| National Lottery 15:28 - Oct 19 with 4909 views | catch74 |
When it was introduced, think we were all told we’d personally know a big winner within 5 years or something along those lines. What’s the most anyone has personally won and the most anyone they directly know has won?
I’m £200 on a scratch card and a friend won £25000 on a scratch card (don’t know of anyone else that’s won anything near that though.) I don’t know anyone that has won more than £100 on the lottery.
It’s ridiculously low odds and obviously barely worth doing but money from it has been put towards some great causes.
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| National Lottery on 15:32 - Oct 19 with 2800 views | PJH |
I think my biggest win is £130 or something like that, for four numbers quite a while ago.
I very frequently get two numbers, which gets me a free ticket.
Even longer ago, maybe fifteen years, a female friend won I think about £80k for five plus a bonus ball. |  | | |
| National Lottery on 15:36 - Oct 19 with 2786 views | Oldsmoker |
Euromillions. 4 numbers and 1 star. £82.15.
You get nothing for coming second.
Friend of mine got about 2 grand on lotto on a roll-down 'cos no-one won the jackpot.
Won't shut up about it. |  |
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| National Lottery on 15:36 - Oct 19 with 2779 views | gainsboroughblue |
I remember the first ever draw very well. November 1994. It was on the TV in the sadly departed Ipswich Arms. I don't recall paying much attention to it and actually thought it was a one-off rather than a weekly thing.
Wasn't the first winner some Asian shopkeeper in Blackburn who had to explain sheepishly to his family why he had been gambling? |  |
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| National Lottery on 15:49 - Oct 19 with 2718 views | jaykay |
lets just say we got 5 numbers and the bonus about 15 years ago. the wives work syndicate of 20 also got 5 numbers and the bonus 7 years ago |  |
| forensic experts say footers and spruces fingerprints were not found at the scene after the weekends rows |
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| National Lottery on 15:50 - Oct 19 with 2710 views | ArnoldMoorhen |
I know someone who was in a works syndicate and got around 30 grand. |  | | |
| National Lottery on 15:54 - Oct 19 with 2664 views | Blue_Order |
When I was a kid I went to a childminders house before school. The childminders husband turned an old tumble dryer in the garden into a ‘lottery machine’ (he named it Hilda)… drew the numbered (ping pong) balls out and then went and put those numbers on.
It was either the first or second time he did it… won £1.2m. |  | | |
| National Lottery on 15:55 - Oct 19 with 2648 views | bungaytractor |
National lotterys a mug,s game if you think about it | | | |
| National Lottery on 15:56 - Oct 19 with 2646 views | hype313 |
| National Lottery on 15:55 - Oct 19 by bungaytractor |
National lotterys a mug,s game if you think about it |
A tax on the poor. |  |
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| National Lottery on 15:57 - Oct 19 with 2626 views | unbelievablue |
A classmate's Dad won 64k on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.
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| National Lottery on 16:01 - Oct 19 with 2598 views | StochesStotasBlewe |
Most I won was £140 for 4 numbers. Had several of £30.
Indirectly know of someone who won about 4 million several years ago. He didn’t reply to any of my correspondence, tight git. |  |
| We have no village green, or a shop.
It's very, very quiet.
I can walk to the pub. |
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| National Lottery on 16:03 - Oct 19 with 2569 views | MattinLondon |
| National Lottery on 15:56 - Oct 19 by hype313 |
A tax on the poor. |
It’s not a tax. You don’t have a choice to pay tax - well unless you’re super rich- but people choose to play, so it’s not a tax.
It might well be totally unrealistic that I’ll win ‘big’ but for a few pounds a week it’s just a bit of fun. |  | | |
| National Lottery on 16:03 - Oct 19 with 2566 views | SitfcB |
£1,500 on 3 number hot-picks Euromillions not long after it was introduced.
£100 on 2 number hot-picks Euromillions.
A few £800s on the hot-picks on the National Lottery, last one was Saturday 8th Oct.
A few £60’s on 2 number hot picks.
Won £152 for 3 numbers on the lottery on the ‘roll down’ draws they do when the jackpot rolls over 5 times.
Mother in law won £8000 on four number hot pick 15 or so years ago (prize is now £13,000 - I’ve been 1 number out a few times)
Most I’ve won on a scratchcard is £100. [Post edited 19 Oct 2022 16:07]
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| National Lottery on 16:04 - Oct 19 with 2551 views | DropCliffsNotBombs |
My wife's colleague at Addenbrookes won £148m.
