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Foxglove77 Tue 03-Aug-21 09:36:46

The National Lottery latest adverts declare £30 million pounds is given to good causes every week. That's £156 million a year! Yet if you check the results for just the last 3 Saturday lotto draws there were no jackpot winners. Just small prizes handed out. I'm know it's voluntary gambling but it seems that the money spent by players is handed out to 'good causes' rather than given back in prizes. Why can't there be 15 millionaires made every week? It's about time the National Lottery was reviewed.

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Doodledog Tue 03-Aug-21 09:46:37

When there is no jackpot winner it rolls over to the following week, so it's still given out in prizes.

When the rollovers are high the ticket sales shoot up, so more money is made for the good causes.

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Blossoming Tue 03-Aug-21 09:51:40

I’m involved with a charity that has received lottery funding, it does a lot of good.

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FarNorth Tue 03-Aug-21 09:54:21

What a mean attitude to take towards the good causes.
Don't gamble on the national lottery, if you don't like it.

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Foxglove77 Tue 03-Aug-21 10:07:42

Not mean at all. If it wasn't for us players there wouldn't be £156million available for good causes.

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Flexagon Tue 03-Aug-21 10:17:57

By far the biggest portion of the takings goes on prizes:

From total ticket sales of £8,373.9 million in the year ending 31 March 2021:

£4,854.7 million was paid to players in prizes
£1,887.5 million was raised for National Lottery projects
£1,004.8 million went to the Government in Lottery Duty
£275.9 million was earned by retailers in commission

www.national-lottery.co.uk/life-changing/where-the-money-goes

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Callistemon Tue 03-Aug-21 10:21:45

If no-one gets the right numbers then there is no winner that week.

I'm sorry, but I thought that would be obvious, or is that not how it works?

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Foxglove77 Tue 03-Aug-21 10:41:27

By jove Callisteman, you've cracked it!!
Please don't apologise hmm

More numbers were added on 10th October 2015 to extend the odds. Camelot decide how many numbers you need to win a prize. The lucky dip prizes are counted as cash wins, which they are clearly not.

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Callistemon Tue 03-Aug-21 10:54:24

???

I'm really on the ball!
Not the Lotto balls though as I never play?

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