Premium Bond Winner ?

GlasgowExpat2

2 x £100 this month, even though when I checked just after midnight it said I hadn’t won. 

Total of £625 this year on a £40k holding. 

Slinky

1 x £50 for me, 1 x £25 for OH on full holdings.  Better than thegoon but a little disappointing.

josh33

£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!! 

eskbanker

josh33 said:

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!! 

Hopefully there are some more tangible benefits from buying that then....

Wheres_My_Cashback

50K - 1 x 100 and 2 x 50

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.

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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....