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cdd wrote:

Jamez wrote:I usually get a message saying pass this on and you will find true love before the week is out.

I'm waiting for a message which will tell me next Saturdays lottery numbers!

28, 32, 11, 22, 16, and 88512758128847481. Good luck!

Speaking of which, I wonder how much it would cost to simply register all the lotto combinations - or at least enough to give you a 50% chance of winning. Perhaps if you did it when there was a high rollover you could come out in profit!

There are 14 million different combinations in the lottery. You would need to wait for a double rollover or something (i.e. a jackpot of more than £15m), but saying that you do run the risk of someone else having the same combinations as you and thus having to share your winnings.

Also, if you happend to have £14m to spend on the lottery in the first place, you wouldn't really be too interested in wasting it!

However, buying up say 50,000 combinations on a particular week would increase your chances.

Jamez wrote:However, buying up say 50,000 combinations on a particular week would increase your chances.

If I did that I'd be standing next to the window of the top floor of a skyscraper watching the numbers come out!

3 words to discribe the msn ribbon for the tsunami victims....


SICK AND WRONG

no that's a description of you.

Hymagumba wrote:no that's a description of you.

haha. Anyway, there seems to be another message each day :roll:

Good god. I received my first text message about it tonight, in the vein of "Light a candle and put it in your window at 5pm, this message comes from Italy, send it to 5 of your friends".

Apart from the time difference which someone clearly hasn't taken into account if it is indeed from Italy, it's all sheer bollocks and I can't believe how stupid my friend is for sending it to me.

In my opinion it can only have originated from a teenage boy trying to inflate his sense of self-importance by capitalising on the gullability of ordinary plebs and superstition about chain texts. Good god. I'm going to lie down now.

Jamez wrote:There are 14 million different combinations in the lottery. You would need to wait for a double rollover or something (i.e. a jackpot of more than £15m), but saying that you do run the risk of someone else having the same combinations as you and thus having to share your winnings.

Also, if you happend to have £14m to spend on the lottery in the first place, you wouldn't really be too interested in wasting it!

However, buying up say 50,000 combinations on a particular week would increase your chances.

Heh, sadly not; there's a 1 in 15.8907 million chance of winning (6 out of 50 balls), and the cap on the jackpot in the UK is set at £15 million; so you're *just* not going to win.

In America (where there's no such cap), there are some syndicates who will wait until the money that'll be gained from the jackpot's over the cost of buying out all the tickets (a bit like the ones in the UK where a lot of people pay so much and then split the winnings if they do win), and then simply buy all the possible ticket combinations.

Of course when it came to it six or seven all did it at once, and they all lost out. But then again they did vote for George W. Bush.

SteveL wrote:Heh, sadly not; there's a 1 in 15.8907 million chance of winning (6 out of 50 balls), and the cap on the jackpot in the UK is set at £15 million; so you're *just* not going to win.

I'm sure there have been jackpots over £15 million. And it's 6 balls out of 49, not out of 50, so it's a little under 14 million possible combinations.

yep, there have been rollovers larger than £15 million.

There's been another one of these going round over the past few days... with there having just been a quake in S.E. Asia and all... I had one the other day, for example:

dis is a chain 4 da ppl hu hav dies in da quake in asia. if u dnt send dis msg on 2 mor thn 10 ppl by midnight 2nite then a boy hu died in da quake will stand in ur room nd scare u. no send bks

How fucking revolting.

James H wrote:There's been another one of these going round over the past few days... with there having just been a quake in S.E. Asia and all... I had one the other day, for example:

dis is a chain 4 da ppl hu hav dies in da quake in asia. if u dnt send dis msg on 2 mor thn 10 ppl by midnight 2nite then a boy hu died in da quake will stand in ur room nd scare u. no send bks

How fucking revolting.

Indeed. And even worse, the twat that wrote it originally can't bloody use proper English!!