National Lottery: what's the luckiest number?

[Evil Eye]

If you fancy a flutter this Easter, what offers the best chance of winning: a Lottery ticket or Premium Bonds? On the face of it the Premium Bonds are a safer bet as your stake is safe even if you don't win, and it's automatically entered for the next monthly draw. But you do have more chance of winning on the National Lottery.



With Premium Bonds the chances of winning any prize are one in 240 – provided that you have the minimum £100 holding. This means each £1 bond has exactly a one in 24,000 chance of a prize each month.



Compare this with the National Lottery: in its main prize draw you have a one in 54 chance of winning, and this falls to one in 13 on the EuroMillions draw, with a £1 stake for Lotto and £2 for EuroMillions.



Of course, the lowest prize is worth a little less on the Lottery. If players match three numbers on the main Lotto draw they will get just £10, while the minimum prize on the Premium Bonds remains at £25.



But no one plays either just to pick up a couple of minor prizes. The lure of both is the chance to win serious money. Although the chances of winning on either remain ludicrously long, you still have slightly better odds of scooping the jackpot on the Lottery than you have of winning the top Premium Bond prize.

Full article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...tional-Lottery-whats-the-luckiest-number.html





For those who play these things, have any lucky numbers?

 

[Jazzy]

I don't play the lottery but one time I picked 3 numbers that I had a dream about. Those number were 9, 2, 5. I played them straight and boxed. It cost me $4.00. They came out straight and I won $675.00. Needless to say I was a happy camper!

Never had another dream about numbers and haven't played again either.

 

[Evil Eye]

Sounds like you need to dream more!

 

[Jazzy]

Sounds like you need to dream more!

I agree with you! Need some more numbers dreams!

 

[Evil Eye]

Otherwise, it is a total crapshoot and nothing out there will increase your chances of winning.

As it should be (obviously)