Euromillions- what would your family get?!

pgj2015 · 08-02-2020 4:22am

i would by them all 1 euromillions ticket each (no plus) so that they might have a chance to be extremely wealthy like me.

El_Duderino 09 · 08-02-2020 10:56am

ziedth wrote: »

So with all that being said, I'd learn nothing and tell everyone then look after them for life..... I reckon I would become awfully eccentric though

You say that but the more generous you are the more people would come to you for money. You'd spend the rest of your life saying "no" and listening to sob stories of people's hardship, genuine and otherwise.

I'd like to help family but I'd definitely wait and talk to solicitor, accountant, and people who can genuinely advise you on what happens when you win the lotto.

I'd do nothing for 3 months. A complete moratorium on using the money. Time to really think about what to do.

You could get excites and tell lots of people how generous you're going to be and then every dog and divil will be expecting their handout and cursing you when you don't give them anything. Or worse still is when you do give someone a decent sum of money and they call you a stingy basturd.

Imagine you walk into the local and buy everyone a round - great lad. Next time you go in you don't buy everyone a round and you're a stingy pr1ck. Biggest pr1ck in the pub because you didn't give everyone a freeby.

I'd want to help some people who are close to me. But I think I'd be very sneaky about how I'd do it.

08-02-2020 11:01am

Everyone pre winning plan on giving most away to charities, family and friends.

How many actual winners have though?

08-02-2020 11:08am

bubblypop wrote: »

The Euro millions?
Absolutely my friends would be getting **** loads of money!
No fun having money on your own!
& I would have so much I could give most of it to charity really!

In time after there has been a front created for having the money I would treat friends to things like group holidays, let them use my helicopter from time to time, help out one in trouble etc but going around giving out cash is a mine field. Where do you draw the line, people will say you have more to others etc etc.

Keeping it all quiet so as not to be hounded by people for money would be the aim for the first period of time after winning so telling anyone outside those you name on the ticket (who would be my/my wives close family members) would make keeping things quiet impossible.

08-02-2020 11:22am

I can't believe I didn't win and I think the Spanish guy is a prick. I was already spending the money in my head. Need to actually buy a ticket next time.

sligeach · 13-02-2020 9:45pm

Not specifically about this thread, but I'm curious, when you do a Lotto quick pick, is the machine in the shop picking them, or is it from back at Lotto HQ? Does anyone know? The latest €17 million winner is from Mayo and on the Irish Times they say...

“Mayo is a really lucky county when it comes to EuroMillions wins as amazingly this is the third Mayo jackpot win. This means that 20 per cent of all Irish EuroMillions jackpot winners come from the Heather County.”

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/mayo-wins-for-a-change-winning-17m-lottery-ticket-sold-in-west-1.4172635?mode=amp

For one county with a population of ~131,000 to win so many times is so against the odds. Mayo has ~2.5% of the country's population but punches way above its weight. Not content with just winning the jackpot, another person in Mayo won the EuroMillions Plus draw on the same night. There's only a handful of counties that have won a EuroMillions jackpot prize, Carlow, Tipperary and Waterford(I think), Limerick, all once, and then Dublin obviously.

Back to my original question, is it the machine in the shop picking the numbers, Lotto HQ, or is it the lucky affect of Knock blessing Mayo residents?

Ubbquittious · 13-02-2020 9:48pm

sligeach wrote: »

Not specifically about this thread, but I'm curious, when you do a Lotto quick pick, is the machine in the shop picking them, or is it from back at Lotto HQ? Does anyone know? The latest €17 million winner is from Mayo and on the Irish Times they say...

“Mayo is a really lucky county when it comes to EuroMillions wins as amazingly this is the third Mayo jackpot win. This means that 20 per cent of all Irish EuroMillions jackpot winners come from the Heather County.”

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/mayo-wins-for-a-change-winning-17m-lottery-ticket-sold-in-west-1.4172635?mode=amp

For one county with a population of ~131,000 to win so many times is so against the odds. Mayo has ~2.5% of the country's population but punches way above its weight. Not content with just winning the jackpot, another person in Mayo won the EuroMillions Plus draw on the same night. There's only a handful of counties that have won a EuroMillions jackpot prize, Carlow, Tipperary and Waterford(I think), Limerick, all once, and then Dublin obviously.

Back to my original question, is it the machine in the shop picking the numbers, Lotto HQ, or is it the lucky affect of Knock blessing Mayo residents?

Feck it I'm heading there in a couple of months. Must get a couple of tickets while I'm there. Might get one close to Knock and see how it compares to the other tickets

feelthepower · 14-02-2020 2:15am

sligeach wrote: »

Not specifically about this thread, but I'm curious, when you do a Lotto quick pick, is the machine in the shop picking them, or is it from back at Lotto HQ? Does anyone know? The latest €17 million winner is from Mayo and on the Irish Times they say...

“Mayo is a really lucky county when it comes to EuroMillions wins as amazingly this is the third Mayo jackpot win. This means that 20 per cent of all Irish EuroMillions jackpot winners come from the Heather County.”

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/mayo-wins-for-a-change-winning-17m-lottery-ticket-sold-in-west-1.4172635?mode=amp

For one county with a population of ~131,000 to win so many times is so against the odds. Mayo has ~2.5% of the country's population but punches way above its weight. Not content with just winning the jackpot, another person in Mayo won the EuroMillions Plus draw on the same night. There's only a handful of counties that have won a EuroMillions jackpot prize, Carlow, Tipperary and Waterford(I think), Limerick, all once, and then Dublin obviously.

