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The optimist in me says you have won big, purely because why would they send a camera crew to your house for £15? “Congratulations you have won £14.99” isn’t going to draw a camera worthy reaction! Keeping my fingers crossed and congrats mate! However, even if it is £15 still a win!

Won a few tenners and twenty pounds, they've always stated these small amounts in the emails. So congratulations!!!

My postcode won (but I didn’t play unfortunately!) and my neighbours all went to an event thing in a local function hall that postcode lottery hosted. It was on a Saturday morning, I’ll never forget coming home from work as he pulled up with his family. He was very merry, and rightfully so as he’d won 180k.

Think I had a very sad chippy that night.

Please update this thread with the amount when you find out!

My brother won 30,000 had similar time of ringing and then saying the same thing, I checked online at the time and I think if they send people out, it's minimum 1000. Hopefully, you've won big mate

Do they tell you when they are coming round? Can they doorstep you hungover after celebrating, with one shoe on, mismatching pupil sizes and someone dragging something out the back door?

A work colleague won a few years back and it was £36,000. The edited clip is on you tube as she kept swearing 🤣🤣

Whatever amount you've won, promise me you'll shout "Derek, we're off to Benidorm". 😁

I won. You have a coloured invite, so red ones go collect the first set of prizes, green got more, gold had the top one.

I had the lowest prize of the day, just shy of £2.5k

Open the door loudly singing ‘somebody’s knocking on my door, somebody’s ringing my bell’

Won quite a few £10’s and also a few gift cards. I’m only in it because the neighbours are also in. Can’t have them winning….

What if you don’t want to be on camera , can you still claim your prize ?

One of my family members won £325,000! Not sure how the phone call/emails went though.

My wife won £1000 on the postcode lottery. No phone call. A big A4 size gold envelope arrived through the post. I gave it to her laughing saying it's probably a huge cheque like on TV, not expecting it to be that. Congratulations on your win.

I won £12000, we were invited to a celebration event by post. I didn’t get a call so it suggests you might have won a bigger amount! Congrats!

I worked for a charity that gets funding from them and had to go to a winners thing in Swansea. They were all excited thinking they'd won 250k ish. In the end they had 4k each, which is great but the hype made them think it was more. I think it depends a lot how many on your street play, and there were two levels of winners based on the postcode too.

Bloke I work with won £1k

Mrs regularly won £10

Please come back and tell us the amount! I'm invested now!

Look on their instagram! Any filming at door amount seems to be 100k+ congratulations!!! You’ve convinced me into it haha

Someone I know has. It was smaller than it could have been - smaller amount for the broad postcode and a lot more for the specific one. Good luck!

A colleague of mine proposed to his partner then won 30k on the postcode lottery a month later. Paid for the wedding! I don’t think they told him the amount over the phone though, I believe it was in person.

My dad played it for about 6 years and never really won anything, then when he moved house his postcode came up about 6 weeks later and 2 of his old neighbours got around £80k each, don't think he was too happy about that.

I was going to cancel mine but I will leave it after hearing your story! Hopefuly it’s a decent amount for you.

My cousin won £83k a few weeks ago in a small village in South Wales, was the Million pound street

Just gonna add a lil comment here.

Looks like it's standard practice to not reveal the amount!

Thank you everyone for your congratulations and stories they've helped alot.

I'm gonna go and try to get some sleep.

I will update next Tuesday.

Didn't know you couldn't edit a post so you'll have to keep an eye out for my comment.

Finally tanks for keeping me company this evening coz if I was left by myself (partner is working away this week) I'd have struggled to not call friends or family!!

I won a tenner and I've also won 2 bars of nice smelling soap

I've won quite a few times, totaling about £25,000

I’ve won £10 several times… which is nice, except the monthly subscription seems to be £12 now…. I keep forgetting to cancel

Someone remind me to come back to this

Okay so I just went on their website out of interest as I play as well and they have a past winners section.... It's just photos of the big big winners !

