Now 'rip-off' National Lottery

[super jumbe]

Now 'rip-off' National Lottery adds 10 MORE balls ? slashing odds of winning to one in 45m



NATIONAL Lottery bosses were accused of operating the ?biggest con ever? yesterday after adding 10 extra balls to the pot - sending the chances of winning the jackpot to a staggering 45 million to one.

Players reacted with fury as the biggest change in the 21-year history of the game comes into effect today (Sat).

There were growing calls to boycott the new-look draw as the controversial shake-up will see the number of balls increase from 49 to 59.

The cost of playing will remain at ?2 a line.

Incredibly, Lotto operator Camelot swept aside punters? anger by heralding the ?exciting changes? on their website.

Meanwhile, the National Lottery?s official Facebook page was bombarded with complaints from players who insisted they had had enough.

Last night experts warned Camelot?s desperate bid to win back dwindling players could backfire spectacularly.

Under the changes, the chance of matching all six balls will decrease from one in 14 million to one in 45 million.

The chances of winning a cash prize from picking three, four or five numbers also diminish dramatically.
For example, the prize for getting three numbers will remain at ?25 but the chances of selecting them changes from one in 57 to one in 97.

Camelot insists the chances of winning any prize increase from one in 54 to one in 9.3.

This is because people who get two numbers will win a lucky dip ticket for a future draw, creating an extra 1.8 million winners a week.

[super jumbe]

Got an idea, DK National lottery with only 29 balls I will start playing again

[rds60h]

Camelot are just a bunch of money grabbers, who can't even see how pee'ed off people are with the way the Lottery is now.
The Lottery started off as a once a week ?1 a ticket draw and nothing else and the usual starting jackpot was between ?7 and ?9 Million.
Now it's twice a week, ?2 a ticket, god knows how many different scratch cards and the amount of numbered balls has been increased making winning the jackpot much harder....................although the reason behind that in Camelot's mind will be that when the jackpot is won it will have rolled over enough for it to be paying out a jackpot in the region of ?9 Million and so similar to the original jackpots.
So for the punters instead of a ?1 weekly spend for the jackpot winner they will have likely spent ?8 over a fortnight, so in reality the annual jackpot amount will have halved while the cost of competing for it will have quadrupled.
We need to return to a single ?1 a week draw, that everybody would be prepared to sacrifice for a chance to win a decent jackpot. But that is common sense and money grabbing monsters like Camelot cannot see something as simplistic as that, plus why have a private company run what is supposed to be the Nation's Lottery ?
Problem is that too many pockets are being lined for that to happen.

[gmb45]

where theres money theres a fiddle, enuff said, should hav let big dick branston run it, would still be fiddles not not as big.

[super jumbe]

36 balls bad enough 59 forget the jackpot.
Simple solution: boycot camelot..

[Meat-Head]

Will Tweet them later abd moan

[gc1966]

i accept the odds are ridiculously high of winning the jackpot but that is the only way to escape the rat race.a mad impossible dream granted but without that to hold onto in the vain hope I can spew my job and enjoy my time left on this planet without financial hardship,then that is the dream I have to chase


the alternative and more realistic scenario is 18 more years of dragging my carcass out of my pit to do a job I hate in the vain hope that retirement benefits pay enough to keep me in cat food and teabags until I drop off the perch.

if I did not dream I would be posting in the what are you doing tonight thread stating an evening with my head in the oven hoping the meter has enough money in it to finish the job


so roll on friday

[GastonJ]

that is the only way to escape the rat race

and that is how they manage to keep so many people paying out good money after bad. It would be much better to have everyone in the UK, who is over 18, to donate ?3 a week to a pot and then let them all fight over who gets it each week.

if I did not dream I would be posting in the what are you doing tonight thread stating an evening with my head in the oven hoping the meter has enough money in it to finish the job

you and the other 50 million of us.

the alternative and more realistic scenario is 18 more years of dragging my carcass out of my pit to do a job I hate in the vain hope that retirement benefits pay enough to keep me in cat food and teabags until I drop off the perch.

As above, but I'm probably going to take the massive hit of a 35% reduction in my private pension to go early, so that I can draw my pension for more than a day before I do fall off my perch and become a Norwegian Blue!

