UK Lotto Homepage is strange

Discussion in 'Free Thoughts' started by alexb123, Nov 1, 2007.

  1. alexb123 The Amish web page is fast! Valued Senior Member

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    Why does the Lotto home page always at the top inform you that example Mrs Smilth has won £1?

    It always seems to be £1 or £2 what is this? £1 is not worth winning so why do they show this? Its the weirdest thing ever.

    http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/home/home.do

    Oops on clicking the link today someone has won a record £10. But still it's normally £1.
     
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  3. alexb123 The Amish web page is fast! Valued Senior Member

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    Update! on pushing refresh its back to £1
     
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  5. Nickelodeon Banned Banned

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    Thats the daily play, not the full lotto.
     
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  7. alexb123 The Amish web page is fast! Valued Senior Member

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    Another update, if you keep pushing refresh it changes every few seconds. The highest price I have seen is £14
     
  8. alexb123 The Amish web page is fast! Valued Senior Member

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    What is daily play? How much can you win?
     
  9. Nickelodeon Banned Banned

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    between £1 and £10,000 I think.
     
  10. alexb123 The Amish web page is fast! Valued Senior Member

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    Its weird it says that daily play has stopped for the day but it keeps saying Mr.S has won £2.00, someone just won £1.50 as well. I really don't see how putting this up is any kind of an advert because the sum are almost always so low.
     
  11. Stryder Keeper of "good" ideas. Valued Senior Member

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    It wouldn't be too difficult to create a serverside randomisation script.

    Simply you have a randomisation of 'Mr', 'Mrs' and of course 'Miss' and then you have a randomised Capital letter from the alphabet. (Notibly some letters might not be omitted like 'X','Y','Z') you then would have values between 1 and 10 before the decimal place and '00' and '50' after it.

    This would of course mean that the Winners, are in fact all FAKE, however somebody is likely to have won at some point with that particular Letter last name and they'd likely suggest it was them similar to how the 'Mystics' state a winner will be wearing blue.
     
  12. alexb123 The Amish web page is fast! Valued Senior Member

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    I think your right Stryder I have seen patterns of areas coming up and 2 Dr have won in the last few minutes.
     

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