The success is shortly followed by another,…

The success is shortly followed by another, larger, lottery 'The Two Million Adventure' or 'The Classis', with tickets costing one hundred pounds, a maximum prize of twenty thousand pounds and every ticket winning a prize of at least ten pounds.

Although prizes are advertised by the total amount, they are paid in the form of a fixed sum annuity over a period of years, meaning the government effectively holds the prize money as a loan until it is paid out to the winners.

Marketing is handled by members of the Sword Blade syndicate, Gibbon distributing two hundred thousand pounds of tickets and earning forty-five hundred pounds commission, and Blunt distributing nine hundred and ninety-three thousand pounds.

Charles Blunt (a relative) is made Paymaster of the lottery with 'expenses' of five thousand pounds.