The National Lottery can fuck the fuck off

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I play by direct debit.

I get an email - subject line "News about your ticket".

I have to click on the link, enter my username and password.

To find out I have won ten measly quid.

In those 14 seconds I imagined myself a millionaire

Oh, it used to be much worse. It used to say exciting news about your ticket. Bastards.

I'm in Canada and our self checking ticket machines shout 'WOO HOO' if you win anything (I'm not kidding)

you get soooo excited before you realize you just won a free go...

This thread is from 2013

If I ever win big I'll get a klaxon for zombie threads

Like this one

Zombie Thread Alert!!

2013.....2016.....2017!!

Back in 2013 when this thread started, you only had 49 numbers to choose from.

Now you've got 59!!!

So it's far far far far far far less likely to be you. But hey, they still play the phonecalls of people winning. Maybe they should also play the sounds of 59 million people saying it's not them to balance it out.

I purposefully don't check my ticket for a couple of days after so I can live in dreamland that I may have won.

I played once on line and got a message saying. We have very important issues about your ticket.
I nearly fainted. Anyway I opens the message, and It said. I'd won £2.50.
Erm I ask you.

I had this on fridays euromillions...I was seriously thinking I’d won big...£3 wtf.

OMG zombie

Hi,have the National Lottery changed the wording to their emails when you win online because when I won a tenner before it just said”News about your ticket” but I’ve just got an email from the National Lottery saying”You’ve won a prize”.Does that mean a small prize or a BIG one.

I don't know, imagine if there was a way to find out.....like logging in instead of posting on a zombie thread?

This original thread was from 2013. Why don’t you just log into your account and check.

I feel your pain and disappointment. Truly. I do lottery 2/3 times a week every week and I never win not even £10 so well done. I do it online to and in morning when I’m sitting on loo I still check religiously in the hope I will win. It sickens me. I kinda know I never ever am gonna win because I believe you can’t pick winning numbers. I believe the numbers pick you. And as frustrating as it is to watch big winners in TV going about their lives in a really pathetic way I accept it because I believe there is some reason why they won and not me. We live in hope because without hope what have we got? Nothing!