Vernons Easy Play #2 (Super Draw #2)

5 Easy Play score draws on Saturday 22nd August 1998:

Chelsea               1-1   Newcastle United   
Northampton Town      1-1   Notts County       
Peterborough United   1-1   Southend United    
Falkirk               1-1   Hibernian          
Partick Thistle       2-2   Queen of the South 

[A full set of fixtures for this game is also available]

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100000 *114).

Category       Prize        Winners        Total       Percentages
5 draws       £5,457.00         421    £2,297,397.00      100.0%
Ticket sales                           £1,732,853.00

• The average prize was £5,457.00 and one in every 4116.0 tickets won a prize (=0.02% of players).
• This was the 2nd Super Draw and the jackpot pool was a guaranteed £2,000,000.00.
• Yes, Vernons made a second consecutive loss (£564,544 this week) on this game because of a £2m guaranteed jackpot pool ! This means they've launched the game and within a fortnight lost over £1 million.
• If there had been one less score draw, then no-one would have won a prize (can you imagine the uproar if that had happened ?).
• I've now verified the formula used this week, although it took a lot of chasing of Camelot to get it. Believe you me, the calculations are nothing short of extremely bizarre e.g. for this week, the amount Vernons actually topped up was £2m - [round down to nearest 50p: 55% of ((38% of £1,732,853)-421*£5)]. Yes, this formula not only looks like someone was on drugs when they thought of it, but it's not in their Easy Play Rules and Procedures booklet either.
• Unclaimed prizes from this game expired at 11.00pm GMT on Thursday 18th February 1999 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next game: #3 (Saturday 29th August 1998) [232 jackpot winners]
Previous game: #1 (Saturday 15th August 1998) [1 jackpot winner]

© Richard K. Lloyd & Connect 1999
Part of MerseyWorld - promoting Liverpool and its surrounding regions
Auto-generated at 5.23pm GMT on Saturday 13th March 1999