The National Lottery

[village idiot]

Why do people insist on playing the National Lottery? A friend informed me today that the price has gone up from £1 to £2 per ticket, yet he spends a minimum of £20 a week (before the price increase. The good Lord knows how much he spends now).

The peoples lottery, REALLY??? You gotta be in it to win it, REALLY???

It is the greatest British Scam ever devised to drag the poor and miserable into even more debt. Peeps collect their Income Support, Job Seekers Allowance or whatever it is called and blow the lot on lottery tickets and scratch card in the believe that they will instantly become millionaires. Crazy, real crazy. What kind of morally inclined government will encourage its people to go down this route?

If it is the peoples lottery, then if you get ONE number, you should be given at least £2. for TWO numbers you should be given £30. Three numbers, £100. FOUR numbers, £400, FIVE numbers, £2000. If you get bonus ball on FIVE numbers, you get £7500. That leaves the ''winners'' with SIX numbers. They will share the supposed jackpot. In effect, instead of having SIX numbers and getting £13,000,000, you just get a massive £3,000,000 or better still, you get given £1,000,000. Everyone is a winner. I would rather have 30 families each having £2,000 than one person having £25,000,000. What a SCAM

 

[ADM360]

£25 winner stuck on the fridge!!

 

[lame plumber]

gave up smoking so a few quid a week on the lottery and I might be quids in, not likely but Im healthy anyway now

 

[IDCHAPPY]

gave up smoking so a few quid a week on the lottery and I might be quids in, not likely but Im healthy anyway now

I gave up the **** last August, going up stairs with a heavy toolbag is a lot easier now .
I got 5 numbers on the lottery about 5 weeks after i started my own business.... 1 number away from dancing about the street naked...got 2K instead

 

[Rickster123]

I gave up the **** last August, going up stairs with a heavy toolbag is a lot easier now .
I got 5 numbers on the lottery about 5 weeks after i started my own business.... 1 number away from dancing about the street naked...got 2K instead

Id dance down the street naked or 2k. Come to think of it I'd dance down the street naked for a lion bar and a can of fanta!

 

[Chalked]

Don't know how they can justify the price increase!

Its like me saying to a customer, " I'm now charging double yesterdays rate, but I am going to work slightly harder"

 

[Ray Stafford]

If it is the peoples lottery, then if you get ONE number, you should be given at least £2. for TWO numbers you should be given £30. Three numbers, £100. FOUR numbers, £400, FIVE numbers, £2000. If you get bonus ball on FIVE numbers, you get £7500. That leaves the ''winners'' with SIX numbers. They will share the supposed jackpot. In effect, instead of having SIX numbers and getting £13,000,000, you just get a massive £3,000,000 or better still, you get given £1,000,000. Everyone is a winner

I think you would go bust running a lottery VI.

My back-of-a-***-packet calculation says that 72.2 out of every 100 lucky dips will return 1 number, and just under 9 out of every hundred will return 2 numbers.

Therefore from every 100 £2 tickets sold, you would have £200 of income, but would be paying out £144 in prizes to single number winners, and £270 worth of prizes to 2 number winners.

Mind you, my maths might be wrong.

 

[kirkgas]

And nobody is making anybody buy tickets, same as we don't force anyone into the pub or the bookies, I buy a ticket used the same numbers from day 1, the boss wanted to scrap the ticket when the price went up, but as I know the numbers I would know if "my" numbers come up, and I'm sure there's a lot like that, so I "have" to keep buying, but I don't really have to I want to buy one to have a chance of winning, it's only £2

 

[village idiot]

I will not touch it with a barge pole. It's a government scamming its own people.
As Ray S says, I'll not be able to manage a lottery as I'd want everyone to win and be happy.
Look at it this way. If TEN of us live in a street and one person gets £25,000,000 while the rest NINE if us get £10. One or more of us will want to 'break' in his house and see if we can nick something. Come to think of it, he will not even notice. But it happens that the day we break in, he is at home. A fight ensures and someone gets stabbed or worse. Now, if got £3,000,000 and us £750,000, we wouldn't have been so desperate to 'visit' him

 

[Best]

Charity or other "deserving causes" get some money out of each lottery draw,
Shops make a small profit,
People are employed to run the lottery (numerous - including advertising etc),
Government gets some percentage each ticket, I think, plus they benefit from all above. Very clever!
Vast majority tickets win nothing, some win small money but lose more eventually & the very lucky few win big - probably buy foreign goods, fall out with family & friends & spend their money abroad.
It's the stupid people who have little money & use their vital £2 or more on an almost no hope chance, that I feel sorry for.