Camelot are relying on us being as greedy as they are. 14,000,000/1 at present with 49 numbers and, apparently, 45,000,000/1 with 59 numbers! I really do hope players desert them in their tens of thousands.
Surely the point of a lottery is the chance to be wealthy beyond your wildest dreams ? I'd not refuse a £1M win, but I can dream that much wealth. I'd rather the odds remained slim but the jackpot keep on growing. If the good lord wants me to win they know they just have to make my numbers come up, regardless of the odds against it.
you have more chance of being run over by a bus than winning the jackpot , this is just another way to bleed people dry ! did we the public have a say in it ?
Camelot needs to go back to school, if they think that by increasing the number of balls gives people a better chance of winning !
What this will do, is to increase Camelots profits, in the same way that doubling the price of entry, from £1 to £2 did recently. Virgin should have been awarded the contract, not Camelot, as they pledged to do it without profit.
I think the point Camelot are making is that while the chance of getting the big prize has shrunk, they have introduced a new two-ball prize -- if winning a free entry to the next game counts as a prize, anyway.
I only played the lottery once, to mark my 15th birthday -- and then again a few years later when someone bought me a ticket as a birthday present. But the material difference between odds of 1 in 14 million and 1 in 45 million is surprisingly light in some sense. You are now only about three times less likely to gain what was an already highly unlikely prize.
Strange the Canadian Company (Pension Fund) which own the lottery has increased the cost and now reduces the chances of winning 'The Big One' and yet the national lottery in Canada still only uses 49 numbers!
Plus, as a bye the bye, does Government still receive the same percentage of tax on the Lottery as it did when run by British firms?
They should cap the jackpot prize and draw maybe 50 tickets of one million pounds each when it reaches 50 million. That would help more people I think.