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British lottery pays out more for matching 3 numbers than 5
National Lottery: Lotto winners outraged as five matching numbers wins them £15
Lotto ticketholders in Wednesday's draw with five numbers in fact won less money than those who only matched three, in a bizarre turn Camelot have blamed on the nuances of, well, it being "a lottery".
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A Camelot spokesperson said: “We had an unprecedented 4,082 Match 5 winners tonight.
“This is because five of the six main numbers drawn was a multiple of seven - 07, 14, 21, 35 and 42 - and clearly this is a popular set of numbers.
“To put it into context, the four Lotto draws before this one had 55, 36, 61 and 38 Match 5 winners - so over 4,000 Match 5 winners is highly unusual.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/national-lottery-lotto-camelot-numbers-winners-15-prize-five-matching-outrage-a6949626.html
Lotto ticketholders in Wednesday's draw with five numbers in fact won less money than those who only matched three, in a bizarre turn Camelot have blamed on the nuances of, well, it being "a lottery".
...
A Camelot spokesperson said: “We had an unprecedented 4,082 Match 5 winners tonight.
“This is because five of the six main numbers drawn was a multiple of seven - 07, 14, 21, 35 and 42 - and clearly this is a popular set of numbers.
“To put it into context, the four Lotto draws before this one had 55, 36, 61 and 38 Match 5 winners - so over 4,000 Match 5 winners is highly unusual.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/national-lottery-lotto-camelot-numbers-winners-15-prize-five-matching-outrage-a6949626.html
This is for a £2 ticket, so you can understand the disappointment when matching 5 out of 6 numbers just gets you 7.5 times your money back.
(see also: the week the individual jackpot payout dropped from about £1 million to under £10,000 - due to a 'psychic' predicting 3 of the 6 correct numbers. Note that the lottery rules now are a little different from then, so don't try and match up the explanations)