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  • It’s Premium Bonds draw day.
  • retrorick
    Full Member

    2*25 for me this month. Nice to get back to winning after 3 months of no prizes.

    cogglepin
    Full Member

    25 quid for me and 25 quid for wife.

    StirlingCrispin
    Full Member

    They’ve reduced the odds of winning:

    Changes will take effect from May hitting premium bonds and savings accounts

    https://www.theguardian.com/money/2020/feb/17/nsi-announce-interest-rate-reductions-for-25m-customers

    ratherbeintobago
    Full Member

    I saw that; odds per draw dropping from 1:24500 to 1:26000

    thepurist
    Full Member

    What does that do to the theortical yield on premium bonds?  Down of course, but has anyone worked it out yet?

    willard
    Full Member

    £25 for me this month. The drought is over!!

    CraigW
    Free Member

    Decreasing from 1.4% to 1.3% equivalent.
    Can you get a better rate from any other savings account?

    edd
    Full Member

    What does that do to the theortical yield on premium bonds?

    The odds are, from May, 1:26,000. The 1.3% quoted above (again from May) includes the big prizes (including the £1m prize) so is not, in my eyes, truly representative. I calculate my assumed annual yield as follows:

    £25 [smallest prize] x 1/26,000 [odds of winning] x 12 [twelve draws a year] x 100 [to make into a percentage] = 1.15%

    This is tax free and better/ comparable to what I can find elsewhere, but with the (small) chance of winning a £1m prize. I would add that as an investment it is far more reliable if you have close to the maximum of £50k invested.

    retrorick
    Full Member

    Didn’t win the million but won 2 small prizes.

    timbog160
    Full Member

    £25 – my lowest for quite a while, but still better than a kick in the chops!

    ratherbeintobago
    Full Member

    No email from ERNIE yet so assuming it’s a ‘no’ here :-/

    franksinatra
    Full Member

    £25 for me, my first win since investing in Dec (too late for Dec draw).

    zippykona
    Full Member

    Even with my extra bonds purchased still nothing.

    Mrs Zip £25

    thepurist
    Full Member

    Keeping my losing streak going – nothing again.

    BoardinBob
    Full Member

    Another 3 x £25

    DavidB
    Free Member

    £25 but needed the £1,000,000 so next month then

    Caher
    Full Member

    £50.

    budgierider67
    Full Member

    Another £75 <drops mic>

    jimmy
    Full Member

    1x £50. First time I’ve had a £50 prize.

    trail_rat
    Free Member

    50 squids (2 x 25)

    agent million couldn’t find our house yesterday either it seems.

    kcal
    Full Member

    2 x £25 for me. 0 x anything for mrs.kcal.

    ElShalimo
    Full Member

    £0 !!

    jimster01
    Full Member

    Nowt here again.

    Ming the Merciless
    Free Member

    Zilch

    onewheelgood
    Full Member

    I’ve had 200 since I was born in 1959. Never won anything.

    Posted 1 year ago

    £50!

    Mind you, I did buy £20k of bonds last month.

    thepurist
    Full Member

    Agent Million practicing extreme social distancing yet again. And Agent £25. Nuffink.

    trail_rat
    Free Member

    Well a little good news in a shit period. 2* 50 quid again this month

    BoardinBob
    Full Member

    2×25

    Winning every month now consistently

    zippykona
    Full Member

    Nothing again.

    I’m pulling my money to buy some solar panels. That way I will win every day.

    Mrs Zip 2 x 25

    ElShalimo
    Full Member

    £0 according to the app

    I’m sure Agent Million got lost trying to find the house yesterday

    Ming the Merciless
    Free Member

    Zilch again, Mrs M won £25 last month.

    imnotverygood
    Full Member

    1 x£25
    4 x £25
    TBH I am slightly ambivalent about checking these days since the chance of winning big pale into insignificance compared to catching the you know what. I’m superstitious enough to believe that finding out I’d won £1 million would be quickly followed by my imminent demise. Glass half full man me.

    budgierider67
    Full Member

    1 x £25 to keep my winning streak going.

    edd
    Full Member

    1 x £25 for me too.

    Alphabet
    Full Member

    1 x £25 – Right I’m off to the pub to spend it. Oh hang on …

    Onzadog
    Free Member

    2 X £25 and 1 X £50. But the wife is out if work with no furlough as of Wednesday so a net loss in our house.

    timbog160
    Full Member

    3 x £25 for me this month, which feels more welcome than usual…

    MrSparkle
    Full Member

    £25 again.

    mashr
    Full Member

    2 x £25, I’ll take it

    ratherbeintobago
    Full Member

    £25 from ERNIE (but no email yet)

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