Lotto line price doubles from £1 to £2, 3 October 2013

In January 2013 Camelot said a Lotto line would go up from £1 to £2 that autumn, the first price rise since the game began in 1994. The new price applied from Thursday 3 October 2013.

Some prizes went up and others down. Three numbers now paid £25 instead of £10, and the average for four numbers rose from about £60 to £100. Five numbers fell to an average of around £1,000, and five plus the bonus ball to about £50,000. Camelot expected average jackpots of roughly £5 million on Saturdays and £2.5 million on Wednesdays.

Each ticket also gained a raffle number, with 50 prizes of £20,000 in every draw. To mark the launch, the draws on 5 and 12 October each had a £10 million jackpot and 1,000 raffle prizes of £20,000.

Andy Duncan, Camelot's UK managing director, said the changes followed long consultation with players and that the new Lotto would "give players more ways to win more money".

Sources

• HuffPost UK (archived): National Lottery ticket price rises to £2 (web.archive.org)
• Lovemoney: National Lottery ticket price doubles (lovemoney.com)
• Marketing Week: Camelot to double National Lottery prices (marketingweek.com)