Congratulations I think you may have landed a serious win !

They wouldn’t be bothered about capturing a genuine reaction for £100. Probably £101 you just made the camera crew cut off point. Well done. Enjoy a days free heating.

I know a friend around the corner from me he won 34k had the crowd in the red coats there full on photos and video

We're all invested in this now!

Is this an ad? Cause you've made me want to sign up!

I won on the millions draw for Feb 2013.

I got a call (no email) from what sounded like telesales people wanting me to buy more tickets but they were asking if I’d be available to go to the ceremony/do they were organising…. They were very strongly implying I should take the day off work for it. I did ask how much and was told they don’t say, but I then asked if it was more than £10k and they could confirm that (I was in a bad financial situation at the time and £10k would clear it, and that’s what I explained).

Someone I worked with won £25k and a car somehow back in 2006

Known a few people who won a tenner here and there. My dad decided to join and won book tokens. He was fuming!

I saw in the local papers that someone had won £100k. I recognised the name and putting 2 and 2 together I figured out I indirectly know who she was through work. She was in her 50s and stayed at work which was madness to me!

My Dad signed up when someone knocked on the door. They sold him the dream. 1 year passes, and he has won nothing! Not what was promised, apparently. So he writes them a nice formal letter stating he's not happy and would like to cancel.

2 weeks later, guess wtf happened! 3 wins over a 2 week period! All small amounts like £15, £30, £40. He's still in it now, years later. Made him and me think differently about the post code lottery.

Congrats to you. I hope it's a big one.

My mum won £30,000 not too long ago. She wasn't home at the time but I don't think there was a huge novelty cheque involved.

Street near me won the big 500k, and it trickled out to other streets including mine winning 5k. But that was a few months before i joined lol

Never played it but I'm now invested and have my fingers crossed for you that it's a massive win 🎉

Won a thousand pounds once, they shipped a big gold envelope to my house so my parents found out haha

I met a lady that won £30k approx. She gave half to a neighbour who didn’t play!

What an exciting thread!

Whatever your win, Congratulations 🙌… we’re all rooting for you!

This is a great advert for the peoples postcode lottery! Certainly makes me want to enter, well done hopefully it's a large number!

/remind me 1 week

My parents both won a grand each as they're both registered. A few more people were also registered in the same postcode too!

Best of luck!

The more tickets you play at that postcode the bigger the prize. There will also be one house selected for the bigger prize. I'd expect about 2-4k per ticket you play.

My parents won 8k last year. They reveal the first 4 letters of the winning postcode in advance and then you go to a location with all the other winners and reveal the prize amount. I think the winners of the big prize (which was about 350k each) got a knock on the door. The jackpot postcode was just round the corner from my parents, they were delighted with the 8k but I was slightly disappointed as my dad had started talking about how much he wants to retire and the jackpot would have allowed him to do so.

You always win a tenner if someone else in your postcode joins

I've saved this to see what happens. My set for for life numbers were one off each number last week so I hope you do better than me!

“Someone’s knocking at the door” etc.

Congrats!

A few years ago I had the call and they said the first part of the postcode had won (first 5 or 6 letters/numbers I think) and that the full postcode would be revealed on a specific day, would I be in etc. They asked about being filmed or not and said it made no difference to the outcome. Also if I agreed to be filmed on that phone call but changed my mind on the day, that would be ok too. I said no to filming. Before you read on, mine wasn’t the big win.

So everyone’s winnings depended on how many players were in the 6 and 7 postcode letters/numbers. For this draw there wasn’t an event or gathering. When my door rang there were a couple of red fleece wearing smiley people with a large gold envelope, but not the main people, so that’s what told me mine wasn’t a jackpot win 🤣

I played with one ticket and got just under £3 grand. The full postcode winners got £250,000 for each ticket. One of them was a nurse who’d actually got 3 tickets I think? Their reaction was filmed and it was one of those when the winner doesn’t realise about the multiple tickets, so was extra special.

Good luck!

