Pick My Postcode’s Stackpot Draws

Because 7 were unclaimed, and 6 in the morning. At least we agree on the 13 in total

Yesterday morning's draw had 7 unclaimed, why did last night's draw have 8 postcodes?

Last night's draw had 6 unclaimed, so why are there 10 this morning?

The amount of Stackpot results varies depending on how many claims there have been on the previous draws. If there were more claims on the previous draw, less will roll over and vice versa.

https://help.pickmypostcode.com/article/16-what-are-the-different-draws

This from the FAQ pages

Stackpot - the stackpot prizes are £10 for each postcode. The stackpot is drawn at 9am and 9pm every day and you have until the next draw to claim. Only one person can claim per postcode so if there are multiple entries for one postcode it's first-come-first-served. Three postcodes get randomly drawn for the Stackpot each time a draw takes place. If you see more than three postcodes, this means that not all of the stackpots have been claimed from the previous draws. The unclaimed ones roll over and three more are added if this happens. This means that the number of stackpots can fluctuate depending on how many claims there have been. The stackpot page has more information about how it works: www.pickmypostcode.com/stackpot If you win, your bonus amount is always added to the prize amount.

3 new ones - they're added to the ones not claimed from the previous draw (new codes though)

I used to like japs. There is a shop near us that still does loose sweets by the quarter (well, it's per 100g now). I used to get a poke of pineapple cubes or pear drops on the way to school and my friend would get something different and we'd trade sweets in the playground. I remember once we were at the end of break time and about to come back into lessons and a teacher stopped us and said we shouldn't be eating anything in lessons (even though we weren't in the classroom yet). Luckily we had rainbow drops so by the time we got to the room and she wanted to see if we had anything in our mouths they had all dissolved!

My wife says the same about gobstoppers, yet I got her chocolate the size of a basketball and she managed to get that in her mouth🤣🤣

Nobody has mentioned Gob Stoppers. The big ones definitely did that. I remember having trouble getting one into my mouth.

But no one sells Jap desserts

There's a brilliant website called "A Quarter Of" that sells nearly all of these retro sweets. My favourite was Spanish Gold sweet tobacco, made of coconut shreds. 😋

The 1d chews were they not called dainties?

Palm toffee, jamboree bags, aniseed balls, sherbert fountain and dip, sugar mice, catherine wheels, pineapple chunks, pear drops, Frys five boys, penny chews, the much mentioned black jacks, fruit gums, 1d arrow toffee. No wonder I haven't many teeth left.

Titchy, if we were caught with sweets in the classroom, it was the cane.

I must have been lucky as a kid, then, where sweets were concerned, because we could get 4 x blackjacks or 4 x fruit salads for a penny, but 8 mojos. Mind you, they were exactly half the size of the other two. My fave were spearmint.

I used to like McGowans 1d chews. They were so big you could hardly get them in your mouth and you couldn't speak for ages - which is probably why I got them occasionally! Think mum must have enjoyed the peace and quiet!

I used to get my schoolmates into trouble for giggling during a lesson. I would chew a Blackjack until soft, spread some of it across my two front teeth and then smile at them. Worked every time :-)

I remember all of these, except for Jap Desserts, which I have never heard of.

They sound .........interesting!

I used to like Rainbow Drops . However my favourite sweet was Spangles, especially Old English

I loved Black Jacks.😍 Yes, Samandi as Mrs F said the little black sweets in a tin were Imps.

Does anybody remember Jap Desserts? They were square coconut sweets with a soft candy shell.

I think Imps were tiny black liquorice, very strong, turned your tongue black and came in little tins.

Ooh Mrs M I could eat all of those right now

I remember Apple Jacks as well as Black Jacks & Fruit salads. What about the 2p Refresher chew that had lemon sherbert in the centre?

Were they Imps?

I remember them. You could also get 4 fruit salads or black jacks for 1d, and 4 pink shrimps for 1d too.

samandi, Imps and cherry lips are still available. Enver, I don't remember the name, but there was something similar which knacked your teeth.

Yes I remember those, also cherry lips and tiny black sweets that were in a little tin - what were they called?

We are not a cashback site and have never claimed to be. This FAQ explains why:

https://help.pickmypostcode.com/article/22-how-do-i-withdraw-my-bonus

If you could get the bonus out without winning, it would be a cashback site and the whole set up would have to be completely different. Like, not free, or smaller prizes, or less chances to win. If everyone could withdraw their bonus, it would bankrupt the site.

I wish theyd add some other ways to withdraw the bonus without winning daily draw

I'm up to £1,057 - would be happy to bank a thousand, and still add to it every day.

That's only those on the leaderboard, there may or may not be someone with more bonus that has never been on it..

