Have you ever won anything decent?

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Obvious one would be the lottery, but I'm also curious about things like 'make me a winner'/cash register or similar on the radio, BOTB/similar raffles/magic freebies etc

My mum once won pink concert tickets and £3000, both on the radio (separate giveaways years apart), I've never been lucky sadly 🤣

Purely being nosy, I also wonder what the average odds are for the radio, I've always thought it must be better than the lottery

I won a ski trip through the primary school raffle. I never actually got to go on it, Covid happened. It was all a bit too much hard work as well, I had to chase the person donating the 'prize' through the school. I then had to meet him in a coffee shop a couple of weeks later as he wouldn't tell me over the phone how I could book the trip. It also had to be on certain dates of his choosing and he wouldn't tell me when the dates were so that I could book leave. I keep an eye on the school raffle every year in case he offers the prize again so that I can warn the school. It seems too petty to tell them that I didn't receive a ski trip, and it's not their fault.

I never win anything and then last summer I won festival tickets and tickets to see Robbie Williams on the Sky Go app.

I once won a frozen chicken in a raffle. Don’t think that qualifies as decent!!

This is such a nice thread, I especially like @Eminybob’s answer. I’m inspired to go and enter something now.

I love the feeling of being lucky so much. I think I’d be more delighted to win a pound on the Octopus Energy wheel spin thing than £10 on a scratch card just because it seems luckier 🤷🏻‍♀️

Never won over £20. No my talent seems to be bringing other people good luck. Eg gave numbers to someone who won £500. Got someone a foot in a door to a brilliant career. Gave someone an idea they turned into a successful business. Things like this happen so much to me. Obviously I am glad that people are lucky around me. 😕

12 years ago on a TV show I one €68,000 (about £58, 000 I think).
Have won a watch for hubby worth about €500, a bracelet worth about €200, a couple of hampers here and there. Tickets to see Michael Bublé.

I won the cost if our new TV back through a Currys promotion. £1000 so we were over the moon.

Ive won a few running things through 'like and follow' instagram giveaways - very swish running trainers (sold them), a hydration vest and a running bum bag.

I do consider myself a very lucky person.

Also just played the lottery for a few weeks. Nothing. 😕

Loads of amazing prizes including holidays, trips to big events. Used to enter lots of competitions.

I won a £2000 Gucci bag

200 pound in staff raffle. Was chuffed as had not got much money. Paid for a new shower. Mom once won scuba diving experience on a raffle. Heavy smoker who could not swim😂

We recently won return flights to new zealand, so we’re in the process of booking our ‘free’ holiday, while it will still be expensive, not having to pay for flights means we’ll actually be able to afford to do. Very excited.

I once won £64 on the Octopus spin the wheel; nothing ever before or since despite being with them for years.

The best thing I've won is definitely not on the scale of most of these, but I won a Sodastream in a prize draw about five years ago and I still use it every day

I won a silver cross pram and set up I also won a portrait tattoo

My dh won tickets to a euro football match with flights and hotel paid for, he also won a sound bar and a go pro camera in a competition on the radio, he also won 500 pounds on the radio.

A long weekend in LA, flights to Japan, and a big TV/DVD and speakers combo - the later just after I’d bought a flat and was really broke.

These were all some years ago when it seemed like the audience for online competitions was a lot smaller.

I won a holiday to Egypt. I had to write a limerick for Barclays to publicise the new fangled idea that was Debit cards. That will tell you how long ago it was.

I won a book token for an art competition when I was about 8 or 9 😂

And when I was in my 20s I won two Virgin Atlantic flights to New York in my work raffle. I never used them as I was very pregnant when I won them, my baby was born quite ill, and needing heart surgery and they 'expired' after 6 months 🤷‍♀️

I know of someone who won a flat in a newspaper competition... set them up for life!

Was the second prize two Phil Collins LPs?

Oh, just remembered, I won a Twiggy LP in a competition in Jackie when I was about 12 or 13 😂

I won a Ford Street Ka in a Kelloggs competition, then won 10k one the viewer phone in on Deal or No Deal. Both of these helped me and DH afford a bigger house.

A Kylie Minogue calender from a Daily Express comp in the early 90s.

A really good Dundee cake in a guess the weight competition at a school fete.

Yes as I enter competitions regularly as a hobby. However, nothing like with the regularity I had 20 years ago before everybody got onto it...