Over Sunday dinner a relative of mine told me how he was going to cash in his premium bonds, which he has been buying in fits and starts over a number of years and then buy back the premium bonds in one large block , because this would mean ERNIE would have a bigger chance of landing on his numbers. I thought this through and then said, I think the chances of your number being chosen are the same whether you have a big block of numbers or they are scattered about, it makes no difference.

This debate escalated and other members of the family joined in.

It also morphed into the idea that if you chose red and black numbers on a roulette wheel in a block taking up a third of the wheel you would then have more chance of wining than if the same amount of chosen red and black numbers were scattered around the wheel. Again i said it would make no difference.

I didn't want to look this up on the internet as it seemed quite interesting to listen to all the various theories on this.

Anyway, I will now ask all the MM punters what they think?