Sat, Sep 11, 2010
Current Jackpot
£ 4.3 Million
South Africa While most people wait with bated breath to find out if they have won the Lotto, others sometimes just forget. A staggering R219,361,894 of National Lottery cash is still waiting to be claimed.
Play the UK National Lottery
The UK National Lottery holds the world record for the biggest tax-free, lump sum jackpot - $65 million (equiv) and this year will pay out £1.7 billion in hard, tax-free cash.
Enter Now for a chance to win your share of this huge british lottery prize fund - from a multi-million dollar jackpot to thousands of smaller cash prizes.
The UK Lotto is hugely popular in Britain and across the world, even the Queen has played Uk Lotto and won. There are £11,200 (GBP) worth of online tickets sold every 100 seconds.
You can play right from the convenience of your own home or office.
The jackpot prize averages $16.7 million (USD) every week paid to one or more players who have selected six correct numbers out of 49 in the 2 weekly draws. There are 1.14 million winners of smaller cash prizes each week.
Since the launch of The UK Lottery on 14 November 1994, it has been a huge success, with total prizes across all games reaching over £18.0 billion (GBP) to date.
In the very first week alone over 24 million people played. There are around one million prize winners every week and the sales from all of the games since it’s launch have exceeded over £40 billion (GBP).
94% of UK adult population has played the National Lottery at some time.
The average, the UK Lotto jackpot prize value is over £6,301,728 with an average of 750,000 prize winners each week. Unclaimed prizes total over £602.9 million.
More people are winning bigger prizes in the UK Lotto than any other Government Lottery in the world and you don't have to be a resident of the U.K to play!
The UK's biggest single lottery winner revealed is Iris Jeffrey, from Belfast, who won £20.1m on 14 July, 2004. A winner's survey has shown that 97% of all jackpot winners have continued to play the British Lottery in the hope of enjoying the experience of winning all over again.
There have been a total of 2879 lottery jackpot winners so far.
With the capacity to handle 200,000 transactions a minute, the UK lottery computer system is one of the largest and most powerful on-line systems in the world.
Draws are held every Wednesday and Saturday.
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UK National Lottery Results
When you give your play slip to your lottery retailer, your numbers travel from the lottery terminal 22,000 miles to the nearest satellite dish and back down to Camelot. The numbers are checked 9 times to make sure everything is correct. Then along with the security code are sent back the same route to the terminal. All this within one to two seconds and your numbers have travelled 88,000 miles..
£11,200 (GBP) worth of UK Lotto tickets are sold online every 100 seconds
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