Lotto Jackpot

[Ace001]

If I brought 2 lotto tickets with the same numbers for tonights draw and those numbers came up tonight. If another person had also won the jackpot as well, will I get 66% of the winnings as I brought 2 tickets? Or would I only get half?

[spudqueen]

If 3 numbers come up you would be able to get 2 X �10, so I don't see why you shouldn't be able to claim two-thirds of the winnings if there are three winning tickets and you hold two of them. Any problems though and you can pass one on to me! lol

[landie]

You would get two thirds of the prize. You have a very small chance of that happening, however.

[Loosehead]

Yes you would get 66% of the jackpot, there would be 3 winners and 2 of them would be you!

[Kerplunk]

They work it out slightly diffently than just splitting it evenly.  You would actually get 4/6 of the prize money with the other ticket holder getting 4/12.

[brachiopod]

For any draw, an alloted percentage of the total prize fund is allocated to each winning combination.

Should there be more than one winning tickets, the fund for that prize level is divided by the number of winning tickets. So if there are five jackpot winning tickets (all six numbers), the prize share is a quarter each.

Note that it is winning tickets - not claimed prizes. Camelot know straightaway how many winning tickets  there are (it's all on their computer) so if there are four jackpot winning tickets, but only three claims (someone lost their ticket / didn't realise they had won etc.), then this final qurter share of the jackpot prize fund will be signed over to the 'good causes' fund and not divided amongst the winning claimants.

So yes, Ace001, your two winning tickets will earn you two shares of a divided jackpot.

[brachiopod]

* prize share is a fifth each*
(was going to use an example of 4 winning tickets !!)

[twiglet4frog]

its per ticket and not per person, if u hae 2 of the three tickets that win then u get two of the three shares of the jackpot

[Sammy Snake]

Kerplunk, surely 4/6 is the same as 2/3 and so 4/12 is the same as 2/6 and 1/3?  (It was when I went to school anyway, common denominators and all that)

Therefore Ace001 would receive 2 x 1/3 which is 2/3 i.e 66%.

[Kerplunk]

It was an attempt at a bit of dry humour.  You are all to wet for me.

[jake-the-peg]

This happened there was a court case about it.

A syndicate leader bought a ticket personally using one of the numbers used by the syndicate "because she liked the look of the numbers"

The number came out - this effectively halved the jackpot payout of the syndicate members who tried to sue the syndicate leader. 

I can't find a reference to this but I distinctly remember reading it. Personally I find it very dubious and wouldn't be surprised if the leader claimed to have bought an Identical number to try to pocket a larger share.

Anybody else remember this?

[Loosehead]

yeah I remember it Jake. There was no case to answer. The syndicate where a bit miffed but she did nothing wrong, if it had been a stranger they where sharing with they wouldn't have batted an eyelid. A case of non joined up thinking. Thing that really upset them was that she had half the total pot and also her share of the syndicates half!

[jake-the-peg]

I thought they were trying it on at first too although on reflection I suppose if somebody else in the syndicate came up with the numbers you could make a case that the choise of those numbers was propriatary to the syndicate.

I don't think you'd have a hope of winning but I guess you  could base a case on that 

[ianess]

There was a story doing the rounds of a husband and wife who always played the same numbers, and both bought a ticket thinking that their other half had forgotten.  They got 50% each of the jackpot as they had the only 2 winning tickets?
Does anyone know the truth of this story?