{"id":9216,"date":"2016-03-24T12:06:53","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T12:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=9216"},"modified":"2016-03-24T12:07:40","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T12:07:40","slug":"wacky-lotto-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=9216","title":{"rendered":"Wacky Lotto Results"},"content":{"rendered":"

If there’s one thing we love at Bother’s Bar it’s a wacky lottery result in lieu of actual news. Take last night’s Lotto for example, the numbers were 7, 14, 21, 35, 41, 42<\/strong> and the Bonus was 43<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

This led to a slightly bizarre situation where as the only guaranteed prize (other than the free tickets for matching 2, and except in exceptional circumstances) 114,232 people won \u00a325 for matching three balls. 7,879 people won \u00a351 for matching four balls (towards the lower end of what you’d expect with four balls, the estimated prize is around \u00a3100). But spare a thought for the 4,082 five ball winners, normally you’d expect to win \u00a31,000 estimated, instead winning just \u00a315 each – \u00a0a lower prize than matching fewer balls.<\/p>\n

How has this happened? The Lotto pays out according to a defined prizepool structure<\/a>,\u00a02% of the Lotto pools fund goes to the five ball winners, split equally. Normally this would be split by around 50-100 people, but yesterday it was split by over 4,000.<\/p>\n

This is a freak result, albeit not unheard of<\/a>, but look at the numbers involved – five of them are multiples of seven, if that 41 was a 28 you’d probably be looking at over 4,082 jackpot winners winning \u00a36,096 each – thank goodness \u00a0for rollovers otherwise it’d be more like twenty quid. That’s always the danger of going for patterned numbers, if you win you’re almost certainly going to be winning less.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If there’s one thing we love at Bother’s Bar it’s a wacky lottery result in lieu of actual news. Take last night’s Lotto for example, the numbers were 7, 14, 21, 35, 41, 42 and the Bonus was 43. This led to a slightly bizarre situation where as the only guaranteed prize (other than the\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-2oE","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}