Anyone ever won the Lottery?

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After another waste of 3 quid on tonights lottery, I wondered if it really ever will 'be me'.

Anyone won anything apart from the odd tenner?

ps. DH has won eighty odd pounds on 3 occasions (4 numbers)

Nope. I read once that I have more chance of being dead by next Saturday than winning so I've never done the lottery. Aren't the chances something like 152 million:1?

I won £91 once with 4 numbers, has never happened since though.

My SIL was part of a syndicate (of 4, IIRC) who won a couple of years ago and her share was £20,000. They won while she was staying with me, so she took us all out for lunch - I think she felt obliged to "share" it, although I assured her that there was no way I would expect anyone who's won £20,000 to share it - just not enough to do that with. If she'd won £2m, on the other hand, it would have been a different story
They got 5 numbers and the bonus ball, by the way.

My DH has insisted on doing it, with the same numbers, every Saturday since it started. I think those numbers have won £10 twice. I told him to stop after a couple of years but he WON'T - silly sod. Can't remember when it started, and he doesn't do it on Wednesdays (why???? Where is the logic???) but he must have paid in getting on for £500. Twit.

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And that's another thing! I used to work on Sundays in a supermarket that did the lottery and the payout on 4 numbers could be anything from under £30 to over £100 and that's not fair either - the jackpot should be smaller to make the lower payouts bigger (IMHO!)

Janh - you call your dh a twit but I used to have a lodger who would use the same numbers religiously and watch every single week to see if they had come up. Thing is... he never bought a ticket - how stupid is that!

You have more chance of being kicked to death by a donkey. True
I did win the Just Seventeen crossword once though if that counts?

My DH won 160 quid once ... 4 numbers ... way back in the early days ... I think it was the third draw ...
I have never won anything ... ever ... not even a measly raffle ...

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SB ... did you win the lime and soda aswell ?

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I don't even play - I don't believe in the lottery, I'm not wildly religious or anything like that but I don't believe the government should be encouraging gambling. It's such a waste of money. My Dad spends £5 religiously every week (only on saturday's!) and has only ever had £40 and the odd £10 back.

I feel obliged to mention that my moral stance would be quickly abandoned if he WERE to win anything and then I would be first in line demanding my share

A friend of mine that I worked with a few years ago won $500,000 on a scratch-it (do you have those in the UK?). Her son bought her a $10 scratch-it for mother's day and she won half a mil!! The next day in our lunch hour I went on a bit of a shopping spree with her and she bought me a beautiful silk blouse, which I thought was really nice... anyway not long afterwards she bought herself a red sports car and a new house!! She hadn't been living in the country very long and her husband was unemployed, so I know they needed the money.

And... the winning ticket was bought in a little country town way up north where the population was only a couple of thousand, I believe. So it does actually happen - although not often enough!!! The most money I've ever won myself is about $80....

Since my daughter had a one in 20 million chance of getting the condition she has and the surgery consequently failing, I do play the lottery occasionally a believe we may win!

The "you?ve got to be in it to win it" is such an alluring reason to play but I am on a money saving plan. I used to put a fiver down once a week but realised that if I saved that for a year I would have £240 quid to go out for a flash meal and feel like a winner anyway!! (In the past I only won £10 a couple of times)

I'm in a syndicate with 10 of us in it. We have about £30 each so far. It gets saved for Xmas. It is only a pound a week.

I also have £3 week on Littlewoods lottery. Never on a thing on that one.

Another £3 week on bonus ball numbers. I win £49 quite frequently if one of my numbers come up.

My sister got 4 numbers once but only won about £17 because there were so many winners that week, my Dad plays every week and has won the odd tenner or two, the best he has done was when he got 5 numbers and won about £3000. I used to play the football pools, I prefer that as you feel as though you have at least a bit of input into increasing your chances, dh and I one a few hundred a couple of times, but then our pools man stopped coming round and we are too lazy to go to the shops and do it!!

Nutjob, you can do both the lottery and the pools by standing order/direct debit/prepayment by cheque now!

I've never won more than about £40 or something. But my friend won £11,000 a couple of months ago when her work syndicate won £110,000. Another friend won tens of thousands three years ago, and a colleage at work won a similar amount. And a friend of a friend, who is a single parent, found out that her ex-partner had won over a million, but claimed his girlfriend won the money and didn't give her anything for his son, and refused to help her buy a second-hand car to take his son out in.

all i ever win is the odd £10 now and again.

i've won about 3 lots of £10, and £25 on a scratch card. We don't play every week, and I only get a scratch card once in a blue moon.