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Lottery wins

Ledge
Ledge Posts: 7,179
edited December 2008 in Not Sports Related
our little office sydicate won £836 on wednesdays lottery and were 6 numbers away from winning the big one - we had 21 and it was 27, or the other way round.

Anyone else got as close as that
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  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,070
    Everyone is 6 numbers away from winning mate. ;-)
  • Ledge
    Ledge Posts: 7,179
    lol probably but that is the closest we have ever got. 13 of us been doing it since day one 6 numbers away from 60k each, there were 2 winners of the biggun, a fortnight before xmas - very tantalising :-)
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,616
    My old firm we had a sydicate, a few years after I left, they got 5 & the bonus up, 10 of them they got £110K between them. Also at the same frim one lad won £100k for himself.
  • KBslittlesis
    KBslittlesis Posts: 8,602
    i had 4 numbers in the first week they did it

    won £182 & split it with 12th man

    never done it since..............never saw the point..........doubt i'll ever get that close again

    :-(
  • Charlton_Charlie
    Charlton_Charlie Posts: 1,427
    My brother in law got bought a lucky dip by his mum a few years back that won him £5k odd....a bloke in the north stand won £3m or so a few years back too didn't he?
  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,009
    edited December 2008
    [cite]Posted By: Ledge[/cite]lol probably but that is the closest we have ever got. 13 of us been doing it since day one 6 numbers away from 60k each, there were 2 winners of the biggun, a fortnight before xmas - very tantalising :-)


    13 of you since day one! Does anyone know when the lottery started? 12/13 years ago maybe, 2 draws per week. Work out how much you lot have spent doing it
  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,070
    Over £8,000 or so between them or £615 each based on one line each, once a week for 12 years.
  • Alex Wright
    Alex Wright Posts: 8,214
    Our syndicate had four numbers AND the bonus ball one week. Was only worth about £110. One more number and it would have been £110K
  • Chirpy Red
    Chirpy Red Posts: 7,587
    I expect to win the big one soon.
  • tricky
    tricky Posts: 1,291
    My grandparents got 5 out of 6 numbers the other week. Just waiting for number 25 to come out but it didn't :(.

    No jackpot winners either so would have won 2.4 million of your English pounds.

    Think they got about £700 in the end.
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  • vancouveraddick
    vancouveraddick Posts: 1,674
    I know of a Charlton season ticket holder who won the big one - Had the share of 7 million with 13 others
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,219
    [cite]Posted By: trickyrickycafc[/cite]My grandparents got 5 out of 6 numbers the other week. Just waiting for number 25 to come out but it didn't :(.

    No jackpot winners either so would have won 2.4 million of your English pounds.

    Think they got about £700 in the end.


    Bet this is not P & E. Typical of my luck ; - )
  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,103
    I've had 5 numbers up a few years ago and won £3500
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,436
    [cite]Posted By: KBslittlesis[/cite]i had 4 numbers in the first week they did it

    won £182 & split it with 12th man

    never done it since..............never saw the point..........doubt i'll ever get that close again

    :-(
    Funny that - I've only ever done it once - bought three tickets with money left over from subs at football one week and won a tenner & 65 quid (3 and 4 numbers). Like you I've never done it since either!
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,477
    edited December 2008
    Always thought that the prize winnings for 5 numbers is 'pitifully' inedequate....I'd almost be pig sick with just a grand or so (which is what it normally is), when for just one more number it's the jackpot!
    Needs looking at if you ask me.
  • Miserableoldgit
    Miserableoldgit Posts: 21,458
    I won £20 last week, 2 tenners.
    Had the first three numbers and the last three numbers................
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,616
    [cite]Posted By: miserableold-ish git[/cite]I won £20 last week, 2 tenners.
    Had the first three numbers and the last three numbers................

