Lottery Information

Here you'll find most of the miscellaneous lottery information that's not covered elsewhere on this website. Currently this includes information from the free leaflets available from National Lottery retailers and the results for discontinued lottery games. Let me know if there's anything else you'd like to see here.

Lottery Guides
Calculating the Odds - How to work out your chances of winning.

Lottery Leaflets
'How to Play' - Camelot's instructions for playing the UK National Lottery.
'How to Play The New Game Thunderball' - Camelot's instructions for Thunderball.
'How to Play The New Game Lottery Extra' - Camelot's simple guide for Lottery Extra.
'Playing in a Group' - Camelot's guidelines for setting up your own syndicate.
National Lottery Regional Centres - Where to claim prizes of £10,000+ in your region.
'The National Lottery: What's in it for you?' - Details for obtaining Lottery Grants.

Discontinued/One-Off Game Results
Vernons Easy Play - An online ticket game based on football results, ran from 15th August 1998 to 8th May 1999. Poor sales resulted in the game being scrapped at the end of the football season.
'How to Play'
Leaflet - Instructions for playing Vernons Easy Play.
Results History

TV Dreams Home Play - An Instants scratchcard game which - depending on the symbols revealed - could give players the chance to be a participant in 'The National Lottery Big Ticket' TV-gameshow, or play an additional game using the numbers drawn during the show.
'Are you game for the dream game?'
Leaflet - Instructions for playing TV Dreams.
Results History

Big Draw 2000 - Camelot's Millennium Game, actually two games in one with the best one giving a 1 in 1,000,000 chance to be a millionaire. Drawn on 31st December 1999 and 1st January 2000, ticket sales were lower than expected - could have been due to costing £5 each.
'How to Take Part Big Draw 2000 - A Simple Guide'
Leaflet - Rules for Big Draw 2000.
'How to Play The National Lottery Big Draw 2000' Playslip Information.
Results History

Big Draw 2001 - Reprised from the previous year. Ticket sales were even lower.
Results History

Christmas Millionaire Maker - Looks like there'll be an annual festive draw from now on.
Results: 2001, 2002, 2003

Lotto Launch Bonus Draws - 3 Jackpot-only bonus games to celebrate the rebranding of the National Lottery and Lottery Extra draws to Lotto and Lotto Extra.
Results History

Golden Jubilee Bonus Draw - A £10,000,000 Jackpot-only bonus game to celebrate the Queen's Golden Jubilee.
Results History

Lotto Extra - A Jackpot-only game played in addition to the standard Lotto game. Ran from 15/11/00 to 8/7/06.
Results History, Prize History, Ball Frequencies