Premium Bonds - If you post to say how much you've won, please also say how much you have invested.

[steinooo]

A massive £175 on 50k holding this month! Methinks I’ll have to come up with a better retirement plan!!!

Unsure if serious but that's actually really good for premium bonds

 

[marl]

Unsure if serious but that's actually really good for premium bonds

I live in hope!!!!

 

[SpellowHouse]

Nothing this month on £18000

 

[DotA]

£25 on 4k. My first win in months.

 

[dirtybeatfreak]

My Wife won 10k in one prize from 10k investment a month ago. I've won nothing for a few months in a row!

 

[Jokester]

Heh, someone mentioned this before about their winnings going up over the course of the day. Was £50 when I checked, but had £250 deposited in my account.

 

[DJMK4]

I have received my crisp £125 today

I sniffed it to check it was real, i then transferred it to my secondary account. Where it shall remain until i can think what to do with it

 

[Gixer]

I won £50. Have about £30k in

 

[kola]

£50 Have £50k not so great this month

 

[Tachyon]

£700 on 50k. Think that's the most I've got in a month.

 

[Jokester]

Usual check today of a big win, always interesting to see who's won with what:

Innit to winnit!

 

[John J Sheridan]

Not a bad return on £2 - they only have £4 altogether !

£1,000

5BT033644

£4

Wales

£2

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Hope I get something more than £25 this month

 

[VaderDSL]

Usual check today of a big win, always interesting to see who's won with what:

Innit to winnit!

I wonder how many accounts that are lost/forgotten about.

Edit : Apparently as of July 2025 fron NS&I

Currently, there are 2,598,139 unclaimed Premium Bonds prizes worth £103,270,175 waiting to be claimed.

 

[DJMK4]

Not a bad return on £2 - they only have £4 altogether !

£1,000

5BT033644

£4

Wales

£2

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Hope I get something more than £25 this month

This is literally what im thinking of doing. Withdraw 1000 and spend an evening buying £1 or £2 bonds . I must have a chance

 

[Derek W]

This is literally what im thinking of doing. Withdraw 1000 and spend an evening buying £1 or £2 bonds . I must have a chance

Can you do that these days though? Thought it was £25 min. Fine back in the 70s but they expect you to buy more in one go these days!

 

[DJMK4]

Can you do that these days though? Thought it was £25 min. Fine back in the 70s but they expect you to buy more in one go these days!

I can't remember. I think the last time I bought bonds was over a year and a half ago now.

I think the minimum amount now is £25. Though each bond is worth £1


Ok 2500 should give you 100 x 25s.

It must work

 

[shiggsy]

Not sure I follow the logic here.
Withdrawing 1000 (premium bonds?) and buying £1000 of 1s and 2s would be swapping 1000 premium bonds for 1000 premium bonds.
2500 does give you 100 x 25s, it also gives you 2500 x 1s or 5 x 500s, or whatever way you want to divide up 2500.

The only thing you can do to increase your chances of winning is holding more bonds, there is no buying pattern you can employ that will make any difference.

 

[Vonhelmet]

Not sure I follow the logic here.

That’s because there is no logic. It’s superstition and the human mind desperately trying to see patterns.

 

[mattyfez]

That’s because there is no logic. It’s superstition and the human mind desperately trying to see patterns.

Yep... That's not how maths and probability works.

I only buy lottery tickets on the third tuesday of every month.

 

[DJMK4]

I did see a pattern when I was able to pay in to it . Over the years I worked out I was getting better prizes and more frequently if I was to buy them at the end of the month before the draw on 1st or 2nd or 3rd.

Also . Noticed differences in £1k Vs 3k