Christmas Millionaire Maker 2001

Game 1

Winning years drawn at 7.50pm GMT on Monday 24th December 2001:

Sorted order:  1908  1923  1961  1965  1999  Bonus:  1917

Drawn  order: 1923  1961  1965  1908  1999  Bonus:  1917

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9 100 000 *114).

Category      Prize       Winners       Total      Percentages
Jackpot             £0           0            £0       0.0%
4+bonus     £1,150,915           3    £3,452,745      23.9%
4 match         £2,347         123      £288,681       2.0%
3+bonus         £1,686         258      £434,988       3.0%
3 match           £158       8,387    £1,325,146       9.2%
2+bonus           £109       8,220      £895,980       6.2%
2 match            £41     196,622    £8,061,502      55.7%
Totals                     213,613   £14,459,042     100.0%
Ticket sales           £37,732,170
Actual tickets sold      7,546,434

All 3 of the Game 1 4+bonus prizes have now been claimed.

Game 2

Winning years drawn at 7.56pm GMT on Monday 24th December 2001:

First year: 1986   Second year:  2773

Number of Game 2 jackpot (£1 million) winners:  7

Number of Game 2 jackpots claimed so far:  5

Notes:

• The average prize in Game 1 was £67.69.
• The machine Galahad was used in Game 1. The four machines used in Game 2 were Lancelot (19), Guinevere (86), Arthur (27) and Merlin (73).
• Although the TV show was an excrutiatingly long 45 minutes, the gap of only 6 minutes between the draws was the shortest of the three annual draws to date.
• For the third annual draw in a row, no-one actually managed to match all five main years in Game 1, so yet again the prize pool from that tier was added to the highest tier that had any winners (4+bonus in this case).
• Thanks to heavier promotion (and selling tickets from November unlike last year's mistake of selling from December onwards), the ticket sales rose by an impressive 52.5% this year. However, the gloomy news is that they still failed to even reach 50% of the ticket sales of the first annual draw.
• Camelot failed to issue all the full results by 10.00pm GMT Christmas Eve (yes, that's over 2 hours after the draws), so the public had to wait until 9.00am GMT on Christmas Day to get the full set of results listed above !
• It's a good job that Game 2 was Lucky Dip, because if people had picked their birth year, they'd have lost (because no-one aged 16 or over [the minimum age to play] could have been born in 1986) - it was the highest year that wasn't a possible birth year !
• I matched absolutely nothing in Game 1 and my two random years in Game 2 - 1943 and 2694 - also completely missed the mark.
• Prizes in Games 1 and 2 have to be claimed by 11.00pm BST on Saturday 29th June 2002.

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