Saturday 28 April 2012

Stats about the National Lottery’s Lotto game

The UK’s National Lottery Lotto draw started in November 1994. Originally just called the National Lottery, the format is to select 6 numbers from a possible 49. Six balls are drawn plus a bonus ball. Prizes are won for matching 3 balls, 4 balls, 5 balls, 5 balls plus the bonus ball and the jackpot is won by those matching all 6 balls.

In 2002 after a major rebranding exercise, The National Lottery renamed its main draw Lotto.

Originally there was only one draw each week that took place on a Saturday. Since then a Wednesday draw has been added. Generally, not taking into account rollovers, the Wednesday draw attracts fewer players and subsequently has smaller jackpots. With the odds remaining the same for both the Saturday and Wednesday draws, players who only want to play in one draw each week tend to go for the Saturday draw to be in with a chance of winning a bigger jackpot prize.

At the time of writing, the largest ever Lotto jackpot was £42,008,610. This was the jackpot for the Lotto draw on the 6 January 1996. The winnings were split between three tickets winning each ticket holder just over £14 million.

The chances of winning a Lotto jackpot are 13,983,815 to 1

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