Two tickets and double your money is deliberately misleading, isn't it not? Two tickets might give you twice the chance of winning one prize, and also the same probability squared of winning two prizes, but then again if everyone else takes up the same offer then you actually have the same proportion of the total ticket allocation as you would have had without the promotion, so your chances of winning are the same. Or actually less, if there are enough people stupid enough to believe the bollocks and therefore more people buying the tickets who otherwise wouldn't have.

It's very easy for organisations selling betting, lottery and similar "services" to take advantage of popular misunderstandings around the mathematics of probability and the so-called law of averages.

Edited by chateauferret (18 Mar 2018 9.58pm)

Has to be those two annoyingly talentless sisters on the Nationwide advert, I think they even got death threats (which is never cool)which shows they really did boil the nations piss.

Some adverts just mildly annoy me, but the current Nationwide one with the singing sisters actually consumes me with hatred, especially the face of the speccy, dark-haired one.

I have a savings account with Nationwide - seriously considering closing it.

Shock BBC defends unfunny female comics but then again they thought Miranda hart is funny. Death threats are out of order but I do not see a long career for these two.