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Your Biggest Lottery/Scratch Card Win?

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  • Biggest win on a scratchcard - £200 (last yeasr I think).

    Biggest lottery win - 4 numbers and it was about £30!

    Incidentally, for about a year I used to play lucky dip on the lottery and won absolutely nothing. I then moved to playing set numbers and have won much more often since then - but only very minor amounts.

    4 numbers - £30?

    Daylight robbery! :shocked:
  • As an 11 year old my dad bought a lottery ticket for us and whatever we won if we won would be split between myself and my three siblings. We won £96 and my mum took us on holiday with the money, funny enough my dad never bought us a lottery ticket again haha.
    Cant recall any other wins apart from the odd £10, except my husbands work syndicate came up 4 years ago they had 5 numbers and the bonus ball and won in excess of £120,000, spread with all the members of the syndicate each member ended up with £6,500 which couldn't have came at a better time as we had just moved in to a new home which needed complete renovation.
    Competition wins - 09/03 - £500 ELC Vouchers 11/04 - Lush Goodies 21/04 - Gillette Fusion Gift Pack 22/05 - Mirrors DVD 29/05 - Return Flights to London & £500 29/05 - £50 Homebase Gift Vouchers 20/09 - Remote Control Helicopter 28/09 - £225 Bingo Win 05/10 £25 Photobox Vouchers 16/09 £90 Cash 30/11 £29 Cash 03/01 £20 03/04 Fifa Football :T
  • Won another scratch card today! £50 :j

    Must have luck on my side lately. :)
  • Blulu
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    Don't do either very often. Don't remember winning anything on a scratch card, but I think I won £10 once, maybe twice on lotto.

    However, I got back in touch with an old friend a few years ago and found that one of 'our gang' had won something like 1.2 million on the lottery :eek:

    I had once snogged him at a party many years before too. So near and yet sofa :D
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  • I think this thread is lucky - I won £83.60 on euromillions last night making it my biggest win now :)
    2008: £783.12 - 2009: £6,401.15 - 2010: £4,230.61 - 2011: £8720 - 2012: £2,041.89
    2013: £134.96
  • I won £100 on a scratchcard this week, my biggest win to date lol x
  • andrew71
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    Biggest win was probably about £85 on four numbers when the lottery first started. I've had few £20 on scratch cards.

    Last year we had four of our numbers come out on the lottery and thought woo wonder how much we'd won. Would you believe it was £12. :rotfl:£2 more than three numbers. Wouldn't of minded but the next draw four numbers earned over £100.

    I've always said if I was born a day earlier, my wife had lived two door up and our daughter had been born a month later we'd be millionaires by now ;)
  • Since the lottery started and for years I did it each week, I seldom do it now, only on big draws, is 2 x £10 wins.

    When the scratchcards first came out it seemed that every one that I bought won a £1 i.e. my money back, but most probably it was one in every three although one did actually win £20. Then my wins dried up so I stopped buying them. I've not bought one this century!

    Last year or the year before, when the Euromillions was something like £160 million that kept rolling over (June time I think) I did four draws of one ticket per draw and ended up with £8 ish profit via a couple of 1+2 star type wins.

    I've also just realised how old this thread is. I knew I had a board backlog but....
    I wish I had thought of a better user name as this makes me sounds greedy :( It was meant more tongue-in-cheek.
  • I don't play Lotto, I play Thunderball and end of last year I won £103 - I bought 2 rows and got 4 numbers on one row and the Thunderball on the other.
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  • CTID86
    CTID86 Posts: 36 Forumite
    Scratchcards - A few £10's

    Lottery - Maybe twice Ive won £10

    Football betting has seen my best returns, just this season Ive won £68 and £76 and I only bet £2-4 per week.

    Horses Ive won the odd few quid on the grand national as I do that every year. Went to the races once and came away with £90 more than I went with as I had 2 winners, thats the only time Ive ever been though
    2016 extra earnings

    Ciao: £43.12
    ProlificAC: £20.55
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