Is this a change for good ?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-68156629

nigel

2024-02-02 16:33:17 UTC

Post by November Nihal
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-68156629

If they tinker with the draw formats or make the results less
accessible, that's an easy 'no' from me.

November Nihal

2024-02-03 12:17:25 UTC

Post by November Nihal
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-68156629

If they tinker with the draw formats or make the results less
accessible, that's an easy 'no' from me.

One of the planned changes if to lower the cost to £1. I like the sound of that but
depends on how much lower the prize will be.

nigel

2024-02-03 13:03:19 UTC

Post by November Nihal
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-68156629

If they tinker with the draw formats or make the results less
accessible, that's an easy 'no' from me.

One of the planned changes if to lower the cost to £1. I like the sound of that but
depends on how much lower the prize will be.

So far so good - they're updating the National Lottery website in the
same way as Camelot. But they're also linking it to the Allwyn website
so changes may be afoot.

The National Lottery jackpots are pretty paltry compared to
Euromillions. They'll have to do something pretty clever to lower the
entry cost without reducing jackpots.

MJ99

2024-02-06 21:59:01 UTC

Post by November Nihal
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-68156629

If they tinker with the draw formats or make the results less
accessible, that's an easy 'no' from me.

One of the planned changes if to lower the cost to £1. I like the
sound of that but depends on how much lower the prize will be.

So far so good - they're updating the National Lottery website in the
same way as Camelot. But they're also linking it to the Allwyn website
so changes may be afoot.
The National Lottery jackpots are pretty paltry compared to
Euromillions. They'll have to do something pretty clever to lower the
entry cost without reducing jackpots.

I like the idea of the £1 ticket price. But I would rather they go back
to the 6/49 game too.

I don't think it such a bad idea to have say a £1m prize. The Premium
Bonds do it. What if their £1m rolled over each time?

We have no idea what they will do.

On another note I installed Mozilla Thunderbird and have a (free)
account with Eternal September. That way I avoid Google Groups. But I
have also had to change news readers so I've no idea if this posting
will work

MJ

MJ99

2024-02-06 22:07:17 UTC

Post by November Nihal
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-68156629

If they tinker with the draw formats or make the results less
accessible, that's an easy 'no' from me.

One of the planned changes if to lower the cost to £1. I like the
sound of that but depends on how much lower the prize will be.

So far so good - they're updating the National Lottery website in the
same way as Camelot. But they're also linking it to the Allwyn website
so changes may be afoot.
The National Lottery jackpots are pretty paltry compared to
Euromillions. They'll have to do something pretty clever to lower the
entry cost without reducing jackpots.

MJ99

2024-02-06 22:44:37 UTC

Post by November Nihal
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-68156629

If they tinker with the draw formats or make the results less
accessible, that's an easy 'no' from me.

One of the planned changes if to lower the cost to £1. I like the
sound of that but depends on how much lower the prize will be.

So far so good - they're updating the National Lottery website in the
same way as Camelot. But they're also linking it to the Allwyn website
so changes may be afoot.
The National Lottery jackpots are pretty paltry compared to
Euromillions. They'll have to do something pretty clever to lower the
entry cost without reducing jackpots.

MJ99

2024-02-06 22:46:03 UTC

Post by November Nihal
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-68156629

If they tinker with the draw formats or make the results less
accessible, that's an easy 'no' from me.

One of the planned changes if to lower the cost to £1. I like the
sound of that but depends on how much lower the prize will be.

So far so good - they're updating the National Lottery website in the
same way as Camelot. But they're also linking it to the Allwyn website
so changes may be afoot.
The National Lottery jackpots are pretty paltry compared to
Euromillions. They'll have to do something pretty clever to lower the
entry cost without reducing jackpots.

I like the idea of the £1 ticket price. But I would rather they go back
to the 6/49 game too.
I don't think it such a bad idea to have say a £1m prize. The Premium
Bonds do it. What if their £1m rolled over each time?
We have no idea what they will do.
On another note I installed Mozilla Thunderbird and have a (free)
account with Eternal September. That way I avoid Google Groups. But I
have also had to change news readers so I've no idea if this posting
will work
MJ

Oops.

Too efficient!

MJ

nigel

2024-02-09 16:40:42 UTC

Post by MJ99
Too efficient!
MJ

Three efficient :-)

I got the impression that Camelot were more focussed on scratchcards
towards the end. They're certainly the biggest seller at my local Tesco
Express.

Meanwhile, I have another system that's made a promising start. No doubt
it will shortly crash and burn.

nigel

2024-02-10 13:06:00 UTC

Post by nigel
Meanwhile, I have another system that's made a promising start. No doubt
it will shortly crash and burn.

And so it came to pass, Friday's Euromillions draw sending it crashing
and burning. :-(

Marmaduke Jinks

2024-02-11 13:21:32 UTC

Post by nigel
Meanwhile, I have another system that's made a promising start. No
doubt it will shortly crash and burn.

And so it came to pass, Friday's Euromillions draw sending it crashing
and burning. :-(

I'm not a huge fan of the Euromill. I think because of the ridiculous
odds and also they don't reward you very well at the lower levels.

