| What amazes me about this story, other than the 24 trillion-to-one odds on 16:19 - Dec 16 with 1296 views | Blue_Order |
To win again, obviously.
When I was a kid, I used to go to a childminder in the mornings before school. The lady’s husband converted his old tumble dryer into a ‘lottery machine’ so the balls mixed up and fired out. The very first time he did it he put those numbers on and won £1.2m.
My mum had to find a new childminder soon after. |  | |  |
| What amazes me about this story, other than the 24 trillion-to-one odds on 16:33 - Dec 16 with 1233 views | J2BLUE |
I'm just here to wait for those saying £1m isn't a lot of money |  |
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| What amazes me about this story, other than the 24 trillion-to-one odds on 17:04 - Dec 16 with 1148 views | iamatractorboy |
I can feel another 'scissors' thread coming on here, arguing about probabilities again...
I assume those astronomical odds are if you only played those two draws, and never played any other draws. So, still crazy odds but not quite the headline ones?? |  | | |
| What amazes me about this story, other than the 24 trillion-to-one odds on 17:16 - Dec 16 with 1129 views | Swansea_Blue |
| What amazes me about this story, other than the 24 trillion-to-one odds on 16:33 - Dec 16 by J2BLUE |
I'm just here to wait for those saying £1m isn't a lot of money |
It depends how you look at it. It might sound like a lot, but it would only buy you 1/20th of a Jack Clarke. That’s, what, maybe part of one of his arms from the elbow down? Try surviving off that and see how far you get! |  |
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| What amazes me about this story, other than the 24 trillion-to-one odds on 17:23 - Dec 16 with 1107 views | Oldsmoker |
| What amazes me about this story, other than the 24 trillion-to-one odds on 17:16 - Dec 16 by Swansea_Blue |
It depends how you look at it. It might sound like a lot, but it would only buy you 1/20th of a Jack Clarke. That’s, what, maybe part of one of his arms from the elbow down? Try surviving off that and see how far you get! |
That's all most TWTD posters require to deserve the description I give them. |  |
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| What amazes me about this story, other than the 24 trillion-to-one odds on 17:48 - Dec 16 with 1039 views | Perublue |
| What amazes me about this story, other than the 24 trillion-to-one odds on 17:04 - Dec 16 by iamatractorboy |
I can feel another 'scissors' thread coming on here, arguing about probabilities again...
I assume those astronomical odds are if you only played those two draws, and never played any other draws. So, still crazy odds but not quite the headline ones?? |
I’d prefer a thread to do with scissoring. |  |
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| What amazes me about this story, other than the 24 trillion-to-one odds on 17:53 - Dec 16 with 1018 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| What amazes me about this story, other than the 24 trillion-to-one odds on 16:19 - Dec 16 by Blue_Order |
To win again, obviously.
When I was a kid, I used to go to a childminder in the mornings before school. The lady’s husband converted his old tumble dryer into a ‘lottery machine’ so the balls mixed up and fired out. The very first time he did it he put those numbers on and won £1.2m.
My mum had to find a new childminder soon after. |
They went into full-time lottery playing instead? |  |
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| What amazes me about this story, other than the 24 trillion-to-one odds on 18:01 - Dec 16 with 1009 views | Trequartista |
Those odds are so big, that it is more likely that it didn't happen, or that they cheated, or there's been a mistake, or that we are all living in a dream or something. All unlikely things, but all of odds less that 24 trillion to 1. |  |
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| What amazes me about this story, other than the 24 trillion-to-one odds on 18:03 - Dec 16 with 989 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
| What amazes me about this story, other than the 24 trillion-to-one odds on 16:19 - Dec 16 by Blue_Order |
To win again, obviously.
When I was a kid, I used to go to a childminder in the mornings before school. The lady’s husband converted his old tumble dryer into a ‘lottery machine’ so the balls mixed up and fired out. The very first time he did it he put those numbers on and won £1.2m.
My mum had to find a new childminder soon after. |
Re your first sentence, the chances of winning are pretty slim. The chances of winning twice are astronomical. But even so, if you've banked a million why would you bother doing it any more? You can live off that million. I shouldn't think there's many millionaires who play the lottery... and there are many more economical ways of increasing that wealth.
