We are deep in the heart of the Department of National Savings right at the nerve Center of the National Gamble and behind these doors is Ernie. Ernie Electronic random number indicating equipment any for short any the big spender. He’s a remarkably square creature. when you consider how capricious he can be. he can reward you with 20 – 9273 pounds just for lending him one pound for a few months, but if he feels like it, you can buy a 5000 pounds from you for decades and give you a narrow turn on it at all. Now. If you have a premium bond, it’s inside this covered but any is deciding whether this is earned his brain thinking away and the part that he actually uses to make the decision the ball in earnest wheel. If you like is this inside here is neon gas. It’s made up of millions of particles and when you pass a current through it, those particles leap about in a way, which produces completely random variations of current. Now. There variations are counted by this device. There are thousands of variations every second and this turns them into. Which then come up on a teleprompter there, they are lucky numbers by the score. They also appear as holes in a computer tape Well, this does not mean a thing to me. but if you’re a phone number is represented by one of the symbols on this table, then you are one of this month’s 80000 Lucky winners. Before you can get your winnings, the tape has to be passed into a computer. The computer President is the tape reads off the numbers and prints them onto sheets of reference cards and from there on it’s just a simple problem of filing. The problem is that all they have at this stage as a card with your winning number on it to find out who you are and where you live. That number has to be matched up to your bond certificate. That’s the other half of the piece of paper you bought at the post office and there are an awful lot of other harvest stored here somewhere in these files, Your bond is the needle in a haystack of a hundred and 90 – five million others. Some of them are one pound ones. Some of them are 823 Pounders and there are 20 denominations in between your bond Identified and that is what she’s doing. She has the card that the computer put the winning numbers on and now she has to find these certificates that bear those numbers when she finds yours. She can immediately read off your name and address, and then it only remains to send you the good news and the money. We pouch 80000 prizes a month amounting to three million pounds altogether. The price is range from 20 – five to 2019 pounds. what are your chances of winning one of those prizes? The chances of a one pound bomb winning any prize is 9273 to one is there any way of improving your chances like buying the bonds in blocks or buying them in a particular area? No, it makes not the slightest difference the only way of improving your chances to buy more bonds can is that some people seem to win quite often when they’ve got a few bombs, but other people have lots of bonds and never win. They suggest a question of luck, pure luck by and large some people we think claim to a one more than they really have. There was a case a short time ago of a man who claimed to 120 – 5000 pounds through a party for his friends was going to go on the holiday to the Bahamas all on borrowed money all pretends. he ended up in court if you haven’t won a thing and Change your address and you then win can only find you oh yes, if a price is returned on delivered, we take steps to follow it up. We’ve even followed people as far as Australia and found them and paid out, though there are still a few very small percentage unpaid, but you’ve gone as far as Australia. The journey. Yes, this great electronic machine of yours, Ernie does seem a very elaborate way of making a draw. Couldn’t you simply take the numbers out of a hat or Tomball a barrel. We have eight. Million eligible bonds, one hell of a big hat our own experts have decided that Ernie is the best and fairest way of making the draw. What are the odds against winning the really big prize? The weekly one of 20 – 5000 pounds. Well, we have eight hundred million bonds eligible, so the odds are eight hundred million to one well long odds. But of course people do win. And while we’ve been talking earning has been deciding who will be the winner of this week’s 20 – 5000 pound The figure should be coming up on the telly printer and the draw supervisor who’s actually named Mister charity will be giving it to me. We are thank you very much and this week’s 90 – 5000 pound winner is number three XL 9273 zero zero Somebody somewhere has a lovely
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