Sales soar ahead of £85m lottery
The biggest ever British lottery win could take place later on Friday with an estimated jackpot of £85m up for grabs in the EuroMillions draw.
The draw, run by the National Lottery in conjunction with operators in eight European countries, has not seen a winner for the past nine weeks.
Ticket sales are on course to be more than 300% higher than normal, the UK organiser Camelot has said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4630686.stm
OK, but bear in mind that the odds against winning are 76 million to 1!
Theoretically, when the prize fund is this big, the odds are actually in punters' favour - if you entered an infinite number of times you would come out ahead overall. However, most of us don't have infinite lifespans, and it's unlikely the Lottery will either!
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