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UK Lotto is the country’s longest-running lottery game and continues to be enjoyed by millions of players every week. Draws take place on Wednesday and Saturday evenings, with big jackpots on offer and five other ways to win, including a second prize of £1 million. Learn all about the game right here.
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How to Play and Win UK Lotto
On your UK Lotto ticket you need to pick six numbers from a choice of 59. You can choose your own numbers or select a Lucky Dip if you wish to have them randomly generated for you. It costs £2 per play and you can take part online or by visiting an authorised retailer.
Decide how many lines you want to play, up to a maximum of seven on a single play slip, and enter those numbers for up to four consecutive weeks. You just need to remember to purchase your tickets before 7.30pm on draw days.
When the draw takes place, six balls are randomly selected as the main numbers, followed by a Bonus Ball from the remaining 53 numbers. To win the jackpot, you must match all six main numbers, but there are also prizes for matching two, three, four or five numbers, as well as for matching five numbers and the Bonus Ball.
You have a 1 in 9.3 chance of winning any prize on UK Lotto and odds of 1 in 45,057,474 of winning big and scooping the jackpot. If the top prize isn’t won, it can roll over five times in a row before it has to be given away in a ‘Must Be Won’ draw, with the jackpot money split between every cash winner if no one matches all six numbers. Go to the Lotto Prizes page to find out more about how this works, along with details of all the awards that are available.
You can also find out about prize breakdowns and winning numbers on the UK Lotto Results page.
UK Lotto Draw
The UK Lotto is drawn twice a week and uses a variety of different lottery machines and sets of balls to truly randomise the draw. The machines are given names taken from the mythology surrounding King Arthur or from gemstones. Both the machine and set of balls are chosen at random before each draw by an independent onlooker from sealed envelopes.
History of UK Lotto
The game was known as the National Lottery when it began in November 1994, with draws originally being held once a week on a Saturday night and the choice of numbers ranging from 1 to 49. The Wednesday draw was introduced in 1997, and the game was later rebranded as Lotto in 2002.
A Lotto Raffle was launched in 2013, and was later tweaked in 2015 to become the Lotto Millionaire Raffle, offering one prize of £1 million and 20 awards of £20,000 in each draw. A number of other big changes were made at the same time in 2015, with the ball pool increasing from 49 to 59, a jackpot cap coming in and a new prize tier being added for matching two main numbers.
The Lotto Millionaire Raffle was discontinued in November 2018 as part of widespread changes to Lotto’s prize structure. The jackpot cap was replaced with a new rollover limit to ensure it would be won more regularly, and bigger fixed prizes were introduced.
Many people now find that playing the National Lottery (Lotto) online is much easier than travelling to a shop to write out a ticket. You can also play a number of lines for a number of weeks, save your numbers for next time or set up a direct debit so that you never miss a draw.
Playing online also means that if you do happen to win anything, you will automatically receive an email giving you the good news!
This guide explains how to access the National Lottery website using Internet Explorer.
You’ll need:
- A computer with internet access.
Follow these step-by-step instructions to play the National Lottery online
Step 1: Open Internet Explorer and go to www.national-lottery.co.uk.
Step 2: You will need to sign in, but if you have not got an account for the Lottery, you will need to set up a new account. Click Open Account.
Step 3: Complete your personal details in the boxes provided and your address and payment details.
Step 4: Once you have set up your account, you can start to play the National Lottery online.
Step 5: Sign into your account using the details with which you registered.
Step 6: Once you have signed in, you will be taken to the home page. At the top right hand corner your account information is shown, with your account balance and any messages that you may have.
Step 7: If you have funds in your account, you can now play lottery games such as Euromillions or Lotto or play instant games, which are the online equivalent of a scratch card.
Step 8: To play Lotto or Euromillions, hover over Play Games. Choose the game you wish to play from the list, in this case we have chosen Euromillions.
Step 9: On the online play slip, choose the draw day you want to enter your numbers for, how many weeks the numbers will be put into the drawer. Then click into each number box and enter your numbers. If you want to choose lucky dip numbers, click on the Lucky Dip button and numbers will be automatically entered into the boxes, but until you complete the transaction you will only see 'LD' in the boxes.
Once you have finished the number of lines you want to play, click the Play button. The amount of money will show at the bottom of your play slip and this will be deducted from your account balance.
Step 10: Once you click play, you will be shown a confirmation page. If you are happy to continue, click Buy now, if not click cancel, or Edit play slip to go back and enter different numbers.
Step 11: The next page will then show your ticket confirmation and the numbers you have chosen, or the lucky dip numbers if you chose this. If you wish to play the Lotto, follow the same instructions as above, but choose Lotto from the list of games in Step 8.
Step 12: If you don’t have enough money in your account balance to play, you will get an automatic alert when you try to buy a ticket and taken to the add funds page. You can also add funds manually by clicking on the add funds link and following the onscreen instructions.
Step 13: It is also possible to set up a direct debit instruction for continuous play. Follow the instructions from the home page by clicking on the link.
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Step 14: To play an instant win, hover over Instant Win or hover over Play Games and choose Instant Wins. Choose your 'Instant Win' from the list of choices given.
Step 15: Click Buy now on the next page. Once the 'Instant Win' comes up on the screen, it is played the same as a scratch card, click on each icon/picture to reveal the amount or game picture.
Step 16: Once you have revealed all the icons, you will either have won a prize and you can add the prize money back into your balance account, or you will be told you haven’t won. You will then be able to try again or leave the site for another day!
Karen Maxwell is a Digital Unite tutor and assessor/trainer of computer accessibility.