Ms Carol Boate:

It is a known risk that this can happen. It was also a known risk under the previous game. When the lotto involved matching six numbers from 45, this also could have happened. It would have been highly unlikely, but it is also highly unlikely for it to happen under this framework. We are talking about degrees of how highly unlikely it is. I do not know why consideration was not given to including some kind of "must be won" feature in the event this highly unusual situation arose but I do know that this was never proposed to my office and approved. When the game was redesigned in 2015, this did not form part of the proposal.