National Lottery
The National Lottery has been around for over 14 years and is Britain’s largest lottery. Here at Online Lotto we will bring you all you would ever want to know about the UK’s best loved gamble from winning numbers and results to massive rollover alerts and news of winners and what they’ve done with their lucky winnings.
The National Lottery as it was originally known or Lotto as we’ve known it since 2002 has been a major part of our Saturday night entertainment since 1994 and has also been drawn on a Wednesday night for over 12 years too. Not only does Lotto make millionaire after millionaire but it also helps to fund the National Lottery Good Causes which to date has helped over 317,000 projects both large and small across Britain. The National Lottery Good Causes funds include; Art Council England, Arts Council Northern Ireland, Arts Council Wales, Scottish Arts Council, Heritage Lottery Fund, Millenium Commission, Olympic Lottery Distributer, Sport England, Sports Council for Northern Ireland, Sports Council for Wales, sportscotland, UK Film Council and UK Sport.
How to play the National Lottery
The Lotto is drawn twice a week on a Wednesday and Saturday evening. There are twelve different machines used to draw the National Lottery, which are selected randomly for each National Lottery draw. Six balls are drawn from forty nine then a further ball is drawn as the bonus ball, with drawn balls not being returned to the draw so any one number can only be drawn once. You can choose to select your own numbers, opt for a “lucky dip†where six numbers are randomly picked for you or if you play lotto online you can use the Lotto Number Generator where you have to whack the Lotto balls as they try to escape.
You can buy tickets for Lotto in a few ways but the most convenient way is to buy tickets for Lotto online. You can still pick you own numbers or buy lucky dips and you can buy tickets in advance but you don’t have to rush to the local shop only to be told that the machine has just closed for that draw. Imagine if your numbers came up that night. You can either choose to fund your National Lottery account using a credit or debit card or now you can fund your account by Direct Debit and your numbers will be automatically entered. The National Lottery will even email you if you have won.
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Winning the National Lottery
To be a winner playing Lotto you must match at least three main ball numbers with the prizes getting bigger the more balls that you match. The prize fund for each draw is divided between winning tickets as follows: First all three ball Lotto winners are calculated then the remaining prize fund is divided as follows; 4 number Lotto winners share 10% of the remaining prize fund, 5 number Lotto winners share 16% of the remaining prize fund, 5 number plus the bonus ball Lotto winners share 22% of the remaining prize fund and 6 ball Lotto jackpot winners share 52% of the remaining prize fund.
The National Lottery and Lotto are operated by the Camelot Group PLC and are governed and regulated by the National Lottery Commission in the UK. All National Lottery draws are stringently scrutinised by independent regulators to ensure absolute fairness for all draws ensuring that you get a fair game.
To play online Lotto simply follow the National Lottery links above.
