Ever won a really big prize??

petethebrick · 24-11-2011 04:31PM #1

I've never won a really big prize despite playing the lotto and entering heaps of competitions over the years. And I've never personally known someone who has won a really big prize. What's the biggest prize you've won? By big I'm taking about a new car, a super luxury foreign holiday, a large cash amount etc

J. Marston · 24-11-2011 04:33PM

A Mars bar easter egg when I was in 4th class.

Cill Dara Abu · 24-11-2011 04:34PM

Won a Twix once.

24-11-2011 04:35PM

i won millions in the spanish lottery i never entered, i just have to send them my bank details by email

Chuck Stone · 24-11-2011 04:36PM

Nope. Unless a bit fat Zero counts.

Raytown Rocks · 24-11-2011 04:37PM

I won $244,000 Australian Dollars many years ago.
Equated to €100,000 Irish Punts way back in the early 90's
Was a quarter share in a state lottery over there.

Was some feeling, quite surreal at the time.

muppetkiller · 24-11-2011 04:37PM

I won 4 grand on the football pools , 3 times actually over the last 5 years. This season is a pain though to predict. Probably just covers my bets of those years though

I won a bmx in the 80's when I bought a packet of Jersey Creams

smash · 24-11-2011 04:38PM

I won a bike was I was about 10... But I never got it. It was a competition from HB and you got to win whatever was printed on the ice cream stick. They said they had printed too many sticks and the bikes were all gone so they sent me some shítty stickers instead.

chin_grin · 24-11-2011 04:41PM

Went to Nice with my better half and her folks and visited Monte Carlo. Decided to have a go at the one armed bandits. Looked in my wallet and I only had a twenty. Decided "ah f*ck it when will I get to do this, I'm not a gamblin' man.". Put the twenty in and pressed the button a few times (I had no idea what I was doing).

Suddenly an alarm bell goes off on it and "see staff" message pops up. I thought I broke it. Fella comes over to me and goes "You've just won 700e". Sweet.

Although that's the short story. The long version is that I didn't have my passport on me so I had to get a note from the manager, go back to Nice, get passport, train it back out and collect my winnings. Still sweet.

cloneslad · 24-11-2011 04:41PM

This gets asked often enough here.

Mine was €4622 on that phone in show that used to be on TV3 late at night. They pretty much gave away the answer and I just had to wait until the show was almost over then I tried calling in. First time I was unsuccessful, so I hung up and tried again.

They said the call would cost €1.50, ended up costing about €9...I should have made a complaint

I never called in again, but some of my friends spent a fortune trying to get through, after I told them I won.

MagicSean · 24-11-2011 04:42PM

I played the lotto numbers from Lost and got 5 plus the bonus in the main draw. Unfortunately many other people had the same idea and it was the smallest payout ever for that many numbers.

moco · 24-11-2011 04:43PM

I won a Cindy doll once :pac:

Susie_Q · 24-11-2011 04:44PM

I won an Xbox 360 and Guitar Hero when the latter was first released. Gave them to my boyfriend, talk about brownie points!

NothingMan · 24-11-2011 04:44PM

I won a 3 pack of festive Tuborg and a book set of rock biographys at last years Santa Strike Force comedy night. Drank the Tuborg and swapped the books for a cute girls phone number. The beer went down well, the girl didn't.

El Weirdo · 24-11-2011 04:46PM

petethebrick wrote: »

I've never won a really big prize despite playing the lotto...

Really? And the odds are so good.

Millicent · 24-11-2011 04:47PM

It's not a lot but it meant a whole lot to me:

I won €40 on a scratchcard once. I had just bought it after buying €38 quid worth of groceries and smokes for my friend and her family on the night her Dad had died to bring up to the house.

Made me feel like maybe he was watching. Best money I ever won.

SeaFields · 24-11-2011 04:47PM

I won that guess the length of the best mans speech at the last wedding I was at :cool:

Then i bought a round from the proceeds so everybody wins

24-11-2011 04:48PM

Remember Draw with Don on The Den?

