What's the best thing you've won?

[The Idle Biker]

I consider myself very lucky in life, but not so in competitions.

Raffles, Euro Lottery, Lottery, Lottery instants, online comp's, newspaper comp's I do loads.

Most I've ever won is a tenner on a lottery instant and bottle of wine at the local fete. Even when I won the wine my neighbour up the road won a wheelbarrow full of booze.

Who's been luckier than me then?

[tigersaw]

I won a pancake race in 1970

[Fallout]

Same as you, mate. Never win a thing. My very best luck was when I was a student, I bought a scratch card at the supermarket which won me £7. I then bought another one which won me £30, and £37 was pretty much what I'd spent on my shop! Apart from that, nothing. I even have a direct debit setup to play the lottery. 1 play on sat and wed draws, and in about 9 months of doing that, I've won a tenner twice. I don't want to do the maths.

Maybe it's cos we're so good, we make our own lucky, and lady luck doesn't feel the need to bless us with her fake kind. :D

[Fallout]

I won a pancake race in 1970

:smt046

[hindle8907]

£15 quid on a scratch card.

[Bri w]

£87 on the pools back in 1982. It bought a Ferguson top loading VCR.

£50 on a scratchcard when they first came out.

Won numerous golf comps - more than covered my costs every year.

[Jayneflakes]

I won a B3ta Comp a couple of years ago, the prize was... err... Interesting (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Looks-Like-C-k/dp/1408802457).

However, I am not the luckiest person. ;-)

[Jabba]

I won a "meat raffle" in a pub once.

[Littlepeahead]

A Smurfs album from Look-In magazine.

And a gents racing bike in a raffle. It was too big for me so everytime I stopped I nearly fell off as my feet didn't touch the ground.

My friends won a million on a scatchcard and they've blown the lot and are now back working for minimum wage behind the bar in our local - silly people.

[Scoobs]

I won £7,500 on the lottery. Unfortunately, it was before I got divorced, so the ex had it.

[Scoobs]

My friends won a million on a scatchcard and they've blown the lot

That's impressive.

[allymc]

£500's worth of Dog Food. He thought it was great....Id much rather have had £500 and given him my leftovers though

[missyburd]

I won a bottle of Bucks Fizz Christmas just gone. I think that's it. And it's still in the fridge...

[Owenski]

£200 on a bandit in a snooker hall, won from the spare £1 we still had on the table when leaving.
Few small raffle prizes
Couple of small prize wins on the lotto/euros

I think everyone has a "lucky friend" though, mines a lad Called Rich (oddly enough). He is definetly worth shadow betting with, he'll play tickets all night when we're at the dogs and with out fail comes away a couple of hundred up. At first it was funny but it passed through annoying and now its damn enfuriating.

[dizzyblonde]

My dad does the Irish lottery. For a laugh last year I told him to take 2 quid and I chose some numbers for him to do.

Hes as blind as a bat and a bit daft, and accidentally did the same numbers twice...someting to do with doing four lines and 50p each...no idea really.

Anyway.....I'm glad he did it wrong, coz he won me 300 quid :D

Beginners luck. I've not done the lottery since!

[stewie]

Won a couple of trophies playing golf off a pretty high handicap, got called a bandit by a couple of numpties but hey wtf ? I won ;) and I did it two yrs on the bounce :)

[EssexDave]

In terms of gambling, £1,570 on my third (and last) bet on football. (£45 bet)

Other than that? I've never really won any competitions or anything else, the odd few quid on the lottery (£66ish being the most).

[stewie]

My dad does the Irish lottery. For a laugh last year I told him to take 2 quid and I chose some numbers for him to do.

Hes as blind as a bat and a bit daft, and accidentally did the same numbers twice...someting to do with doing four lines and 50p each...no idea really.

Anyway.....I'm glad he did it wrong, coz he won me 300 quid :D

Beginners luck. I've not done the lottery since!
I used to run a syndicate when I worked at Vauxhalls in Ellesmere port, we did the irish and the british lottery each saturday, first saturday we won £565 on the irish and the £10 on the british, both for 3 numbers on each card :-D

[Sizzle Media]

I had my name called out of a tombola at a 5,000 strong sales seminar to get up on stage and dance around like a prat.. My prize was a complete 'Self Improvement' box set by the event organizers that netted £350 off ebay at the first opportinuty. Oh, I also won a World Championship Thai Boxing Video when I won a local inter-club match when I was about 12... which my dad used to record the Golden Child over, i actually still have the video!