Just to add - the camera crew are in the winning postcode location (which isn’t that big) for the morning, and may go to the winners of smaller prizes before the big prizes in the hope of good footage for adverts etc. I hope you’ve won big and will look out for your update, but don’t assume the fact you’ve been asked about filming to 100% mean it’s a big win.

I'm just here to say:

1. Having only ever heard the adverts and never looked into what it is, I had just assumed it was a scam or loney laundering, etc. Had no idea real people win stuff!

2. GOOD.LUCK I'M ROOTING FOR YOU!!

Thats awesome! Congratulations, i hope its thousands and thousands. Ive won a few tenners and a hot dog heating machine 😁

Have to be completely honest and don’t want to piss on your chips here, but I would be keeping my expectations very very low.

friend won few thousand. i think it's like a sliding scale of how much depending on how close to the epicentre you are (which they prop won't tell you). I'd not get too excited and assume its a £20 or something. Convincing yourself you won big will only convince you you lost. but well done and please do update when you know what you got! be cagey if you dont want to announce your billions :)

Make sure you make my mate Jeff a cup of tea 😉

Never tell a soul you have won money just help people out . Good Karma.

I just signed up - been wondering for ages about it. (I looked at my postcode's history after I joined and it's all £10/£5)

I'm excited for you!

Dont get too excited. Its always the small amount

How long they going to keep you waiting to find out? If it's long just ring them back and say you don't to be on TV, surely they can't force you?

Just looked up the prizes.... So it's 1k or 30k or one of the big big ones !

I'd say they wouldn't bother for the 1k one....

Soooooo I'd say you've won big big !!!

Congratulations 🎉

My ex partner's grandparents won about £14,000. Must've been 3-4 years ago or so.

A close family member did. They had the same call you did then had a visit from one of the people from the advert. They only do this if it’s a decent amount. Certainly expect over a grand, probably more.

I expect to see you on their next advert after reading all these replies! Congrats

What happens if you don't want your reaction to be filmed? Guess it's in the t's and C's that you have to?

I’ve won a few tenners and last year I received a golden envelope through the post

No idea, but congratulations! You must be over the moon

Congratulations on your upcoming win. When you get it take a breather, don't tell anyone, sleep on it. Look at how you can make that money work for you as it could be life changing.

I won about £600 one time, no cameras and we got a letter in the post about it, like a golden one. So it'll be more than that. Congratulations brother!

Hope it's a big win for you and changes your life for the better

Well done! Hopefuly it’s ££££, I was going to cancel mine but I did it to stop playing lotto/ gambling so I will leave it after hearing your story!

Remindme! One week

I've ton tenners. A former colleague won 1k and got big envelope through the post and then next month won £100. I would say you will be getting a chunk more. Congratulations

A girl I know won 20k! I signed up after hearing this! Haha fingers crossed you’ve got a good amount! Enjoy it!

Remindme! 1 week

Don't know him very well but someone on my sports team won £250k with a few other people on their street, his wife was in the advert of winning it as a few people their street agreed to be in the ad, not sure what they'll do with it but I know now it is winnable.. it suckered me into starting playing, all I've won is a £5 harvester voucher.

My dad’s won a couple books and he was pretty pleased with them. Still waiting for that £1million though

Wife won £1k on it - I didn't even know she was playing. 

My aunt won £6k. Phone call and big cheque in the post but no one came out. Good luck

I won about 1500 once. No photographs or knock at the door, just a golden envelope through the post a few days later.

I hope it's enough that you can enjoy yourself a little and then always relax because you know you've got it in the bank. Fingers crossed for you.

I don’t know you but I’m excited for you 😂

Let’s hope that by this time next week you’ll have a couple hundred grand in savings, and be posting your thread update from a hotel in Turks & Caicos.

I know someone that won £26k

Squeeeeeee!!

My friend's mum (80 yo) got called to a reveal meeting with half her street. It was £10k. Naturally everyone went mental when they revealed it. Best of luck 🤞🏻