What is the best way to win £1,000,000?

Probably not far off “winning” £1m if I didn’t have a MTBing habit to fund…

Enter every free competition you can find. I believe there are sites that offer this information.

I don’t do it myself, but when I was a kiddie my next door neighbours used to do it. Dad just had a standard job in the local factory like everyone else, but they lived a different lifestyle:

The son was the only kid in the village with a ten speed racer! He also had a Chopper! The family went on holiday to Spain when that was almost unheard of. They were the first family in the villager to get a colour TV. They had a very flash car (I don’t recall what, but it was very flash). They had a boat and a luxury caravan (neither of which, as far as I can recall,  were ever used). They re-carpeted their entire house in one go.

I reckon they would have won a million, just not all in one go.

Try putting a few extra curricular hours in at work, boss might give you a bonus ?

How did you get the emojis to work? Had a bonus many moons ago but not for a while now. I was given shares in the business. Should’ve cashed them in straight away as they are now worth bugger all.

I’ve been playing the postcode lottery for ages without realising. Set it up and then forgot about it. Won a £25 M&S voucher last week, which had the benefit of reminding me so I could cancel it.

The best way has to be to befriend a lonely, ailing millionaire with no other friends or family.

Magic 🙂

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Tape a banana to a wall – https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/nov/21/maurizio-cattelans-duct-taped-banana-artwork-fetches-us52m-at-new-york-auction

From the news stories today, having a very elderly Dad who hobbles around a garden and then rinsing the subsequent publicity and donations for all it’s worth seems to be a decent income.

Resulting reputational damage notwithstanding of course.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/nov/21/captain-tom-family-personally-benefited-from-charity-they-founded-report-finds

There were 26 UK millionaires created on Friday night’s Euromillions.

Pretty good odds though, unfortunately, not me.

To go back to the OP, who had a notional £10k.

£10k of lottery tickets, with all prizes less than a jackpot reinvested, gives odds of winning the jackpot of 1:6,694

£10k of premium bonds held for a year, and other winnings reinvested, gives a chance of winning £1m of 1:516,555 but of course you’d still have the £10k+winnings for more attempts next year if you didn’t win.

£10k on roulette, if you just play red/black until you pass £1m or lose it all gives odds of 1:5,352.

There were 26 UK millionaires created on Friday night’s Euromillions.

Pretty good odds though, unfortunately, not me.

I won £2.60.

Which makes a profit of 10p once I take into account the cost of the ticket in the first place. Go me!