Postcode lottery to play or not to play

[Nanniemate]

Well, here we go time to cancel to DD as nothing is happening. I have the urge to do this often but every time I think OK lets call it a day and cancel it guess what I have a little win. Never more than £20 but today I am going through the motions to cancel the payment open my bank account and what's looking at me a you guessed it a £10 credit from the Postcode lottery
So do I keep living in hope or use the money to pay the mobile phone bill instead..................

 

[TCG]

its only 10 quid a month, hardly worth thinking about.... and you will kick yourself when your neighbour is driving around in his new morelo a week after you cancelled

 

[BwB]

I'm not a big lottery player but do the postcode lottery and have won enough to keep it interesting so will stay in for now - oh, and the good causes etc

 

[chaser]

How do you win small amounts, surely it's your post code or it isn't,

 

[TheBig1]

Just look at those "good causes" you are supporting, like Shamima Begum's legal fight against the government

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[Camdoon]

Consider what % of tax, advertising, profit, distribution to different charities is taken from each £10.

 

[Boringfrog]

Don't gamble..... well apart from the stock market.

 

[movan]

How do you win small amounts, surely it's your post code or it isn't,

I don't really know, but think it may be that if the first part is yours then you win a smaller amount (?).

I was confused too as my local area won a very large amount and I thought everyone would just cancel their dd. However, they've all continued winning smaller amounts!

 

[dryad]

each postcode can have an average of 15 properties having the same set of letters and numbers although in reality depending on area it can range between 1 and 100..

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[John Barrett]

Consider what % of tax, advertising, profit, distribution to different charities is taken from each £10.

The Lottery is the most popular tax ever levied!

From the Gambling Commision figures.
The average breakdown for every £1 of ticket sales in 2018/19 was:

• 56p paid to winners in prizes
• 22p given to good causes
• 12p to the government in lottery duty
• 4p paid to National Lottery retailers on tickets sold
• 6p retained by the operator to meet costs and returns to shareholders.

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