What's New On These Pages: April 2015

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• Thursday 23th April
  Bought two additional tickets online for next Saturday's main Lotto double rollover draw.

• Sunday 17th April
  Bought an additional ticket online for next Wednesday's main Lotto single rollover draw.

• Sunday 10th April
  Bought two additional tickets online for next Wednesday's main Lotto double rollover draw.

• Thursday 9th April
  Bought an additional ticket online for next Saturday's main Lotto single rollover draw.

• Tuesday 7th April
  For some time now, the Irish official Euro Millions site has been bizarrely displaying an estimated (rounded to the nearest 1m Euros) jackpot prize pool inside the final results table for up to an hour before the final results actually come out. This is completely barmy because not only aren't any final results out yet, it's also shown in the (individual) Prize column - the table has no prize pool column - which would make it seriously wrong if there was more than one jackpot winner.

  My Irish site-scraping script picked up this estimated figure, so recent weeks have seen annoyingly rounded (to 1m Euros) individual jackpot prizes displayed on my site. When I scrape now, I only use the figure if it's 15m Euros (the reset value after the previous draw's jackpot was won), 100m Euros (by far the most common Super Draw jackpot pool) or it's not an exact multiple of 1m Euros. This seemed to do the trick tonight at least.

• Wednesday 1st April
  Bought an additional ticket online for next Saturday's main Lotto single rollover draw.

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