Misleading National Lottery advert.

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pappa_golf wrote: »

perhaps scrapping that advert , could bring back "3 balls win £10"

Why would you want to go back to 3 balls wins £10, when it's now 3 balls wins £25 :huh:

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Latazza wrote: »

I think a lot of people here need to go back to school and resit maths. The odds do get smaller the more tickets you buy

But, buying more tickets does not lengthen the odds, of someone else's ticket winning.

getzls

Think you need to get out of your Bedsit a bit more Bob

prowla

Latazza wrote: »

I think a lot of people here need to go back to school and resit maths. The odds do get smaller the more tickets you buy

I think someone does, anyway...

Whilst your odds improve, it has no effect on other people's.

tony6403

soolin wrote: »

It is the odds themself that change.

If 10,000 people buy tickets then 'they' have a 1 in 10,000 chance of winning, if however 100,000 people buy tickets then the odds are reduced as 'they' have only 1 in 100,000 chance of winning.

Personally I dislike the Madbid adverts.

The odds for winning the top prize are now 1 in 45,057,000.
Every additional ticket you buy has those same odds minus one.

JReacher1

The best thing about the "please not them" advert is that these people aren't appearing in the advert for free. I would imagine they are all getting paid a decent sum of money to appear in these adverts so technically it's already them!

Ian011

Latazza wrote: »

I think a lot of people here need to go back to school and resit maths. The odds do get smaller the more tickets you buy.

Yes, but buying more tickets does not decrease the chances that some other particular person has of winning. Their chances are dictated by how many possible combinations there are, not by how many tickets are sold (unlike a raffle).

JJG

tony6403 wrote: »

The odds for winning the top prize are now 1 in 45,057,000.
Every additional ticket you buy has those same odds minus one.

Not quite. If you buy two tickets it doubles your chances. Instead of 1 in 45,057,000 it'll be 2 in 45,057,000. So with two tickets your odds are 1 in 22,528,500.

JReacher1

JJG wrote: »

Not quite. If you buy two tickets it doubles your chances. Instead of 1 in 45,057,000 it'll be 2 in 45,057,000. So with two tickets your odds are 1 in 22,528,500.

I think you've misunderstood how the rules of probability work. The odds of winning the lottery don't halve because you've bought two tickets.

zagfles

JReacher1 wrote: »

I think you've misunderstood how the rules of probability work. The odds of winning the lottery don't halve because you've bought two tickets.

Err...of course they don't, they double. As the PP said. Assuming you don't buy 2 tickets with exactly the same numbers!