Vernons Easy Play #3 (Super Draw #3)

12 Easy Play score draws on Saturday 29th August 1998:

Middlesbrough          1-1   Derby County        
Wimbledon              1-1   Leeds United        
Bolton Wanderers       2-2   Sheffield United    
Huddersfield Town      3-3   Portsmouth          
Stockport County       1-1   Crystal Palace      
Swindon Town           1-1   Port Vale           
Tranmere Rovers        1-1   Bristol City        
Blackpool              2-2   Gillingham          
Notts County           1-1   Manchester City     
Dundee                 1-1   Celtic              
Dunfermline Athletic   1-1   Aberdeen            
Greenock Morton        2-2   Clydebank           

[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       £8,621.00         232    £2,000,072.00       88.2%
7 draws          £32.00       2,830       £90,560.00        4.0%
6 draws           £8.00      22,173      £177,384.00        7.8%
Totals                       25,235    £2,268,016.00      100.0%
Ticket sales                           £1,596,698.00

• The average prize was £89.88 and one in every 63.3 tickets won a prize (=1.58% of players).
• This was the 3rd Super Draw and the jackpot pool was a guaranteed £2,000,072.00.
• For the third week in a row, Vernons made a serious loss thanks to a £2m guaranteed jackpot pool - the figure this week was £671,318. That means Vernons have now lost £2,002,848 in the first three weeks of Easy Play and, to make matters worse, ticket sales fell this week as well !
• BBC 1 Wales viewers were left in the dark this week about the Easy Play results because that channel outrageously opts out of the national Grandstand broadcast each week as soon as the soccer results have been read out. Wales on Saturday cut in and, although it read out the soccer pools results, it failed to cover the Easy Play results (unlike Grandstand, which did read them out).
• Unclaimed prizes from this game expired at 11.00pm GMT on Thursday 25th February 1999 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next game: #4 (Saturday 5th September 1998) [4 jackpot winners]
Previous game: #2 (Saturday 22nd August 1998) [421 jackpot winners]

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