Christmas Millionaire Maker 2002

Game 1

Winning years drawn at 10.05pm GMT on Tuesday 24th December 2002:

Sorted order:  1910  1915  1929  1934  1995  Bonus:  1963

Drawn  order: 1915  1910  1934  1995  1929  Bonus:  1963

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9 100 000 *115).

Category      Prize       Winners       Total      Percentages
Jackpot             £0           0            £0       0.0%
4+bonus       £542,988           4    £2,171,952      24.0%
4 match         £2,977          61      £181,597       2.0%
3+bonus         £1,389         197      £273,633       3.0%
3 match           £201       4,156      £835,356       9.2%
2+bonus           £106       5,305      £562,330       6.2%
2 match            £50     100,760    £5,038,000      55.6%
Totals                     110,483    £9,062,868     100.0%
Ticket sales           £24,782,200
Actual tickets sold      4,956,440

All 4 of the Game 1 4+bonus prizes have now been claimed.

Game 2

Winning years drawn at 10.08pm GMT on Tuesday 24th December 2002:

First year: 1668   Second year:  2605

Number of Game 2 jackpot (£1 million) winners:  5

All 5 of the Game 2 jackpots have now been claimed.

Notes:

• The average prize in Game 1 was £82.02.
• The machine Vyvyan was used in Game 1. The four machines used in Game 2 were Lancelot (16), Guinevere (68), Arthur (26) and Merlin (05).
• Although the TV show was a pleasingly short 15 minutes in length, apparently interviewing Kat from EastEnders was considered more important than the 5 draws, so two of them (Extra and Thunderball) were just shown as sorted-ball static captions for 9 seconds ! It turns out they were drawn much earlier (at about 8.00pm GMT) - it's outrageous that the BBC can seemingly get away with this.
• For the fourth annual draw in a row (all of them so far in fact), no-one actually managed to match all five main years in Game 1, so yet again the prize pool from that tier was added to the highest tier that had any winners (4+bonus in this case).
• Camelot failed to issue all the full results by 11.00pm GMT Christmas Eve, although it didn't help that the BBC stupidly only gave the Camelot phone line a mere 45 minutes before it was due to close. Of course, the official lottery site was barely loadable (5 minutes per page...) until well after midnight.
• I matched absolutely nothing in Game 1 and my two random years in Game 2 - 1534 and 2760 - also completely missed the mark.
• Prizes in Games 1 and 2 have to be claimed by 11.00pm BST on Sunday 29th June 2003.

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