Aquarion has written The grand lottery checker which works out how much you would have won for a given set of UK lottery numbers if you had played every day since it started. I tried the Lost numbers (4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42) and ended up £849 out of pocket, which isn’t too bad compared to some random calculations I tried. The full summary was: Spent £1049, won £200 (20 wins) (£-849, maximum was 3 numbers
. I really should start doing the lottery: I keep seeing nice houses on telly I want to live in.