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Do you play the National Lottery? |
Always, it's my only hope. |
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10% |
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Always, but just for fun. |
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10% |
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Occasionally. |
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38% |
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Never, I'm not interested. |
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18% |
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Never, it's a tax on poor people. |
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16% |
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Other. (Specify.) |
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8% |
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I used to only play the massive Euromillions jackpots you hear about, but now I play every Euromillions and Lotto draw
At least it's only one line, so £9 per week but I'm not proud of myself as it's a tax on the stupid/desperate... I'm sure that's why they changed the UK Lotto, as when they had (say) 300k jackpots they were often won, and they'd rarely rollover to the larger 'life changing' amounts. 300k wouldn't even get you a crummy house round here
Also I lucky dip as I started remembering regular numbers and then you get into the "what if my numbers come up" mindset. The downside is you often get shit numbers, say 12,13,24,25,26,50 Also I buy my tickets for each draw so if I forget (which I often do) that saves me money |
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Almost never.
I used to. Used to regularly use "the same numbers" - birthdays/ages, although they changed every year due to our ages, LOL ...
But then in fairly quick succession, two different people quite close to my family won life-changing amounts.
So despite the rule of thumb that "things always go in threes", I decided there was no point in continuing.
That was back in around 1997 and I was a bit anxious at first that our numbers would come up. Now I've not been doing it for so long that I'd only be mildly annoyed if our numbers did come up, rather than gutted.
So now I rarely do it, and even if I buy a scratchcard, I almost never get my stake back anyway, wankers. In fact, learning that its run by a Canadian company which means I'm funding Canadian pensions, just makes me less inclined to do it than I was before
I run hot and cold on my belief about lucky dip being a better likelihood than "my own numbers". But really, the probability is so remote anyway (Jen The Realist) for both the lucky dip number AND the allegedly random numbers that get picked, being the same, that I just don't bother. I'd rather spend it on premium quality cupcakes.
Now we're too old, our "birthday numbers" are too big anyway. ____________________ Not nearly as interesting in real life. |
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If there's an odd couple of quid change I might buy a lucky dip. Otherwise no.
I did know a bloke who almost won the lottery. His next door neighbour won.
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Direct Debit, one ticket per Euromillions.
The chances of winning are near zero... but not actually zero, which it would be if I didn't buy a ticket.
I only ever have one entry in competitions - I feel that if I'm going to win, I'll win, and if I'm not, having 1000 entries won't make any difference. (I know this is NOT how probability works ).
Money is not particularly tight for me, happily; if it ever gets tight, the lottery will be amongst the first to go. ____________________ Honda Varadero 125cc => Suzuki Bandit 650 33bhp => 77bhp =>
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 5 years, 121 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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