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The UK Lotto is the most popular lottery game in Britain and has gained immense popularity across the world, even the Queen has played UK Lotto and won. Actually, 94% of the UK adult population has played the National Lottery at some time.

The jackpot prize starts at £2.2 million (GBP) and will pay out £1.7 billion in hard, tax-free cash this year.

Enter Now for a chance to win your share of the British lottery prize fund - from a multi-million pound jackpot to thousands of smaller cash prizes.

How to play UK Lotto

The UK Lotto is a 6/59 game. In order to win the UK Lotto jackpot, you need to match 6 numbers with the balls drawn from the first machine. If you match 5 numbers plus the Bonus Ball from the second machine, you will win the second prize.

If the jackpot is not won, there is a rollover to the next draw where the next jackpot prize is added to it.

Draws are held every Wednesday and Saturday.

The Odds of winning UK Lotto

Match	Odds
6 Balls	1 in 45,057,474
5 Balls + Bonus	1 in 7,509,579
5 Balls	1 in 144,415
4 Balls	1 in 2,180
3 Balls	1 in 97
2 Balls	1 in 10

Overview

Since it's launch in November 1994, the UK Lottery has been a huge success. In the very first week alone over 24 million people played.

There are around one million prize winners every week, with an average lotto jackpot prize value of over £6,301,728.

More people are winning bigger prizes in the UK Lotto than any other Government Lottery in the world and don't forget, you don't have to be a resident of the U.K. to play!

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, but the unclaimed prizes total over £602.9 million.

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.

Related:

• UK National Lottery Results
• UK Lotto News