    Should have cut the ticket in two made up a line of 6 wining numbers. ;-0)
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021
    The staff of a restaurant near us won the jackpot. They were all interviewed by the local paper saying that it wouldn't change their lives at all. The next week the closed signs were on the restaurant.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348
    A British winner took over £171 MILLION in Friday's draw 23/9/22

    Strange goings on .. 3 of the winning numbers from Friday, 14, 15, 22 were also drawn in yesterday's 24/9/22 Lotto draw
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021
    edited September 2022
    Just a coincidence, but not as strange as this coincidence: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lottery-idUSTRE58H4AM20090918
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  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,733
    We got five numbers up a few years ago when i was on a shift . £1750 shared between 20 people. (£87 each ) The number we didn't get was 7 and we had number 5 . That would have pocketed us a share of 7 million. ( 350K each) i always wonder how many would have left if they got that much. 
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348
    Stig said:
    Just a coincidence, but not as strange as this coincidence: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lottery-idUSTRE58H4AM20090918
    I remember this .. i m o more fiddle than coincidence .. have you ever been to Bulgaria ?, Europe's corruption capital, and THAT is saying something
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,975
    Stig said:
    Just a coincidence, but not as strange as this coincidence: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lottery-idUSTRE58H4AM20090918
    Absolutely no way the same 6 numbers coming up twice in a row is just 4 million to one. It would be much higher than that.
  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 6,847
    ValleyGary said:
    Stig said:
    Just a coincidence, but not as strange as this coincidence: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lottery-idUSTRE58H4AM20090918
    Absolutely no way the same 6 numbers coming up twice in a row is just 4 million to one. It would be much higher than that.
    If I recall, the chances of getting 6 numbers out of 42 on the UK lottery was 14 million to one. The chances of those numbers coming out again is, I assume, the same odds.
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,975
    SporadicAddick said:
    ValleyGary said:
    Stig said:
    Just a coincidence, but not as strange as this coincidence: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lottery-idUSTRE58H4AM20090918
    Absolutely no way the same 6 numbers coming up twice in a row is just 4 million to one. It would be much higher than that.
    If I recall, the chances of getting 6 numbers out of 42 on the UK lottery was 14 million to one. The chances of those numbers coming out again is, I assume, the same odds.
    So then surely those odds are combined? I get that each draw is independent but for the same set of six numbers to come out twice in a row, those odds must be multiplied. This article says some guy did the same set of numbers and won twice, the odds being 5 trillion to 1 - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-142457/Five-trillion-Punter-scoops-second-lottery-win-numbers-By-David-Wilkes.html
  • TellyTubby
    TellyTubby Posts: 3,550
    _MrDick said:
    I've had 5 numbers up a few years ago and won £3500
    I wondered why I haven't heard from you for years, you thought I might tap you up for a round.
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,763
    ValleyGary said:
    SporadicAddick said:
    ValleyGary said:
    Stig said:
    Just a coincidence, but not as strange as this coincidence: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lottery-idUSTRE58H4AM20090918
    Absolutely no way the same 6 numbers coming up twice in a row is just 4 million to one. It would be much higher than that.
    If I recall, the chances of getting 6 numbers out of 42 on the UK lottery was 14 million to one. The chances of those numbers coming out again is, I assume, the same odds.
    So then surely those odds are combined? I get that each draw is independent but for the same set of six numbers to come out twice in a row, those odds must be multiplied. This article says some guy did the same set of numbers and won twice, the odds being 5 trillion to 1 - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-142457/Five-trillion-Punter-scoops-second-lottery-win-numbers-By-David-Wilkes.html

    You only combine the two like you say if you were wanting two specific sets of numbers. If you only one need one set of numbers to match exactly to the numbers from the previous draw, it doesn't matter what those previous numbers were.
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,763
    edited September 2022
    Yesterday's UK lottery draw numbers were 14, 15, 18, 22, 39 and 50.

    There is a 1 in 45 million chance that those same numbers will come out in the next draw. Hence 1 in 45m chance of a back to back in any given draw.


    The calculation changes if, for example, in the next two draws you want the exact numbers both times, you would have to do 1 in 45m times by 1 in 45m to calculate the chance of that.
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,484
    edited September 2022
    In theory, the chances of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 coming out, is the same as any other combination. That's what the bet is
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021
    edited September 2022
    ValleyGary said:
    Stig said:
    Just a coincidence, but not as strange as this coincidence: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lottery-idUSTRE58H4AM20090918
    Absolutely no way the same 6 numbers coming up twice in a row is just 4 million to one. It would be much higher than that.
    You're right - as Sporadic says it's 14 million. I suspect the reporter at Reuters mis-heard.  https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/math-explains-likely-long-shots-miracles-and-winning-the-lottery/

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