A third point to add - even if the odds weren't so long, surely you'd let someone else win rather than try to win again yourself? That's just greedy! |  |
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| What amazes me about this story, other than the 24 trillion-to-one odds on 18:28 - Dec 16 with 934 views | stonojnr |
| What amazes me about this story, other than the 24 trillion-to-one odds on 16:33 - Dec 16 by J2BLUE |
I'm just here to wait for those saying £1m isn't a lot of money |
Depends on context, your stage of life etc etc someone who earnt say 25k per year, will earn 1million over their expected minimum working lifetime of 40 years.
So is it really that much in the grand scheme of things?, its a big lump sum for sure, but the reason so often these lottery winner stories become and they spent it all stories is because they think it sounds alot bigger than it is and you always end up spending what you have. | | | |
| What amazes me about this story, other than the 24 trillion-to-one odds on 18:53 - Dec 16 with 872 views | SitfcB |
| What amazes me about this story, other than the 24 trillion-to-one odds on 17:16 - Dec 16 by Swansea_Blue |
It depends how you look at it. It might sound like a lot, but it would only buy you 1/20th of a Jack Clarke. That’s, what, maybe part of one of his arms from the elbow down? Try surviving off that and see how far you get! |
Yes but how many Freddy’s can you get? |  |
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| What amazes me about this story, other than the 24 trillion-to-one odds on 19:20 - Dec 16 with 787 views | J2BLUE |
| What amazes me about this story, other than the 24 trillion-to-one odds on 18:28 - Dec 16 by stonojnr |
Depends on context, your stage of life etc etc someone who earnt say 25k per year, will earn 1million over their expected minimum working lifetime of 40 years.
So is it really that much in the grand scheme of things?, its a big lump sum for sure, but the reason so often these lottery winner stories become and they spent it all stories is because they think it sounds alot bigger than it is and you always end up spending what you have. |
Depends how much sense you have really.
£1m can be 3-4 terrible choices or well planned to make you financially free for life. You wouldn't live like a king but it would buy a nice £400k house and get you £30k a year-ish income. That's a decent starting position for anyone. | |
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| What amazes me about this story, other than the 24 trillion-to-one odds on 19:26 - Dec 16 with 784 views | DJR |
Not quite as impressive odds but my brother-in-law's parents won £1 million on the lottery and then £36,000 less than a year later. |  | | |
| What amazes me about this story, other than the 24 trillion-to-one odds on 19:33 - Dec 16 with 758 views | Perublue |
| What amazes me about this story, other than the 24 trillion-to-one odds on 19:26 - Dec 16 by DJR |
Not quite as impressive odds but my brother-in-law's parents won £1 million on the lottery and then £36,000 less than a year later. |
A relative of my wife won a lottery in Spain and then again not long after.. both over a million quid … although as time has passed there are doubts to the second win and it’s reality and where that money really came from … all very telenovela | |
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| What amazes me about this story, other than the 24 trillion-to-one odds on 19:53 - Dec 16 with 676 views | giant_stow |
| What amazes me about this story, other than the 24 trillion-to-one odds on 18:01 - Dec 16 by Trequartista |
Those odds are so big, that it is more likely that it didn't happen, or that they cheated, or there's been a mistake, or that we are all living in a dream or something. All unlikely things, but all of odds less that 24 trillion to 1. |
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| What amazes me about this story, other than the 24 trillion-to-one odds on 20:46 - Dec 16 with 591 views | MattinLondon |
| What amazes me about this story, other than the 24 trillion-to-one odds on 19:26 - Dec 16 by DJR |
Not quite as impressive odds but my brother-in-law's parents won £1 million on the lottery and then £36,000 less than a year later. |
I won a 1litre bottle of Diet Coke at my kids Xmas school draw - actually it wasn’t even Coke but Pepsi s**t. |  | | |
| What amazes me about this story, other than the 24 trillion-to-one odds on 21:55 - Dec 16 with 517 views | KBsSocks |
The odds of two wins is astronomical, but once you have won once, the odds are the same as for everybody else next time you play.
If we hear two stories like this, then ... oh, we did, haha, but not same lottery, not that it matters.
If they win a third time, they are extremely lucky, but just as lucky as anybody else for that third attempt (not me, I don't lotter, only loiter here).
