Terribly Unimpressed With Camelot

[ukbod2015]

Was lucky enough to have 4 numbers on the Lotto tonight - looking forward to a £100 or so - and imagine my disappointment when 4 numbers is only good for £21, 3 numbers for £25 - I know how they apportion their prize fund but that doesnt take the edge off.

[maggiebee]

Why not just put your pennies in a piggy bank then you'll have a £104 "prize" at the end of the year.

[Svejk]

Dreams, Maggie, dreams.

[Caribeing]

Its all a load of balls, we do a bet in the bookies on the Irish lottery for three numbers at £1 you win £600

[Gromit]

Camelot have the conteact to run the lottery until 2019, with a 5 year extension available.

Turnover is £5.5billion
Profit last year was nearly £50million.

It is owned by the pension fund of Teachers in Ontario, Canada.

[ukbod2015]

I dont usually do the Lotto that often and I`m guessing it will be a lot less now unless it gets a decent roll over - perhaps they need to look at the percentage they allocate to each level to make it fairer - many thanks for all your comments.

[ukbod2015]

Just for the record I always do lucky dips - as I tried the same numbers for the first 3 years of the lottery and only won £50 - done a bit better than that on dips.

[Svejk]

Did you know, gromit, that they 'borrowed' £100 million from the good causes fund to pay a dividend to shareholders. When I read that they still hadn't paid any of it back, a year later.

[Gromit]

Svejk,
No I didn't know that. Here are the actual figures...

// CAMELOT took £75m from the national lottery’s fund for good causes to help pay for the relaunch of the game last year, when ticket prices were doubled.

The transfer — which was approved by the lottery regulator — was made only months after Camelot paid a £112m dividend to its Canadian owner, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan.

The lottery operator, headed by Dianne Thompson, has up to now paid back less than a quarter of the £75m. //

[dave50]

Irish Lottery. 3 numbers = £600+

[Svejk]

I knew it sounded a bit 'dodgy'.