Premium Bond Winner ?

Deru

gt94sss2 said:

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.

NS&I consider £5K+ worthy of being published on their big wins list so I consider  £5K a big win.  

Last month I won £1K And 3 smaller wins. Hoping this winning streak keeps going

becky_rtw

Just £25 for me (after over £1000 in the last two months). I think I have 48k now total

£50 for OH on full holding. We thought he might have won big (50k) as someone won in our location with an amount OH bought at the same time, but sadly not. Maybe next time 😂

Deru

ForumUser7 said:

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

I found it in the Google Play Store. It's likely not available for Apple iOS!

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.

It's probably not official. There's still the free official app plus the official prize checker app you can get.

Personally, I wouldn't want to know if I was 1 bond number away from a big win that I just missed out on!

sonny55

Oh lucky me !!

£200 
good luck you all for June 

SonOfPearl

gt94sss2 said:

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.

Congratulations! 

the_goon

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.

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?

Oooo, does that mean I'm famous?
Yes, I'm sure I have 50k in there. I've attached a screenshot of the NS&I website showing my prize history. The amount I have in there shows at the top. My last win was 2 x £25 in December.

I'm gonna withdraw half and get a new batch of them, as someone suggested earlier in the thread.

Think I'll pass on the Daily Mail though. lol.

abgrad

Deru said:

gt94sss2 said:

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.

NS&I consider £5K+ worthy of being published on their big wins list so I consider  £5K a big win.  

Last month I won £1K And 3 smaller wins. Hoping this winning streak keeps going

Deru, am I right in understanding you’ve won over £1600 in 2 months (which is amazing!) and not on max holding… and are hoping your winning streak continues? I get the need to hope… but share the luck around 😂 

abgrad

Nothing last month. £25 this month. On £35k holding. 

A bit disappointed but I didn’t win over £100 for 2 months earlier this year so I guess I’m averaging out. 

Sometimes the day before the results I decide what I’m going to treat myself to if I win a “good” amount and this time I was going to surprise an old friend by sending them a Lego bonsai kit as they’ve been a bit down lately. But £25 won’t cover that but I might do it anyway, or maybe wait for a win next month if I’m lucky! 

Wilbur11

1x £50 for me and £575 for other half - 1x £500, 1x£50, 1x£25.  Both hold 50k each. If I’m nice other half may share  😂

Keezing

the_goon 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.

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?

Oooo, does that mean I'm famous?
Yes, I'm sure I have 50k in there. I've attached a screenshot of the NS&I website showing my prize history. The amount I have in there shows at the top. My last win was 2 x £25 in December.

I'm gonna withdraw half and get a new batch of them, as someone suggested earlier in the thread.

Think I'll pass on the Daily Mail though. lol.

I might have got the odds slightly wrong, but even still I’d say it’s more likely that someone would win a £50k prize than go 5 consecutive months with no wins on max holding. Kinda sickening.