Lucky Dip” – what is it ?
It is basically a ticket generator on a lottery terminal that generates one or more sets of 6 random numbers without the need for a playslip and was officially launched on Sunday 17th March 1996. At the same time, the original 5-board playslip was extended to a 7-board version and each board now has a checkbox next to it to allow the player to choose Lucky Dip. This permits a single playslip to include a mixture of player-picked and Lucky Dip tickets. Lucky Dip really should have been included on lottery terminals from the start, because a lot of people fill in the numbers at random. The reason for its exclusion for so long was to increase the chance of a rollover (and Camelot makes a lot of money from rollovers) because Lucky Dip would use more combinations than manual selection of numbers and hence make a rollover less likely. If you wish, you can use a WWW version of Lucky Dip instead. About 70% of lotteries around the world have a Lucky Dip facility on their terminals, though it’s
