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Q: UK Lottery ( Answered 5 out of 5 stars,   1 Comment )
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Subject: UK Lottery
Category: Miscellaneous
Asked by: dogsbollocks-ga
List Price: $7.00
Posted: 02 Jun 2004 00:01 PDT
Expires: 02 Jul 2004 00:01 PDT
Question ID: 355178
What % of jackpot wins come from syndicates (as opposed to people who
buy tickets on their own)
This question refers to the UK Lottery
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Subject: Re: UK Lottery
Answered By: palitoy-ga on 02 Jun 2004 01:19 PDT
Rated:5 out of 5 stars
 
I have just contacted the UK National Lottery operator (Camelot) on
your behalf and they directed me to these results on their webpages.

Approximately 1 in 4 (or 25%) of the jackpot wins come from people who
win in a syndicate.  A ticket owned by 2 or more people is judged to
be a syndicate.

The largest win in UK lottery history was won by a synicate of 2
friends, in total they won £22,590,829.  There have been 3 instances
of a syndicate winning over £20 million.

These links (provided by the National Lottery operator) should help
you and back up the above facts:
http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/games/syndicateslanding.jsp
http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/games/syndicatesNews.jsp
http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/winners/facts.jsp#anchor03

If you have any further questions on UK National Lottery syndicates
please ask for clarification and I will try my best to help you out.

The UK National Lottery Help Desk (who are the best people to contact
regarding any queries) can be contacted here:
http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/about/contact.jsp

Good luck with playing the lottery!
dogsbollocks-ga rated this answer:5 out of 5 stars

Comments  
Subject: Re: UK Lottery
From: simontrumpet-ga on 14 Dec 2004 15:24 PST
 
Hilarious - they ran an advert for a while in early 2004 that shouted
"1 in 4 lottery winners are part of a syndicate".

This was meant to encourage you to join a syndicate.

They stopped running it - I guess someone realised it means that 3 in
4 lottery winners are non-syndicate players.  In other words ...
treble your chances of winning by NOT joining a syndicate!

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