Has the Lottery died?

Reeves · Sat 27 Dec, 2008 18.23

The Lottery has been down all over our area, but apparently the fault is nationwide. Anybody else having problems?

wells · Sat 27 Dec, 2008 18.29

I was in the Stratford-on-Avon branch of One Stop (closet Tesco Express) today and I overheard a member staff say the system was down, I thought the customer will be gutted if her numbers come up.

barcode · Sat 27 Dec, 2008 18.40

Hurray I put my mine on every monday stop this thing happening to me

Dr Lobster* · Sat 27 Dec, 2008 18.43

don't have a source, but apparently scott mills spilled a muller rice into the computer.

it's being reported on bbc news that the 'National Lottery system experiencing problems - Camelot says issue "being resolved"'

wells · Sat 27 Dec, 2008 18.46

barcode wrote:Hurray I put my mine on every monday stop this thing happening to me

It just means you wasted pound and you wouldn't had you left it till today! :roll:

iSon · Sat 27 Dec, 2008 18.54

Yes there was carnage in the local Spar when all the usuals couldn't put a pound on their lucky dip. The air was blue. Bluer than their blue rinses.

Inspector Sands · Sat 27 Dec, 2008 18.55

Until I heard it on the news I hadn't realised there was a draw today. Lose track of what day it is over xmas

Nini · Sat 27 Dec, 2008 19.10

Yesterday had me fooled for Sunday, stinking Christmas making every day Saturday.

nwtv2003 · Sat 27 Dec, 2008 19.13

I was going to get a ticket from Morrisons only to see their new fangled lottery machine wasn't working, so I guess it must be a nationwide thing.

Philip Cobbold · Sat 27 Dec, 2008 19.15

Yep our machine at work was off as well, which led to a lot of unhappy customers. One of them told us we should get the draw cancelled.

nidave · Sat 27 Dec, 2008 21.32

Philip Cobbold wrote:Yep our machine at work was off as well, which led to a lot of unhappy customers. One of them told us we should get the draw cancelled.

I love it when customers think you are personally responsible for 3rd parties when there is a problem.
I get it all the time on Support when the HMRC give wrong advice (obviously its our fault and the HM Government are never wrong) or their systems goes titsup.