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Life's a lottery, the difference being
you don't want your number to come up
Greed becomes the overseeing
Feature, ain’t life tough enough
TO squander your hard earned cash
For a piece of paper, soon to be trash

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I never do any lotteries, although I might consider it if numbers had jockeys on their backs to steer them out of the drum. The wife does the numbers in the bookies, based on the lottery draw, she selects three numbers and whatever way she crosses them if they come out she collects 1,300 euros which she does two and three times in the year, she's streets ahead of what she puts on. One of her sisters won half a million euros three years ago on the Irish lottery so the girls in her family are fairly lucky, pity I can't say the same for their husbands.

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It's not much though is it for four numbers, beats me how anyone manages to win the lottery I have difficulty getting one number!

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That's what I felt cranberry so I stopped doing the National Lottery for that reason too.

2 years ago I got 4 numbers - £64!

Probably get more at a Bingo hall!!

The Postcode Lottery suits me. No millions involved - I don't want or need millions - top prize is £400,000 and that'd do me nicely if I was that lucky but there's different draws all the time and once you have bought your ticket, you are in most of them automatically.

I didn't even know about the one I've just won a tenner on! stevmk2

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I've been putting a couple of lines on every Saturday since the lottery started...but stopped it when they put it up t £2 a line .got a tenner quite often...never any more than that.I'd like it better if they kept the top prize at £1000000 and gave a bit more to the other prize winners.

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I tried the health lottery a few times cos it's only £1 and the top prize is around £100,000 I think that'd do nicely.

Never heard of the postcode lottery stevmk2......is it easy to do? Oh, think I would've cried if I'd only received £64.00 for 4numbers!!!

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I saw it advertised on TV and looked it up - see here: -

https://www.postcodelottery.co.uk/Pl...FTDMtAodTyEAxQ

I set up a £10 per month Direct debit for 1 ticket and that's it - it's all online or you can opt to have them 'phone you if it's over £1000.

The site will tell you all about how it works.

As I do it DD I can't forget it now as the only way is to cancel the DD & inform them. stevmk2

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Just had a little peek, will have a proper look later. Seems a bit fairer the division of the 'pot'.

Oh and thanks stevmk2......where are my manners?!

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Exactly cranberry - it IS a much fairer Lottery and it still gives a lot to Charity too if that's a concern!

I have reservations about the Health Lottery having tried to find a list of Charities they supposedly support.

Their site says

"The Health Lottery scheme manages 51 society lotteries that operate in rotation and each represents a different geographical region of Great Britain" but I couldn't actually find a list anywhere, so how do we know? stevmk2

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The Health Lottery is not a national lottery but 51 local society lotteries each representing one or more local authority areas. Each one is licensed by the Gambling Commission and will raise money for health related good causes within their respective local authority areas.

Money raised will not go towards services that are covered by existing NHS funding. Instead, through the local society lotteries’ partner charity, the Peoples Health Trust, the monies are distributed across Great Britain to health related good causes important to local communities within each local society lottery area. This means that every single part of Great Britain gets a share of the pot.