Talk:National Lottery (United Kingdom)

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'Good Causes'

There are widespread feelings in the UK that a lot of the causes funded are not beneficial to the UK on a wide level. Ethnic/religious minorities (including Muslims, who officially hate gambling) and homo/trans-sexuals seem to get a disproportionate amount of help. Considering how hard it is to distinguish a terrorist movement from a genuine charity, I wonder how many atrocities have been funded (indirectly or directly) by this money. Other charities who are supported have to keep records of their users, no doubt to ensure an 'acceptable' mix of users.--MartinUK (talk) 09:45, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Widespread amongst who? I've never even heard such things suggested before, and most of the lottery funding i've heard of has gone to museums and things 82.153.230.138 (talk) 15:59, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

We really don't need someone going all 'Daily Mail' here. Smurfmeister (talk) 19:54, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

Derren Brown

Derren Brown predicted the midweek draw, and even, in the likely event, it was a trick, should this be mentioned as a high-profile draw? I'm sure there were record numbers watching at the very least Sheepdean (talk) 10:04, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

What is the number to text to play? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.68.205.94 (talk) 18:15, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

DerrenB. predicted nothing at all!! when the draw was finished (or over; done) he (or a friend) put (write) the drawn winning numbers on some balls and stated; I won the lotto, silly people! he never show the winning numbers before the draw; what he was doing was very easy to do! (everybody can do that). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.22.189.191 (talk) 19:42, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

Magnum

I have deleted the statement "Magnum is the designated spare machine, and thus has yet to be used" since it is not correct. There is no spare machine of this name. This confusion probably arose after the 2003 Millionaire Maker draw, which used all 6 available machines in a one-off game. This meant that none of the regular machines was available for the Lotto extra draw; so Camelot used a brand-new "Magnum" series machine which was being tested as the next generation draw equipment. Note that "Magnum" is the name of the model type and not the machine name. The machine used in the draw did not have a name at the time, so they just labeled it "Magnum". Eventually this machine and the other Magnums would all be named after semi-precious stones (Opal, Sapphire etc) All the Magnums have now been retired. Achilver (talk) 13:58, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Thunderball Only Odds Wrong?

The official national lottery website states 1 in 29. however this article states 1 in 13.

https://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/help/aboutthunderball/prizecalculation.ftl — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.59.24.35 (talk) 13:09, 25 September 2013 (UTC)

Good spot - changed. Bonusballs (talk) 13:36, 25 September 2013 (UTC)

New Lotto Formula

for somebody who want to chance the text page: the new lotto formula is: total prise fund 47.5% sales: 42.47% for lotto & 5.03% raffle fund now: simply chance the old % with the new ones: 42.47% sales minus categorie 5 fund (winnersX25£)= prize fund "let say" X then: cat 6= 66.4% X cat 5+bonus= 5.3% X cat 5= 4.5% X cat 4= 23.8% X

source: http://lottery.merseyworld.com/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Geertes62 (talk • contribs) 07:07, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

Wednesday draw

There was no Wednesday draw when the Lottery was first introduced, yet this article reads as if it existed from day one. It needs some information on when and why this was introduced. Smurfmeister (talk) 19:58, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

Trevor amiss is my name yes I won free lotto within the uk's phone lotto back in 2013 it was phone lotto, the phone number was 0407155643, the phone it's self it miss placed the queens cancel stepped in in regards to the queens stamp &the non resents tax now what I did was asked the go vernal general even back then she was a women on to day stands some old navy block so when the queens cancel held &I had played 98% of these taxes why should the uk government hold first my winnings from your lotto firm or your in this case clamed unclaimed lotto winning when I my self have played 98%of the out going taxes SO IN THIS CASE THE QUEEN UK GOVERMENT ARE HOLDING MY WINNINGS MY QUEENS TAX STAMP COST MY NON RESTENT TAX FEES WHICH HAVE HAD 98 PERSENT PAYED ON THEM && YOUR FIRM IS WHAT THEY SAYS FIVE MILLION GBP OUT OF POCKET JUST BECOUSE YOUR OFFICE IS IN THE UNITED KINGIOM

LET MY SELF KNOW ON MY DETAIL OF trevoramiss@mail.com  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.115.2.117 (talk) 03:26, 17 October 2014 (UTC) 

Raffle change

According to the web site, "the number of Lotto raffle prizes available on Rollover draws will no longer increase", but the article currently states "The number of winners varies during rollovers".

See: https://www.national-lottery.co.uk/procedures —  82.25.220.134 (talk) 18:37, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

NEW! "instant lotto"

Can anyone make a new title in the article about the new game: "instant lotto" thanks (sse the official website)

https://www.national-lottery.co.uk/games/instant-wins/instant-lotto?icid=iwg%3A3895%3Aim — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.22.206.4 (talk) 10:26, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

Name of Article

Shouldn't this article be called "National Lottery (United Kingdom and Isle of Man)" instead of "National Lottery (United Kingdom)" since it also takes place in the Isle of Man, but the Isle of Man is not part of United Kingdom? Ezza1995 (talk) 22:53, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

Bigger jackpots

5th paragraph lotto section: The arrival of the new lotto means bigger Jackpots: NOT correct! because sales fell down the jackpot decrease from 6.1m to 5.0m for lotto V1 to Lotto V2. Sales went down from 63m to 51m a week. tip: you could call Lotto 1994 to 2013 V1, Lotto from 2013 to 2015 V2 and Lotto V3 from 2015....