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ranciduk said:

Does Ns&i usually send you an email confirming if you’ve won a prize?

Yes about 4-5 days after the draw

cattie

Just £25 for me on £40k. Many people here have been much luckier than me.    I've yet to win more than the £25 prizes.

refluxer

ranciduk said:

Does Ns&i usually send you an email confirming if you’ve won a prize?

If you install NS&I's Prize Checker app, you can find out on the day of the draw.  

waveydavey48

ranciduk said:

waveydavey48 said:

This is my first month with the max (£50K) and I won ......... a big fat zero. Oh well.

You got a crystal ball then?!

Hmm. I checked online just before I posted. On entering my wife's holder number the prize checker said she has won £25 and when I entered my holder number it said I have won nothing. I've just checked again and it now says I have won £25 as well. She bought hers a month before me, April is the first month my bonds were in the draw. Maybe that explains the discrepancy. 

MrMorgan

3 x £25 for me this month - full holding 

waveydavey48

I've only started following this board. Has anyone ever posted saying they've won £1m?  
Good luck to them if they did. I'd just like to hear how it felt.

strawb_shortcake

cattie said:

Just £25 for me on £40k. Many people here have been much luckier than me.    I've yet to win more than the £25 prizes.

18 months I've had the max holding and only had £25 prizes, even though I've had £900 over that time I'd still like to see a bigger one, not greedy would be happy with a £50 one

ranciduk

refluxer said:

ranciduk said:

Does Ns&i usually send you an email confirming if you’ve won a prize?

If you install NS&I's Prize Checker app, you can find out on the day of the draw.  

Yep done that - that’s how I know I won a prize
just found it a bit odd that I’ve not had an email...

josh33

I'm bad at maths so my logic is most likely flawed, but I've noticed the older bonds have less characters e.g. AB123456 whilst newer bonds are longer e.g. 123AB123456.

Simplifying an example to say there are only 99 bonds numbered 1-99, that would mean 9 bonds have one digit (1-9) and 90 bonds have 2 digits (10-99). Assuming the numbers are drawn randomly, those with 2 digits are far more likely to be drawn. Bonds 1-9 would be drawn 9/99 = 9.1% of the time whilst bonds 10-99 would be drawn 90/99 = 90.9% of the time. Now each bond 1-9 would have 9.1%/9 = 1.01% overall, whilst bonds 10-99 would have 90.9%/90 = 1.01% overall, so in the end all bonds are likely to be picked. But can there be any bias where the newer bonds 10-99 with 2 digits are more likely to win, as more of them are drawn compared to those with 1 digit?

eskbanker

josh33 said:

I'm bad at maths so my logic is most likely flawed, but I've noticed the older bonds have less characters e.g. AB123456 whilst newer bonds are longer e.g. 123AB123456.

Simplifying an example to say there are only 99 bonds numbered 1-99, that would mean 9 bonds have one digit (1-9) and 90 bonds have 2 digits (10-99). Assuming the numbers are drawn randomly, those with 2 digits are far more likely to be drawn. Bonds 1-9 would be drawn 9/99 = 9.1% of the time whilst bonds 10-99 would be drawn 90/99 = 90.9% of the time. Now each bond 1-9 would have 9.1%/9 = 1.01% overall, whilst bonds 10-99 would have 90.9%/90 = 1.01% overall, so in the end all bonds are likely to be picked. But can there be any bias where the newer bonds 10-99 with 2 digits are more likely to win, as more of them are drawn compared to those with 1 digit?

The number of digits has no influence on the prospects of any given bond winning prizes, they're all equal, but obviously any subset of bonds, however defined, should (over the long term) win proportionally to its size....