Vernons Easy Play #39

9 Easy Play score draws on Saturday 8th May 1999:

Northampton Town               2-2   Burnley                     
Brighton and Hove Albion       1-1   Rochdale                    
Chester City                   1-1   Rotherham United            
Leyton Orient                  2-2   Barnet                      
Scarborough                    1-1   Peterborough United         
Southend United                1-1   Hartlepool United           
Inverness Caledonian Thistle   1-1   Alloa Athletic              
Queen of the South             2-2   Partick Thistle             
Queen's Park                   1-1   Berwick Rangers             

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

Category       Prize        Winners        Total       Percentages
8+draws      £10,097.50           3       £30,292.50       43.0%
7 draws         £413.00          20        £8,260.00       11.7%
6 draws          £46.00         359       £16,514.00       23.4%
5 draws           £5.00       3,082       £15,410.00       21.9%
Totals                        3,464       £70,476.50      100.0%
Ticket sales                             £185,497.00

• The average prize was £20.35 and one in every 53.5 tickets won a prize (=1.87% of players).
• Well, that's the end of Vernons Easy Play then (it has been scrapped and not a moment too soon !). Amusingly, some retailers were confused about the closing date and started turning potential Vernons Easy Play customers away on Saturday, saying that the game had already ended !
• Final stats included an average jackpot of only £1,918.47 (not helped by one of the weeks having 3,370 jackpot winners !), ticket sales that started promisingly at over £1.5m, but ended disastrously (below £200,000) and the draw experts crown being taken by Tranmere Rovers with 12 Vernons Easy Play score draws.
• The UK public has overwhelmingly rejected this game (I've been saying that it would be a flop from day one) and Vernons obviously decided to cut their losses before the obscure Australian Rules football fixtures were due to come into operation.
• For some reason, the Vernons Easy Play official Web site closed down its fixtures and results service somewhat prematurely (over a week ago !), so I've been unable to obtain the full fixtures list for this final week.
• Unclaimed prizes from this game expired at 11.00pm GMT on Thursday 4th November 1999 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Previous game: #38 (Saturday 1st May 1999) [1 jackpot winner]

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