Do you have a gamble with Lotto and Scratchcards?

I don't buy scratch cards, OH buys 2 lottery tickets if its a big rollover but otherwise we don't play.

The three of us have 4 lines in the National lottery between us, but nothing else.

We're in the Postcode Lottery - tenner a month. Like tanith, DH buys a couple of lottery tickets if there's a rollover.

We did the Lottery for years, ever since it started. Won about £120 in all those years - we don't bother now. I wouldn't buy a scratchcard.

I never buy scratch cards. I do the national lottery every Saturday and Wednesday with the birth dates of our six DC. Our numbers are all under 26 and I can't believe how often the 30s-40s come up.

Having done the arithmetic, I am inclined to agree with Edmund Burke (?) that a lottery is a tax on all fools.

We do a lucky dip on Saturday and have won a few £10s over the years,I do the Irish lottery on Wed/Sat.4 x 3numbers at 25p each=£2.00 and have won more on those it is not a vast amount as is national lottery but we have been surprised how often we have won on it.

I do one ticket on Sat and Weds. I very foolishly started out using the same numbers and now I feel compelled because God has a warped sense of humour and the week I miss is the week they come up

We do lotto weekly and the occasional scratchie. You have to have a conduit for good luck to reach you!!

No, more chance of being abducted in a flying saucer. I buy premium bonds, you can have the face value back even if you don't win.

Rollover week is statistically a bad bet as more people will be buying tickets!
I suppose everybody now knows that your chances of the jackpot are one in 14 million, but having seen the way people gamble on Deal or No Deal nothing surprises me.

Very occasionally. I used to do it weekly, but gave that up long ago. Just have the odd 'flutter'.

Far too much! But, as vampire said, the first week we don't all the numbers we have used for years will come up. We never buy scratch cards though. I won £25 on the Premium Bonds this week - first time for years!

So did I kitty. I have quite a lot of £25 wins, but nothing bigger for years!

Many years ago, when scratchcards were a new idea, my uncle said "if you buy five consecutive ones, one of them will be a winner". So we each chipped in £2.50 and bought five.

Sure enough we got a winner - a whole 50p to share. In those days it bought us a bar of chocolate.

Those were the days!

No, my money has been too hard come by to waste on gambling when there are clothes to be bought and lunches to be eaten!

Oh vampirequeen! I made the stupid mistake of using children's birthdays for the numbers, so I'm stuck - yes, God's warped sense of humour, that's exactly it. How I wish I had the courage just to stop.

vampirequeen - this is called magical thinking - it does not work!! I have never bought a lottery ticket and have no intention of doing so. But I do buy raffle tickets for good causes - and I win very often!!