Many players have their own theory about the official lottery results and the numbers that will come out of the lotto machine. However, the only right theory is that all the lotteries (Euromillions and Thunderball included) have completely random draws that include either air or gravity. Make yourself comfortable and read on, you’ll get plenty of information that will help you understand how winning lotto numbers are drawn.
Types of Lottery Draws
First and foremost, it’s important that you understand that the lotto draw doesn’t have to include physical balls with numbers on them. Some lotteries (especially the online ones) are using RNG (random number generator) to pick the numbers from a certain range completely randomly.
All of the major games from the National Lottery have old-school draws and a jackpot is won when the player matches all of the numbers that come out of the lotto machine. So in summary, there are two types of draws. In both of them, a player has to choose a set of numbers, and the difference is in the way that those numbers are drawn. That can be done either with a lotto machine or through a mathematical algorithm.
We’ll explain these types below.
National Lottery Lotto Numbers – Gravity Pick Machines
UK National Lotto and Thunderball lottery are two games that most commonly use this type of machine. We’ll explain the whole process with a Thunderball draw. This game has a weekly draw that takes place on Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday. Each of them is supervised by a commission that consists of one person that represents the UK National Lottery, one notary, and one person that represents the government.
Before each draw, a set of balls and a lotto machine are selected. Both the machine and the balls are public information and they can be seen as soon as the latest Thunderball draw results are published. Balls are sealed in a box to make sure that no one tempered with them before the draw. Of course, the commission is very thorough with their checkups because their main responsibility is to make sure that everything is fair and square.
Once the balls and the machine are chosen it’s time to put the balls into the machine. When it comes to gravity machines, they have spinning paddles that rotate in opposite directions, thus mixing the balls until they drop out of the bottom of the chamber one by one. When all six numbers (five main ones plus Thunderball) drop out of the machine, the draw is over and the winner (if there is one) can be declared.
Of course, everyone who is interested to watch the draw live can do so through the official Youtube channel of the UK National Lottery. Access is open to anyone.
Air Mix Lottery Machines
These machines are mostly used for games where players have to select only three or four numbers on their tickets, or in Keno lottery or bingo games. Basically, lotto results are coming through the same process. There’s a commission, a sealed set of balls, a brand-new machine, and finally a draw. Lucky winners and prizes are known immediately after everything is done.
The main difference is that the lottery winning numbers first come to the chamber that has a fan that pushes the jets of air through the lotto machine. Balls move up and out of the chamber through a tube and are pushed out. Once the number comes out, anyone who played can cross it on their ticket. If a certain player manages to match all the numbers, millions can be won. If not, we have a rollover and the prize pool is moved to the next round.
Regardless of the draw type, prices for the most popular UK lotteries are in the range from £1 to £2 a ticket. So far, 2023. has been a very productive year for the participants, especially if we talk about the Set for Life lottery. With that being said, go on and choose six numbers that could turn your life around.
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