Euromillions

[StriderX]

If I win, I'm buying this, http://www.luxuryrealestate.co.nz/page.php?p=property&pCode=HH8# .

Lol New Zealand.

 

[StriderX]

Sorry, I meant to post a link to a house in Detroit.

Wait. No. I definitely posted the correct link.

The view seems nice, but the nation overall is just sucky and dear lord...the native accent is just...

 

[PapaLazaru]

The view seems nice, but the nation overall is just sucky and dear lord...the native accent is just...

Friendliest people I have ever met on my travels.

 

[StriderX]

Friendliest people I have ever met on my travels.

Which really means that they are hiding the worst of humanity.

I jest

 

[Redz]

Looks like it's crashed. Oops

 

[StriderX]

Looks like it's crashed. Oops

Lol.

 

[MOOGLEYS]

I watched a guy withdraw cash from the post office and then go to the lottery counter and spend £100 on tickets for what I presume is the Euro-Millions.

He even said "I hope I win as this is all I have to feed the family for the week."

People really are stupid.

 

[Richdog]

I watched a guy withdraw cash from the post office and then go to the lottery counter and spend the £100 on tickets for what I presume is the Euro-Millions.

He even said I hope I win as this is all I have to feed the family for the week.

People really are stupid.

Unbelievable. Yet believable.

 

[Mark A]

I can't imagine anyone spending £100 in one go on tickets.

 

[gibb]

I was hoping it wouldn't roll over to keep a lid on the ticket sales a bit, I'd be happy with 1 million.

 

[wilber]

I watched a guy withdraw cash from the post office and then go to the lottery counter and spend £100 on tickets for what I presume is the Euro-Millions.

He even said "I hope I win as this is all I have to feed the family for the week."

People really are stupid.

Are the raffle numbers per ticket or per lines you buy?

I had always assumed it was one per ticket.

 

[Skull]

Per line!

 

[antijoke]

A birthday lottery win would be truly epic.

 

[infernox]

Just bought 5 Tickets, never normally play but meh, thought why not.

 

[estebanrey]

I watched a guy withdraw cash from the post office and then go to the lottery counter and spend £100 on tickets for what I presume is the Euro-Millions.

He even said "I hope I win as this is all I have to feed the family for the week."

People really are stupid.

A tax on the stupid.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. If a bookies offered the appalling odds you get on the lottery on their markets they'd go out of business with in a week.

It's only because the top prize is so substantial people are willing to forget their chances of winning the jackpot are nigh on zero, if for no other reason that they can fantasise about winning it and what they'd spend the money on (as evidenced by 90% of the posts in this thread).

 

[qqg3]

A tax on the stupid.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. If a bookies offered the appalling odds you get on the lottery on their markets they'd go out of business with in a week.

It's only because the top prize is so substantial people are willing to forget their chances of winning the jackpot are nigh on zero, if for no other reason that they can fantasise about winning it and what they'd spend the money on (as evidenced by 90% of the posts in this thread).

I agree, but without doing any math I figure odds are better there are 100 millionaire prizes tonight plus the jackpot.

 

[ObixConstant]

A tax on the stupid.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. If a bookies offered the appalling odds you get on the lottery on their markets they'd go out of business with in a week.

It's only because the top prize is so substantial people are willing to forget their chances of winning the jackpot are nigh on zero, if for no other reason that they can fantasise about winning it and what they'd spend the money on (as evidenced by 90% of the posts in this thread).

The last bit is the only reason I enter, sucker but you gotta be in it to win it.

 

[estebanrey]

Don't understand why people buy 10+ tickets i mean what is the point really.

Ten times the chance of winning maybe?

On the main draw yes but not in the raffle as for each extra raffle line you buy you are increasing the numbers of raffle lines available by one thus slightly decreasing the probability of your other lines winning.

Buying more raffle lines does increase your chances but it is not proportional like the standard lottery.

Very simple example, lets say there are only two people in a raffle, me and you and we both have a line each. We both have a 50% chance of winning. However if I then buy another line, increasing the total number in the pot to 3, my chances of winning are now 66%, so I haven't doubled my chances of winning.

So every extra line you buy becomes less and less cost effective in regards to your chances of winning.

 

[Tibbz2]

Just bought 5 Tickets, never normally play but meh, thought why not.

Same here

 

[lukeharvest]

A tax on the stupid.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. If a bookies offered the appalling odds you get on the lottery on their markets they'd go out of business with in a week.

It's only because the top prize is so substantial people are willing to forget their chances of winning the jackpot are nigh on zero, if for no other reason that they can fantasise about winning it and what they'd spend the money on (as evidenced by 90% of the posts in this thread).

You don't need a maths degree to realise how bad the odds are with the lottery. All us mathematicians are the ones who go out gambling, play the lottery, while someone else stands around lecturing us on the odds.