[timwilky]

Back in the 70s I went about £4,000 worth up at the casino in Monaco. That was a small fortune. We only went in with 1000 franc each as experience money. By the time I was dragged out I had lost half my winnings. But still to come back from 3 weeks of holiday with more money than you set off with was a experience.

About the 2nd or 3rd week of the lottery, my brothers father in law "Black Jack" got 5 and a bonus. Off he trots with the cheque for about £105,800 to his local barclays.
As he deposits it he asks if he can take the odd 800 as the wife would like to do a bit of shopping. The poor girl says sorry sir, you need to wait for the cheque to clear.

His response :- "GET ME THE F***ING MANAGER". Now a big black guy shouting gets a quick response the manager duly appears to see what the commotion is and why has that black man not got a gun as they all have. He takes one look at the cheque and the camalot banner on it and says. We can do better than that sir, why don't you take the £5,800 and have a little holiday whilst you wait for it to clear.

Well he bought off his council house that was geared up for his spina bifida son, fired off his wife, bought a bit of naughty fun and became a regular client of a local turf accountant. 2 years later he had gone back home to St Vincent to build a house with what was left. Sold the ex council house to fund his life in the Caribbean and is now apparently very happy with a new girlfriend younger than his grand kids.

Money can make you happy

[1210tech]

I used to bunk off school at the gondola cafe round the corner from my house cuz it had a pool table. Went in there one day with no money, walked past the bandit, hit all the buttons and then hit collect and it paid out £10, couldn't believe it, it's safe to say we spent it all on pool and sausage sarnies! :)

[The Idle Biker]

My friends won a million on a scatchcard and they've blown the lot and are now back working for minimum wage behind the bar in our local - silly people.

I wouldn't know whether to congratulate them or scream at them wtf!!!???

[Biker Biggles]

I once won a punch on the nose for being a c0ck.
A valuable lesson was learned

[maviczap]

I won a "meat raffle" in a pub once.

You're not Marco GF twin are you, he won a breakfast platter on what now is the world famous EAR March Meat Run

[BBadger]

won £50 on premium bonds ....but the mother beat me to it an chased it the bugger!

Although on holiday in Barbados when me and my sis were little we were the only ones playing bingo round the pool.
Won a few cases of rum, submarine ride, catamaran ride and so on. Bingo should suit you fine though Idle biker at your age :mrgreen:

[Specialone]

I used to bunk off school at the gondola cafe round the corner from my house cuz it had a pool table. Went in there one day with no money, walked past the bandit, hit all the buttons and then hit collect and it paid out £10, couldn't believe it, it's safe to say we spent it all on pool and sausage sarnies! :)

Ah the gondola, that used to be my pre golf cafe :)

Haven't won loads but had a few little wins.

On my 18th birthday I went to coleshill for a few drinks before going into brum and put a quid in a fruit machine and won £28, this was 1988 so that paid for the rest of my night :)

Had £330 on the gee gees, £10 each way treble at Cheltenham, but two horses come in first :)I was with the wife in hospital at the time when my mate who put it on for me told me.

I've been the dogs 3 or 4 times and every time I've won enough so I haven't spent any of my own money.

Few £10 quid wins on the lottery.

My best and proudest was in junior school, my drawing won an area competition for two tickets to a show at the NEC which I promptly left in my desk so didn't go :(
Considering I'm not a good drawing person, it meant a lot :)

[tactcom7]

Entered a competition to win a Mini many years back (1990ish), and also an RSPB one in the same week, came home from school to have my dad say 'Si you remember that competition you entered the other month? Well you won!! Your prize is in the garage you lucky bugger'
So i rush outside and open the garage to find.......

a bird table and a big book on birds, disappointed was not the word.

[maviczap]

Won £200 worth of Pampers nappies which was handy

Bought a car at auction for £50, found £5 in the sun visor, bought 5 quids worth of lucky dip Lottery tickets, won £10 :p

[maviczap]

Entered a competition to win a Mini many years back (1990ish), and also an RSPB one in the same week, .

Think my nephew won that mini competition jammy bugger

[tactcom7]

Think my nephew won that mini competition jammy bugger

lucky sod, still have the book if he wants to swap?

[Biker Biggles]

Long time ago MCN used to do a spot the ball win a bike competition.Lost track of the bikes I never won,so eventually I just had to buy one.

