Daily Telegraph – play the lottery for free!

This is what The Daily Telegraph said about us in their article on 12th October 2011

Play the lottery without paying a penny – thanks to new cashback site

Fancy a flutter on the lottery but feel guilty about buying a ticket? A new cashback website could be the answer.

You could earn 2,000 points, enough for two lottery tickets, by placing your first online shopping order at Tesco through the new site.

The site, freenationallotterytickets.co.uk, allows users to build up cashback balances when they buy goods and services through the site. These balances, called lottery points, can then be used to buy tickets for the Lotto and Euromillions draws.

Buying a single £1 lottery ticket costs 1,000 lottery points. You could earn 2,000 points, enough for two lottery tickets, by placing your first online shopping order at Tesco through the site, for example.

Other offers on the site include 24,000 points (enough for 24 tickets) for taking out an O2 mobile broadband contract and 20,000 for joining the RAC.

Players can also buy a share of a syndicated ticket for as little as 10 points. Any winnings in this case would be shared with 99 other players.

If your ticket does win a lottery prize, you will receive it in full. However, you can’t choose your own lottery numbers. The site, which is free to join, is not connected with the National Lottery. You have to be aged 16 or over to join.

Ian Lowe, the managing director of Wincot Media, which owns the site, said: “Unfortunately we don’t have any secret magic formula for selecting our lottery ticket numbers, but it’s no secret that you have to be in it to win it, so we’re all keeping our fingers crossed that one of our members’ tickets wins them a jackpot.”