I sent in a picture of a Barn Owl (what else would you draw like!:D) Got me a sweet Crayola art set and a couple of stickers and a signed picture of the man himself.

I still have one of those stickers too.

Job.

macman2010 · 24-11-2011 04:48PM

NothingMan wrote: »

I won a 3 pack of festive Tuborg and a book set of rock biographys at last years Santa Strike Force comedy night. Drank the Tuborg and swapped the books for a cute girls phone number. The beer went down well, the girl didn't.

should have gave her the tuborg instead of the books.

BuzzFish · 24-11-2011 04:49PM

I won over 2k from Ian Dempsey Happy Bank earlier in the year. Could not have come at a better time. Hanging up the phone left like taking a piano off my head.

Nothing like a recession to make ya appreciate winning a few quid

shuffles88 · 24-11-2011 04:51PM

Ha I won the Pic of the week on Draw with Don too! Oh the thrill of it! But since then I have won a weeks holiday in New York and €2,100 on the lotto and that was all in the one year, if only every year was that great

jester77 · 24-11-2011 04:55PM

I've never.

Reminds me of a funny/dodgy story I heard this week about a lad that had worked for my gf. He's now working for a fairly big company and was running a FB competition that had car and cash prizes. Just so happened that 2 of his best friends won the big prizes, I heard it didn't go down too well

Rawhead · 24-11-2011 04:55PM

I'm constantly told that I'm a big winner in the game of life.

What with the dashing good looks, superior intellect, razor sharp wit, an elephantine member, modesty etc etc etc.

df1985 · 24-11-2011 04:56PM

I won that Miller competition to Ibiza in July. 200 competition winners on a plane, fly over, all expenses paid, fly home next day. crazy crazy session.

My mam won a week in Italy in 09 so i tagged along

uch · 24-11-2011 04:59PM

I won a pair of womens tight at Bingo when I was younger turned out a great prize as me and a mate got a leg each and terrorised the local area until they got ladders in them.

44leto · 24-11-2011 05:02PM

I won nearly 2000 in an absolute fluke of a yankee, I kind of used the force to bet. They all came in.

sbsquarepants · 24-11-2011 05:05PM

I won a car about 11 or 12 years ago:)
As for money the most I ever won was €800 odd on a football bet, and €2000 on the lotto but that was part of a syndicate, i got something like €250.

Plazaman · 24-11-2011 05:42PM

After years of going to the local Annual Christmas Bazaar and spending loads but winning nothing, I was going to give up but they decided to shut it down. The very last Bazaar, I won three of the lots of prizes. One was 2 crates of beer and 12 selection boxes, the next was a Turkey and a Ham and the final lot was 2 tins of roses and a life size teddy bear.

I was overjoyed and very drunk when some lady offered to buy the teddy bear off me (her son would love it she cooed). I swapped it for her 2 crates of beer (beer for the bear I drunkenly laughed) and 12 crystal glasses.

In the sober light of day I realised the Bear was worth about €300 and I being the písshead, swapped it for €40 of beer and ****ty glasses (4 of which were broke by the time I got them home).

Moral of the Story : You can drink beer but you can't fight with it..... or something like that.

xoxyx · 24-11-2011 06:00PM

I've won a dvd player / sound system and, when I was a kid, a sidewinder (weird skateboard wannabe creation). Those were probably the best things I've won, but I've picked up lots of little things over the years.

I also have the bell from the Swap Shop on Joe & Keith's Breakfast Xpress that used to be on Spin 103.8.

Good times...

flutterflye · 24-11-2011 06:03PM

I won a teddy bear in Fossetts Cirus when I was a kid.
It was really big - bigger than me at the time.

GT_TDI_150 · 24-11-2011 06:05PM

does €2k on a euro millions plus count?

Ever won a really big prize??

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