Premium Bond Winner ?

Loveactually

Lornrussell said:

I feel it's worse when you win your first one - I had £100 in January, £25 in February and because I've started so well I have high expectations that'll probably leave me disappointed at midnight tonight! 😂

I am thinking the same. I never bothered much but as I won 3 times in 4 months I am expecting too much I think

gary83

The prizes for this month have been autoinvested & show on accounts now, nice £500 prize today, that takes me to £550 in prizes on £25 grand over 3 draws

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gary83 said:

The prizes for this month have been autoinvested & show on accounts now, nice £500 prize today, that takes me to £550 in prizes on £25 grand over 3 draws

It says one day to go on the prize checker, I can see no prizes on my account so assume I have won nothing. 

Loveactually

gary83 said:

The prizes for this month have been autoinvested & show on accounts now, nice £500 prize today, that takes me to £550 in prizes on £25 grand over 3 draws

Wow congratulations 

Lornrussell

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gary83 said:

The prizes for this month have been autoinvested & show on accounts now, nice £500 prize today, that takes me to £550 in prizes on £25 grand over 3 draws

It says one day to go on the prize checker, I can see no prizes on my account so assume I have won nothing. 

Last two months the prize checker updated a fair few hours before my account did, and I didn't get the reinvest email until about a day later - so you never know! 

Yorkshire_Pud

Looking at the March Prize Checker one of the £1,000,000 prizes was won with a £12,000 bond and one of the £100,000 was won with a £200 bond. 

So all the hogwash about needing to buy a block of £50,000 bonds to have a decent chance of winning doesn’t seem supported.

One of the million pound winners is from Bristol. Does that mean if I move to Bristol I have a better chance of winning a million or does it mean that a bond holder living in Bristol stands a better chance of winning a million in the future if they move away from Bristol.

My personal quirk about odds of winning is that I seem to only win a prize when I cash in nearly all my bonds and then it seems to wake up the rest of my holding before becoming dormant again.

I’m beginning to think it’s all random 

josh33

Yorkshire_Pud said:

So all the hogwash about needing to buy a block of £50,000 bonds to have a decent chance of winning doesn’t seem supported.

It's like a village raffle with 100 tickets - if you buy 30 tickets then you have an "increased chance" of winning, but then the old granny at the back with 1 single ticket might win and beat you to it!

It's entirely random

strawb_shortcake

Having followed this thread for around 18 months it seems as though there has been more larger prizes won and mentioned here in the last 4 months than the 14 months previous to that

cricidmuslibale

annabanana82 said:

Having followed this thread for around 18 months it seems as though there has been more larger prizes won and mentioned here in the last 4 months than the 14 months previous to that

Yes that's what appears to have happened - I'm not entirely sure that everyone who claims to have won (a) larger prize(s) here in the last few months will actually have won (a) prize(s) as large in value as they claim in reality!

Yorkshire_Pud

josh33 said:

Yorkshire_Pud said:

So all the hogwash about needing to buy a block of £50,000 bonds to have a decent chance of winning doesn’t seem supported.

It's like a village raffle with 100 tickets - if you buy 30 tickets then you have an "increased chance" of winning, but then the old granny at the back with 1 single ticket might win and beat you to it!

It's entirely random

Yes but what if she’s YOUR granny, more likely because it’s a village raffle!? Look after granny.