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Originally Posted by fingers

Camelot, the National Lottery operator, doubled the price of a lottery ticket using the argument that jackpots would be bigger but that doesn't seem to be the case.

Wednesday's Lotteries appear to be being artificially inflated with £2.5 million jackpots seeming to be the norm, however since Wednesday 16 October's Jackpot was NOT won and it "Rolled Over" to Saturday which Camelot predicted to be £6,228,639 and which, in fact, turned out to be £4,860,213 this would mean that Saturday's Jackpot without the Wednesday Rollover would ONLY have been £2.3 million (probably the LOWEST ever Saturday Jackpot since the lottery began).

Where have all the punters gone if the Jackpot has gone down in spite of doubling the price?

We are seriously thinking of packing it in.
Hubby runs a syndicate at work as well.
Okay,so 3 numbers now gets you 25 quid instead of a tenner, but the higher up you go the prizes are not as good as they used to be.
What about all those people on small incomes...hard to scrape together £2 a ticket for their dreams.