The Lotto result had two numbers ending in 9 and two ending in 3. What
I like to call a Family Group. 81 % of the time there's a Family Group
in the result (not inc the bonus ball)

The works syndie and I had an ok go at the Lotto jackpot last night. We
made a loss but our 366 lines gave us a Match4 and 3 Match3s, as well as
36 Lucky Dip fivers.

I had experimented with putting a grid of 131 lines from Covermaster
with the La Jolla table of 119 lines. Two of 119 lines and one of 131.
The 119 grids were staggered to cover different combos. I had most
pairs covered at least 3 times. When the next must-be-won Jackpot comes
around I'll have 428 lines to play.

I like Covermaster as you can get good coverage for your inputs. The La
Jolla tables show all the combinations of eg 6 selections out of 59
https://ljcr.dmgordon.org/cover/table.html

MJ
[If your Google Group access to usenet is going then get Mozilla
Thunderbird (try version 78.14) and a free account with
eternal-september. You can always ask me if you get stuck].

nigel

2024-02-13 16:08:56 UTC

Post by Marmaduke Jinks
[If your Google Group access to usenet is going then get Mozilla
Thunderbird (try version 78.14) and a free account with
eternal-september. You can always ask me if you get stuck].

I hadn't heard anything about losing usenet access from Plusnet. I have
an eternal-september account I haven't used for ages. One day I'd better
test whether it's still accessible.

My new system gets another chance to crash and burn tonight. For
Euromillions, it likes 37,18,45,30,08. (I have no money invested).

Marmaduke Jinks

2024-02-14 15:14:07 UTC

I hadn't heard anything about losing usenet access from Plusnet. I have
an eternal-september account I haven't used for ages. One day I'd better
test whether it's still accessible.
My new system gets another chance to crash and burn tonight. For
Euromillions, it likes 37,18,45,30,08. (I have no money invested).

I know of Plusnet buying in from Giganews to give usenet access. But
you'll still need a reader for that I do believe.

I used to use Outlook Express on an XP machine for reading the usenet
groups but the machine crashed and burned -like your Euromill selections
;-)!

MJ

nigel

2024-02-14 16:08:38 UTC

I hadn't heard anything about losing usenet access from Plusnet. I
have an eternal-september account I haven't used for ages. One day I'd
better test whether it's still accessible.
My new system gets another chance to crash and burn tonight. For
Euromillions, it likes 37,18,45,30,08. (I have no money invested).

Wow, it got one number correct.

Friday: 50,02,45,16,07

Post by Marmaduke Jinks
I know of Plusnet buying in from Giganews to give usenet access. But
you'll still need a reader for that I do believe.
I used to use Outlook Express on an XP machine for reading the usenet
groups but the machine crashed and burned -like your Euromill selections
;-)!
MJ

I'm using Netscape Mail and News 7.1, a Thunderbird predecessor ;-)

nigel

2024-02-14 16:10:44 UTC

I hadn't heard anything about losing usenet access from Plusnet. I
have an eternal-september account I haven't used for ages. One day I'd
better test whether it's still accessible.
My new system gets another chance to crash and burn tonight. For
Euromillions, it likes 37,18,45,30,08. (I have no money invested).

Wow, it got one number correct.

Friday: 50,02,45,16,07

I'm using Netscape Mail and News 7.1, a Thunderbird predecessor ;-)

Marmaduke Jinks

2024-02-16 15:43:31 UTC

I hadn't heard anything about losing usenet access from Plusnet. I
have an eternal-september account I haven't used for ages. One day I'd
better test whether it's still accessible.
My new system gets another chance to crash and burn tonight. For
Euromillions, it likes 37,18,45,30,08. (I have no money invested).

Wow, it got one number correct.
Friday: 50,02,45,16,07

I'm using Netscape Mail and News 7.1, a Thunderbird predecessor ;-)

Ah excellent.

My Mystic Meg Crystal Ball gives me these numbers in the EuroMill

9 18 25 33 43
2 7 29 29 (no one;s perfect ;-) & 50
8 18 26 36 45

MJ

nigel

2024-02-17 13:44:47 UTC

Post by nigel
Friday: 50,02,45,16,07

Tunguska wasn't a meteorite - it was one of my lottery systems crashing
and burning :-(

Tuesday: 15,02,48,45,05

Post by Marmaduke Jinks
My Mystic Meg Crystal Ball gives me these numbers in the EuroMill
9 18 25 33 43
2 7 29 29 (no one;s perfect ;-) & 50
8* 18 26* 36 45

Two right - not bad!

Post by Marmaduke Jinks
MJ

Marmaduke Jinks

2024-02-18 10:14:51 UTC

Post by nigel
Friday: 50,02,45,16,07

Tunguska wasn't a meteorite - it was one of my lottery systems crashing
and burning :-(
Tuesday: 15,02,48,45,05

Post by Marmaduke Jinks
My Mystic Meg Crystal Ball gives me these numbers in the EuroMill
9 18 25 33 43
2 7 29 29 (no one;s perfect ;-) & 50
8* 18 26* 36 45

Two right - not bad!

Post by Marmaduke Jinks
MJ

Two out of many. I won't give up my day job ;-)

MJ

November Nihal

2024-02-17 18:11:30 UTC