A roulette table with the usual zero and double zero has 38 numbers. If you lay a bet on any single number and get lucky then you will win 35 times your stake. The casino will not pay 38 times your stake. They have an ‘edge’ which ensures that mathematically, over an extended period of time, they cannot lose.

Even with such a small ‘edge’ in their favour casinos are able to expand into hugely profitable hotel complexes employing thousands of staff.

The lowest cash prize on the UK lottery is for matching 3 numbers. The best odds for doing so is if the first 3 numbers drawn do not match any of your selected numbers.

You then have 6 chances (the maximum) from the remaining 56 numbers (the minimum).

6 chances in 56….5 chances in 55….4 chances in 54.
Combined odds of 1,386 to 1.

And for beating those eye watering odds you will recieve £30.
Having paid £2 for your selection, that is 15 to 1.

The National Lottery will tell you that half of your stake has gone to ‘good causes’.
Fair enough, then pay out half of the odds of 1,386 to 1……You cunts.

And people are still daft enough to buy lottery tickets every week. Perhaps in the hope that they will win a few million pounds, but not taking into account that they must beat the odds of over 45 million to one to do so.

Go to a casino instead. Put your £2 stake on any single number at if it wins then put the entire winnings on another number. The odds of winning that way are 1,444 to 1. Very similar to the odds of matching 3 numbers on the lottery. The difference is that the casino will pay you £2,450.

The National Lottery is a disgrace. It’s a tax for the hopelessly stupid.

Nominated by: The Artful Cunter