No winner in the lotto

billy the squid

Some rich farmer is going to win it and be the only winner. just announced on the news that no one won it tonight.

Terry

You and your damn conspiracy theories.

Dave!

How about that! How much was it?

Santa Claus

DaveMcG wrote:

How about that! How much was it?

Around 11 million according to this mornings papers

Huggles

Terry wrote:

You and your damn conspiracy theories.

Hold on there Ted, he might be onto something.

No your right....

Anyways I'm going to win on Wednesday

tommycahir

damn and there was me thinking i was going to wake up a multi millionare in the morning

Heisenberg.

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Dave!

The Scientist wrote:

lotto shmotto.
A tax on stupidity.

Tax shmax.

MooseJam

I did it today but no winners eh, maybe if I buy 2 tickets next time ...

is_that_so

The Scientist wrote:

lotto shmotto.
A tax on stupidity.

Have you no fun in your life?
I'd draw the line at that Laura Woods thing though.

MooseJam

MooseJam wrote:

I did it today but no winners eh, maybe if I buy 2 tickets next time ...

Why stop at two, why not get 8 million tickets?

Jesus Wept

I didn't do it, I knew it wouldn't be done, so I didn't bother, I'll do it for Wednesday and win.

Time Magazine

The Scientist wrote:

A tax on stupidity.

Taxes are mandatory. The Lotto isn't.

The way I see is that I constantly winning from the Lotto. Twice a week I pick a set of numbers and when they don't come up I pat myself on the back for €2 well saved. I'm a net winner by €4 every week. Of course some day this might not work and I actually would have won the Lotto and I'd be a net loser. But I don't lose sleep over this, just like I don't lose sleep about getting hit by lightning.

mike65

I did'nt do it today as I knew I'd win more on Wednesday. I'll see this logic holds true in 3 days time.

Mike.

abelard

How much does it cost per line these days?

MooseJam

Myth wrote:

Why stop at two, why not get 8 million tickets?

your plan has a major flaw my friend, I can only spare 8 euro

Irish Wolf

Ibid wrote:

Taxes are mandatory. The Lotto isn't.

The way I see is that I constantly winning from the Lotto. Twice a week I pick a set of numbers and when they don't come up I pat myself on the back for €2 well saved. I'm a net winner by €4 every week. Of course some day this might not work and I actually would have won the Lotto and I'd be a net loser. But I don't lose sleep over this, just like I don't lose sleep about getting hit by lightning.

Make that pat a little bigger - the minimum play is €3..

Can't wait to win it on Wednesday - €10.9m worth of fivers just wouldn't have papered the whole house..

GhostInTheRuins

I never play the lotto, but I will for this Wednesday. All that lovely moolah

Terry

Abelard wrote:

How much does it cost per line these days?

€1.50 per line and 50 cent per line for the plus.

Huggles

So what will it be on Wednesday? Any estimates, 12.5/13.5 million maybe?

*rubs hands together*

That IS a tasty burger.

flogen

So you could buy 8 million tickets and (assuming no-one else wins it too) still come out with a marginal profit from the €12million + jackpot should you win on Wednesday.

But how many combinations are there? I forget how to do the maths for that whole thing...

Irish Wolf

flogen wrote:

So you could buy 8 million tickets and (assuming no-one else wins it too) still come out with a marginal profit from the €12million + jackpot should you win on Wednesday.

But how many combinations are there? I forget how to do the maths for that whole thing...

There's 8,145,060 at €1.50 a pop.. €12,217,590.. yup marginal profit available provided you're the only winner..

Time Magazine

Irish Wolf wrote:

There's 8,145,060 at €1.50 a pop.. €12,217,590.. yup marginal profit available provided you're the only winner..

Yeah and lads if you poured that much cash into the Lotto the prize fund would rise accordingly. The prize would increase beyond €12m.

Zaph

And you'd pick up a fair amount of cash in smaller prizes too

Irish Wolf

zaph wrote:

And you'd pick up a fair amount of cash in smaller prizes too

And probably a couple of thousand scratchies as well

Terry

Yep.
Plenty of 5+bonus and that sort of thing.

mike65

Its the logistics that would beat you, not the money needed!

