Premium Bond Winner ?

eskbanker

grandweb said:

NS&I only publicly share the last 6 months of data, but I'm trying to help archive as much of the historical data as possible. I’m especially interested in filling the missing gaps shown on this coverage page here https://premiumbondsresults.com/coverage

The files were either published as zips, txt files or pdfs for the older ones.

Have you, or the owner of that site, tried an FOI request from NS&I?  They'd probably have the right to object to anything too onerous so there might need to be some creativity around how to structure requests, but if it's seeking information that was previously structured into files then it ought not to be too difficult.

Has there been any accounting for the secondary prize allocation, carried out in between draws as a result of prizes initially being allocated to invalid bonds, as these presumably won't be on the files initially published (don't know if they're reissued)?

eskbanker

Alex.T said:

No win for me in Oct 2025 draw, £10k holding. And withdrawn due to needing money elsewhere. 

£450 over the period of 12months, which is about average I suppose. 

Above average - the rate has never been 4.5% during that period and the average (median) return would probably be less than 3.5%.

grandweb

eskbanker said:

grandweb said:

NS&I only publicly share the last 6 months of data, but I'm trying to help archive as much of the historical data as possible. I’m especially interested in filling the missing gaps shown on this coverage page here https://premiumbondsresults.com/coverage

The files were either published as zips, txt files or pdfs for the older ones.

Have you, or the owner of that site, tried an FOI request from NS&I?  They'd probably have the right to object to anything too onerous so there might need to be some creativity around how to structure requests, but if it's seeking information that was previously structured into files then it ought not to be too difficult.

I've tried an FOI request and they just replied saying that it's too much work - I've replied to try to reduce the scope to only some years or at least see if they still have the files.

Has there been any accounting for the secondary prize allocation, carried out in between draws as a result of prizes initially being allocated to invalid bonds, as these presumably won't be on the files initially published (don't know if they're reissued)?

That's a good point! Not unless the results files get updated at a later date. I'm not sure how often this happens or if they ever publish the info.

polymaff

grandweb said:

I'm not sure how often this happens or if they ever publish the info.

My experience is once in more than 90 years of full holdings (my late wife's and my own FH)

Magnolia

Late on parade here. 2x £100 and 1x £25 on FH.

mandarin6

grandweb said:

Lopo said:

Yippppeeeee......!

Feb has been my best month yet!

Have only ever won smaller £50 amounts, with the occasional rare £100.00. The last win was for £50 in November.

So a 2 month wait, This month has won 3 prizes, a new first for me too totalling £600, made up of 1x £500 and 2x £50

so happy!

Dont know my total holding value as I would like to be surprised one day and told that it is maxed out, a sort of mystery savings pot currently which I add to monthly! Winnings are automatically re-invested.

Complete PDF winning list here! LARGE 9MB file >>>

http://www.nsandi.com/products/pdf_lgs/pb_bondlist_02_07.pdf

Best of luck everyone...

Hi all,

Bit of a random question, but I'm hoping someone here might have kept some of the old Premium Bonds full winners lists that NS&I publish on their website, e.g. from this post in 2007! Unfortunately the download link no longer works.

NS&I only publicly share the last 6 months of data, but I'm trying to help archive as much of the historical data as possible. I’m especially interested in filling the missing gaps shown on this coverage page here https://premiumbondsresults.com/coverage

The files were either published as zips, txt files or pdfs for the older ones. If you still happen to have any of these old files, I'd love to know.

Thanks in advance

Have you ever looked at the FOI responses on 'What do they know'. For example someone asked for data on unclaimed prizes. I was amazed by how many were in Australia (around 4 thousand) with one 5k bond having 32 unclaimed prizes!! Another person asked for two year data from 2017-2019 which they provided altho not the bond number or location but it could be they didn't ask for it. It may be worth a look.

Mrs_Z

Best ever month for me - £1,000 on a full holding!!!

DodgerPot

Mrs_Z said:

Best ever month for me - £1,000 on a full holding!!!

Nice one well done!

I only had £175 on my first month of full holdings
Already looking forward to Nov 4th draw 

SnowMan

This table shows the expected total number of wins from the January to October 2025 draws (inclusive of both) if the holding has remained unchanged during the calendar year 2025. So on a 50K holding you could have expected on average about 7 £100 wins, 7 £50 wins and 8 £25 wins. And on a 50K holding you would have had about a 1 in 3.8 chance of winning at least one prize of £500 or above in the year to date. 

Required winnings to match the prize fund rate for the year to date on 50K holding are £1,583 (penultimate row of table). The £500 and above wins on a full 50K holding are going to be few and far between as the table shows. As we know this skews the median winning amount downwards. So I've shown the arithmetic mean winnings of £100 and below prizes also which is £1,267 for a 50K holding.   

I've won £0 on a £1,000 holding in 2025 so far. Last wins September 2024 (£100) and July 2024 (£100) while also holding £1,000.

Kim_13

SnowMan said:

This table shows the expected total number of wins from the January to October 2025 draws (inclusive of both) if the holding has remained unchanged during the calendar year 2025. So on a 50K holding you could have expected on average about 7 £100 wins, 7 £50 wins and 8 £25 wins. And on a 50K holding you would have had about a 1 in 3.8 chance of winning at least one prize of £500 or above in the year to date. 

Required winnings to match the prize fund rate for the year to date on 50K holding are £1,583 (penultimate row of table). The £500 and above wins on a full 50K holding are going to be few and far between as the table shows. As we know this skews the median winning amount downwards. So I've shown the arithmetic mean winnings of £100 and below prizes also which is £1,267 for a 50K holding.   

I've won £0 on a £1,000 holding in 2025 so far. Last wins September 2024 (£100) and July 2024 (£100) while also holding £1,000.

Very interesting, thanks. I’m above the mean having won no prize above £100, but slightly below matching the prize rate.