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  • Re: Is this a change for good ?

    From nigel@21:1/5 to November Nihal on Fri Feb 2 16:33:17 2024
    November Nihal wrote:

    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.

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  • From nigel@21:1/5 to November Nihal on Sat Feb 3 13:03:19 2024
    November Nihal wrote:
    On Friday 2 February 2024 at 16:33:24 UTC, nigel wrote:

    November Nihal wrote:


    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.

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  • From nigel@21:1/5 to All on Fri Feb 9 16:40:42 2024
    MJ99 wrote:

    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.

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  • From nigel@21:1/5 to nigel on Sat Feb 10 13:06:00 2024
    nigel wrote:

    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. :-(

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  • From nigel@21:1/5 to Marmaduke Jinks on Tue Feb 13 16:08:56 2024
    Marmaduke Jinks wrote:

    [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).

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  • From nigel@21:1/5 to Marmaduke Jinks on Wed Feb 14 16:10:44 2024
    Marmaduke Jinks wrote:

    On 13/02/2024 16:08, nigel wrote:

    Marmaduke Jinks wrote:

    [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).


    Wow, it got one number correct.

    Friday: 50,02,45,16,07




    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 ;-)

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  • From nigel@21:1/5 to Marmaduke Jinks on Sat Feb 17 13:44:47 2024
    Marmaduke Jinks wrote:
    On 14/02/2024 16:10, nigel wrote:

    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


    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!

    MJ


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