Mike.

flogen

Irish Wolf wrote:

There's 8,145,060 at €1.50 a pop.. €12,217,590.. yup marginal profit available provided you're the only winner..

Interesting.

Anyone who plans on doing it, be sure to get each line on a separate slip - the rules dictate that you can only claim the highest prize on each ticket, not all of those available.

Me? Well, let's just say that if I had over €8million to hand I wouldn't be doing the lotto. I'm not greedy - that would be enough for me.

Gaspode

Irish Wolf wrote:

There's 8,145,060 at €1.50 a pop.. €12,217,590.. yup marginal profit available provided you're the only winner..

and there's the rub - you've got to be the only winner. At the rate people will be buying tickets in the next few days thats a 12 millions squids is a big risk to put down...

Oirthir

flogen wrote:

Interesting.

Anyone who plans on doing it, be sure to get each line on a separate slip - the rules dictate that you can only claim the highest prize on each ticket, not all of those available.

Me? Well, let's just say that if I had over €8million to hand I wouldn't be doing the lotto. I'm not greedy - that would be enough for me.

Too late lads, it's been done!

Wikipedia wrote:

In a 6/36 lottery, the odds of matching all six numbers and winning the jackpot are 1 in 1,947,792. At Lotto's initial cost of £0.50 Irish punt (€0.63 euro) for each six-number combination, one could cover all possible combinations for £973,896 (€1,236,848). When the jackpot reached £1.7 million (€2.1 million) for the May bank holiday drawing in 1992, a 28-member Dublin-based syndicate, organized by 43-year-old half-Polish businessman Stefan Klincewicz, tried to buy up all possible combinations and thus guarantee a jackpot win. Klincewicz's team had spent six months marking paper playslips, preparing for the "sting."

The National Lottery tried to foil the plan by limiting the number of tickets any machine could sell, and by turning off terminals Klincewicz's team of ticket purchasers were using heavily. Despite the company's efforts, the syndicate did have the winning numbers on the night -- but two other winning tickets were sold, too, so the syndicate could claim only one-third of the jackpot, or £568,682 (€722,226). Many smaller match-5 and match-4 prizes brought its total winnings to approximately £1,166,000 (€1,480,000), representing only a modest profit after expenses. Klincewicz appeared on the television talk show Kenny Live and capitalized on his short-lived notoriety with a self-published lottery-system book entitled Win the Lotto.

Johnny Meagher

I put 50c on the lotto about 10 years ago due to peer pressure. since then I only play eurolotto when it goes over €125m and just because I consider it the fee for being able to fantasise about winning that much money

Edit, about the above post, wasn't there something else, about a guaranteed minimum win for 4 numbers or something?

jjbrien

Have an idea lads what is we make a boards syndicate and pool our resorces to get the cash

whassupp2

twill be €12 million

aidan_walsh

jjbrien wrote:

Have an idea lads what is we make a boards syndicate and pool our resorces to get the cash

Yes, good idea. Everyone interested set up a twice weekly standing order to my bank account. I'll let you know whether we win or not.

jjbrien

aidan_walsh wrote:

Yes, good idea. Everyone interested set up a twice weekly standing order to my bank account. I'll let you know whether we win or not.

my cousin was in a bit syndicate a copule of years ago in aer lingus when the jackpot used to be less anyway they won the lotto anf got 12,000 punts each.

Terry

aidan_walsh wrote:

Yes, good idea. Everyone interested set up a twice weekly standing order to my bank account. I'll let you know whether we win or not.

Ok.
I'm in.
PM me your account details.

Jesus Wept

Id say more like 14-15m

flogen

Terry wrote:

Ok.
I'm in.
PM me your account details.

Gooood aftanoon sahhh, I'm calling from yo' bahnk...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AITl10lh2A

I require yo' bahnk account details an' yo' sort code so we can deposit teh monies.

aequinoctium

i matched 1 number!

