Does your odd increase if you play Euromillions on Tuesday ?
Posted by Fantastic-Mud-4415@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 39 comments
I remember reading somewhere that less tickets are purchased on Tuesday than on Friday. Does this increase the odds of winning millionaire code as it's directly tied to the tickets ?
Swimming_Crow_9853@reddit
What can increase your odds of winning more is choosing high numbers, as you will be less likely to share. People will choose low numbers as low numbers are more likely to meaningful to them. Especially worth choosing numbers 32 or above (people will choose dates of birth and you can only have 31 days in a month). People may also choose things like house numbers, and there are more low numbers of these as some streets are short.
SomeHSomeE@reddit
10/10 for reading comprehension
Swimming_Crow_9853@reddit
Sorry, what I was trying to say was that people are more likely to choose lower numbers. So if you choose higher numbers, you're less likely to share it if you win the jackpot. This means that although the chances of winning the jackpot are the same whatever numbers you choose, you are likely to win more if you choose higher numbers.
e.,g. thousands of people choose 1,2,3,4,5,6 every week. If you do this you will share the jackpot so much you won't win as much as if you choose a more random pattern.
Also don't choose numbers in a row or a line on the form you fill in for the same reason.
SomeHSomeE@reddit
Yes but OP is talking about the chances for the millionaire maker, which a raffle code assigned to you not numbers you pick.
Swimming_Crow_9853@reddit
I know, I was adding to this by suggesting another good way of getting best value for money.
spnelson@reddit
Doubtful. Also I heard that when buying scratch cards it’s better to buy near the end of the roll but that’s never changed anything either!
rice_fish_and_eggs@reddit
I thought it was the opposite for scratch cards as the big prizes get won early.
Drath101@reddit
You can look online and see which ones have the most top prizes left
spnelson@reddit
Very possible, I figured it made sense the other way as they know all the cards have sold before paying out big prizes
Djinjja-Ninja@reddit
For the Millionaire Maker, technically, yes](https://www.euro-millions.com/uk-millionaire-maker#:~:text=Odds%20of%20Winning).
Your odds can go from 1 in 3.57 million for a minimum jackpot Wednesday all the way down to 1 in 6.6 million for a quad rollover Friday draw.
iffyClyro@reddit
> Your odds can go from 1 in 3.57 million for a minimum jackpot Wednesday all the way down to 1 in 6.6 million for a quad rollover Friday draw.
There isn’t a Wednesday draw.
Djinjja-Ninja@reddit
Bleh, meant tuesday.
tom-mart@reddit
Odds of winning the lottery are independent of number of tickets sold
Feeling-Ad6796@reddit
The op means the EuroMillions raffle,not the main draw. The raffle is determined by number of tickets sold and the answer to your question is that yes Tuesday euromillions has less players so the odds of winning the raffle are better.
ByEthanFox@reddit
However, just remember with Omaze - people buy many entries so the odds are a bit skewed. This is technically the same for the lottery, like, mathematically identical - but for the lottery, most people buy a ticket, maybe up to 5; for Omaze, one person can buy 5 entries and another can buy 400, and that's kinda the norm for how it operates.
Feeling-Ad6796@reddit
It doesn't matter how many tickets/ entries people buy. It works out the same.
ByEthanFox@reddit
You're absolutely right, per-ticket, yes.
I got confused with another reply chain where someone was talking about the number of people playing on a given day.
KingDebone@reddit
Not for the euromillions millionaire maker code. 1 UK winner gets picked for each draw, if only 10 people bought tickets then it'd be a 10% chance but if 100 did then it'd be 1%.
tom-mart@reddit
That's a bolt-on raffle, not a lottery draw.
KingDebone@reddit
Well thank god they specified it in the text rather than leaving it to up to pedantic interpretation then.
ucardiologist@reddit
Lottery is a scam
They only give out prizes when they made enough profits.
darklinkuk@reddit
Fucking hell, and here I thought they had a money tree farm.
Disgraceful profiteering.
gazchap@reddit
ITT, lots of people who can't read one post.
hideyourarms@reddit
I wonder how many more people will post the wrong answer and then be told they’re wrong.
Theres_a_box@reddit
If you are the only person to enter the Euromillions, you’d still have the same odds as a normal draw.
ByEthanFox@reddit
The millionaire raffle works like on the basis of one entry per ticket.
So if 10k tickets were bought that draw, the odds per ticket are 1-in-10,000.
That meaningfully means that if fewer people buy tickets, your odds of winning the millionaire raffle are higher, as someone always wins.
rice_fish_and_eggs@reddit
You'll be guaranteed to win the raffle.
BigFaithlessness618@reddit
Not sure, the millionaire code is taken from the ticket pool as there is a winner each draw.
My guess OPs answer is yes.
Mavz-Billie-@reddit
No. Your odds only increase with the more tickets you buy.
BladesMan235@reddit
Not for the millionaire raffle code
Mavz-Billie-@reddit
Got you, my bad
Classic_Mammoth_9379@reddit
That’s wrong. They are talking about the guaranteed win millionaire codes. To take the extreme example, if they were the only one to buy a ticket, they’d be guaranteed to be the winner.
Mavz-Billie-@reddit
Ok yeah my bad
L-0-T-H-0-S@reddit
Not one iota.
Djinjja-Ninja@reddit
They do, because Millionaire Maker's odd are based on the number of tickets sold so aren't fixed odds like the regular draw, and less tickets tend to be sold for Wednesday draws.
There is a single winner drawn from all tickets sold, so the less tickets sold, the better your odds.
One-Program6244@reddit
It makes absolutely no difference to the odds of you winning the lottery. What it does affect is on the off chance that you do win the jackpot it will be less likely that you will have to share the prize with another winner.
whyy_i_eyes_ya@reddit
Not in this instance. There is usually one guaranteed winner of £1m. So your odds do change based on the number of tickets that are sold for that draw. It's independent of the standard numbers drawn.
Visual-Economist5479@reddit
Yes if less tickets are sold it would increase the chances of a millionaire maker code win, however not the main jackpot.
I doubt its a meaningful change though, but I suppose a Tuesday (if you are correct) along with a mega low jackpot when a lot of people are away (August or something) would have the best odds.
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