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Whats all this about France and Spain – does my hard-earned cash end up in “Johnny Foreigners pockets” if a non-UK person wins?

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Whats all this about France and Spain – does my hard-earned cash end up in “Johnny Foreigners pockets” if a non-UK person wins?

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Camelot kept giving me conflicting information about this, but the latest information I have (and this is now backed up by their Rules and Procedures booklet) is that the total prize pool for all prize tiers is shared across all countries participating (50% of that draw’s ticket sales – also note that any jackpot rolls over to the jackpot prize tier only, which is otherwise normally 20% of the total prize pool). 7% of the total prize pool goes to a “Booster Fund” which the rules booklet suggests is a Super Draw top-up reserve fund and the remaining 73% of the total prize pool is split amongst the non-jackpot prize tiers. Note that this 73% can be “topped up” in the UK only by (number of UK tickets sold*(difference between 2 Euros and the cost of UK tickets)) and hence it can make individual UK prizes either slightly larger or even slightly smaller than other countries’ prizes depending on the sterling/Euro currency rate. All countries playing in Euros, however, will have identical indi

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