What's New On These Pages: October 2016

Friday 28th October
Wrote some extra code (and created a new data file) for the new European Millionaire Maker raffle prizes that were due to appear tonight for the first time. It turns out that the first letter of each ticket maps to a country so I could mention the country after the ticket number. Strangely, the UK has 6 possible first letters, Austria has 4, Switzerland has 2 and everyone else has just 1.
Anyway, after all that, Camelot were ludicrously slow to release any Euro Millions results at all tonight. They eventually did well after midnight and a long time after every other country had - not an auspicious start. France (8), Spain (4) and Belgium (4) took more than half the prizes between them, while the UK languished in joint 4th place with 3 (surprisingly tying with Luxembourg!).
I ended up manually updating results in the small hours of the morning and then checked the next day that my auto-grabbbing code would do it correctly in future draws (it would). I use Camelot's results CSV and they've extended it to include the European Millionaire Maker winning tickets.

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