She no longer works there. |  | | |
| National Lottery on 16:11 - Oct 19 with 2460 views | SitfcB |
| National Lottery on 15:49 - Oct 19 by jaykay |
lets just say we got 5 numbers and the bonus about 15 years ago. the wives work syndicate of 20 also got 5 numbers and the bonus 7 years ago |
Was that after it changed to 59 numbers, so the prize was £1million? (The second one) | |
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| National Lottery on 16:13 - Oct 19 with 2451 views | SitfcB |
| National Lottery on 15:56 - Oct 19 by hype313 |
A tax on the poor. |
An idiot tax more like 
Especially if you do the same set numbers. | |
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| National Lottery on 16:13 - Oct 19 with 2453 views | itfcjoe |
When my wife was younger her parents won a few grand, enough for them all to go to Disney for a few days etc.
Uncle got 5 numbers once but prize was surprisingly low |  |
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| National Lottery on 16:14 - Oct 19 with 2442 views | BlueandTruesince82 |
A girl I knew at uni won 90k, this was pre euromillions etc. I proposed immediately (TBH the money was secondary in my thinking there), she rather sensibly declined.
Most I've ever won is about 25 quid on a scratchy. |  |
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| National Lottery on 16:15 - Oct 19 with 2403 views | Illinoisblue |
| National Lottery on 16:13 - Oct 19 by SitfcB |
An idiot tax more like
Especially if you do the same set numbers. |
I did that for many years, convinced if I didn’t they would come up. Won a tenner a couple times
. Daren’t check now to see if they’d won |  |
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| National Lottery on 16:23 - Oct 19 with 2310 views | jaykay |
| National Lottery on 16:11 - Oct 19 by SitfcB |
Was that after it changed to 59 numbers, so the prize was £1million? (The second one) |
it was, didn't get make £100000 on the first win but over £85000. there was20 people got 5 numbers and the bonus that week.the second one was £160000 divided by 20 so it was before the numbers increased also it was a £1 ago | |
| forensic experts say footers and spruces fingerprints were not found at the scene after the weekends rows |
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| National Lottery on 16:31 - Oct 19 with 2266 views | usm |
Bloke I used to play football with - and who I still know - won getting on for £100K 20 odd years ago.
Also know someone - again through football - who won £1 Million a couple of years ago.
Person I work with's husband won £50K+ - as part of a syndicate - about 10 years ago.
Sister in law is currently seeing someone who won £9 Million a few years ago.
Personally I dont do it - I did originally and cant recall winning any more than £10. Was also in a syndicate for a while and again I cant recall any remotely significant win. |  |
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| National Lottery on 16:33 - Oct 19 with 2258 views | LeBlue |
Got 5 numbers years ago, waited with baited breath as thought it would be a big win.
£768.
Same weekend, Railtrack went t*ts up and my 200 share x 380p investment was lost = £760.
Had bought two tickets at £1 each.
Net gain £6. |  | | |
| National Lottery on 16:53 - Oct 19 with 2163 views | clive_baker |
I know a family that won 7 figures on the national lottery about 20 years ago. |  |
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| National Lottery on 17:01 - Oct 19 with 2102 views | catch74 |
| National Lottery on 15:50 - Oct 19 by ArnoldMoorhen |
I know someone who was in a works syndicate and got around 30 grand. |
Reckon we should organise a TWTD syndicate? | |
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| National Lottery on 17:09 - Oct 19 with 2081 views | Zx1988 |
| National Lottery on 16:13 - Oct 19 by SitfcB |
An idiot tax more like
Especially if you do the same set numbers. |
Would it not make more sense to play the same numbers every week, rather than a different set each time?
Yes, it's small margins given the astronomical odds, but I would have thought that, based on even probability, your best bet is to stick with the same set? | |
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| National Lottery on 17:13 - Oct 19 with 2070 views | CBBlue |
| National Lottery on 16:04 - Oct 19 by DropCliffsNotBombs |
My wife's colleague at Addenbrookes won £148m.
She no longer works there. |
The couple from Haverhill? Still occasionally see about them in the papers, seemed like lots of gold diggers wheedled their way into their lives. | |
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