just found two £10 premium bonds taken out in 1981 is there an EASY way of finding out if they have ever won anything?
Premium bonds
Mar 15, 2023
Last reply: 3 years ago
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If NS&I have know your address since then you will have received any prizes in the post.
Create on line account and see if you have any unclaimed prizes. Somehow I doubt it, but you never know
Some say that you should cash in after 5 years and get some newer ones. Brian
I just did that won loads to start with then not a lot...it is a fiddle random my arse
And what is the logic behind that?
it is not random it is a fiddle
wummin that held them is long dead
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Easy or hard is up to you.
hard
could try that
the wummins dead thirty years...
There is no evidence that makes any difference and the new ones won't be in the draw until one month after the end of the month they are bought in. The way to get regular wins is to have lots of them.
I have two £1 bonds bought at RAF Yatesbury post office in 1962. Neither has ever won anything.
The odds of winning are stacked against you - with two bonds you can expect, on average, a win every 2000 years.
correction: 1000 years
I don't think you can even buy small numbers any more. The friends I was talking about had a couple of thousand pounds worth both old then new. I did say it was anecdotal. But randomness is improvable, so how you find out can only be t through statistics. Brian
So does that mean if you actually live to 2000 years there is a higher real chance? Brian
I took out £15k and won a load of small prizes...to begin with...why I think it is a fiddle
Brian Gaff snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote
Nope, odds don't work like that.
Bollocks. The bond numbers that win are published every month so you can do your own analyses on them. If you have bonds that win you can check the numbers appear in the published results. If you have friends with bonds and they happen to win you can ask them to check their numbers are in the published lists.
It's not rocket science.
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