I Think The National Lottery Is A Big Con Now

[gordiescotland1]

I think Camelot have ruined a good game with greed. And with all the excess profits they are making could it not be spent on better technology to avoid what happened last night?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35240597

[Baldric]

///could it not be spent on better technology to avoid what happened last night?///

The Lottery is a Game of Chance, are you saying you want it 'rigged' to ensure there's a winner, maybe you could select a winning area, a Street possibly, maybe even Gran's house, now that would be good, wouldn't it?
Think it through Gordie.

[SlackAlice]

Baldric

///could it not be spent on better technology to avoid what happened last night?///

I think the OP meant about the National Lottery website being overwhelmed and people unable to purchase tickets online. I also think that is unacceptable. I stopped playing the lottery when the ticket price doubled.

[maggiebee]

Not entirely sure of all the facts, but is Camelot not owned by a Canadian firm now. This is from the BBC news site.

National Lottery operator Camelot has been sold to a Canadian teachers' pension fund for £389m.
The company, currently owned by a consortium that includes Cadbury, has been running the UK's National Lottery since it began in 1994.
The sale will be looked at by the regulator, the National Lottery Commission.

[Baldric]

SA, ok, was unaware of that as we don't play it.

[wolf63]

The only thing that I know for certain is that if you have no ticket you will never win.

I have a ticket

[piggynose]

its a lottery, pmsl

[furrypusscat]

With the increase in the amount of lottery balls available there is even less chance of having the correct combination to win the jackpot It is a mugs game, I stopped doing it when they increased the purchase price. I use the money now to buy extra premium bonds, I may not win millions but I will always have my money and if I win small amounts then I am happy.

[gordiescotland1]

baldric that is silly what I was saying was that the site went down and people couldnt play that is unacceptable.you obviously didnt read what I was saying properly

[Baldric]

Gordie if you bothered reading my second post you would see that I was unaware of that and futhermore having seen a lot of your posts I really do not think you are in any position to call me silly!

[gordiescotland1]

You obviously didnt read the link that is why you posted the first response I understand that now

[Baldric]

I read it as far as
///The previous largest National Lottery jackpot was £42m, which was shared between three separate ticket holders in January 1996.///
It didn't/wouldn't scroll any further than that, I have now seen the rest of it,
and you may have a point.

[webbo3]

I was just watching sky news and they had a statistician being interviewed and he put it into perspective of what your chance of winning the jackpot is,
he said imagine a bath tub, now drop one golden grain of rice in the tub then fill it to the brim with normal rice and you have to put your hand in and find the golden grain.



Dave.

[stuey]

Or another way to put it is to imagine a barn full of needles and just one strand of hay...Find the hay.

[aelmpvw]

haystraw in a stack of needles just doesn't sound right to me

[chrissa1]

I won last night!!!!!!!!!


A free ticket for Saturday's draw. :((

[ummmm]

Won £6.60 and £25 last week.

[stuey]

Won $25,000 3 years ago.

[sunny-dave]

Despite being a lifelong 'lottery avoider', I may actually buy a ticket for this Saturday's draw.

They are compelled to distribute the Jackpot at this draw and so (if no-one matches all 6 balls) the money will be distributed to all tickets matching "5 balls plus the Bonus Ball" and (if even that fails) then to all tickets matching 5 balls.

This improves the odds by a factor of just about 6 ...

... so, it's still a mugs' game - but a little less so for this one draw.