Saving for a pension is a bit like the lottery, the pension company are betting you drop dead before you ge the money and the government are making sure it happens before you get your state pension as well. In the UK

18.5% of males won't make 65

By moving the pension age the government has already saving 18.5% at least.

Are the odds any better really?

*shrug*

[gc1966]

(and that is how they manage to keep so many people paying out good money after bad. It would be much better to have everyone in the UK, who is over 18, to donate ?3 a week to a pot and then let them all fight over who gets it each week).

I pay ?2 to play the lottery and have to fight no one for it,imagine having to fight twenty five million times to get the prize money,knowing my luck I would get beaten in the qualifiers and have to try again on Wednesday,nah ?3 pound for getting my arse kicked is worse than work.

*As above, but I'm probably going to take the massive hit of a 35% reduction in my private pension to go early, so that I can draw my pension for more than a day before I do fall off my perch and become a Norwegian Blue!

Saving for a pension is a bit like the lottery, the pension company are betting you drop dead before you ge the money and the government are making sure it happens before you get your state pension as well. In the UK

18.5% of males won't make 65

By moving the pension age the government has already saving 18.5% at least.

Are the odds any better really)

no,a pension and a lottery are miles apart,i win the lottery and I get the money now,no loss of 35% if I finish now or wait to reach retirement age to get my hands on it.

exactly where in England will the retirement age be 65 in 18 years time cos I will move there,that or you need to adjust the 18.5% to fit in with the real age of people who will not reach it,67 at the last count


amid all the cherry picking of my op you failed to repeat the my and I references that stated it was my dream,funny that


*shrug*

[super jumbe]

(and that is how they manage to keep so many people paying out good money after bad. It would be much better to have everyone in the UK, who is over 18, to donate ?3 a week to a pot and then let them all fight over who gets it each week).

I pay ?2 to play the lottery and have to fight no one for it,imagine having to fight twenty five million times to get the prize money,knowing my luck I would get beaten in the qualifiers and have to try again on Wednesday,nah ?3 pound for getting my arse kicked is worse than work.

*As above, but I'm probably going to take the massive hit of a 35% reduction in my private pension to go early, so that I can draw my pension for more than a day before I do fall off my perch and become a Norwegian Blue!

Saving for a pension is a bit like the lottery, the pension company are betting you drop dead before you ge the money and the government are making sure it happens before you get your state pension as well. In the UK

18.5% of males won't make 65

By moving the pension age the government has already saving 18.5% at least.

Are the odds any better really)

no,a pension and a lottery are miles apart,i win the lottery and I get the money now,no loss of 35% if I finish now or wait to reach retirement age to get my hands on it.

exactly where in England will the retirement age be 65 in 18 years time cos I will move there,that or you need to adjust the 18.5% to fit in with the real age of people who will not reach it,67 at the last count


amid all the cherry picking of my op you failed to repeat the my and I references that stated it was my dream,funny that


*shrug*

You just reminded me about donation, just one donation for example we donated in 2015 children in need ?49, 00000000000000000000000000000000000000 ffs were this money!!! If no one wins the jackpot money goes to children in need….

[GastonJ]

We should create a new charity for donating immigrants. I'll donate 2,000 of them on behalf of 'Ull

[super jumbe]

We should create a new charity for donating immigrants. I'll donate 2,000 of them on behalf of 'Ull

I have a big pocket for safe keeping...

[ontherack]

one draw a week is my preference. If not won first draw, it keeps rolling over till it is won, no restrictions. Ticket price to go back to ?1..Government Dept. can't run lotto it would end in total fiasco, hence Camemoneylot.

[cactikid]

not looked at this thread before and checking my numbers now see more numbers on tickets,just like the irish lotto did more numbers=less tickets i will be buying.

[M T Glass]

Yes, cactikid and I heard a potential hopeful of an Independent candidate, Stephen Donnelly, on local radio say, when asked how he would raise taxes if elected...he said he would tax the big prize money winners in the lotto.
Bah humbug, as stated above, winning the jackpot is the poor mans ticket out of poverty.
I'll be giving him the cold shoulder come election time,