What's New On These Pages: September 2012

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• Saturday 29th September
  After all that effort yesterday, all of my 10 tickets failed to win and the previously unused number that I'd played for the first time ever didn't turn up either! Best ticket was my 7th one, which was the only 2-match out of the lot.

• Friday 28th September
  Bought eight more tickets online for tomorrow's main Lotto first ever quadruple rollover draw, which obviously meant it was the first time I'd spent ever £10 on any Camelot-run draw. Yes, I know that if I match 3 numbers on just one of the tickets, I'll only break even!

  Picking my 9th and 10th tickets was a bit tricky, because the first 8 tickets that I'd played in previous draws all had unique numbers, leaving just one number I'd never actually played in the main Lotto all these years. I wanted to have the two new tickets conform to my number selection strategy, also the first new ticket had to contain the non-played number and finally both new tickets mustn't have two or more numbers that had previously been used any earlier ticket.

  So I kept reloading the generator until the first new ticket contained the unused number and then I checked that ticket didn't have two numbers used in a previous ticket (if it did, it was another reload). I then repeated it for the second new ticket, but without the unused number proviso. Finally, I ended up with the two new tickets I wanted, but I annoyingly had to do two sets of purchases. I have a direct debit for tickets 1-2, so I then manually bought tickets 3-9 (only 7 tickets can be bought at a time for some peculiar reason) and then finally manually bought ticket 10. Phew - now let's hope I at least get my money back!

• Saturday 22nd September
  Bought six more tickets online for next Wednesday's main Lotto triple rollover draw.

• Friday 21st September
  Bought four more tickets online for tomorrow's main Lotto double rollover draw.

• Saturday 15th September
  Bought two more tickets online for next Wednesday's main Lotto single rollover draw.

• Friday 7th September
  Bought two more tickets online for tomorrow's main Lotto single rollover draw.

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