Lotto

[Svejk]

since we started paying £2 a ticket the prizes have been getting lower. However, it must be an all time low for 4 numbers to pay the same as 3. Is it time for Camelot to go?

[Dee Sa]

I am with you on this one Svejk, didn't Branson make a bid to run it once ?

[aelmpvw]

i don't like being forced to pay a pound for a raffle that i'm not interested in, you should have the option to opt out

[Svejk]

Camelot 'borrowed' 75 million from the good causes fund last November. Last time I looked(about a month ago) they hadn't paid a penny back.

[TTG]

I pay the same as before but obviously less lines.

[sprayermick]

I honestly think the lottery is rigged, when the tickets were £1 winning a tenner for three numbers used to be about every five or six weeks for me, since the increase to £2 the 3 number winnings have stopped altogether (I play the same numbers every week) I cant help thinking that Camelot use some kind of super computer to find the least amount of winners.

[redman41]

£25.00 for 4 Numbers is very poor.
You only get £208.00 for 5 Numbers !

[Svejk]

maybe, but it must have been broke this week.

[treetops68]

And the prize fund hasn't increased which was why it was put up, "to encourage more people to play" I believe was the reason they gave.

[choux]

You know what they say, thelord taketh and giveth away ;)

[Ken4155]

A couple of months ago, i got £186 for 4 numbers, then just a few weeks back, i got £158 for 4. I was lucky in that the number of people with 4 numbers was relatively usual, not, i would suggest, like last night when there were 30,503 with 4 numbers sharing at a pot of £762,575. I honestly believe that if Camelot could rig the draw, they would not have had so many with 4 numbers. Not very good publicity for their product.

[DaisyNonna]

Never play

[joeluke]

Lower prizes this week due to all 6 numbers being under 20, obviously all popular numbers (birthdays, anniversaries etc?) so a lot more winning tickets than usual.

Prizes are decided by a simple sum - amount in the pot divided by number of winners hence lower prize values across the board

It's hardly Camelot's fault if loads of people choose low numbers on their tickets is it?

[Ken4155]

joeluke; that's the point i was trying to make, but you put it more succinctly:-)

[silliemillie]

I think less and less people are playing now since they doubled the price so they have shot themselves in the foot I think.

I don't play anymore and know lots of others who have dropped it since the rise.