Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

silvercar

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Surely the likelihood of, say, 1, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 coming out is no different to 1, 5, 10, 15, 20, 55 so changing your numbers to include some of the new ones won't make you any more likely to win?

Generali wrote: »

Ah yes but changing your numbers to those which others don't pick makes you more likely to win big if you do win.......which you won't.

Exactly, it doesn't influence you chance of winning, just that you would be sharing the bounty with less people, or fewer people depending on the numbers.;)

Friends won the premium bonds years ago. 50k. They moved house and their life remained the same. Next door won about 100k on the lottery (5 + bonus in the early days), they bought 2 new cars and moved house. Local restaurant owners won many years ago. They shut up shop and travelled for a few months, then came home and carried on life as normal.

kabayiri

silvercar wrote: »

Exactly, it doesn't influence you chance of winning, just that you would be sharing the bounty with less people, or fewer people depending on the numbers.;)
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With the increase in numbers the chances of sharing your jackpot with others also increase (unless there are a lot more players, which there aren't).

On the lottery subject, can anyone explain the ad campaign to me?

It seems by my purchasing of a ticket(s) I am some how able to stop celebrity rascals like Katie Price and Piers Morgan winning.

I don't quite get the logic of this. Wouldn't I be better off locking Katie Price away somewhere to deny her winning the lottery?

Arguably, the locking away strategy is more effective than my buying many millions more tickets a week than Katie does, so that even if she does win I have a high chance of diluting her prize.

[*disclaimer : I do not know KP; we have never been lovers to my knowledge; I admit to once saying "I quite fancy Jordan this year" but that was in reference to the country!]

vivatifosi

PasturesNew wrote: »

As a fan of the "what happened next" style of googling.
I see he died.

I think he is still alive. There were multiple winners that week.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Ah, a 2nd googling says 7, each got £840k.

Not too shabby was it.

Also, re sharing the prize depending upon the popularity of numbers:
"The most lottery winners for a single jackpot was 133 in January 1995, each winning £122,510." Bummer!

From £16million you'd expect more than £122k. You'd be thinking "Maybe it's just me.... OK, might have to share it with 2-3 others ... at most. That's still £4mill". £122k would, by the end of the weekend, feel like you really LOST rather than WON.

Thus some could be jackpot winners and still not pay off their mortgages.

Fir and I play the ' what sum would change our lives' and in what way. It changes. Being mortgage free would be great of course. Being mortgage free house finished, great. Still need to work etc. Enough to live on for life? Sure, nice....but how does it actually make a difference and impact well into the world around us?

There is no such thing as too much to win, because there is always something good to do with it.

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

Ah, a 2nd googling says 7, each got £840k.

Not too shabby was it.

Also, re sharing the prize depending upon the popularity of numbers:
"The most lottery winners for a single jackpot was 133 in January 1995, each winning £122,510." Bummer!

From £16million you'd expect more than £122k. You'd be thinking "Maybe it's just me.... OK, might have to share it with 2-3 others ... at most. That's still £4mill". £122k would, by the end of the weekend, feel like you really LOST rather than WON.

I remember that. I remember reading it on Ceefax!

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

Watching Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords on Channel 5+24.
Not seen/heard of this one before.
7-8pm.
Freeview channel 55.

Channel 5+24!!!

Soon the channels will just shove out this weeks episodes of every series on Monday morning and people will watch at their leisure.

chewmylegoff

PasturesNew wrote: »

Ah, a 2nd googling says 7, each got £840k.

Not too shabby was it.

Also, re sharing the prize depending upon the popularity of numbers:
"The most lottery winners for a single jackpot was 133 in January 1995, each winning £122,510." Bummer!

From £16million you'd expect more than £122k. You'd be thinking "Maybe it's just me.... OK, might have to share it with 2-3 others ... at most. That's still £4mill". £122k would, by the end of the weekend, feel like you really LOST rather than WON.

Didn't someone kill themselves after that week when 133 people won as they thought they'd won £15 million quid and couldn't cope with finding out it was only a hundred grand? I'm sure I remember something like that but the first page of Google shows nothing.

Yorkie1

PasturesNew wrote: »

...alms houses for ageing spinsters, with low rents...

I think I read yesterday that the government's bill to expand RTB to all social housing has passed its latest stage.

Almshouses would, I expect, be at risk from this if it goes through ...

kabayiri

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Didn't someone kill themselves after that week when 133 people won as they thought they'd won £15 million quid and couldn't cope with finding out it was only a hundred grand? I'm sure I remember something like that but the first page of Google shows nothing.

That's hard and depressing to believe.

They lost nothing. They were actually a hundred thousand plus better off.

michaels

lostinrates wrote: »

Thus some could be jackpot winners and still not pay off their mortgages.

Fir and I play the ' what sum would change our lives' and in what way. It changes. Being mortgage free would be great of course. Being mortgage free house finished, great. Still need to work etc. Enough to live on for life? Sure, nice....but how does it actually make a difference and impact well into the world around us?

There is no such thing as too much to win, because there is always something good to do with it.

I find when they are promoting those TV 'life changing' quizzes where you can win 10k I am thinking if we got 10k it would make no difference to anything and really wouldn't notice.