What's New On These Pages: March 2010

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Saturday 13th March
After an interminable wait, Camelot finally updated their Euro Millions results overnight (I went to bed at 1.20am with still no full results!). For ages now, I've had to manually divide (using my calc program) the UK prize pool by the UK prize amount to find the number of UK winners in each tier for every Euro Millions draw. Yes, it's mad that the official Camelot site doesn't list the number of UK winners in each tier (it does for all other games)!
Anyway, it got me thinking that I was fed up of manually doing this, so I've now written a script that uses lynx to grab the Euro Millions results page and displays the draw number, the day offset from draw one, the UK prize amounts, the winning numbers and the UK number of winners in each tier. This is in a specific format so that I can just cut'n'paste it straight into my Euro Millions data file and never have to do long division again - yay!
Thursday 4th March
Bought two more tickets online for Saturday's main Lotto single rollover draw.

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