£12,133

Someone named Colin. That is some going.

Check out the leaderboard, but no idea if they have won or not, except for one I'm aware of.

https://pickmypostcode.com/leaderboard/

Even more earworms now - Thanks folks.

What's going on? by Marvin Gaye..

A very appropriate song for these times.

So, so many, but one of my favourites from the 70s is "Let's Stay Together" by Al Green

Sittin' on the dock of the bay by Otis Redding

What is a man by the Four Tops - in fact anything by the Four Tops with Levi Stubbs leading

There are so many, mostly 60's. When my schoolfriend in Worthing and I correspond, mainly email these days, we always sign off with Do Wah Diddy. We used to shout it out whilst riding our bicycles around the countryside.

Everley Brothers Ebony Eyes. Loved a song that made me cry! Current favourite is Vivaldi's Gloria. 3 minutes of unadulterated joy that I frequently belt out (somewhat tunelessly) in the car but no-one can hear me and it makes me smile!

Sound of silence, disturbed version..

'Move on up' by Curtis Mayfield. For me it brings back fantastic memories of a school camping trip in France with long walks along the shore line and listening to Radio Caroline at night.

A song which was written in 1965 but lyrics stand true every decade since and even now 60 years later. "Eve of Destruction".

This Woman's Work - Kate Bush,

Moments of Pleasure - Kate Bush

Over the Rainbow - Eva Cassidy

Songbird - Fleetwood Mac or Eva Cassidy.

All 4 of these songs set me off crying. They make me very emotional, I just hear the opening bars and I'm off. Kate Bush's song writing and her rrendition of these two songs are superb. I want both of these songs at my funeral.

Eva Cassidy, what a voice, goosebumps from the moment she starts singing. Songbird has to be the best song Christine Mc Vie has ever written.

Summer of ‘69 by Bryan Adams always puts a smile on my face.

Downtown.

Mostly 60s cannot pick one , favs were walker brothers= take it easy on yourself. Scott Mckensie = if your going to San Francisco same as Bisto kid and many more

The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face - Roberta Flack.

Lots to choose from, perhaps "We are Sailing"

"Sam Stone" or "Paradise"

The Lady in Red by Chris de Burgh

I'm with Beth8it! on that era.

Everyone was weary & feeling small, ... so Small got up & walked out.

Got to be Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol Harum

500 miles by Proclaimers

Holding back the years. Simply Red.

The Show Must Go On

This clever montage is what it might have looked like if they'd ever been able to perform it live:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36ncula-IDw

I have a soft spot for Bridge over Troubled Water - unique in its time and for me it still stands the test of time. I wouldn’t necessarily say it’s my all-time favourite, but it’s a contender for best written song. Alternatively, Bohemian Rhapsody or Mr Blue Sky?

Lots of contenders for me, but probably Long and Winding Road.

The Anniversary Song, Al Jolson.

For me it's .... All I have to do is dream by the Everly Brothers. There are others for different reasons, but this one is special to me.

PacMan, as Anonymous says, it means you won't worry about missing a potential win whilst you are away. The disadvantage is that if there are active members with the same postcode as you, your postcode could still come up as a winner while the mode is on but you will not be eligible to claim while you have the mode on.

Bob, if you ever find that you are away somewhere and cannot access PMP to enable Holiday Mode, you can always just email us and we can do it for you.

@pacman, the advantage is that you won't fret in case your number gets drawn, your postcode comes up and you can't claim. However much you tell yourself it could happen again tomorrow, it would be very annoying! The possible disadvantage is you forget to switch it off again and you number has no chance of coming up even when you are able to check the draws.

I went to Spain a couple of weeks ago first time I didn’t use holiday mode as there are 4 people registered with the same postcode I know you have a unique number but didn’t want to chance it I have never got a bonus for signing back in used to be that you didn’t have a 100% check but it changed

I managed to check all the drawers except the 6,00pm too much 🥂🥂

Site does not work everywhere and once you’re there, if you can’t login, you can’t switch it to holiday mode

Just wandering, what is advantage or disadvantages of using holiday mode ?

I just added a Web page shortcut to my phone and check daily just like I do at home. In Portugal just now for a week, and getting online to check no problem.

Holiday Mode is a manual process, not an automatic one. It's a box you have to tick or untick and then hit update. But there will be a yellow bar at the top of the page reminding you that you have it on, so you will be prompted to turn it off again.

It's the dormancy system that you were thinking of, Enver. If you don't log in for a fortnight your account becomes dormant and you'll be entered in to the next draw which occurs once you next log in.

T thought that too Enver when I was in hospital but it didn't as Emma told me.

I believe it comes off holiday mode the next time you check, so if you check from abroad you will no longer be in holiday mode ... unlesss you renew it?