Vernons Easy Play #5

16 Easy Play score draws on Saturday 12th September 1998:

Leicester City            1-1   Arsenal                
Bradford City             2-2   Sheffield United       
Oxford United             3-3   Ipswich Town           
Stockport County          1-1   Crewe Alexandra        
Wolverhampton Wanderers   1-1   Sunderland             
Burnley                   1-1   Wycombe Wanderers      
Colchester United         1-1   Gillingham             
Northampton Town          1-1   Oldham Athletic        
York City                 1-1   Wrexham                
Mansfield Town            1-1   Carlisle United        
Rochdale                  2-2   Scunthorpe United      
Shrewsbury Town           1-1   Peterborough United    
Aberdeen                  1-1   Motherwell             
Celtic                    1-1   Kilmarnock             
St. Johnstone             1-1   Dunfermline Athletic   
Raith Rovers              1-1   Falkirk                

[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
8+draws         £113.00       3,370      £380,810.00       78.8%
7 draws           £5.00      20,497      £102,485.00       21.2%
Totals                       23,867      £483,295.00      100.0%
Ticket sales                           £1,278,074.00

• The average prize was £20.25 and one in every 53.5 tickets won a prize (=1.87% of players).
• BBC's Grandstand show failed read out the Easy Play score draws, though they were quite happy to read out the soccer pools draws !
• The record number of jackpot winners for this game meant that the Camelot phone line was swamped for a long time as the jackpot winners phoned up (though they didn't really need to - all Post Offices will pay out £113 quite happily).
• Ticket sales embarassingly fell yet again, showing that the public is disinterested in this game now that the intiial publicity drive has tailed off.
• Unclaimed prizes from this game expired at 11.00pm GMT on Thursday 11th March 1999 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next game: #6 (Saturday 19th September 1998) [12 jackpot winners]
Previous game: #4 (Saturday 5th September 1998) [4 jackpot winners]

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