treble chance

The old treble chance has got the order of the boot.

By 1947, Fred was a broken man addicted to alcohol and the treble chance.

She was also a regular panelist on the radio panel game, Treble Chance.

The Treble Chance game was also inaugurated in 1946.

This is the same as the old 'Treble Chance' which has been renamed and rebranded under new ownership.

MANY readers have made enquiries about Treble Chance entries that cover more than the popular 16-match total.

Treble Chance (17 Oct 75)

I've won the treble chance?!'

They went through the after end of the Firecrest like a Treble Chance winner hunting for the coupon he's afraid he's forgotten to post.

The traditional and most famous game entered was the 'Treble Chance', now branded the 'Classic Pools' game.

To make the entry first decide on your 20 matches and enter them all in one line in one column of the Treble Chance (to the right of the fixtures).

First decide on just two matches that appear to have outstanding draw chances and mark them X in the first column of the Treble Chance (to the right of the fixtures).

Several different companies including Littlewoods, Vernons, Zetters and Brittens have, in the past, organised similar games, the most famous of which was historically known as Treble Chance.

He also appeared on other radio programmes such as Sporting Chance, Treble Chance, Twenty Questions, Married To Fame and occasionally as an outside broadcast interviewer for the Today programme.

Large football pools would award second and subsequent dividends, splitting smaller proportions of the prize pool among players who had submitted lines scoring nearly as many points; at its peak, the Littlewoods Treble Chance game would offer up to six dividends.

Winners of the Treble Chance swooned at the sight of the cheque and were generally paraded to the Press and public as examples of how, at any minute, any humble citizen who had never had more than a day out at Blackpool could strike gold.

The popularity of the Treble Chance game was due to the fact it offered a potential single large jackpot at a time when no other form of gambling in the United Kingdom did; premium bonds were not offered until 1957 and never offered a jackpot which was as high.