The Odds of Winning the UK Lottery

The Odds of Winning the UK Lottery – Try To Buy A Ticket

Doing the probability statistics, winning UK Lottery has quite a slim chance for the eligible population of the world. Nevertheless, looking into the prize aspect of the winning tickets is still a fair enough projection on their means to provide winners their monetary prizes.

For a complete match of 6 digits, the jackpot prize is fully given provided there is a single winner otherwise it will be divided into the number of winning tickets. Aside from the 6 winning numbers, a bonus ball is also being drawn. This is the seventh number drawn. There will also be a seventh bonus number being drawn. So if your ticket already has 5 matching numbers might as well check for the bonus one. The odds of winning are being shown below.

(Jackpot) Match of 6 – 1 of  13,983,816 £2,000,000

Match of 5 + bonus number – 1 at 2,330,636 £100,000

Match of 5 – 1 of  55,492 £1,500

Match of 4 – 1 of  1,033 £60

Match of 3 – 1 of  57 £10

Therefore, if there is 1 winner of the jackpot price, then, there were 13,983,816 tickets sold. 2 winners would mean there were twice as many tickets sold. The number of winners in UK Lottery made a pact of keeping the smaller tier prize amount equal among all the winners, while the jackpot prize will have to be shared by the number of winners.

The total number of odds of winning the UK Lottery is perceivable as tickets are not only sold in physical stores. People can also check the internet where they can buy lottery tickets online. They can choose to manually pick for their set of numbers or they can simply choose the option on their card that says “Lucky Dip” in order for the computer to automatically generate 6 numbers for them.