National Lottery punters fuming over jackpot rollovers with no winner for FIVE draws
Outraged players have set up a Facebook group called 'Boycott the National Lottery'
LOTTERY players are fuming over a string of jackpot rollovers.
The main lotto prize has not been won in five draws, meaning ticket-buyers will tomorrow play for £14.4million.
It has angered Lotto players who have set up a Facebook group called 'Boycott the National Lottery'.
Furious John Bowman wrote: "The odds are so absurdly weighted in their favour.
"Disgusting creeps trot out how lottery funds help so much.
“Well how have you benefited?
"People surely must abandon blind hope over reason. Once a mug is a mistake.
"A mug every week is plain stupid.”
Punter Michael Timmis wrote: "Just think, they have put more numbers on every game over the years – prices up but payouts disgusting.”
In May The Sun Online revealed punters' anger over endless rollovers.
New rules, which came into force in October 2015, mean lotto bosses can continue to rollover the National Lottery jackpot for longer than before.
The odds of landing the Lotto jackpot have gone from one in 14 million to one to 45 million after ten more balls were added in October 2015.
Previously, the rules also said that there could only be four rollovers before the pot was split up, whereas now it can keep growing until it reaches £22 million.
After this limit has been reached or exceeded, it can only roll over once more before it is won.
If no-one matches all six numbers in the next draw then the jackpot amount will roll down to the next prize tier.
At the time Camelot said that the chances of winning at least £1 million had improved and that the Lucky Dip tickets would create an extra 1.8 million winners each week.
But, independent statisticians argued that it is now a lot harder to win the big jackpot – with the chances of winning the biggest prize down to one in 45 million from one in 14 million.