Anyone Else Stopping Playing?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-33148109
I'm cancelling my dd today, I suppose I got caught up in the excitement back in 94 and I have been doing the same numbers ever since but now I have forgotten them and they are adding 10 more numbers making it even more difficult to win so I'm outa here.

[Gromit]

I have always had the same numbers (which was a huge mistake).

Now that more numbers have been added, it seems like the ideal time to finally stop. I will stop regularly playing, and will have the occassional lucky dip when the jackpot gets big.

[zebo]

We stopped when they doubled the £1.

[ToraToraTora]

that's exactly my position gromit. I don;t know anyone who doe sit regularly like me who's staying, this could kill it off.

[Copacetic]

I stopped playing a while ago bar a few goes on the euromillions in recent times, I spend way more than I ever win so I cant afford to do it anymore.

[Baldric]

Stopped when it went to £2, just do Thunderball now

[maggiebee]

Friend's daughter does the Irish Lottery and seems to win regularly with this. Anyone tried it?

[Gromit]

Tora,
Camelot have done a really terrible job of maintaining the Lottery brand.

Twenty years ago each jackpot based on revenue from sales, was about £9million. Today, despite the doubling of the ticket price, the jackpot based on sales is less than £2million.

Like you, I suspect the changes will damage it, possibly fatally, rather than rejuvenate it.

[Retrochic]

The odds against wining even £10 is unbelievable. I prefer to have a flutter on a charity based lottery such as the Air Ambulance. I'm thinking about trying the Postcode Lottery but want to find out if mine has come up before I buy a ticket

[Arrods]

We're stopping too.

[Gromit]

It's odd. I am not at all susperstitious, quite the opposite, but if I miss putting my long standing numbers on, I feel uneasy. Then relieved when my numbers aren't drawn.
This will ve the first week I have deliberately not entered my numbers in the draw, and I will be a bit apprehensive.

[ToraToraTora]

maggie, I assume you mean she does the irish lottery in UK. The irish lottery is not the irish lottery, it is a bet on the outcome of the irish lotttery. I know for example they claim hundreds for 3 numbers but that is not the same as getting 3 numbers from 6 picks.

[Baldric]

///The odds against wining even £10 is unbelievable///

That is very true as £10 is no longer a prize

[ToraToraTora]

yes gromit I agree classic mis management, go back to a bin lid a go as it was on day 1, much more successful than now. At this rate I can see the pools making a comeback.

[bazwillrun]

One look at some of the lunatic causes it gives away money to every year, should be enough to stop most people playing....

[ToraToraTora]

come on baz, Peruvian guinea pig farmers need help"!

[Dodger666]

I stopped after 6 months of winning nothing.

[VHG]

The odds of winning the lottery have gone up dramatically now it is 59 numbers (it was always a bad way to gamble anyway).

My guess is they want more roll overs with massive 100 million prizes which to my way of thinking is disgraceful.

I hope people stop doing it in their millions.

[Bazile]

gromit

//I have always had the same numbers (which was a huge mistake). //

I would totally agree with you there

//Now that more numbers have been added, it seems like the ideal time to finally stop. I will stop regularly playing, and will have the occassional lucky dip when the jackpot gets big.//

I don't follow you there - even though more numbers have been added - you still only need 6 numbers for the jackpot ( so your existing fixed numbers could still win ) ?

[Bazile]

Tora

I really wish i could forget what my fixed numbers are