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Ifts

£50 on full holding for March - 2 x £25

plumb1_2

Bought mine in1972 and never won a penny 

MX5huggy

plumb1_2 said:

Bought mine in1972 and never won a penny 

You need to own more than 1.

Cash-Cows

Zero on £60k combined mr and Mrs holding. That's been a while. Long while. 

cricidmuslibale

Zero this month, only £25 in February and zero two months ago in January as well! Also zero in October last and only £25 in each of November and December! All this on a full holding! Have I been very unlucky or am I being punished deliberately through having my numbers omitted from some of the draws because I have the audacity, the sheer cheek if you like, to retain all of my Index Linked Savings Certificates in an ever-rising inflation environment perhaps? I know this sounds ridiculous but I am beginning to think this might be happening tbh.

eskbanker

cricidmuslibale said:

Zero this month, only £25 in February and zero two months ago in January as well! Also zero in October last and only £25 in each of November and December! All this on a full holding! Have I been very unlucky...

Fairly unlucky but not freakishly so - according to the MSE calculator, 39 out of 40 would win more than £75 from a £50K holding over six months, and the expected return with average luck would be £225.

cricidmuslibale said:

...or am I being punished deliberately through having my numbers omitted from some of the draws because I have the audacity, the sheer cheek if you like, to retain all of my Index Linked Savings Certificates in an ever-rising inflation environment perhaps? I know this sounds ridiculous but I am beginning to think this might be happening tbh.

Yes, completely ridiculous!

cricidmuslibale

"according to the MSE calculator, 39 out of 40 would win more than £75 from a £50K holding over six months, and the expected return with average luck would be £225."

So I have a 1 in 40 chance of winning £75 (or less than this) from a £50K holding over six months and this return is £150 below the expected return with average luck. I think it's reasonable to say that I've been a little more unlucky than just fairly unlucky, let's say significantly unlucky if very unlucky sounds a little too much in the circumstances!

eskbanker

Probably best not to get bogged down in semantics, as the numbers speak for themselves without needing adverbs to be attached to degrees of luck, but the point was that 1 in 40 isn't suspiciously unlucky, i.e. not enough to support paranoid conspiracy theories!

EssexHebridean

£25 for us this month on just under 6k eligible for the draw. Only seen 4 draws so far and this is our second £25 win. Unsurprisingly we’re happy with that! 

Saga

£25 this month. Second win in 2 months.
£175 (0.65%) over 6 wins in total after 17 months of holding.