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It's Premium Bonds draw day.

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I shall nonchantly mention that I’ve just won £100.
About bloody time!

Mrs Zip £25.


 
Posted : 02/09/2020 8:31 am
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Third time lucky. £25.

Annoyingly, this has reminded me that I should have put some of last Friday's paycheck in yesterday for October's draw.


 
Posted : 02/09/2020 8:38 am
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Good run recently! £100, 2 X £25 for me and same for Mrs BUTR.


 
Posted : 02/09/2020 8:44 am
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Another £25 for me.


 
Posted : 02/09/2020 9:04 am
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Posted : 02/09/2020 9:15 am
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Funfundzwanzig!


 
Posted : 02/09/2020 9:19 am
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Zero


 
Posted : 02/09/2020 9:26 am
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2 * £25 for me. Happy with that result.


 
Posted : 02/09/2020 9:29 am
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After a couple of lean months I’m back with 4 x £25 - yay...!😀


 
Posted : 02/09/2020 9:35 am
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First month of having PB in the draw, won 4x £25! I like this game.


 
Posted : 02/09/2020 9:53 am
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2x£25 for me. Not heard back from the wife yet. Maybe she's win big and done a runner.

Edit. No, 2x£50 for her, she'll be home tonight.


 
Posted : 02/09/2020 9:57 am
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25 quid for us


 
Posted : 02/09/2020 10:09 am
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4 prizes

3x £25
1x £500!!!

Woot - that's the best ever haul so far


 
Posted : 02/09/2020 10:16 am
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Big fat £0.... again


 
Posted : 02/09/2020 10:31 am
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2x £25 for me, 1x £25 for Mrs B.


 
Posted : 02/09/2020 2:17 pm
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"Bumper Crop" it said for me. The excitement was high...

4 x £25. No bad.


 
Posted : 02/09/2020 2:54 pm
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Nowt, and for a while now. But never mind, it is keeping it out of my pocket and thats what I still have them 😆

You get so little from the bank/building society that they rates are pretty much an obscene and thoroughly ironic joke. Pointless having savings with them.


 
Posted : 02/09/2020 4:53 pm
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in the 4 or 5 years I've had PBs, I have won £75 total. Nothing in the last 2 years

I might cash them in and buy a load of scratch cards!


 
Posted : 02/09/2020 5:18 pm
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Thats per £1 ticket, per month, is it? So someone maxed out will have 50000×12 = 600,000 “tickets” or a 1 in 77216 chance of winning the million in a year (or have I done this wrong?)

The odds of winning the £1m is 1 in 45.46 billion
if you have 600,000 "tickets" the odds are not 600,000 in 45.46b, they are 1 in 45.46b minus 600000
(or 1 in 45,459,400,000)

when you write it down it seems quite unlikely to win that.


 
Posted : 02/09/2020 5:24 pm
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Nothing for me in my 2nd month.


 
Posted : 02/09/2020 6:00 pm
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Nothing for me again. Not bothered about the big prizes, just a few smaller ones every now and then would be nice.


 
Posted : 02/09/2020 6:01 pm
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2x£25 this month. Ticking along nicely


 
Posted : 02/09/2020 6:17 pm
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The odds of winning the £1m is 1 in 45.46 billion

That can't be right? Apparently 22 million people have premium bonds and there are 24 x 1 million pound prizes won every year. That's a heck of a lot shorter odds than 1 in 45 billion?

Edit

I googled, you are right (applogies). But those odds are per month with a single £1 bond. Not many people with a holding that small!


 
Posted : 02/09/2020 6:17 pm
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Looks like I'm out of luck this month, but Mrs Lawman is £2 x £25 up on me.
She won't gloat at all, oh no...


 
Posted : 02/09/2020 7:42 pm
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t’s not £1 per “ticket” it’s £25 which is the smallest bond you can hold

So how come I have 5 x £1 premium bonds, since 1960?
And what are the odds for me never having won anything?


 
Posted : 02/09/2020 8:19 pm
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3 x £25. Rarely draw a blank these days. 👍


 
Posted : 02/09/2020 9:11 pm
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Nowt again. It'll be £1M next month...


 
Posted : 02/09/2020 10:13 pm
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So how come I have 5 x £1 premium bonds, since 1960?
And what are the odds for me never having won anything?

Obviously in 1960, £25 was quite a lot of money! They used to be £1, and at some point they’ve changed with inflation or whatever. If you’ve only got 5 bonds, it’s minute odds on you ever getting a win at 1:46,000,000.


 
Posted : 02/09/2020 10:54 pm
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£0!
That's 2 months in a row now!
It's a conspiracy!


 
Posted : 03/09/2020 8:32 am
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A single £25 this month, coke no hookers


 
Posted : 03/09/2020 10:46 am
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Did anyone get a phonecall from Agent Million today?


 
Posted : 01/10/2020 10:43 am
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"Did anyone get a phonecall from Agent Million today?"
That's right, shatter my dreams a day early.


 
Posted : 01/10/2020 10:52 am
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Did anyone get a phonecall from Agent Million today?

No, but I've been out walking the dog so probably missed him.


 
Posted : 01/10/2020 10:52 am
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I've checked the published high value winners for October and I'm not amongst the lucky ones ☹️. A few £25's would be nice tomorrow to make up for the disappointment 😉


 
Posted : 01/10/2020 10:57 am
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Sadly my mysterious missed call yesterday turns out not to be agent Million. 25 compensation though.


 
Posted : 02/10/2020 8:14 am
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2 prizes.

1 @25 and 1 @50

Not bad given I made a large legal withdrawal last month to pay for the extension.


 
Posted : 02/10/2020 8:17 am
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Me 2 x25 same for Mrs Zip.


 
Posted : 02/10/2020 8:27 am
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£25 😎


 
Posted : 02/10/2020 9:37 am
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My 100 percent record of winning bugger all continues. 😢


 
Posted : 02/10/2020 9:50 am
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2x£25 after a blank last month


 
Posted : 02/10/2020 9:51 am
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Nowt for me this month, 2 x 25 for the wife although I did get 651 quid on the lottery on Saturday.


 
Posted : 02/10/2020 9:52 am
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£25 for the wife. The usual for me 🙁


 
Posted : 02/10/2020 10:19 am
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2 * £25 for me. Happy with the result.


 
Posted : 02/10/2020 10:41 am
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Nothing. Hopeful for next month as my redundancy pay is in there now so should increase my odds by a factor of ~5000!


 
Posted : 02/10/2020 10:44 am
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4 x £25 for Mrs B and 1 x £25 for me this month.


 
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