Postcode Lottery / National Lottery

[Citizen of Legoland]

How can everyone on the street win it ?

There are approximately 1.8million postcodes in the UK with an avg of about 15 households using each. When a postcode is drawn out then the prize money is shared between the people in that postcode who have entered the draw. If only 1 household has entered they win the lot and the rest of the households kick themselves. It gets a little more complicated when multiple households enter and some of them have paid for multiple entries. If two households have entered, one with one entry and one with two then one gets a third and the other gets 2/3rds.

I think.

 

[pride in battle]

There are approximately 1.8million postcodes in the UK with an avg of about 15 households using each. When a postcode is drawn out then the prize money is shared between the people in that postcode who have entered the draw. If only 1 household has entered they win the lot and the rest of the households kick themselves. It gets a little more complicated when multiple households enter and some of them have paid for multiple entries. If two households have entered, one with one entry and one with two then one gets a third and the other gets 2/3rds.

I think.

I know that I was just disputing the fact he said 'everyone' on the street WON, well unless everyone was participating they can't have :)

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

I know that I was just disputing the fact he said 'everyone' on the street WON, well unless everyone was participating they can't have :)

Ah right, could just have meant everyone who entered I suppose.

 

[Mid Wales blue]

A friend of mine, who’s also a City fan won £12.4 million on the Euromillions, back in 2010.

 

[Eccles Blue]

Premium Bonds !! Me and my sister have had them for more that 60 years and neither of us have ever won a penny.

I've had a Premium Bond since the very first week they came out and never won a penny!! :-)

I've never heard of anyone I know winning big on the Lottery but have had 5 friends, in different post codes, who've won large amounts on the Postcode Lottery.

 

[kaz7]

I do the postcode lottery, won about a tenner so far , lol, i will do national lottery if i am out so about once a month, won nothing for donkeys

 

[MellowJoe]

A friend of mine, who’s also a City fan won £12.4 million on the Euromillions, back in 2010.

I bet he's been your bestest friend in the whole world ever since :)

 

[balotellishaircut]

A friend of mine, who’s also a City fan won £12.4 million on the Euromillions, back in 2010.

Pls tell me he dropped you a few quid ?

 

[BLUEYESTU]

A guy who runs a Chinese takeaway in Barrow has won the national lottery. Twice!!! First time he won just around 5 million (I think) and second time he won just under a million.

 

[southamptonblue]

Well that’s 2 on here who know someone who has, or have themselves, won already on the first page so can’t be bad odds.

How many know someone who has won decent on the national lottery.

Mate of my mate won National Lottery jackpot, school friend of my brothers won Jackpot.