Two brothers from Brighton have launched a new national prize game GeoSweep.com which they hope will go head-to-head with the National Lottery.

GeoSweep.com, which launched last Sunday, allows people to play on location plots that really mean something to them their home, their old school or even where they met their first love. These plots are then entered into two daily draws the first pays out a guaranteed minimum prize pot of £ 5,000 and the second gives players the chance to win £ 1 million.

The game of chance is the brainchild of 20-year-old former Varndean student Henry Oakes and his brother James, who studied at BHASVIC and Dorothy Stringer. Henry was 18, studying for his A-levels and short of cash when he came up with the idea for Geosweep.

He said: “I was looking for ways to win money but thought the National Lottery was a bit boring. I wanted to devise a lottery game for the Google generation, who don t want to sit on a sofa on Saturday night. Henry then lured his brother away from a perfectly respectable life to look after the numbers side of the business.”