Back to my original question, is it the machine in the shop picking the numbers, Lotto HQ, or is it the lucky affect of Knock blessing Mayo residents?

The machine in the shop sends a request to their data center, probably have quiet a few, a random number generator generates numbers the number and barcode assigned, sends the details back to the shop and it generates the ticket.

sligeach · 14-02-2020 10:05am

I was also thinking that to win the EuroMillions jackpot the odds are 1 in 139,838,160. But for people in Mayo to win both of the draws on the same night, you must be looking at odds in the billions. I don't know how you'd work that out.

14-02-2020 10:27am

sligeach wrote: »

I was also thinking that to win the EuroMillions jackpot the odds are 1 in 139,838,160. But for people in Mayo to win both of the draws on the same night, you must be looking at odds in the billions. I don't know how you'd work that out.

I think if we ignore Mayo / number of tickets and focus on the two the two lotteries, then there are a few scenarios..

1. "Jaysus, I wonder if both could be won in Mayo this weekend."
- Multiply the odds so it's in the billions.

2. "Jaysus, I wonder if both could ever be won in Mayo on the same weekend."
- Mathematically, the odds of this are 1? Infinity and all that.

3. "Jaysus, Mayo won both of them last weekend."
- I have no idea how to work out the odds. I feel like it's just the higher odds which would be Euromillions.

4. "Jaysus, your one just won the Euromillions. Wonder if someone will win the other one this evening."
- The odds are just the odds of the other one as the odds of winning the Euromillions is now 1. And vice versa if the Euromillions was after.

I just know that the same lottery numbers came out two weeks in a row in Bulgaria or something and the odds of that happening were just the odds of the lottery. It makes perfect sense if you imagine week one's lottery to be a quick pick and week two to be the actual draw.

Open to correction by someone who is actually good at this stuff. I hated probability in school.

weldoninhio · 14-02-2020 10:59am

My mother would get a new house and anything she needed, all bought, no cash as she'd spread it to the brother and sister I don't talk to. I would buy all of my friends houses off them and "rent" them back to them at around €1 a month. Buy houses and let 2 of my sisters and one of my brothers live in them. My other brother and sister would get nothing. Charity would get nothing. I'd help out the local football and GAA clubs, schools and i'd but machinery for hospital if they needed it.

14-02-2020 11:01am

weldoninhio wrote: »

I would buy all of my friends houses off them and "rent" them back to them at around €1 a month.

Best you never win, being your friends' landlord would not be a good thing.

weldoninhio · 14-02-2020 11:05am

Deleted User wrote: »

Best you never win, being your friends' landlord would not be a good thing.

I wouldn't be their "landlord" it would just be a way of paying off their mortgage for them without giving the tax man a fortune.

sligeach · 14-02-2020 11:22am

The odds of winning both draws on the same night just got even longer. Castlebar sold both tickets.

"This is the third EuroMillions jackpot win in the town. And with a population of 12,000 people, surely Castlebar is Europe’s luckiest town!"

https://www.con-telegraph.ie/news/roundup/articles/2020/02/14/4185739-castlebar-gets-its-third-euromillions-jackpot-winner/

That's insane! We should all move to Castlebar. They say lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place, but for one small town to win 3 times is crazy.

mondeo · 14-02-2020 11:41am

I'm sure my sister's would start liking me again.... They haven't sat down with me for years.

"Oh how are you ?? Long time ! remember how close we were when growing up". F off.......

14-02-2020 12:16pm

weldoninhio wrote: »

I wouldn't be their "landlord" it would just be a way of paying off their mortgage for them without giving the tax man a fortune.

You'd own their houses - that makes you their landlord.

14-02-2020 12:17pm

sligeach wrote: »

That's insane! We should all move to Castlebar. They say lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place, but for one small town to win 3 times is crazy.

What else have to you do in Castlebar with your time or money, but play the lotto

sligeach · 14-02-2020 12:50pm

Castlebar's has 0.24% of the country's population or ~1/416th. For the town to win 3 times is bonkers. And they've won the EuroMillions Plus draw 6 times as well. It's nuts when you think about it. Lucky town is an understatement.

They've won the Lotto and numerous other draws. There's far bigger towns in Ireland that have never won anything.

Is Castlebar Europe's luckiest town? Celebrations after third EuroMillions win

https://www.rte.ie/news/connacht/2020/0214/1115267-euromillions-castlebar/

Yes it is.

weldoninhio · 14-02-2020 1:35pm

Deleted User wrote: »

You'd own their houses - that makes you their landlord.

I'd be an absentee landlord.

sligeach · 14-02-2020 7:11pm

Another stat I read, Castlebar on its own accounts for 20% of all Irish EuroMillions jackpot winners. Incredible when it only has 0.24% of the country's population.

feelthepower · 15-02-2020 12:46am

I wouldn't tell anyone, not family or siblings or friends. I would give the parents 3 million each along with the siblings. I probably would say I won it on the stock market or bitcoin or something and if they tell anyone they can pay me back. I wouldn't want them to know my true wealth. I'm not close whatsovever with my relatives so wouldn't get a cent. Might see them once every two or three at a family yoke.

I couldn't trust my friends as I know they would blab after a few pints. In the small town i live in word spreads like Australian wildfire and don't want other peoples opinions changing of me or wondering why I didn't give some people money. It can change your life forever.

I would probably buy the two local pubs and run them to keep me busy after travelling the world for a year.

Euromillions- what would your family get?!

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