Victoria's Blog

Annoyed at recent change to EuroMillions

I’ve played the EuroMillions draw for the last 2 years. I don’t drink and don’t smoke, so spend around £5 a week on lottery tickets instead. The EuroMillions draw was change a number of weeks ago to include a new draw on Tuesdays, but the runners also changed the numbers that could be picked. Instead of 1-50 and 1-9, the numbers have been changed to 1-50 and 1-11. Now this change might seem very small, but the statistical probability of someone winning the jackpot has deceased as a result. As such, instead of a handful of people winning say £17m each, we now get a lot more situations where single person (in five weeks) stands to win £100m, meaning that less people actually win a decent amount of money to retire on.

Anyway, that’s my rant for the day..