More or less any country in the world has its own lottery. Sometimes they are complicated and have funny names, sometimes they are easy and have simple names. When it comes to the United Kingdom, it’s the latter of the two cases. The national lottery is simply called the “UK Lotto”. Since this is our first serious article about this game, we’ll describe it in depth. So aside from the mere lottery results, we’ll discuss rules, draws, and other useful information. Just like we did with the Euromillions, Set for Life, and Thunderball. So let’s get started! Lottomat – english lotto numbers.
It’s hard to find a lottery that has rules that are these simple, while still offering you an opportunity to win a couple of million pounds. This is how UK Lotto works.
Before you place a valid bet and your ticket can participate in the draw, you have to pick six numbers in a range from 1 to 59. Once you do that, you have to wait for a draw.
Draws take place every Tuesday and Saturday. In each lotto draw, seven instead of six numbers are drawn. The additional one is called the “bonus ball”. If this seems confusing, let us explain. Bonus ball can work as a substitute and it determines which prize you’ll potentially win. With that being said, let’s talk about prize tiers.
UK Lotto has six prize tiers. All the information that you may need regarding these tiers can be found below.
1st tier – This one brings you the jackpot. You are a winner if you matched all six main numbers without a bonus number.
2nd tier – Not all prizes are jackpots, but some are still very worth it. The same goes for the second tier of this lottery. In order to win it, you must match six numbers as well, but in this case, it can be 5 main ones plus the bonus ball.
3rd tier – This tier requires you to match 5 numbers. The amount of cash that you’ll receive isn’t as big as in previous tiers, but it’s still decent.
4th tier – Four matching numbers are enough to win this prize.
5th tier – This is the last tier in which cash can be won and you need to match only three numbers.
6th tier – In the last tier, you won if you matched two numbers and the reward will be a lucky dip entry into the next round. In other words, it’s a free ticket and a chance to select new lotto numbers.
Finally, we came to the good part. Winning lotto numbers for the last two draws. First, we’ll check the draw results for the 28th of December.
The combination that came out of the lotto machine was: 5, 19, 27, 31, 48, 57 and the bonus ball was 30.
Here’s the prize breakdown:
1st tier – No winners
2nd tier – No winners
3rd tier – 57 lucky players matched the right numbers and each of them won £1,750.00.
4th tier – 3,263 participants won £140 each.
5th tier – 76,859 people played the right combination to win £30.
6th tier – 707,960 players won the lucky dip ticket.
In total, 788,139 people won at least one of the prizes, and UK National Lottery paid out £2,862,340.00 to them. This concludes the prize breakdown information for this round. Let’s move to the latest UK lottery results.
There’s a certain symbolism in the fact that the last draw of the year happened on New Year’s Eve. Everything happened at the same time as it usually does and here’s how things unfolded.
The combination of english lotto numbers was: 27, 34, 47, 56, 57, and 58, and the bonus ball was 19.
Prizes were divided as follows:
1st tier – No winners
2nd tier – One lucky player won a beautiful prize worth £1,221,799.
3rd tier – 102 lucky players matched the right numbers. Due to rollover each of them won £5,374.
4th tier – 6,501 participants won £219 each.
5th tier – 154,739 people played the right combination to win £70.
6th tier – 1,521,334 players won the lucky dip ticket with an additional £5 because of the rollover.
Totals are saying that 1,682,677 winners won more than £24,674,734.
Also remember that if lotteries are not enough for you, you can always use an online casino and play one of the hundreds of games with instant wins.