Reply to: Outrageous increase in price of a lottery ticket

[thunderlizard]

It is disgusting, and unfair, that a lottery ticket should double in price when a £500 chip at Aspinalls isn't going up at all. It's one rule for Tory millionaires and one for the rest of us is what it is.

[d000hg]

Doubling the price of a ticket - fair enough - £1 isn't worth what it was 20 years ago.

But the only prize that is increasing by anything like an equivalent proportion is the bottom one

They're not expecting to make more, just to sell half as many tickets?

[centurian]

Doubling the price of a ticket - fair enough - £1 isn't worth what it was 20 years ago.

But the only prize that is increasing by anything like an equivalent proportion is the bottom one people don't play the lottery to win £10/25 - even the thickest players understand that they only come by rarely to make a difference.

[BrilloPad]

I do the same when I see a really attractive woman, spend all week dreaming of how I'd bonk the life out of her. Just as likely too and saves spending £2!

And you have more chance of winning the lottery.

[BolshieBastard]

On 31st October the price of a lottery ticket will be £1. On 1st November it will be £2. How can they justify this?

So on 2nd November it will be £4 and 3rd November it will be £8. By 30th November it will be £1,073,741,824 - so only assguru will be able to afford to buy a ticket.

This is a disgrace.

Postcode lottery is 2 quid. This increase has nothing to do with redistribution of small prize money and everything to do with bringing Lotto into line with the Postcode and EuroMillions lotteries.

[d000hg]

Gambling is for fun not finance. Everybody who plays knows you lose out but that's like saying the cinema is a "stupid tax" because you pay £10 and lose 2 hours of your life.


The fact it's going up to £2 seems unimportant, probably most people buy more than one ticket? If they don't they could play every 2nd week. And syndicates can still work on exactly the same budget.

[Platypus]

Yeah agreed, it's a tax on people who can't do maths.

Disagreed - it's the triumph of human hope over expectation.

If every achiever, statesman, inventor, leader worked out the odds, we'd still be in caves.

[doodab]

Yeah agreed, it's a tax on people who can't do maths.

How so? Nobody plays the lottery as an investment, it's a game.

[hyperD]

I don't think it's a tax on stupidity at all.

Yeah agreed, it's a tax on people who can't do maths.

[DimPrawn]

I don't think it's a tax on stupidity at all. For less than the price of half a pint or renting a tulip movie you get to spend all week dreaming of how you'd spend it. It's the best value escapism on the market.

I do the same when I see a really attractive woman, spend all week dreaming of how I'd bonk the life out of her. Just as likely too and saves spending £2!

[NickFitz]

I know - outrageous! a 100% hike in the stupidity tax!! What will the Wail say!!!.

The Express has gone all about it.

Coincidentally, the owner of the Express also owns a not-very-successful competitor to the National Lottery.

[doodab]

I don't think it's a tax on stupidity at all. For less than the price of half a pint or renting a tulip movie you get to spend all week dreaming of how you'd spend it. It's the best value escapism on the market.

[BrilloPad]

Mine was mathematics which is why I never played!

Have you never heard of the law of stupidity in large numbers?

[hyperD]

I think this is the push I need to stop playing.

Mine was mathematics which is why I never played!

[AtW]

Winning the lottery gets the public doing what the government is failing in trying to achieve, getting people to spend money which is good for the economy

If Govt wanted people to spend it would just take less tax in the first place.