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Postcode Lottery odds
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Last year - we won 6 lots of £10 and one £15
This year - nothing yet !
What are the odds of winning £10 ?
This year - nothing yet !
What are the odds of winning £10 ?
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Depends how many different postcodes are being played (as far as I am aware they do not reveal that information).
Excluding NI there are over 1,500,000 postcodes, (the free pick my postcode site has almost 50% of postcodes registered but only 3.2% of the UK population).
If you take just 2.5% as being played in the PPL as a possible figure = 37,500.
They draw 1,000 postcodes for the weekly £10 draw which gives odds of winning it of about 37 to 1 and the same for the £20 draw so with "average" luck that would be 1 or 2 wins a year on both draws. If 5% of postcodes were played then it becomes an average of a win on each draw about every 18 months.
(They say 80% of players win something each year)
Just chance, the £15 prize is now £20 and you have as much chance of winning that as £10, you have better odds now at £1,000 with 20 postcodes drawn everyday of the week (used to be 10) along with a £30,000 postcode on Saturdays and Sundays all apart from the Main draw (I won a £10 last week)
That's only for the main draw, it makes no difference for the others (£10, £20, £1,000 etc) as each postcode with a ticket is only entered once regardless of the number of tickets in that postcode area.
Also, did you know, you can play any postcode you like? It doesn't have to be where you live... I see a lot of people moaning about "it's always Birmingham or Bradford who seem to win" then it makes sense to play a Birmingham postcode and see if that is the case.
I also wondered about getting a big group of people together to all start playing the same one postcode and see if there are more regular wins between the group?
Thoughts?
As per their website (their bold)
Buying multiple tickets increases what you can win for all the other draws and increases ever so slightly the overall chances of winning the main draw and getting a bigger share of the prize.