Premium Bond Winner ?

justwantedtosay

patgarrett said:

£25 on full holding. £325 in total YTD. Absolutely pathetic.

Same total for the year as me on full holding too. Depressing, ain't it!

Deru

No big win yet.  This month I won...

£500
£25
£25.

£34K holding at the time?  I've added more since then.

Keezing

the_goon said:

Well, that's my 5th month in a row with no win, with a max holding.

I'm starting to think my numbers aren't in the draw any more. I think I'm going to withdraw it all, miss a month and buy back a new block of numbers.

According to the MSE premium bond probability calculator, only 100% of people have won more than me.

😭

By my calculations this should be so rare it could almost be considered statistically impossible.

Are you sure you are holding £50k? 

Do you have the NS&I "Prize Checker" app configured with the correct holder number? When you click on the past 6 draws button, what does it show?

I'm a bit of an odds geek and would love to see evidence of this, as you are presumably the unluckiest premium bonds holder of all time. Perhaps you could do an interview with the Daily Mail?

MysteryMe

I have struck lucky again. After winning £600 in March then nothing last month I have won £725 (1x £500, 2x£100 and 1x £25) this month. Full holding. 

eskbanker

Keezing said:

the_goon said:

Well, that's my 5th month in a row with no win, with a max holding.

I'm starting to think my numbers aren't in the draw any more. I think I'm going to withdraw it all, miss a month and buy back a new block of numbers.

According to the MSE premium bond probability calculator, only 100% of people have won more than me.

😭

By my calculations this should be so rare it could almost be considered statistically impossible.

[...]

I'm a bit of an odds geek and would love to see evidence of this, as you are presumably the unluckiest premium bonds holder of all time. Perhaps you could do an interview with the Daily Mail?

Odds are about 1 in 33,000, so not really freakishly low - with roughly a million maximum holders, there'd be about 30 who haven't won in the last five months....

gt94sss2

Deru said:

No big win yet.  This month I won...

£500
£25
£25.

£34K holding at the time?  I've added more since then.

Depends on how you define big win.

Personally, I would include £500 as such, given there are less than 40,000 of them.

gt94sss2

SonOfPearl said:

I have a £30k holding. I checked the app and it said I had two wins, the first was £25 and the second was…£1,000! I literally shouted "Yes!" at the breakfast table. That's my biggest ever single win, surpassing a £500 win last year. 😀

I've had premium bonds for years but never won a single prize of above £100.

This month, one bond won - and like yours it was for £1,000!

Chuffed.

Sarahspangles

eskbanker said:

Keezing said:

the_goon said:

Well, that's my 5th month in a row with no win, with a max holding.

I'm starting to think my numbers aren't in the draw any more. I think I'm going to withdraw it all, miss a month and buy back a new block of numbers.

According to the MSE premium bond probability calculator, only 100% of people have won more than me.

😭

By my calculations this should be so rare it could almost be considered statistically impossible.

[...]

I'm a bit of an odds geek and would love to see evidence of this, as you are presumably the unluckiest premium bonds holder of all time. Perhaps you could do an interview with the Daily Mail?

Odds are about 1 in 33,000, so not really freakishly low - with roughly a million maximum holders, there'd be about 30 who haven't won in the last five months....

I don’t think this is going to cheer @Keezing up!

Swipe

josh33 said:

£25 each for me and the wife, on full holdings. A bit disappointing.

If you download the Premium Bonds Checker Plus app (£0.99 subscription per year), it says how far away you were for each prize. One of my bonds was 40 away from a £50,000 prize, so close!! 

They are actually charging for an app now? You couldn't make this up.

ForumUser7

Swipe said:

josh33 said:

£25 each for me and the wife, on full holdings. A bit disappointing.

If you download the Premium Bonds Checker Plus app (£0.99 subscription per year), it says how far away you were for each prize. One of my bonds was 40 away from a £50,000 prize, so close!! 

They are actually charging for an app now? You couldn't make this up.

I cannot find the ‘Premium Bonds Checker Plus’ app on the Apple App Store. The only one I can find is NS&I’s own, and it still seems to be free