Subsequent wins are not conditional on previous performance, and previous performance does not condition subsequent. Unless there's a cheat. [Post edited 16 Dec 21:56]
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| What amazes me about this story, other than the 24 trillion-to-one odds on 22:20 - Dec 16 with 476 views | J2BLUE |
| What amazes me about this story, other than the 24 trillion-to-one odds on 21:55 - Dec 16 by KBsSocks |
The odds of two wins is astronomical, but once you have won once, the odds are the same as for everybody else next time you play.
If we hear two stories like this, then ... oh, we did, haha, but not same lottery, not that it matters.
If they win a third time, they are extremely lucky, but just as lucky as anybody else for that third attempt (not me, I don't lotter, only loiter here).
Subsequent wins are not conditional on previous performance, and previous performance does not condition subsequent. Unless there's a cheat. [Post edited 16 Dec 21:56]
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Agree.
Getting 5 reds in a row on roulette (assume no green just for this example) is 2*2*2*2*2 = 32.0 (31/1)
But once you have four reds the chance of the next red is 2.0 (1/1).
Which is why the Martingale system leads to inevitable bankruptcy. | |
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| What amazes me about this story, other than the 24 trillion-to-one odds on 22:20 - Dec 16 with 476 views | Swansea_Blue |
| What amazes me about this story, other than the 24 trillion-to-one odds on 18:53 - Dec 16 by SitfcB |
Yes but how many Freddy’s can you get? |
I remember when Fredos were 10p, or is that something different? | |
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| What amazes me about this story, other than the 24 trillion-to-one odds on 00:18 - Dec 17 with 393 views | vapour_trail |
What are the odds on a couple that won the lottery twice also ticking the, we’re well up for the publicity button.
Personally, I’d keep my head down. |  |
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| What amazes me about this story, other than the 24 trillion-to-one odds on 06:09 - Dec 17 with 292 views | Benters |
Fair play to them and they could be related to me! But then Davies is a common name in Wales. |  |
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| What amazes me about this story, other than the 24 trillion-to-one odds on 06:13 - Dec 17 with 282 views | Benters |
| What amazes me about this story, other than the 24 trillion-to-one odds on 17:16 - Dec 16 by Swansea_Blue |
It depends how you look at it. It might sound like a lot, but it would only buy you 1/20th of a Jack Clarke. That’s, what, maybe part of one of his arms from the elbow down? Try surviving off that and see how far you get! |
You could buy a few Jack Clarke hair bands with it though. | |
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| What amazes me about this story, other than the 24 trillion-to-one odds on 09:27 - Dec 17 with 170 views | OldFart71 |
I think it really depends on your age when you win 1 million. If I worked out exactly the amount of money the Company pension fund I belong to they have so far paid out in my 23 years since i took redundancy and a pension it works out at around £250,000. But added to that I have also worked a further 18 years during that time, so say I had earned the same amount again as I haven't had very well paid jobs during that time. Total £500,000. That was from the age of 52 until now at 75.
But remember the price of houses and rents were a lot lower although wages were lower also.
Therefore if a person was near retirement 1 million would probably be sufficient. But someone in their early twenties once almost half that had been spent on a property it wouldn't be enough to get through to retirement. | | | |
| What amazes me about this story, other than the 24 trillion-to-one odds on 09:55 - Dec 17 with 153 views | baxterbasics |
| What amazes me about this story, other than the 24 trillion-to-one odds on 19:20 - Dec 16 by J2BLUE |
Depends how much sense you have really.
£1m can be 3-4 terrible choices or well planned to make you financially free for life. You wouldn't live like a king but it would buy a nice £400k house and get you £30k a year-ish income. That's a decent starting position for anyone. |
From what I heard in the news report yesterday, they gave quite a lot of the initial win away, supported community projects, and still do a lot of volunteer work. So may not have kept much of it for themselves. Also, if someone is going to win it twice, you want it to be those type of people. Maybe Karma is a thing after all. |  |
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| What amazes me about this story, other than the 24 trillion-to-one odds on 13:51 - Dec 17 with 51 views | StowTractor |
Because they were never in it for the £1m, that why. Who plays Euro Millions with the aim of winning the UK Millionaire Prize? No we are all in it for the jackpot of between £14m & £190m or whatever the upper limit is these days. So we can provide a comfortable lifestyle not only for ourselves. our partners and kids for their whole lives but also provide for Parents, siblings, and extended family, donate lifechanging sums to our favourite charities & causes and still have enough money left over to live where we want and to have a holiday home in the sun too. | | | |
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