John Pitt felt 'cheated' after checking the prize for his winning numbers
On Friday, May 31, John Pitt decided to try his luck on the EuroMillions. After he realised he had won a prize after matching three numbers and a star, the 72-year-old went online to check how much money he he'd won.
The Everton man told the ECHO: "I thought, 'this can't be right' so I phoned the National Lottery. The man on the other end came back and told me that the prize for each outcome is determined by how many people won it - and then divided between them. He told me that that's just the way it is. " "They just do whatever they like and there's no oversight. It's unbelievable! The way they said: 'That's just the way it is' when they could have said: 'Oh, sorry, we've made a miscalculation and we've fixed it' - that would be better.
A spokesperson for Allwyn, the operator of The National Lottery, said: "Unlike some of our other draw-based games, EuroMillions does not have fixed prize tiers and the amount a player wins in a particular draw will be dependent on how many other players have also won in that tier.
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