Lotto Plus 5 was introduced by The National Lottery in February 2011 as a game designed to fill the gaps between the Wednesday and Saturday Lotto draws. The Lotto Plus 5 draws take place every day of the week except Wednesday and Saturday when the Lotto draw is made.
To enter, players have to buy a ticket for either the Wednesday or Saturday Lotto draw and pay an additional £1. To play, you select 6 numbers from a possible 49. Match them all and you win the jackpot, or a share of it if others also have the same numbers. As well as the six main numbers, a ‘bonus ball’ number is drawn. The bonus number only comes into effect for those players who only match 5 of the 6 main numbers. A player who can match 5 of the 6 main numbers and whose sixth number is the same as the bonus ball wins the second largest prize. Prizes are also paid out to anyone matching just 3, 4 or 5 of the main numbers. Overall, the odds of winning one of the prizes are 1 in 54. The odds of winning the jackpot however are almost 1 in 14 million. The extra £1 enters the same ticket numbers into an additional 5 extra draws. These draws, that take place on the days of the week that the Lotto draw doesn’t take place, have fixed prizes, with the jackpot prize being £250,000. You cannot buy a ticket for Lotto Plus 5 on its own. Tickets can only be purchased as an add-on to a Lotto ticket.
This new game produces approximately 500,000 additional Lotto winners each week and has proved very popular with lottery players.
Whilst the odds remain the same as the odds for the Lotto draw, the fact that there are 5 draws in which you can win and not one make it quite an appealing game.
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