Heisenberg.

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Binomate

I am so glad that I'm not working this Wednesday. Last time I was working a lotto night, with a prize of 6 million, it was absolute mayhem. It'll be even worse on Wednesday.

The cheapest Quickpick you can get is 2 lines at 3 euro, and an extra 1 euro for the plus. I think 2 lines is the absolute minimum.

aequinoctium

I think 2 lines is the absolute minimum.

you're correct

Piste

A syndicate is a very good idea...until there are syndicates left right and centre and it ends up like in Bruce ALmighty where everyone wins the lotto and get's less than $1 each

eirebhoy

According to the lotto site here's the balls that were last drawn the longest time ago (if that makes sense):


38 has been drawn 213 times which represents 15.7% of total draws, the last date it was drawn was Saturday May 5, 2007 - 22 draws ago

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12 has been drawn 220 times which represents 16.2% of total draws, the last date it was drawn was Wednesday May 9, 2007 - 21 draws ago

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40 has been drawn 214 times which represents 15.8% of total draws, the last date it was drawn was Wednesday May 23, 2007 - 17 draws ago

...

I know there's as much chance of any numbers coming out on Saturday but I'm a sucker for this kind of thing. For example, if I'm in a casino and the last 4 balls in roullette have landed on a black, I'll be doing the red.

I'm gonna stick 2 singles and a double on 38 and 12 in the bookies for Wednesday's draw and see how I get on.

Slutmonkey57b

The lotto might be a stupidity tax, but you can't deny one simple fact:

Somebody wins that fuc.king money.

And it's always some gormless gob****e who hasn't a clue what to do with it.

"Ah sure, I'm 83 now, so Ah sure I'll take the family on holiday anyway. Sure I won't be movin house it's graaand here in the village"

Binomate

There are people running syndicates where I work who come in and spend about €500 a week on lotto tickets. They usually win about €100 - €200 worth of small prizes from us, and they claim their bigger prizes from the post office. If they don't get their money back, they usually come close, and probably win more through all of the scratch cards they win.

Zaph

Slutmonkey57b wrote:

The lotto might be a stupidity tax, but you can't deny one simple fact:

Somebody wins that fuc.king money.

And it's always some gormless gob****e who hasn't a clue what to do with it.

"Ah sure, I'm 83 now, so Ah sure I'll take the family on holiday anyway. Sure I won't be movin house it's graaand here in the village"

I'll never forget one of the earliest big winners. It was some widow in her 70s who lived on a farm in Galway, and she won something like £3 million. When she was asked what she was going to do she said she'd probably buy a few more sheep and a second hand car. FFS, you have a responsibility to all the losers when you're given wad of cash like that, and buying a few poxy sheep is a surefire way to p*ss them off when they start thinking about what they would have done with the money.

Jesus Wept

zaph wrote:

I'll never forget one of the earliest big winners. It was some widow in her 70s who lived on a farm in Galway, and she won something like £3 million. When she was asked what she was going to do she said she'd probably buy a few more sheep and a second hand car. FFS, you have a responsibility to all the losers when you're given wad of cash like that, and buying a few poxy sheep is a surefire way to p*ss them off when they start thinking about what they would have done with the money.

If it makes you feel better, I will get fcuked up with drugs and hookers.


Edit: And wrap various supercars around various trees.

Slutmonkey57b

I will apply for lots of jobs and put "hookers and blow" down on the applications under "weaknesses"

Slutmonkey57b

Thw worst is that scumbag from Limerick who won the 118m. She still lives in limerick, and is building a farm.. in clare! WHO THE **** stays in limerick after winning that much money. Not only would I be on the first plane out of here, I'd charter a whole plane full of pig**** to rain down on the country behind me as I left.

Armstrong

Slutmonkey57b wrote:

Thw worst is that scumbag from Limerick who won the 118m. She still lives in limerick, and is building a farm.. in clare! WHO THE **** stays in limerick after winning that much money. Not only would I be on the first plane out of here, I'd charter a whole plane full of pig**** to rain down on the country behind me as I left.

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