[Mikey10]

^ :rolleyes:

never won anything myself but im still young maybe its time to try the odd scratch card at some point.

[Noddy]

A couple or so years back I won an air rifle combo in one of the Airgunner magazine competitions. It took about 4 months before they decided to deliver it all.

[steve.w]

A Theoben MFR custom rifle complete with an MTC scope for a fiver happy days, I might add it's the only thing I have ever won but it was worth the wait :)
ATB

[TamSV]

I got my business card drawn out the hat at a networking event last Friday morning and won a vegetarian haggis and a large turnip. Very tasty it was too.

The other prizes were a pot plant and a bottle of Bell's cooking whisky, so I thought I'd done alright.

[myfirstsv]

4 tickets to watch Sussex stuff Warwickshire at Edgebaston in a Pro 40 match.

[Ed]

Trip to New York City

[SIII]

I won Formula Schools competition 3 years in a row and a total of 4 times. The project was to spend a year building a 1/10th scale petrol powered remote control car and then take it to Silverstone and race against 100+ schools from all over the UK. Might not be much, but made me the best Technology teacher in the UK! :smt040
If you look on Allan mcNish's sleeve he has our team logo on it and then went onto win LeMans that year.

http://www.allanmcnish.com/assets/images/JM-ALLAN-MCNISH-3_66200815321_full.jpg

[AZZ3R]

Won £16 on a horse back in 99' Ended up losing the money on the way back from collecting it.

[MisterTommyH]

Once won a crate of beer in a pub quiz.

And the one time I went to the horses I came out with more money that I took with me, thanks to several wins.

Thats about it.

[appollo1]

I have wona few things over the years with entering competitions but still waiting for the "big win".

On a ferry from dover filled in a free competition to win a mountain bike. A few weeks later i receive a letter asking me to call a number and tell the person what colour and size of bike i wanted.

Won a X box 360 with Kinect thing at the work xmas raffle this year. (sold on very quickly as the not interested in it)

I enter lots of free competitions and sometimes put my wife down as the entrant. A couple od years ago i received a call from a company to arrange delivery of some organic compost that i had won in her name. They asked about access to the house for the delivery "truck" and whether i had stones on the drive or concrete!!! When i asked why he said that it would be unloaded with a pellet truck! Told the wife to make sure her car was off the drive on the day of the delivery. Received a call from the wife to say that the delivery had been made and she couldn't get her car on the drive as there was a pallet of "posh sh*t" there. got home to find a cubic meter (1 tonne) of organic compost. Magnaged to give most of it away in the end.

[AZZ3R]

I wouldnt mind wining The Gadget Shows competition.

[Gremlin]

I won £1250 at the bingo, not bad considering I didn't want to go but my girlfriend said she would drive and I could have a few beers.

[squirrel_hunter]

I once won second prize in a beauty contest, and collected £10.

[_Stretchie_]

I once won second prize in a beauty contest, and collected £10.

Worst thing is...... He was the only contestant.....

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[Biker Biggles]

I once won second prize in a beauty contest, and collected £10.

Rapidly followed by a trip to go directly:smt116 to jail no doubt.

[sandman]

Got 4 numbers on the lottey and got £34 (expected at least £50)

Also won a 16gb ipod

And back in the 80's i won the Jan Hammer Miami Vice 7" single at the school disco

[Messie]

Soooo tempted .....


but, no


:-$

[The Idle Biker]

Soooo tempted .....


but, no


:-$

Go on, you know you want to......

[Scythe92]

Won a laptop by shopping around for insurance quotes.

Package turned up at home one day, wondered what it was, opened it and it was a new laptop and a letter saying congrats :D

Won £10 on a scratchcard, few more bits and bobs.

[Sally]

Scottish Cup.

Was 15, I saved 3 out of 5 penalties to secure the win.
Various football leagues and cups.

As for betting/gambling, my only casino betting experience I went in with £20, came out with £21.
Too much of a tight Scotsman to enjoy gambling.

[Amadeus]

I won a car in a pub quiz.
Admittedly is was second hand, but my quiz partner sold it on and got £1500 which went to charideee.

[DJFridge]

A meal for two at a quite nice restaurant from eldest's school raffle last year and then, unbelievably, tickets for one of the enclosures at Goodwood to watch the gee-gees in the same raffle this year! Missed the tour round the Rolls Royce factory by one prize, damn. £40ish on the lottery, once.

[Tim in Belgium]

£100 on the Premium Bonds.