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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)[reply]

Seems it has now been reverted to the latter. Do we not normally open RfCs for this type, of thing? Martinevans123 (talk) 14:21, 6 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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.... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Geertes62 (talk • contribs) 08:49, 13 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Table info is correct (new lotto formula)

my sales figure is correct = the prizes are correct

sat 10/10/15 sales "reverse-calculated" (see table) = 35,609,006£

formula:

sales X prize fund (17.82%) X prize pool% / number of winners =

cat1 prize: 35609006 X 17.82% X 83.2% = 5279477 (jackpot)

cat2 prize: 35609006 X 17.82% X 1.9% / 1 = 120564 (prize 5+bn)

cat3 prize: 35609006 X 17.82% X 2% / 61 = 2080 (prize 5)

cat4 prize: 35609006 X 17.82% X 12.9% / 5059 = 161 (prize 4)

Geertes62 (talk) 07:17, 12 October 2015 (UTC)geertes62[reply]

It was better to do it directly on the sales!

if you take 17.82% of the sales and then 83.2% of that part you become of course 14.83% on the sales!

(100 X 17.82%) X 83.2% = 14.83

so the pool's % on sales are (theoretical!):

cat1= 14.83% sales + cat2= 0.34% sales + cat3= 0.36% sales + cat4= 2.30% sales + cat5= 13.00% sales + cat6= 9.75 sales + raffle's pool 6.93% = total 47.5% sales

even better: the avg prizes of cat2 to cat4: you can make them fixed prizes!!!! (the 50,000 & 1,000 & 100 £)

Geertes62 (talk) 12:23, 12 October 2015 (UTC)geertes62[reply]

national lottery.

Why do not sack some bosses of Camelot - for ruining a working class chance to get moderately rich fun activity - now it's just a clever con to up Camelot bonuses! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.172.87.10 (talk) 10:45, 17 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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The Jackpot Problem (Lotto)

As in 2016, the National Lottery has decided to make the jackpot limit from 50 million to around 22 million, but in this case, isn't making this lotto pointless when it has rollover then cascaded to someone else who won the lower tier, and then it has to be all over again? for an instance that 59C6 (the probability to win the jackpot in lotto) = 45,057,474 , however you get up to 12 million times what you have bet when you won a jackpot. this case is seemingly killing their business, and this matter is decreasing the popularity of the National Lottery Lotto. do you agree?


202.40.211.144 (talk) 10:01, 24 February 2018 (UTC)lottery248[reply]

New Lotto (again) 21nov18

If (I say IF) the payout = 47.50% of sales the new lotto looks like this....chart

2£ per ticket & 6/59 matrix = no chance

chart is full draw of all 45057474 combinations

sales= 45057474 times 2= £90114948

2 correct = a free ticket 2£ enrty


max 6 draw = if no jackpot winner in 6th draw = jackpot must be won in that 6th draw

if that happens jackpot will be go to all winners cat 5+bonus to 3 winners

NO RAFFLE!!


cat winners odds 1 to prize pool % sales avg. prize per winner £
6 1 45057474 17.23% 15524448
5+bonus 6 7509579 1.11% 166667
5 312 144415 0.61% 1750
4 20670 2180 3.21% 140
3 468520 96 15.60% 30
2 4392375 10 9.75% 2
Total 4881884 9 47.50% 9

It's sad they should have taken the 1st version
6/49, 1£, that was: 237 jackpot winners a year of 2.1 million £ each !!!! geertes62 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Geertes62 (talk • contribs) 09:18, 11 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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