win millions ? Better all round to have a weekly winner of a decent, life-changing amount (pay off your mortgage and buy a car and go on holiday, and come back comfortable for the rest of your life) rather than give a fortune to someone who only played it because it hit a couple of million and they're greedy fvcks.....

    Ok, Then if the Jackpot in not won it should be shared with next level of winners. As it stands nobody since the game started has won the top prize and no many the 2nd prize (5000)


  • #17
    Silenceisbliss
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,190 ✭✭✭Silenceisbliss


    The Lottery - Voluntary tax for those who can't do maths.


  • #18
    suitseir
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 887 ✭✭✭suitseir


    Read in the paper this AM it was won in Athlone. If I read correctly, the gamble on the lotto was 94 Euro....must be a mistake! Seemingly, the winner also scooped 5 numbers and 4 numbers on other lines. The numbers were not quick pick but chosen by winner's 7 year old son.Nice win though!

    I think I would be slow to have gone public on it, though!

    If I was a winner I would most definitely give a good share to the victims of the earthquake in Haiti! That was my pledge?

    Anybody else have a pledge if they win?


  • #19
    Mark200
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,536 ✭✭✭Mark200


    Silenceisbliss wrote: »
    The Lottery - Voluntary tax for those who can't do maths.

    I remember a member on here referring to it before as an "idiot tax"


  • #20
    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,722 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    OP, so you need to pick the wrong numbers?

    You fail at failing. That sucks


  • #21
    m5ex9oqjawdg2i
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,217 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    Silenceisbliss wrote: »
    The Lottery - Voluntary tax for those who can't do maths.
    Mark200 wrote: »
    I remember a member on here referring to it before as an "idiot tax"

    Posts are ignorant, what you think to be absurd and idiotic, others do not. What you think to be logical and "normal", others may think it to be absurd and idiotic. Can you manage, even in the slightest, to comprehend that?

    People who play the lotto know what they are getting themselves into, they know the odds and unlike some jealous begrudgers, they can afford to play the games on a regular basis. They are not idiots, nor is it a tax, but a game, a game they wish to play for a prize.


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  • #22
    Mark200
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,536 ✭✭✭Mark200


    Cecelia Muscular Vat wrote: »
    People who play the lotto know what they are getting themselves into, they know the odds and unlike some jealous begrudgers, they can afford to play the games on a regular basis. They are not idiots, nor is it a tax, but a game, a game they wish to play for a prize.

    Anyone who plays the lottery to win a prize without a doubt does not understand the odds.

    I have no problem with people playing the lottery just for the fun with no real expectation that they might win, or people who play with the idea that the money is going to a good cause so it doesn't matter if they win or not.


  • #23
    Degsy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    The lottery is just a tax on the poor and credulous anyway.


  • #24
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Odds are more in favour of you getting hit and killed by a meteor on your way to the shop to buy a ticket, than the ticket being a winner.

    That's why I don't play, I don't want to be killed by a meteor.


  • #25
    NothingMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,178 ✭✭✭✭NothingMan


    suitseir wrote: »
    If I was a winner I would most definitely give a good share to the victims of the earthquake in Haiti! That was my pledge?

    Anybody else have a pledge if they win?

    Hookers and blow!


  • #26
    m5ex9oqjawdg2i
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,217 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    Mark200 wrote: »
    Anyone who plays the lottery to win a prize without a doubt does not understand the odds.

    I have no problem with people playing the lottery just for the fun with no real expectation that they might win, or people who play with the idea that the money is going to a good cause so it doesn't matter if they win or not.

    So everyone who plays the lotto is bad at maths? What a crock of sh!t. Maybe they can afford the extra 10 or 20 quid a week to pay for a few tickets, maybe they do understand the odds, which a lot do, and play anyway. Just maybe they win. Concluding that people do not understand math, or the odds for the lotto is simply ignorant.


  • #27
    sceptre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,607 ✭✭✭✭sceptre


    Mossy Monk wrote: »
    Why is the prize money not rolled over?
    At a guess, they don't get anywhere near the number of players in this specific draw to make it pay for itself if they did that.


  • #28
    SV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,533 ✭✭✭SV


    Magnus wrote: »
    Odds are more in favour of you getting hit and killed by a meteor on your way to the shop to buy a ticket, than the ticket being a winner.

    That's why I don't play, I don't want to be killed by a meteor.

    I guess a good few in my family are pretty lucky to be hit by a meteor so..

    Have to lol at those who say it's a tax on stupidity or that people don't understand the odds.
    You do get the point of odds right? It means that there is a CHANCE of it happening, however small. Now considering the little amount of money it costs and with the potential return.. Are ye REALLY still going to go with that "stupidity" approach?
    Good for ye so.. But eh.. Enjoy workin the rest of your life, i'm still just happy my family likes to play, paid off pretty well so far ;-)


  • #29
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,916 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    Magnus wrote: »
    Odds are more in favour of you getting hit and killed by a meteor on your way to the shop to buy a ticket, than the ticket being a winner.

    That's why I don't play, I don't want to be killed by a meteor.

    Is it not strange to compare going to a shop to buy a lottery ticket to having a meteor kill you?


  • #30
    Mark200
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,536 ✭✭✭Mark200


    Cecelia Muscular Vat wrote: »
    So everyone who plays the lotto is bad at maths? What a crock of sh!t. Maybe they can afford the extra 10 or 20 quid a week to pay for a few tickets, maybe they do understand the odds, which a lot do, and play anyway. Just maybe they win. Concluding that people do not understand math, or the odds for the lotto is simply ignorant.

    Anyone who plays the lottery to win:
    Anyone who plays the lottery to win a prize without a doubt does not understand the odds.

    I have no problem with people playing the lottery just for the fun with no real expectation that they might win, or people who play with the idea that the money is going to a good cause so it doesn't matter if they win or not.


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  • #31
    Mark200
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,536 ✭✭✭Mark200


    SV wrote: »
    Have to lol at those who say it's a tax on stupidity or that people don't understand the odds.
    You do get the point of odds right? It means that there is a CHANCE of it happening, however small. Now considering the little amount of money it costs and with the potential return.. Are ye REALLY still going to go with that "stupidity" approach?

    Have you started building your nuclear bunker yet?

    Because, there is a CHANCE that Ireland will be nuked to death, and the potential return is huge.


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