Euromillions

wildest_jjk · 13 Jun 2015 at 09:37

ThundyCat said:
Winning ticket purchased in Warrington.

Not me then

jkb · 13 Jun 2015 at 09:47

Not me either

George Hincapie · 13 Jun 2015 at 09:59

ThundyCat said:
Winning ticket purchased in Warrington.

Good for them!

robgmun · 13 Jun 2015 at 10:00

NexusK said:
1 number and 1 bonus, the usual when i match anything.

Snap

Col_M · 13 Jun 2015 at 10:06

I won big, a massive £5.30

Diddums · 13 Jun 2015 at 10:07

I won the £93m.

robgmun · 13 Jun 2015 at 10:15

Diddums said:
I won the £93m.

Give me £10k then :cool:

Diddums · 13 Jun 2015 at 10:17

Only if you wear a turban for a week.

Destination · 13 Jun 2015 at 10:17

Congratulations Diddums.

I won £2.90 last night, ticket covered itself for once.

Itchytrigg · 13 Jun 2015 at 10:20

Guy at work who runs our group has been very quiet.......

Diddums · 13 Jun 2015 at 10:20

Very quite what?

Diddums · 13 Jun 2015 at 10:20

PS, I didn't actually win.

Jono · 13 Jun 2015 at 10:22

I won £2.90.

Itchytrigg · 13 Jun 2015 at 10:23

Diddums said:
Very quite what?

Ninja'd

Diddums · 13 Jun 2015 at 10:38

Derek W · 13 Jun 2015 at 12:05

I won

£2 of debt

NexusK · 19 Jun 2015 at 07:12

Looks like the Lotto is dead, well... even more 'deader' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-33165365

Balls being increased from 49 to 59 and an extra prize being added... another ticket if you get 2 numbers :rolleyes:

The odds of winning the jackpot fall from one in 14 million to one in 45 million.
The odds of winning £25 for matching three numbers fall from 57 to one to 97 to one
The odds of winning about £100 for four numbers fall from about 1,000 to about 2,200 to one
Five balls will still win you about £1,000 but the odds have dropped from 55,000 to one to 144,000 to one
And five balls plus the bonus ball goes from 2.3 million to one to 7.5 million to one with no change to the estimated £50,000 you would win.

MeatLoaf · 20 Jun 2015 at 01:53

Diddums said:
I won the £93m.

Not unless you've moved to stoke

Appartently the winners from round here.

estebanrey · 20 Jun 2015 at 02:04

NexusK said:
The odds of winning the jackpot fall from one in 14 million to one in 45 million.

The odds of winning £25 for matching three numbers fall from 57 to one to 97 to one

The odds of winning about £100 for four numbers fall from about 1,000 to about 2,200 to one

Five balls will still win you about £1,000 but the odds have dropped from 55,000 to one to 144,000 to one

And five balls plus the bonus ball goes from 2.3 million to one to 7.5 million to one with no change to the estimated £50,000 you would win.

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Incorrect. The new prize of two balls meaning another ticket needs to be factored in because you could buy a ticket, get two numbers then win the jackpot with the free ticket.

So actually it's around 40 million to 1 under the new system you will win the Jackpot from 'buying' one ticket.

For us number nerds, the new rules are a gift because the probabilities have become more interesting. As well as increasing the number of balls, Camelot have also changed how the game works in two fundamental ways. First, while there are still the same smaller prizes for matching five, four and three balls, they have also added a new prize if you match exactly two. You win another lottery ticket. Which does not feel like a great prize. Is being allowed to try and win the same prizes again next time count as a prize in its own right?

Mathematically, it means that the probabilities are not quite as clear-cut. I calculated that the odds of matching only two numbers in a draw is one in 10.258, which means you have a 9.748% chance of playing again. This second chance comes in the form of a lucky dip ticket: six numbers picked at random.

I spoke to the press office at Camelot and confirmed that it is possible to then match two numbers on your lucky dip and win a third ticket, and so on. Technically, you could buy one ticket and keep winning free tickets for the rest of your life. But that is exceedingly unlikely, even by lottery standards.

This means the new odds of winning the jackpot of “one in 45,057,474” is actually incorrect. Because there is a 9.748% chance you’ll get a second go; a 0.9503% chance you’ll get three goes; 0.09264% four goes; 0.009031% five and so on. We can mathematically roll up all these vanishingly small probabilities and calculate the new odds of winning the jackpot on a single initial ticket purchased: one in 40,665,099. Only 2.9 times worse than before.

NexusK · 20 Jun 2015 at 07:02

Unless the free ticket applies to the same draw (highly unlikely) I don't see how that's the case. Buying a ticket for a Saturday draw for example and winning a free ticket for the following Wednesday's draw does not in any way affect your odds of the Saturday one.