The Lotto jackpot has crept up to almost £60 million, and must be won this week. Evidently there are some rules that determine how many rollovers there are, and if no-one get gets all the numbers, it goes to the next in line (is that 5 balls?) and will probably be shared by a few lucky folk.
The thing is, 60 million quids is a great deal of money, too much for anyone surely? Camelot's research has led them to reduce the chances of winning (from 1 in 14 million to something like 1 in 40 million) as a way of attracting more sales. They didn't ask me for my opinion.
Last night's midweek draw - a measly 40 million dragged in ticket sales at 'up to 200 per second' and took the website down at one point, so they must have hit on a good formula to get the punters spending.
But surely, a 1 million pound win would be good enough for nearly all of use? I'm not counting the Beckhams, Adele and Sebastian Coe in this of course, but for the rest of us it would pay off all our debts (hopefully!) and give us a more than decent lifestyle. For me, raising the jackpot (by adding additional numbers and thereby reducing the chances of winning) is less incentive to buying a ticket.
Mind you, what I could do with 60 million....
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