Talk:EuroMillions/Archives/2013

What's the story about Denmark?
Watching the Euromillions page, I've seen a concerted effort by one or several users to add a link to their rogue web site offering to buy tickets for anyone around the world.

Now someone also seems to be very active at adding Denmark to the official participants countries that make up Euromillions. When you do a search for euromillions tickets on the web there are a lot of links to Danish sites that offer lottery tickets from around the world. As far as I know, Denmark is not in Euromillions but Eurojackpot. So my guess is that it's part of the con to misdirect gamblers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.109.86.76 (talk) 08:10, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Millionaire raffle
The text reads "Tuesday can be estimated as 1 in 3,500,000. On a Friday, it can be calculated as 1 in 9,200,000". Neither of these figures are supported by a reference, and the amendment that inserted this detail was placed only a few months after the Tuesday draw started in 2011. I want to remove the statement, or at least try to a more up to date estimate for the Tuesday figure as this does look very low. For example if you take the average UK winners of the minimum prize of a few weeks with a jackpot of about 12-13, no additional millionaire raffles and not immediately following a large jackpot win and divide that number by the mathematical odds of that prize to get a rough and ready approximation of the number of UK players, I got 8-and-a-bit million for Friday (which compares ok with the 9.2M stated given that the number of players should increase as the Jackpots increase) but 5.5 million for Tuesday which is a good deal higher than the statement. 188.30.80.10 (talk) 23:24, 28 August 2013 (UTC) Paul