Green Peace Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 Standard lotto odds are 1:13,983,816. Quote from one site... It is hard to appreciate how small this figure is: for example, the chance of death within one year for a middle-aged healthy man might be one in 1,000. If so, the chance he dies within the next week is one in 52,000; within the next day about one in 365,000, within the next hour about one in nine million - still bigger than the chance of a jackpot share. Indeed, on these figures, he is about as likely to win a jackpot share with one ticket as he is to die in the next 40 minutes. . Thats scary...If I dont reply after this you know whats happend.!!! Ah yeah but surely if you play several lines then this will help narrow the odds...not by much obviously But at least 'Some' of the money goes to charity...so dosn't feel almost as bad as playing the pools and losing I spose. Good Luck Guys!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ark Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 But then someone has to win.... No they don't - that's how come you get rollovers. Then MORE people buy tickets, overcome with greed for the bigger jackpot...only about 40% of ticket sales income go into the prize fund don't they? Someone's getting rich off the lottery, but it ain't the punters! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Headroom Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 cos i said i was putting a tenner on it 1 week and my bro said so will i and a mate said so will i and before we could blink all the friends and familly joined in for a laugh You either have a lot of friends or a very BIG family to buy £370 worth:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piehound Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 how do you work that out lol 37 people is hardly a lot of friends and familly, well it aint for me ive got 1 mum 3 brothers 3 sister inlaws 6 nieces old enough to play and 1mates familly makes 20+straight away = £200 it isnt hard when you do the maths Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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